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    U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an interview with Reuters in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., April 27, 2017. He misses driving, feels as if he is in a cocoon, and is surprised how hard his new job is. President Donald Trump on Thursday reflected on his first 100 days in office with a wistful look at his life before the White House. I loved my previous life. I had so many things going, Trump told Reuters in an interview. This is more work than in my previous life. I thought it would be easier. A wealthy businessman from New York, Trump assumed public office for the first time when he entered the White House on Jan. 20 after he defeated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in an upset. More than five months after his victory and two day...

    Fox News host Jesse Watters is under fire for making what critics say was a sexually charged remark about Ivanka Trump, further fueling Fox's critics who have accused the network of fostering a sexist work environment. On Tuesday night's episode of The Five - the 9 p.m. show that followed The O'Reilly Factor, which was canceled after longtime star Bill O'Reilly was dismissed over mounting allegations of sexual harassment the network played a clip of Trump holding a microphone close to her mouth as she talked about women's rights at a panel in Germany. It's funny. The left says they really respect women and then when given an opportunity to respect a woman like that they boo and hiss ... so I don't really get what's going on here, but I really liked how she was speaking int...

    The top US military commander in the Pacific has said that America wanted to bring Kim Jong-un to his senses as he warned North Korea could strike American soil. It came as the Trump administration announced a tightening of sanctions against North Korea and a stepping up of diplomatic efforts amid mounting tensions over Pyongyang’s nuclear threats. North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un watches a military drill. Admiral Harry Harris, who heads the US Pacific Command, defended the deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) missile defence system in South Korea. He told Congress that he believed North Korea's threats against the US needed to be taken seriously. I don't share your confidence that North Korea is not going to attack either South Korea, or Japan, or...

    Donald Trump has rowed back on his claim that Nato is obsolete, saying his earlier comments were made when he did not know much about the military alliance. The US President told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer during the presidential campaign that the 28-member state organisation was redundant and overly expensive for the US – a claim he repeated shortly before taking office in January. We are paying disproportionately, he said at the time. It's too much, and frankly it's a different world than it was when we originally conceived of the idea. Asked about his previous comments during an interview with the Associated Press, Mr Trump said they were a result of him “not knowing much” about Nato. They had a quote from me that Nato’s obsolete, he said. But they didn't say why it was obsolet...

    In his first major address since leaving office, Obama urged young people to help bridge political divides. He spent most of his time on stage listening to comments from students at the university where he once lectured. Former US President Barack Obama on Monday urged young people to get involved in politics at his first public address since President Donald Trump took office three months ago. Without making mention of Trump, he told a University of Chicago audience that he would use his post-presidency time to encourage young people to engage with their communities. I'm spending a lot of time thinking about: what is the most important thing I can do for my next job?" Obama said at the university, where he once taught law. The single most important thing I can do is to he...

    U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump reacts on stage as his wife Melania looks on at his 2016 New Hampshire presidential primary night rally in Manchester, New Hampshire February 9, 2016. Melania Trump is reportedly not very interested about being the US’ first lady and approaches the role “hesitantly.” According to a new profile of the FLOTUS by Vanity Fair’s Evgenia Peretz, her role in the Donald Trump presidency was something she never wanted, an insider revealed. Protesters at the Women’s March carried posters that said FREE MELANIA. The Twitter was also filled with #SaveMelania and #SadMelania hash tags. Melania’s alleged disinterest in her husband’s political career was observed by parents at her son’s, Barron, school in New York even before the 2016 presidential...

    Now that we possess mighty nuclear power to protect ourselves from US nuclear threat, we will respond without the slightest hesitation to full-out war with full-out war and to nuclear war with our style of nuclear strike, and we will emerge victor in the final battle with the US. That is just one of the latest statements from North Korea’s interior ministry as tensions continue to rise over its continued missile tests and nuclear weapons programme. while today the ruling Workers party newspaper said the country's forces were combat-read to sink a US nuclear powered aircraft carrier with a single strike. The editorial further likened USS Carl Vinson to a gross animal. From sending new inter-continental ballistic missiles rolling through Pyongyang in a huge parade to threate...

    Venezuelan opposition activists march in a quiet show of condemnation of the government of President NIcolas Maduro, in the border state of Tachira-San Cristobal, on 22 April, 2017. Photo: AFP Caracas, Venezuela: Dressed in white, Venezuelan protesters opposed to President Nicolas Maduro marched in silence in several cities on Saturday to pay respects to 20 people killed in three weeks of unrest. Unlike demonstrations in recent days, the rallies in Caracas, Maracaibo, Barquisimeto and San Cristobal passed with no major violence reported between protesters and police. A few minor scuffles briefly broke out in the east of the capital when police forced back the crowd with tear gas. A female journalist said she was assaulted by pro-government heavies downtown and a male journ...

    U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump board Air Force One in West Palm Beach, Florida, on April 16. President Trump is at it again. People on Twitter recently pointed out that the president left his wife, Melania, behind while deplaning Air Force One over the weekend. In one photo, the president is at the bottom of the airplane’s stairs, greeting and saluting people on the ground, while Melania is still descending. Many online criticised the distance between the two, pointing to other presidents like Barack Obama and Ronald Reagan and the way they descended the stairs with their wives. Though Trump and his wife have descended the stairs together at the same speed a few times before and many other presidents haven’t always descended the stairs with their ...

    North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waves to people attending a military parade marking the 105th birth anniversary of country's founding father, Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang. Forget the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that President Donald Trump claimed, wrongly, was steaming toward North Korea to punish Kim Jong Un’s regime for apparently testing a nuclear-capable ballistic missile last Saturday. Forget the U.S. Marine Corps F-35 stealth fighters that practiced bombing runs on the Korean Peninsula in late March. Forget the contingent of U.S. Army soldiers—part of the 29,000-strong American ground force in South Korea that Vice President Mike Pence visited Sunday, just a day after Pyongyang’s latest missile test failed. No, if the United States seriously intends to punish North Korea ...