Of the nearly 7.5 billion people on the planet, Forbes has identified the one person out of every 100 million whose actions mean the most. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, seizes the top spot on Forbes’ 2018 ranking of The World’s 75 Most Powerful People for the first time ever. […]
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After seeing President Donald Trump at the White House, no sooner had President Muhammadu Buhari left the United States of America than his acolytes started hailing him in the social media. In this era, the social media is a vote decider. It does not matter whether the English there is correct, for election purposes, the […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday signed an agreement with an international consortium led by world’s digital industrial company, General Electric (GE), for the interim phase of the concession of Nigeria’s narrow-gauge rail network. Other members of the international consortium include SinoHydro, Transnet and APM Terminals. The Presidency, which made this known yesterday, said in a […]
Read More WASHINGTON (AP) – The Latest on the visit of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari to Washington (all times local): 1:01 p.m. President Donald Trump says the extremist group Boko Haram has been a “terrible problem” for Nigeria. President Donald Trump meets with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, April […]
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Oil prices edged up on Friday, stabilizing after an earlier slide driven by U.S. President Donald Trump’s criticism of OPEC’s role in pushing up global oil prices. Brent crude oil futures gained 28 cents, or 0.4 percent, to settle at $74.06 per barrel. West Texas Intermediate crude futures for delivery in June, the most active […]
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U.S. President Donald Trump said he sometimes tweets from bed. When asked about whether he tweeted from bed with his phone, Trump said: “Well perhaps sometimes in bed, perhaps sometimes at breakfast or lunch or whatver, but generally speak during the early morning, or the evening…I am very busy during the day.” In an interview […]
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The founder of the World Economic Forum says he hopes President Donald Trump’s planned visit to Davos this week will “provide him even better with a global perspective,” and says critics of the U.S. leader should hear him out. Klaus Schwab couldn’t confirm whether Trump will actually attend the WEF event in the Alpine snows […]
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President Donald Trump said Sunday that a program that protects immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children is “probably dead,” casting a cloud over already tenuous negotiations just days before a deadline on a government funding deal that Democrats have tied to immigration. At issue is the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals […]
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More than 150 years after the abolition of slavery and more than 50 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, President Donald Trump’s incendiary comments about immigrants have ripped open a jarring debate in the United States and around the world: Is the American president racist? To Democrats and some historians, there is […]
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President Donald Trump has offered a partial denial in public but privately defended his extraordinary remarks disparaging Haitians and African countries a day earlier. Trump said Friday he was only expressing what many people think but won’t say about immigrants from economically depressed countries. That’s according to a person who spoke to the president as […]
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US President Donald Trump’s reported description of African nations, El Salvador and Haiti as “shithole” countries has focused attention on previous remarks, which have ignited accusations of racism. The following is a list of some of his most racially charged policy stances and comments: – ‘Birther’ controversy – Trump earned national political prominence by promoting […]
Read More Haiti on Friday expressed shock at reports that U.S. President Donald Trump referred to the Caribbean nation as a “shithole,” and summoned the top U.S. diplomat in the country for an explanation. Trump on Thursday questioned why the United States would want to have immigrants from Haiti and African nations, referring to some as “shithole […]
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