President Donald Trump’s administration has banned cameras from the daily press briefing at the White House. However, the resourceful US media are undaunted as they deployed sketch artists to cover the event. Cable news channel CNN sent sketch artist Bill Hennessy to the famous West Wing press room, a change from the American courtrooms where […]
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U.S. President Donald Trump said he did not make and does not possess any tapes of his conversations with James Comey, the former FBI director. The recant came after suggesting last month he might have recordings that could damage Comey. “With all of the recently reported electronic surveillance, intercepts, unmasking and illegal leaking of information, […]
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As UK citizens experience unexpected high wave of temperature which rose 40C, the world has been warned to expect killer heat this year. Other parts of Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and the U.S. have already seen record temperatures for May and June. The Pakistani city, Turbat, recorded 54 degrees in late May, the […]
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Police said on Monday that the death toll in the fire that ravaged a London tower block on June 14, has risen to 79. Fire broke out in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower, a social housing block in west London, in the early hours of June 14 and spread with terrifying speed, tearing through the building […]
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The bodies of seven sailors who were missing after the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Fitzgerald collided with a container ship were found in flooded compartments of the damaged ship, the U.S. Seventh Fleet said in a statement on Sunday. Japanese media said all seven of the sailors who had been reported missing were found dead. […]
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A soldier in Afghanistan has attacked US troops at a military base, in the northern Balkh province on Saturday, wounding seven. The US soldiers were evacuated after the “insider attack” a spokesman for the US military command said. The Nato-led Resolute Support mission said one Afghan soldier was killed and another injured in the incident […]
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A mass brawl has erupted outside Kensington and Chelsea Town hall as a Grenfell Tower fire protest turns ugly. Scores of people gathered in an area between vehicles outside the building, with many throwing punches at each other in violent scenes. Furious protesters earlier chanted “murderers” outside the offices as a large group stormed the […]
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Former Chancellor Helmut Kohl has died at age 87. Having led Germany for 16 years, he is remembered for reuniting the country as well as for making a huge political and economic contribution to the integration of Europe. Helmut Kohl’s political party the Christian Democratic Union on Friday confirmed media reports that the former chancellor […]
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Police have confirmed Wednesday’s killing of Mrs. Lipolelo Thabane, 58, the wife of incoming Lesotho’s Prime Minister, Tom, two days before her husband’s inauguration. The incident has raised the fears of another wave of political violence in the southern African mountain kingdom. Police spokesperson Clifford Molefe said Lipolelo was traveling home with a friend when […]
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A report obtained from the BBC indicates that several people have died and more than 50 are in hospital after a huge fire raged through the night at a west London tower block, a fire chief says. Eyewitnesses said they saw people trapped inside the burning Grenfell Tower, in north Kensington, screaming for help, and […]
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