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California celebrates New Year with marijuana sales
Associated Press, Published on 01/01/2018
» LOS ANGELES: Californians may awaken on New Year's Day to a stronger-than-normal whiff of marijuana as America's cannabis king lights up to celebrate the state's first legal retail pot sales.
Trump ex-aide Bannon backtracks, retracts 'treasonous' claim
Reuters, Published on 08/01/2018
» WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump's former strategist Steve Bannon on Sunday backed away from derogatory comments ascribed to him about Trump's son in a new book that sparked White House outrage and could threaten Bannon's influence as a would-be conservative power broker.
Reuters journalists charged with violating Myanmar law
Associated Press, Published on 10/01/2018
» Prosecutors in Myanmar formally charged two journalists from the Reuters news agency on Wednesday with violating the Official Secrets Act, signalling the case will go forward despite international condemnation.
Ecuador gives nationality to Wikileaks' Assange
Associated Press, Published on 12/01/2018
» QUITO, Ecuador: Ecuador has granted citizenship to Australian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after more than five years of living in asylum at the nation's embassy in London, officials announced Thursday.
Ecuador grants nationality to WikiLeaks founder
Associated Press, Published on 12/01/2018
» QUITO, Ecuador: Ecuador has granted citizenship to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after more than five years of living in asylum at the nation's embassy in London, officials announced Thursday.
At Davos, main attraction is Trump
Associated Press, Published on 24/01/2018
» WASHINGTON: One question looms as President Donald Trump packs his bags for Switzerland: How will the Diet Coke-loving nationalist fit in with the Champagne-sipping globalists he'll encounter at the World Economic Forum in Davos?
Donald Trump gears up for the great Davos face-off
News, Peter Apps, Published on 25/01/2018
» Since its foundation in 1971, the World Economic Forum in Davos has been a byword for the growing consensus around an increasingly globalised world. Now, President Donald Trump is on his way to tell those who consider themselves the global elite that they have been wrong on just about everything.
Trump at Davos: US prosperity helping the world
AP and Bloomberg, Published on 26/01/2018
» DAVOS, Switzerland: Declaring that America is open for business under his leadership, President Donald Trump told political and business elites on Friday that the economic growth taking place in the US due to his "America first" agenda also benefits the rest of the world.
FBI deputy quits after Trump criticism
Reuters, Published on 30/01/2018
» WASHINGTON: FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, criticised by President Donald Trump for alleged bias against him and in favour of his 2016 Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton, has stepped down as the agency's No.2 official.