Month: October 2019

Moscow (AFP) – President Vladimir Putin hosts dozens of African leaders next week as Russia seeks to reassert its influence on the continent and beyond. The heads of some 35 African countries are expected for the first Africa-Russia Summit in the Black Sea resort of Sochi next Wednesday and Thursday. For Putin, the summit is…

From Esquire In the end, we only have a minute. Nobody knew that better than Elijah Cummings, the towering chairman of the House Oversight Committee who died overnight at the age of 68. Despite many of today’s headlines, the Baltimore congressman was more than some character in Donald Trump’s dark and dangerous American story. In…

Donald Trump has paid tribute to Elijah Cummings, who died suddenly on Thursday, praising the Democratic congressman for his “strength, passion and wisdom” just months after describing his Baltimore district as “rat infested” and taunting him over a break in at his home. “My warmest condolences to the family and many friends of congressman Elijah…

President Donald Trump on Thursday mourned the death of Rep. Elijah Cummings in a deferential tweet that diverged markedly from the racially charged insults he had hurled at the Democratic lawmaker over the summer. “My warmest condolences to the family and many friends of Congressman Elijah Cummings,” he wrote online. “I got to see first…

Exclusive: Hunter Biden talks getting married after 6 days and why his life is in ‘the best place I’ve ever been’ originally appeared on abcnews.go.com Hunter Biden was not alone when he stepped out of the shadows in his first broadcast interview since drawing the ire of President Donald Trump. By his side was his…

A U.S. State Department official told impeachment investigators on Tuesday that he raised concerns about Hunter Biden’s involvement in a Ukrainian natural gas company in 2015, telling one of then vice president Joe Biden’s staffers that the arrangement may constitute a conflict of interest, the Washington Post reported Friday. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent…

Google Maps A British family was deported on Wednesday following nearly two weeks in US immigration detention, after they apparently crossed the US-Canada border by accident and drove down an unmarked road. The Connors family has called their detention “the scariest experience of our entire lives,” and bemoaned the conditions they and their three-month-old infant…

Doing it for the ‘gram?  Royal Caribbean Cruises doesn’t think that’s a good idea, particularly when it’s dangerous.  “Earlier this week on the Allure of the Seas a guest was observed recklessly and dangerously posing for a photo by standing on her stateroom balcony railing with the help of her companion,” Jonathon Fishman, corporate reputation manager…

The Trump administration and Turkey say they’ve reached a ceasefire. The formerly U.S.-backed forces of the Syrian Democratic Forces say they’ll accept it but won’t accept further incursions into Kurdish-held areas. Caught in the middle of the war between Turkey and Syrian Kurds are tens of thousands of ISIS prisoners—mostly women and children—now detained in…

Here, all the royal news you need to know for the week of October 17, 2019.   Kate Middleton and Prince William officially arrived in Pakistan for their five-day royal tour. On Monday, the 37-year-old Duchess of Cambridge and 37-year-old Prince William touched down in Islamabad to begin a series of engagements surrounding topics like environmental conservation, national security, arts, culture, female empowerment…