BEIJING, Dec 12, (APP/AFP) – Beijing issued its first clear warning Monday over Donald Trump’s fiery rhetoric, as state media said the Asian giant could back “forces hostile to the US” if the president-elect follows through with threats to drop Washington’s One China policy. It was the strongest signal yet from Chinese authorities that abandoning […]
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Beijing warns Trump over One China policy
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29 dead, 166 wounded in Istanbul bombings: interior minister
ISTANBUL, Dec 11, (APP/AFP) – Twenty-nine people were killed, mainly police officers, and 166 wounded in double bombings that struck Istanbul Saturday after a home football match hosted by top side Besiktas, Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said. Twenty-seven of those killed were police and two were civilians, he told reporters in Istanbul, adding that […]
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At least 25 dead in blast at Cairo church: state media
CAIRO, Dec 11, (APP/AFP) – A bombing in a Cairo church on Sunday near the headquarters of the Coptic pope killed at least 25 people, state media reported. It was the deadliest suspected attack on the country’s beleaguered Christian minority in recent memory. The explosion ripped through the church around 10:00 am (0800 GMT), Egyptian […]
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Portugal’s Antonio Guterres set to be sworn in as next UN Secretary-General
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 11 (APP): Former Prime Minister of Portugal Antonio Guterres is set to be sworn in Monday, December 12, as the next United Nations Secretary-General, succeeding South Korea’s Ban Ki-moon who steps down at the end of the month. Guterres, 67, was Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002, and the UN […]
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Trump calls CIA charge Russia influenced US election ‘ridiculous’
NEW YORK, Dec 11 (APP): US President-elect Donald Trump has said the CIA’s conclusion that Russia interfered in the presidential election is “ridiculous” and being used by rival Democrats as “just another excuse” for his defeat of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. “I think it’s just another excuse,” Trump told Fox News Sunday in […]
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Russia interfered in US election to help Trump win: report
WASHINGTON, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – A secret CIA assessment has found that Russia sought to tip last month’s US presidential election in Donald Trump’s favor, The Washington Post reported Friday, a conclusion that drew an extraordinary rebuke from the president-elect’s camp. “These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction,” Trump’s transition […]