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  • UN chief, Trump saddened by California wildfires

    UN chief, Trump saddened by California wildfires

    UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has expressed sadness at the wildfires in the State of California, which killed at least 31 people and burned a staggering 6,500 homes.

    Guterres, in a statement by his Deputy Spokesman, Farhan Haq, said he was “deeply saddened by the loss of lives and extensive damage that resulted from the wildfires.”

    Three major fires are burning through the state, reportedly the most destructive wildfires in California’s history, and officials are bracing for the possibility that the death toll could rise significantly.

    The UN chief extended his heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims and to the Government and people of the United States.

    The Secretary-General said he stood in solidarity with the Government of the United States.

    The fires, whipped by strong winds, raged through thousands of acres of forests and in both Northern and Southern California on Monday.

    The inferno had already wiped out Paradise – a town in the Sierra Nevada – and forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents west of Los Angeles, while more than 200 people unaccounted for in Paradise.

    The inferno burnt about 200,000 acres and was only about 25 per cent contained as at Monday.

    U.S. President, Donald Trump, said on Monday evening on Twitter that he had approved a request to declare the fires in California a major disaster, making people affected eligible for various types of federal government support.

    Trump tweeted: “I just approved an expedited request for a Major Disaster Declaration for the State of California.

    “Wanted to respond quickly in order to alleviate some of the incredible suffering going on. I am with you all the way. God Bless all of the victims and families affected”.

    The president in his tweets earlier said: “More than 4,000 are fighting the Camp and Woolsey Fires in California that have burned over 170,000 acres.

    “Our hearts are with those fighting the fires, the 52,000 who have evacuated, and the families of the 11 who have died. The destruction is catastrophic. God Bless them all.

    “The California Fire Fighters, FEMA and First Responders are amazing and very brave. Thank you and God Bless you all!”

    Trump, while raising an alarm on the seriousness of the inferno cautioned that: “these California fires are expanding very, very quickly (in some cases 80-100 acres a minute).

    “If people don’t evacuate quickly, they risk being overtaken by the fire. Please listen to evacuation orders from State and local officials.”

    The president had earlier incurred the wrath of the fire fighters when tweeted over the weekend that “there is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor.

    “Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!

    “With proper Forest Management, we can stop the devastation constantly going on in California. Get Smart.”

    The International Association of Firefighters called the president’s comments an “irresponsible” and “reckless” act on behalf of the Trump administration.

    The association said “President Donald Trump has chosen to respond with an irresponsible, reckless and insulting tweet criticising the work being done on the frontline to contain these disasters.

    “While fire fighters and civilians are still in harm’s way, the president even suggested cutting off necessary funding to keep Americans safe.”

  • Trump says Khashoggi murder 'worst cover-up in history'

    US President Donald Trump has said Saudi Arabia’s response to the murder of the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi is “the worst cover-up ever”.
    Those behind the killing in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul three weeks ago “should be in big trouble”, he said.
    Shortly afterwards, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the US would “punish those responsible” and had revoked visas of 21 identified suspects.
    The Saudi government has blamed the murder on rogue agents.
    But President Erdogan of Turkey has said the journalist was the victim of a carefully planned “political murder” by Saudi intelligence officers and other officials.
    Speaking to reporters at the White House on Tuesday, Mr Trump said: “They had a very bad original concept, it was carried out poorly and the cover-up was the worst in the history of cover-ups.
    “Whoever thought of that idea, I think is in big trouble. And they should be in big trouble.”
    The Saudi government has provided conflicting accounts of what happened to Khashoggi, a US resident and Washington Post contributor. After weeks of maintaining he was still alive, senior officials now say the 59-year-old was murdered in a rogue operation after visiting the Saudi consulate in Turkey.
    In a speech to the European Parliament, Mr Tusk said he expected member states and institutions to avoid any “ambiguous game”.

  • 'Trump threatens to punish Saudi Arabia severely if…'

    The U.S President, Donald Trump, said in a CBS interview on Saturday that there would be “severe punishment” for Saudi Arabia if it turns out that missing Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
    Khashoggi, a prominent critic of Riyadh and legal resident of the United States, disappeared on October 2 after visiting the consulate, reports the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday.
    “We’re going to get to the bottom of it and there will be severe punishment,” Trump said.
    Asked whether Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, gave an order to kill him, Trump said “nobody knows yet but we will probably be able to find out.”
    Trump added in excerpts of a 60-minute interview that will be aired on Sunday today that, “we would be very upset and angry if that was the case”.
    Trump said that there was much at stake with Khashoggi case, because he was a reporter.
    Trump signaled that cutting off U.S. military sales to the kingdom may not be an option, saying, “I don’t want to hurt jobs.”
    Turkish sources have told the Media that the initial assessment of the police was that Khashoggi was deliberately killed inside the consulate.
    Riyadh has dismissed the claims.

  • Kanye West to meet Trump at White House on Thursday

    Rapper Kanye West, one of Donald Trump’s most glamorous supporters, will visit the White House for a meeting with the president and his son in law Jared Kushner on Thursday, officials said.
    Trump, who came under fire this week from another music superstar, Taylor Swift, will lunch with West, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said.
    West — best known as Kanye but recently stating that he wants to be known as just Ye — will also meet with Kushner.
    “Topics of discussions will include manufacturing resurgence in America, prison reform, how to prevent gang violence, and what can be done to reduce violence in Chicago,” Sanders said.
    West is planning to discuss the opening of employment opportunities for former prison convicts, a subject already being studied by the White House, according to The New York Times.
    West’s wife, the TV celebrity Kim Kardashian, has previously met with Trump at the White House.

  • Melania Trump feeds baby elephants in Kenya [Video]

    Melania Trump feeds baby elephants in Kenya [Video]

    U.S. first lady, Melania Trump, helped feed baby elephants on Friday at a sanctuary in Kenya, the latest stop on her Africa trip.
    U.S. President Donald Trump’s wife smiled as she petted and fed the pachyderms at the David Sheldrick Elephant and Rhino Orphanage at Nairobi National Park.
    The first lady was dressed in safari gear – fawn slacks, riding boots and a colonial type pith-helmet.
    The Slovenian-born former model was then taken on a 90-minute safari during which she spotted some of Africa’s impressive wildlife, including buffaloes, a giraffe, hippos, and zebra.
    Part of the tour included visiting an ivory burn site, where the valuable material has been symbolically destroyed to discourage the ivory trade.
    Some members of her husband’s administration recently attempted to lift a ban on some elephant trophy imports.
    The president’s two adult sons enjoy game hunting in Africa.
    The U.S. first lady met her Kenyan counterpart Margaret Kenyatta, who she had also met before with her husband in Washington.
    The two women discussed issues including the welfare of mothers and children and also saw a local theatre production.
    Melania Trump will later visit a Kenyan orphanage that primarily cares for children whose parents have been incarcerated.
    The first lady has already visited Ghana, where she toured a former slave fortress, and Malawi, where she met school children. After Kenya, she will head on to Egypt, the final stop on her solo trip.
    Donald Trump made headlines earlier this year when he was reported to have called some African countries “shitholes”, causing diplomatic furore.


     

  • TRENDING: ‘Donald Trump lasted just two minutes in bed’ – Porn Star, Stormy Daniels reveals

    Like it takes to cook noodles, two minutes, is about the same time United States President Donald Trump, allegedly spent on bed ‘making love’ with porn star, Stormy Daniels.

    Stormy Daniels, who has been having a running legal battle with the United States President Donald Trump, confessed that the president is not much of a good lover and that he lasted only two minutes in bed.

    In a Vogue magazine profile published Tuesday, New York Times reporter Amy Chozick pressed the performer for details about the extramarital affair she says she had with Trump in 2006.
    Porn star, Stormy Daniels, who has been having a running battle with the United States President Donald Trump, has said that the president is not much of a good lover and that he lasted only two minutes in bed.

    The controversial sex worker also claims that President Trump is a “good conversationalist,” and that in the course of their sexual trysts, he asked “good questions about the porn industry,” including if adult film stars get royalties and residuals or had a union.

    In an interview with the Vogue magazine published on Tuesday, she explained part of the extra-marital encounter she had with Trump to New York Times reporter, Amy Chozick.

    When asked:“How many details can you really give about two minutes?” Daniels said, “Maybe. I’m being generous.”

    She, however, remained consistent with her past claims that the sex was consensual and that she never felt forced into it.

    She also said that Trump wasn’t a bad conversationalist and that he asked good questions about the porn industry, including if adult film stars get royalties and residuals or had a union.

    Did Trump do something that made her feel like she had to have sex with him? Daniels is emphatic. “No, nothing,” she says. “Not once did I ever feel like I was in any sort of physical danger.

    I’m sure if I would’ve taken off running, he wouldn’t have given chase. And even if I had, there’s no way he could’ve caught me. He’s even less likely to catch me now.” Daniels said

  • Trump’s lifeless comment: Buhari has cheapened office of Nigeria’s President – PDP

    Trump’s lifeless comment: Buhari has cheapened office of Nigeria’s President – PDP

    The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says President Muhammadu Buhari and his handlers have opened our nation for international ridicule arising from reports quoting United States President, Donald Trump, describing President Buhari as “lifeless”.

    The party said such embarrassment is a backlash a nation gets when incompetent leaders, out of inferiority complex, resort to jumping around the world, desperately shopping for endorsement from world leaders.

    The party says President Buhari has been seeking international recognitions that are not predicated on any achievements from his three years in office.

    PDP hereby charges Mr. President to take a cue from the comments ascribed to President Trump by settling down at home and discharge his responsibilities to Nigerians or humbly accept his failings.

    While the PDP has strong reservations on the reported comment by President Trump, for which we demand a response from the Buhari Presidency and the US White House, the party further holds that had our dear President not cheapened the exalted office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria by his woeful outing during his visit to the United States, President Trump would not have had the opportunity to assess his level of incompetence and make such an embarrassing statement about our President.

    The PDP and indeed all well-meaning Nigerians are now sore worry over how other world leaders have been perceiving our President, who has not only failed in governance but has continued to demarket our nation in the international community.

    The PDP however urges Nigerians not to be downcast by the embarrassing situation the nation has found itself, especially as the 2019 general election, which comes in the next six months, offers the nation the ample opportunity to get it right on the choice of competent leadership Nigerians can be proud of.

  • ‘Lifeless Buhari’ statement: Trump’s ‘hate speech,’ disregard for world leaders worrisome – Group

    ‘Lifeless Buhari’ statement: Trump’s ‘hate speech,’ disregard for world leaders worrisome – Group

    …says statement won’t stop PMB’s reelection in 2019

    The Buhari Media Organisation ( BMO ) has said that President Muhammadu Buhari will not be distracted by the derogatory remarks credited to President Donald Trump of the United States of America, but will remain focused on his mandate to deliver on his promises to the Nigerian people.

    The group was reacting to a report by the Financial Times that the American President told his aides after a meeting with the Nigerian Leader in April that he never wanted to hold such a life less meeting again.

    While describing the comment as disrespectful, Chairman of the group, Niyi Akinsiju and Secretary, Cassidy Maduekwe said in a statement whether it was indeed said or in fact unsaid, Buhari would in his character continue to remain focused on his mandate to deliver on his promises to the Nigerian people.

    The group said that “President Muhammadu Buhari is fit and capable to run for the 2019 elections and oversee the affairs of the country for four more years President Donald Trump’s hate speech notwithstanding.”

    They stressed that this was not the first time the US President was heard to make such derogatory remarks about World leaders, and thus President Buhari would not be distracted by such.

    They said: “We are aware that President Trump’s disrespect for World Leaders is not new; his comments on Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, calling him ‘meek and mild’; his reference to Germany’s Leader, Angela Merkel’s actions as ‘insane’, or his outlandish Tweet at the UK’s Theresa May, and more recently, the alleged remarks he made after meeting President Buhari.

    “It is indeed not the first time President Trump would be heard to lower the standards of respect for his colleagues on the world stage. We are not surprised, we know that this age-long character of the US President would not change anytime soon. But it is important that we put it on record that President Buhari remains fit and sprightly, even for the next decade.

    “We recall that during President Buhari’s visit to Trump in the White House, the US President commended the successes that the Buhari administration had recorded especially in the fight against insurgency and the war on corruption.

    “The US President was full of admiration for Nigeria’s President during the visit, thus such outlandish remarks as reported by the Financial Times are not just to be taken with a pinch of salt but are untrue in themselves.

    “President Buhari has continued to show fitness and capacity to run the country post-2019; it went further to highlight that though the President’s 800 metre walk, where he acknowledged the cheers of members of his constituency, was not intended at showboating, it was an unscripted reference point that further proves a fit and lively President.”

     

  • Buhari is so lifeless, I regret meeting him – Trump

    Buhari is so lifeless, I regret meeting him – Trump

    The world’s leading global business publication, Financial Times said US president, Donald Trump described his April meeting with Nigeria president, Muhammadu Buhari as ‘so lifeless’ in an article titled ‘Africa looks for something new out of Trump’ as Kenya president visits the White House.

    Trump met Buhari on April 30 at Washington as the two leaders discussed issues including “fighting terrorism” and economic growth.

    Buhari was the first sub-Saharan African leader to visit Trump at the White House for a bilateral talk that touched on security, economy, trade, investment and governance.
    The Financial Times in its latest article claimed that the meeting ended with Trump warning his aides that he never wanted to meet someone so lifeless again.

    “The first meeting, with Nigeria’s ailing 75-year-old Muhammadu Buhari in April, ended with the US president telling aides he never wanted to meet someone so lifeless again, according to three people familiar with the matter,” the newspaper claimed.

    Trump will welcome Kenya’s Uhuru Kenyatta to the White House on Monday for what will be only the second one-on-one meeting the US president has held with an African leader since he took office.

    The newspaper added that advocates of closer US-Africa ties hope his encounter with the younger, more urbane Mr Kenyatta, 56, will breathe fresh life into a relationship with a region that Washington is seen to have neglected as other countries, notably China, develop ever-closer trade and investment ties with the continent.
    The Presidency has not reacted to this article.

    However, Trump praised Buhari during the joint-press conference held after the meeting in April.“Nigeria has a reputation for very massive corruption.

    I also know that the President (Buhari) has been able to cut that down very substantially. We talked about that, he is working on it and they have made a lot of progress and I think they will continue to make a lot of progress,” Trump said at the Press conference.

  • BREAKING: Senator McCain is dead, Trump, Obama pay tributes

    McCain, a celebrated war hero known for reaching across the aisle in an increasingly divided America, died following a lost battle with brain cancer.

    Former President Barack Obama swiftly led the outpouring of condolences and tributes for Senator John McCain whose death was announced on Saturday by his office.
    McCain, a celebrated war hero known for reaching across the aisle in an increasingly divided America, died following a lost battle with brain cancer.
    He was 81.

    “Senator John Sidney McCain III died at 4:28 pm on August 25, 2018. With the senator when he passed were his wife Cindy and their family,” his office said in a statement.
    Obama, the Democrat to whom McCain lost the presidency in the 2008 elections, said “we are all in his debt.”

    “John McCain and I were members of different generations, came from completely different backgrounds and competed at the highest level of politics,” Obama said in a statement.

    “But we shared, for all our differences, a fidelity to something higher — the ideals for which generations of Americans and immigrants alike have fought, marched and sacrificed.”
    Former vice president Al Gore — who served under Democrat Bill Clinton — said: “I always admired and respected John from the opposite side of the aisle, because he thrived under pressure, and would work to find common ground, no matter how hard.”

    President Donald Trump, who once mocked McCain’s war record, said he sent his “deepest sympathies and respect.”

    McCain had been a rare and outspoken Republican critic of Trump, accusing him of “naivete,” “egotism” and of sympathizing with autocrats.

    On Capitol Hill, McCain became close friends with Senator Lindsey Graham and former senator Joe Lieberman — a trio dubbed the “Three Amigos.”
    Now that the trio is missing its driving force, Graham wrote that “America and Freedom have lost one of her greatest champions… And I’ve lost one of my dearest friends and mentor.”

    McCain, who was tortured during his five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, stopped treatment from an aggressive form of cancer on Friday , his family saying “the progress of disease and the inexorable advance of age render their verdict.”

    “At his death, he had served the United States of America faithfully for 60 years.”

    “Sen McCain, thank you for your service,” read a sign near the driveway of his home in a rural part of Sedona, Arizona, television footage showed, as a police escort accompanied the hearse that was to carry his body and local residents came bearing flowers for the late political titan.

    While he had many disagreements with fellow politicians, the Republican stalwart’s integrity was not at question.

    He had spent more than three decades in the Senate, looming large in debates over war and peace and the moral direction of the nation. Before joining the upper chamber, he served as a US representative from 1983 to 1987.

    McCain had not been on the Senate floor in months, remaining at his Arizona home for treatment of glioblastoma — the same form of brain cancer that took the life of another Senate giant, Democrat Ted Kennedy, in 2009.