WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The Trump administration on Saturday (Nov 17) said it had not reached a final conclusion on who was involved in the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi despite a US Central Intelligence Agency assessment that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the killing. “Recent reports indicating that the US government has […]
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – President Donald Trump said he is not considering extraditing a prominent critic of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, despite a media report that the White House had asked law enforcement agencies to examine the Muslim cleric’s legal status. Trump was asked on Saturday (Nov 17) as he departed the White House about […]
China is struggling to control the rapid spread of African swine fever among its pigs, which is becoming a massive blow to the world’s top pork producer. The country produces almost 700 million pigs a year, or about half of the world’s total, and was Canada’s eighth-largest importer of pork in 2016. According to the […]
Sonya King, a black Muslim woman was delivering food in Atlanta when her first customer of the day, Rick Painter (54), grabbed her head covering, pulled her inside his home and began to choke her with it. “That was some real hateful stuff,” King said. “Every time I told that man, ‘I got children,’ he […]
Stacey Abrams quits race for governor of Georgia, accusing rival Republican Brian Kemp of voter suppression. Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams has vowed to sue the US state of Georgia for “gross mismanagement” of the gubernatorial election after withdrawing from the race. Abrams, who aimed to become the country’s first black woman governor, on Friday acknowledged at […]
More than 1,000 people are now on a list of those unaccounted for following a deadly Northern California wildfire – but authorities have stressed it does not mean all of them are missing. The death toll was raised to 71 on Friday after eight more bodies were found, while the missing persons list grew from […]
Nearly 3,000 votes effectively disappeared during the machine recount of Florida’s midterm races, according to election records, calling into question whether officials relied on a flawed process to settle the outcome of three statewide contests. With extremely narrow gaps separating candidates in the still-undeclared races for both governor and United States Senate, the results of […]
Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea stressed that the list of those unaccounted for does not mean all of them are missing. He said the list was “dynamic” and could easily contain duplicate names and unreliable spellings, as well as some who fled the blaze and do not realise they have been reported missing. Some of […]
BUENOS AIRES (AFP) – The wreckage of an Argentine navy submarine which exploded and disappeared one year ago with 44 crew was found in the Atlantic Ocean on Friday (Nov 16), the navy said. There has been “positive identification of the ARA San Juan”, 800 metres deep by the Ocean Infinity, a statement from the […]
US District Court Judge Timothy Kelly, an appointee of the president, announced his decision in Washington on Friday. The White House said it will “temporarily reinstate” Mr Acosta’s pass in response to the order. The journalist thanked Judge Kelly for the ruling, before adding: “Let’s get back to work.” CNN and Mr Acosta said in […]