WASHINGTON, June 4 (APP/AFP) – President Donald Trump offered US help Saturday to Britain in response to reports of three violent incidents including a vehicle mowing down pedestrians on London Bridge. “Whatever the United States can do to help out in London and the U.K., we will be there – WE ARE WITH YOU. GOD […]
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Trumps offers help as London grapples with violence incidents
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Spain rescues 173 migrants crossing Med in one day
MADRID, June 3, (APP/AFP) – Spanish coast guards rescued more than 170 migrants crossing the Mediterranean to Europe from northern Africa in four separate boats, they said Saturday. Morocco notified Spain’s coast guards that a boat had been spotted trying to cross the Alboran Sea, the westernmost portion of the Mediterranean that ends with the […]
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Seven dead as explosions rock funeral in tense Kabul
KABUL, June 3, (APP/AFP) – Explosions ripped through the funeral of an Afghan anti-government protester in Kabul Saturday, killing at least seven people and wounding dozens, in fresh carnage that spiked tensions in a city already on edge. The latest killings, which could provoke a new cycle of bloodshed, bring to 101 the number of […]
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Brumbies wrap up conference title with Rebels win
CANBERRA, June 3, (APP/AFP) – The ACT Brumbies clinched the Australian conference with a resounding 32-3 bonus-point victory over the Melbourne Rebels in Super Rugby in Canberra on Saturday. The Brumbies returned from their successful tour to South Africa and Argentina to outscore the hapless Rebels four tries to nil with fly-half Wharenui Hawera finishing […]
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US demands release of investigative reporter held by Azerbaijan
WASHINGTON, June 3, (APP/AFP) – The US State Department has demanded that Azerbaijan release an investigative journalist who was reportedly abducted this week in Georgia and then handed over to Azerbaijan, where he was placed in detention. “The United States is disturbed by the reported abduction in Tbilisi, Georgia, and subsequent arrest in Azerbaijan of […]
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Trump critics, backers march around globe over climate and Russia
WASHINGTON, June 3, (APP/AFP) – Sharp political passions over President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris climate treaty and his links to Russia brought people onto the streets of cities around the globe on Saturday, mostly to condemn but some to praise him. The largest of the many US rallies organized as a March for […]