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The mayor of  Los Angeles  has accused  Donald Trump  of having done “plenty of racist things” in an effort to divide Americans. Democrat Eric Garcetti, who was re-elected last year, called the president “thin-skinned” and “ineffective” in an assessment of the president’s performance in office. He suggested Mr Trump had not fulfilled a number of his campaign promises, such as delivering a better health care plan than Obamacare.  Mr Trump has publicly vowed to “let Obamacare fail”. After Republicans failed to get Obamacare repealed in Congress, the Trump administration rolled out various rules and proposals on healthcare, including short-term health plans.  A lawsuit filed by four cities earlier this month claimed the Trump administration’s actions on health care were harmful to society, like its short-term plans where insurance providers can deny customers with pre-existing conditions.  Speaking to...

Jakarta.  The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday (23/07) confirmed that an Indonesian student was raped in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and is now taken care of by the Indonesian embassy at the Hague, while investigation is ongoing. "The citizen protection team at the Indonesian embassy will continue to provide assistance and coordinate with local authorities," Foreign Affairs Ministry's citizen protection director, Lalu Muhammad Iqbal, said. The ministry will not reveal the victim's identity, Iqbal added, to protect her privacy. The Rotterdam Police are currently investigating the case, and have so far questioned more than a dozen witnesses. They are also analyzing images from CCTV recordings. The police said the young woman was seriously injured, Dutch media reported. The victim was riding a bicycle in the early morning of Saturday from Rotterdam Central Station to her home in Herman Bavinckstraat. Shortly after she locked her bicycle off the ...

Bad news as a man shot a patient to death in her bed at a suburban New York hospital Wednesday and then killed himself, police said. Police were trying to determine the connection between the two, who were found in a fourth-floor room after gunfire rang out around 9:40 a.m. at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, a major medical campus about 35 miles north of Manhattan. No one else was in the room at the time, authorities said. "There appears to be some type of family relationship between the two victims and a murder-suicide-type situation," Westchester County Police Commissioner Thomas Gleason said. He said both people were in their 70s. The woman was found in a bed, with the man and a licensed .38-caliber revolver on the floor, authorities said. It's unknown how many shots were fired. Dr. Srihari Naidu, an interventional cardiologist at the hospital, said he was at his office in a nearby building when he got an "active shooter alert," followed b...

China has announced plans to put tariffs of 25% on US products worth $16 billion, the latest move in an escalating trade war. The Chinese government said in a statement Wednesday that the taxes would be imposed on August 23. The US products in line for tariffs include chemical items and diesel fuel. The world's top two economies have  repeatedly sparred  over trade in recent months, in what experts warn may become a devastating cycle of retaliation. Related: The US-China trade war is about to get real On Tuesday, the  Trump administration unveiled  its own list of roughly $16 billion worth of imports from China that will be hit with 25% tariffs. The latest US tariffs on 279 products, including motorcycles, speedometers and antennas, will also take effect August 23. Full Story: https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/08/news/economy/china-tariffs-us-trade/index.html

What began with a statement of concern over human rights has ballooned into the biggest diplomatic feud in years between Canada and Saudi Arabia. In a tweet on Friday, the  Canadian Foreign Ministry said  it was "gravely concerned" by the arrest of Saudi activist Samar Badawi and other women's rights campaigners, and called for their release. Since then, the Saudi government has responded with a  steady string of retaliatory measures , expelling the Canadian ambassador from Riyadh and recalling the Saudi envoy to Ottawa, suspending Saudi state airline flights to Toronto, and ending thousands of Saudi scholarship programs in Canada. Then on Tuesday, Saudi authorities announced they would halt all medical treatment programs in Canada and transfer Saudi patients to hospitals outside the country. Full Story: https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/08/08/middleeast/saudi-canada-diplomatic-feud-mbs-intl/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fedition.cnn.com%2F

See how the NYSC members jubilates as the got the news that their allowance have been increased.   A Tweet from APC Newspaper reads;  BREAKING! PMB led administration raises NYSC Allowance to N49, 800.00. See the tweets below: We want to know your reaction towards this move by dropping your comments.

Amaechi, who spoke with Vanguard said in order to avoid the continued manslaughter, all Nigerians should have access to the country’s treasury. According to him, some politicians’ loot money meant for the building of hospitals thereby causing the death of Nigerians. He said, “If I steal, maybe a $100,000 from my ministry and give to you, you will say ‘oh, Amaechi is the most generous minister’ but you didn’t ask me where I got it from. “Now, you go home and give $50,000 to your wife and she takes $20,000 and gives to her mother, her mother goes to the market buys egusi and the woman she bought egusi from pays school fees, the person he pays school fees repairs his door, the carpenter that fixes the door, takes money to buy uniform for his child, the tailor that sews the uniform pays for a burial. Full Story @ https://thewhistler.ng/amp/story/politicians-are-killing-nigerians-amaechi-laments/.