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Americans wear safety pins to show solidarity in wake of Trump’s election
People have long used ribbons, flowers, colours or badges to symbolise political causes, from the carnations of Portugal’s 1974 revolution to the orange ribbons of Ukraine’s 2004 revolution to the gel wristbands now worn to promote almost any charity. Enter the lowly safety pin. That humble but practical device is fast gaining a...
Dance Free Dance
Canada’s Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier perform during the Ice Dance Free Dance at the Trophee Eric Bompard ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating in Paris Ukraine’s Alexandra Nazarova and Maxim Nikitin perform during the Ice Dance Free Dance at the Trophee Eric Bompard ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating in Paris France’s Lorenza...
Trump must learn about Europe, says EU´s Juncker
LUXEMBOURG: US President-elect Donald Trump must get up to speed on how Europe works in order to avoid “two years of wasted time” when he assumes his new role, European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker said Friday. “Mr. Trump, during his campaign, said that Belgium was a village somewhere in Europe,” Juncker said in...
German defence minister says Trump can’t treat NATO like a business
US president-elect Donald Trump needs to clarify his views on Russia, and to understand that NATO must be treated as an alliance of shared values rather than a business, Germany’s defence minister said. “What his advisors will hopefully tell him and what he needs to learn is that NATO isn’t just a business. It’s not a company,”...
Russia says it was in touch with Trump’s campaign during election
MOSCOW: The Russian government was in touch with members of President-elect Donald Trump’s political team during the US election campaign and knows most of his entourage, one of Russia’s most senior diplomats told the Interfax news agency on Thursday. Accused by defeated Democratic contender Hillary Clinton of being a puppet of...
Turkey’s Erdogan hails Ataturk on death anniversary
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday hailed the founder of modern Turkey Mustafa Kemal Ataturk on the 78th anniversary of his death but added the country’s influence should go well beyond the borders of the state he created. Ataturk, who died on November 10, 1938, founded Turkey as a secular republic in 1923 out of the ruins of the...
Which billionaire moguls have been elected to power?
PARIS: Donald Trump, the real estate mogul, reality TV star and US president-elect whose worth Forbes estimates at $3.7 billion, joins an ultra-elite group of billionaire business tycoons who have come to power through the ballot box. Other political leaders who first made fortunes in businesses from chocolates to telecoms include: ITALY: Media...
NATO chief tells Trump: No conditions on defending allies
NATO’s promise to defend and protect any ally under attack is an unconditional guarantee set out in the Western alliance’s founding treaty, the organisation’s chief said on Wednesday following the victory of Donald Trump in the U.S. election. During the campaign, Trump threatened to abandon U.S. allies in Europe if they do not...
World leaders take stock of Trump win
PARIS (AFP) – Politicians worldwide took stock Wednesday of Donald Trump’s shock US election victory, with the president-elect winning praise from far-right figures and cautious welcome from key US allies.European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini :EU-US ties are deeper than any change in politics. We’ll continue to...
Hillary Clinton makes concession call as Trump victory final
Republican Donald Trump stunned the world on Tuesday by defeating heavily favoured Hillary Clinton in the race for the White House, ending eight years of Democratic rule and sending the United States on a new, uncertain path. A wealthy real-estate developer and former reality TV host, Trump rode a wave of anger toward Washington insiders to...
