U.S. President Donald Trump has asked the over 7,000 Central-American refugees now on the march through Mexico towards the southern border of the United States to “go back”.
He vowed that he would not allow them into the country.
Trump, in a tweet urged them to rather apply for U.S. citizenship like others.
The president had reportedly deployed 800 army troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to stop the migrants.
“To those in the Caravan, turnaround, we are not letting people into the United States illegally.
“Go back to your Country and if you want, apply for citizenship like millions of others are doing!” Trump tweeted.
Trump last week threatened to cut off foreign aid to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador should the caravan of people fleeing their homeland attempt to cross into the U.S. illegally.
He alleged that “criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in”, adding “I have alerted Border Patrol and Military that this is a National Emergency”.
The president also dismissed reports that Russians and Chinese listened to his phone calls for insisting on using his insecure private phone and refusing the secured official lines.
He tweeted: “The New York Times has a new Fake Story that now the Russians and Chinese (glad they finally added China) are listening to all of my calls on cellphones.
“Except that I rarely use a cellphone, & when I do it’s government authorized.
“I like Hard Lines. Just more made up Fake News!”
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‘We’re not letting you in’, Trump warns migrant caravan
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Again, Nigerian students soar at world robotics
Nigerian teenagers, who raised the country’s flag at the 2018 First Global Robotic Olympiad (GRO) in Mexico, won two bronze medals at the competition involving 187 countries.
The Nigerian team won the medals in the Outstanding Support and International Journey categories.
There were 20 categories of awards at the event which ended on Sunday. The competition began on Aug 13.
The challenge was on Energy Impact. Competitors were to solve problems related to energy with the use of robotics.
Mrs Remi Willoughby, National Coordinator of the GRO, told NAN on telephone from Mexico that there were 193 teams from 187 countries at the competition.
Willoughby described Nigeria’s victory as an attestation that the Nigeria child was making progress in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics.
The five teenagers, aged from 15 years to 17 years, are from secondary schools in Lagos. They are four females and a male.
They are Anjolaoluwa Olowokere from Lagoon School; Iroaganachi Udodirim, Queens College; Samuel Mbah, Osezele Comprehensive Senior Secondary School; Tochukwu Anyigbo, Lagoon School; and Daberechi Onyeacholem, Greensprings School Lekki.
Mr Faisal Jarmakani, Managing Director, Aramex and Doculand Nig., sponsors of the team, had at a press conference in Lagos to announce the competition, said that the teenagers were building the foundation blocks for a technology-advanced Nigeria.
“Without any doubts, we will soon join other countries of the world where science and technology have become the backbone of economic development.
Three Nigeria students had in July won gold for proper documentation of processes on engineering note at the 2018 World Adolescent Robotic Competition in China.
The students – Tawakalitu Giwa, Oluwaseun Omotayo and Ayomide Adetunji – also won the “Rajaa Cherkaoui El Moursli’ Award for Courageous Achievement at the event organised by the China Association of Science and Technology.
The challenge was on Water Problem.
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[BREAKING] World Cup: Neymar shines as Brazil beat Mexico to reach quarter-final
Neymar scored one goal and played a key role in the second as Brazil edged out Mexico in Samara to reach the World Cup quarter-finals for a seventh consecutive time.
Brazil did not have it all their own way, especially in an opening period dominated by the Central Americans, but the five-time winners grew into what became a controlled performance.
It means Mexico are once again eliminated at the last-16 stage – as they have been at every World Cup since 1994.
They did have plenty of chances early on, and it was only after a largely frustrating first half for Brazil that Neymar started the move to put his side ahead.
His run across goal and clever backheel won Willian space, and the Chelsea midfielder only needed two touches to drive into box and lay the ball across for the world’s most expensive player to slide home.
It was Brazil’s 227th goal at the World Cup, meaning they overtake Germany as the all-time top scorers.
Just moments earlier, Mexico’s Jesus Gallardo wasted a brilliant chance when he shot wildly over the crossbar instead of playing in Hirving Lozano.
For much of the second half, Mexico’s bright start was just a memory, but Carlos Vela forced a save from Brazil goalkeeper Alisson with his side’s first shot on target not long after going behind.
In the match’s closing stages they rallied once more, but Brazil defended stoically before doubling their lead on the break through a Roberto Firmino tap-in after Neymar’s effort was diverted by the toe of Mexico goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa.
Brazil will face Belgium or Japan – who meet in Rostov-on-Don in the day’s second match – in their last-eight tie in Kazan on Friday.
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Lopez Obrador elected Mexico’s new president with 53 per cent of vote
Left-wing populist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has been elected president of Mexico with at least 53 per cent of the vote, the electoral authority says.
A projection based on a vote count in 7,800 representative polling stations confirms the victory of Lopez Obrador, National Electoral Institute President Lorenzo Cordova said.
Lopez Obrador took between 53 and 53.8 per cent of the vote.
Conservative-centrist Ricardo Anaya received up to 22.8 per cent, while Jose Antonio Meade from outgoing President Enrique Pena Nieto’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) had up to 16.3 per cent.
The results make Obrador Mexico’s first presidential candidate to receive more than 50 per cent of the vote since the PRI lost its dominant position in the last century.
“The revolution of consciences has triumphed,” the winner told tens of thousands of jubilant supporters who had gathered on Mexico City’s central Zocalo Square.
“I shall not let you down. You shall not be disappointed,” he vowed while crowds waved flags of his Morena party and chanted “President! President!”.
Voter turnout was estimated at 63 per cent of the 89 million eligible voters in the country’s biggest ever elections.
Among the 3,400 offices being contested were 500 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, 128 in the Senate, eight governorships and 1,600 mayoralties as well as other local positions.
Morena was generally expected to do well.
Exit polls gave its candidate Claudia Sheinbaum as the new Mexico City mayor, while the party was also expected to win governorships in the states of Chiapas, Tabasco and Morelos.
Voters were seen as having punished the PRI for a string of corruption scandals, sluggish economic growth of only about 2 per cent and the party’s perceived inefficiency in combating the country’s soaring crime rate.
Pena Nieto, whose approval ratings stood at only about 20 per cent, was limited by the constitution to a single term.
Former Mexico City mayor Obrador, who had already run for the presidency twice before, cast himself as an anti-establishment candidate prepared to crack down on corruption and to help the poor.
He has also pledged a less militarized, more social approach to fighting crime, including an amnesty to lower-level gang members.
Mexico recorded about 29,000 killings last year, the highest annual number since modern records started being kept two decades ago.
The electoral campaign was also overshadowed by violence, with about 120 politicians assassinated over 10 months, according to risk consultant Etellekt.
Criminal gangs committing such killings are believed to seek influence on politics especially on the local level.
A political killing was reported even on election day.
An activist of the Labour Party was shot dead on leaving her home in Contepec in western Michoacan state, the party was quoted as saying.
Lopez Obrador’s victory was expected by many to further worsen Mexico’s already frosty relations with the U.S., whose president, Donald Trump, has slammed the country over illegal migration and pressured it to pay for a border wall.
The president-elect said he would seek “a relationship of friendship and cooperation” with Mexico’s northern neighbour, but one based on “mutual respect.”
Obrador was expected to be more assertive with Trump while seeking to reduce Mexico’s dependency on U.S. fuel and other trade.
Trump tweeted that he looked “very much forward to working with” Obrador.
“There is much to be done that will benefit both the United States and Mexico!” the president added.
Bolivia’s leftist President Evo Morales tweeted: “We are sure that his government will write a new page on Latin America’s dignity and sovereignty.”
Obrador has sought to placate fears that his victory would turn Mexico into another Venezuela, which is suffering a severe economic crisis under socialist rule.
In spite of lambasting the entrepreneurial elite as “a rapacious minority,” he has excluded the possibility of expropriations and pledged guarantees to investors.
Obrador’s popularity is attributed less to his political programme than to a general desire to end the rule of the corruption-tarnished PRI, which has governed the country intermittently since 1929.
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Trump announces intention of U.S. to bid for 2026 World Cup
U.S. President Donald Trump has announced the intention to bid for the 2026 World Cup in conjunction with Canada and Mexico.
Trump, while announcing the bid on his Twitter handle, warned against opposition from countries that the U.S. has always supported.
Morocco is currently challenging the North American bid for the first 48-team World Cup in 2026.
The president suggested that the U.S. was considering withdrawing support for countries that are not reciprocating the America’s gestures.
“The U.S. has put together a STRONG bid with Canada and Mexico for the 2026 World Cup.
” It would be a shame if countries that we always support were to lobby against the U.S. bid.
“Why should we be supporting these countries when they don’t support us (including at the United Nations)? Trump tweeted.
The 2018 edition of the World Cup would be hosted by Russia.
On Dec. 2, 2010, FIFA president Sepp Blatter announced the winning bids at FIFA’s headquarters in Zurich.
While Russia was chosen to host the 2018 World Cup, Qatar was chosen to host the 2022 World Cup.
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Trump inspects ‘amazing’ US-Mexico border wall prototype amid protests
Stressing “We will build the wall” near the Otay Mesa Port of Entry in San Diego, California, US President Donald Trump yesterday inspected prototypes for US-Mexico border wall amid peaceful protests.
Trump, who was briefed on eight towering prototypes, said he liked a fully concrete wall because it was the hardest to climb.
He noted that it should have see-through capability and said certain parts of the state are desperate for a wall to break the flow of illegal immigration.
“If you didn’t have walls over here, you wouldn’t even have a country,” he said.
There have been growing tensions between Trump’s administration and the State over certain of his immigration policies.
But the president seems not to be bothered.
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Trump insists Mexico will pay for border wall ‘directly or indirectly’
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday insisted that his position on the border wall with Mexico has not changed, and that the latter country would pay for it “directly or indirectly.”
“The Wall is the Wall, it has never changed or evolved from the first day I conceived of it. Parts will be, of necessity, see through and it was never intended to be built in areas where there is natural protection such as mountains, wastelands or tough rivers or water.
“The Wall will be paid for, directly or indirectly, or through longer term reimbursement, by Mexico, which has a ridiculous 71 billion dollar trade surplus with the U.S.
“The 20 billion dollar Wall is peanuts compared to what Mexico makes from the U.S. NAFTA is a bad joke!” he said on Twitter.
On Jan. 11, Economy Secretary reiterated that Mexico would not be paying for the wall.
NAN reports that on Jan. 26, 2017, Mexico President Enrique Nieto condemned President Trump’s executive order to build a wall on the border betwen the two countries, and reiterated that his country will not pay for it.
“I regret and reject the decision of the U.S. to build the wall,” Pena Nieto said in a nationally televised address.
The U.S. president has also promised to step up deportations.
He launched his campaign with remarks calling immigrants crossing in illegally from Mexico criminals, drug dealers and “rapists.”
Trump added that “some” were presumably good people, but the comments nonetheless deeply offended many Mexicans.
Already Mexico is feeling the effects of the new tone from Washington.
he Mexican peso has sharply devalued since Trump was elected, and several high-profile business ventures have been canceled amid threats to impose a border tax on goods made in Mexico and exported to the U.S.
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JUST IN: Another 6.2 magnitude earthquake hits Mexico
A magnitude 6.2 earthquake shook southern Mexico on Saturday and was felt in the capital, where seismic alarms sounded, residents ran into the streets and rescuers briefly stopped combing the rubble left by a 7.1 tremor on Tuesday.
The US Geological Survey said the new quake was relatively shallow and hit near Juchitan, about 11 miles (18km) south-south-east of Matias Romero in a tropical region of Oaxaca state that was hard hit by an 8.1 quake on 7 September.
The Saturday quake swayed buildings, prompting civil defense officials to temporarily suspend rescue operations in the rubble of buildings downed by Tuesday quake.
Already shaken by the two recent quakes that have killed at least 380 people, thousands of people ran out onto the streets again in Oaxaca and Mexico City, some in pajamas when the new tremor shortly before 8am.
“I heard the alarm and ran downstairs with my family,” said Sergio Cedillo, 49, who was watching rescuers’ efforts to find survivors from Tuesday’s quake when the alarm sounded.
No new damage was immediately reported but rescue efforts were suspended to allow authorities to see if the new tremors would put workers at risk, said Luis Felipe Puente, the head of Mexico’s civil protection agency.
Details later…
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60 dead, over 200 injured after magnitude-8.1 earthquake hits Mexico
At least 60 people were killed after a magnitude-8.1 earthquake rocked Mexico late Thursday night, leveling buildings in southern Mexico, triggering tsunami warnings in several countries and causing people to flee into the street. Buildings swayed and lights went out in Mexico City, some 650 miles from the epicenter.
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto called it the strongest quake the country has seen in a century. The U.S. Geological Survey measured it at 8.1 magnitude, though initial reports said 8.2.
Pena Nieto said in a series of tweets on Friday that more than 200 people had been injured and more than 260 aftershocks had hit the country since the initial quake, the most powerful of which was measured at magnitude 6.1.
More than 1.85 million electricity customers had been affected, Pena Nieto said, with nearly 200,000 still facing outages.
The powerful temblor occurred some 50 miles southwest of Pijijiapan, Mexico, off the coast of the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, at 11:49 p.m. local time (12:49 a.m. ET), according to the USGS. The depth of the earthquake was 43 miles, the USGS said.
The death toll rose after 45 people were confirmed dead in the southern state of Oaxaca, 12 people in Chiapas and three others in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco, the head of Mexico’s civil defense agency confirmed to The Associated Press.
The small town of Juchitan in Oaxaca state “was completely leveled,” Eduardo Mendoza, senior program manager for Direct Relief, told ABC News from his Mexico City office.
Direct Relief is a California-based nonprofit that since 1948 has supplied medicine to poverty or emergency-stricken regions.
The quake has “affected such a wide region” that officials are still struggling to mobilize their staff, Mendoza said.
He said that many Mexicans could be in need of water after public utilities were damaged and that many in the affected area live in vulnerable adobe cinder block homes, including some who have chronic illnesses.
“Many of them are running out of their homes or it collapses and they can’t get their medicine that they need,” he said. “There’s a lot of diabetics.”
As responders scramble to tend to the traumatized victims who still may be trapped under the rubble, they are also dealing with heavy rain.
“Rain has been an issue,” Mendoza said. “Not only are we facing the massive earthquake, but Hurricane Katia is hitting tonight or tomorrow.”
“You’re going to have mudslides and different debris flows,” he continued. “It could affect so many people.”
Local officials in Juchitan told Mexican daily El Universal that at least 50 homes had been destroyed and at least 17 fatalities, so far, have been counted there.
The Mexico City fire department told ABC News early Friday that there were no casualties locally.
Mexico’s Pacific coastal areas — as well as the coastlines of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvadorand Costa Rica — experienced some tsunami waves, with some over 3 feet off the coast of Salina Cruz.
Residents in Chiapas were evacuated from the coast around 5 a.m. ET as a precaution against tsunami conditions, AP reported.
Officials in the devastated town of Juchitan called for more assistance in the quake’s aftermath.
“We need as much help as possible,” a local government official told the magazine Proceso. “We need anyone who can help to do so. We have ambulances here but they’re not enough.”
Four people were trapped after a roof collapsed on them, the official added.
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Photos/Video: Strongest earthquake in a century hits Mexico, dozens dead, several injured
The most powerful earthquake to hit Mexico in 100 years struck off the nation’s Pacific Coast late Thursday, rattling millions of residents in Mexico City with its violent tremors, killing at least 32 people and leveling some areas in the southern part of the country, closer to the quake’s epicenter.
According to a report by New York Times, about 50 million people across Mexico felt the earthquake, which had a magnitude of 8.2, the government said. In the capital, the force of the temblor sent residents of the megacity fleeing into the streets at midnight, shaken by alarms blaring over loudspeakers and a full minute of tremors. Windows broke, walls collapsed, and the city seemed to convulse in terrifying waves; the quake even rocked the city’s Angel of Independence monument.
While Mexico City seemed to have been spared extensive damage to infrastructure, according to the government’s preliminary assessment, the effects in the southern states of Chiapas and Oaxaca were probably more severe. The tally of damage — and death — probably will be difficult to assess initially, given that many areas are remote.
Alejandro Murat, the governor of Oaxaca, told the Televisa network that at least 23 people had died in the state, and local officials said residents were buried under the rubble of buildings.
Luis Manuel García Moreno, the secretary of civil defense for the state of Chiapas, said the toll there had risen to seven, and two children died in the state of Tabasco, one when a wall collapsed, the other after a respirator lost power in a hospital.
Schools in at least 10 Mexican states and in Mexico City were closed on Friday as the president ordered an immediate assessment of the damage nationwide. In the hours after the quake, the National Seismological Service registered several aftershocks.
Still, the resounding feeling in the country was one, at least initially, of relief that the damage was not more widespread, given the nation’s vulnerability to earthquakes and the capital’s extreme density.
“We are assessing the damage, which will probably take hours, if not days,” said President Enrique Peña Nieto, who addressed the nation just two hours after the quake. “But the population is safe over all. There should not be a major sense of panic.”
Mexico is situated near several boundaries where portions of the earth’s crust collide. The quake on Thursday was more powerful than the one that killed nearly 10,000 people in 1985.
While the quake on Thursday struck nearly 450 miles from the capital and off the coast of Chiapas State, the one in 1985 was much closer to the city — so the shaking, coupled with Mexico City being on an ancient lake bed, proved much more deadly.
After the 1985 disaster, construction codes were reviewed and stiffened. Today, Mexico’s construction laws are considered as strict as those in the United States or Japan.
After the quake hit, people in Mexico City streamed out of their homes in the dark, wearing nightclothes, standing amid apartment buildings, cafes and bars in upscale neighborhoods and dense warrens of the city’s working-class communities. In the Condesa area, neighbors watched in awe as power lines swayed alongside trees and buildings. In several neighborhoods, the power went out, though it was restored within an hour, at least in the wealthier parts of the capital.
For a city used to earthquakes, Thursday’s quake left a lasting impression on residents, for both its force and duration.
“The scariest part of it all is that if you are an adult, and you’ve lived in this city your adult life, you remember 1985 very vividly,” said Alberto Briseño, a 58-year-old bar manager in Condesa. “This felt as strong and as bad, but from what I see, we’ve been spared from major tragedy.”
“Now we will do what us Mexicans do so well: take the bitter taste of this night and move on,” he added.