Hours after the US President branded the 2015 deal “embarassing” and suggested he might withdraw the US from the pact, his French counterpart defended the accord and said it was “essential” to keeping the peace. Mr Macron told the UN General Assembly: “Renouncing it would be a grave error, not […]
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Juliette Morillot told France’s Europe 1 radio the despot is “far from crazy” but warned the family still poses a threat to the world. Mrs Morillot said: “The ruling Kim family is far from crazy. In truth, they are all perfectly rational and well-educated. “When I say the Kims aren’t […]
Jimmy Kimmel should have picked up the telephone, not the microphone, if he was unhappy with Republicans’ latest effort to replace Obamacare, two of the senators behind the proposal said Wednesday. One day after Kimmel ripped into Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., as a liar, Cassidy, backed by his colleague Sen. […]
Former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner “deserves time in prison” — about two years — for sexual communications with a 15-year-old girl, prosecutors said in a court filing Wednesday ahead of next week’s sentencing. In a submission last week, defense lawyers argued Weiner — who is in the midst of […]
The Japan earthquake has registered 6.1 magnitude on the Richter scale. The US Geological Society (USGS) said it struck at a depth of six miles. It occurred 174 miles east of Kamaishi. The quake struck at 5.37pm UTC. No tsunami warnings are currently in place. The earthquake occurred a day […]
Hurricane Maria, the powerful Category 4 storm that made landfall on Puerto Rico on Wednesday morning, could devastate the U.S. territory and surrounding Caribbean islands. Puerto Ricans take refuge at the Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan ahead of Hurricane Maria on Sept. 19. Hector Retamal / AFP – Getty […]
The US President said he had been so impressed with the French parade, staged on the country’s independence day, he had asked White House chief of staff John Kelly to look into the possibility of recreating the parade in Washington to mark US Independence Day. Mr Trump said: “To a […]
Cornell University permanently disbanded a fraternity on Tuesday after several of its affiliated members were allegedly involved in an assault that is being investigated by police as a possible hate crime. Authorities in Ithaca, New York, responded to reports of a fight early Friday involving several students at the Ivy […]