| Mexico says Playa del Carmen safe; president to go there Posted: 08 Mar 2018 01:15 PM PST  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican officials said late Wednesday that the Caribbean resort city of Playa del Carmen is safe, despite a U.S. security alert.
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| Africa should avoid forfeiting sovereignty to China over loans: Tillerson Posted: 08 Mar 2018 11:00 AM PST  By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Thursday that African countries should be careful not to forfeit their sovereignty when they accept loans from China, the continent's biggest trading partner. Tillerson is using his first diplomatic trip to the continent to bolster security alliances on a continent increasingly turning to Beijing for aid and trade. Trump later denied making the comment.
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| Tillerson aims to show US cares despite Trump's Africa slur Posted: 08 Mar 2018 08:47 AM PST  ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — President Donald Trump hasn't spoken much about Africa, and what he's said has been far from flattering. It falls to his top diplomat, on his first official visit to the continent, to show the United States still cares.
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| Assad troops take half of besieged Ghouta as rebel groups negotiate surrender Posted: 08 Mar 2018 07:52 AM PST  Rebels in besieged Eastern Ghouta have begun negotiating possible surrender in the face of a ferocious new ground offensive by Bashar al-Assad's troops. Tthe government's two-starred flag was sseen flying in Hammouriyeh's central square and claimed residents had welcomed their arrival. The pocket - one of the rebels' last remaining strongholds - is now close to being sliced in half, leaving thousands on the western side cut off from the east. The government claimed somewhere between 30-40 per cent has been retaken since they began their operation in earnest in mid-February. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the regime forces now control more than 50 per cent of Ghouta. Wounded Syrian children are seen at a field hospital after an attacks on Jesrin town in Eastern Ghouta Credit: Getty As the fighting escalated, hundreds of pro-regime fighters were reported to have been redeployed to the front lines in Ghouta from elsewhere in Syria. "At least 700 Afghan, Palestinian, and Syrian loyalist militiamen came from Aleppo and were sent late Tuesday to Ghouta," said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The offensive appears to have followed the tactics the regime and his allies have used at other key points in the war: laying siege to rebel-held areas, subjecting them to bombardment, launching a ground assault and offering passage out to civilians who flee and fighters who withdraw. Eastern Ghouta is of particular importance due to its proximity to Assad's seat of power in Damascus. Some 810 civilians have been killed since the offensive started, at least 250 of which since the UN agreed a ceasefire which never came into effect. Syrian government forces are seen in the former rebel-held area of Beit Nayem in the Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus Credit: AFP Air strikes and mortars continued mercilessly pounding heavily populated areas of the suburb on Wednesday, leaving a further 45 dead and dozens injured. "The situation is catastrophic," said a doctor speaking from the rebel pocket. "Right now there is a huge escalation in Ghouta. Seventeen Russian and Syrian warplanes have been rotating in the skies, dropping cluster bomb after bomb." The UN humanitarian coordinator in Syria appealed to the government to commit to a ceasefire on Thursday to let in an aid convoy containing medical supplies that were stripped from a delivery on Monday. An aid convoy reached the Damascus suburb for the first time since mid-February. It was only the second convoy so far in 2018 to reach the area, where the UN says 400,000 residents were already running out of food and medicine even before the bombing campaign began. Aid workers who gained access told the Telegraph they saw a destroyed town with desperate and hungry families who had been living in their basements. Zeid al-Hussein, UN human rights chief, said the conflict had entered a "new phase of horror" and denounced claims by Syria's government that it was doing all it can to protect civilians as "frankly ridiculous".
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| U.S. destroyer McCain collision which killed 10 sailors caused by 'sudden turn': Singapore Posted: 08 Mar 2018 07:01 AM PST ![U.S. destroyer McCain collision which killed 10 sailors caused by 'sudden turn': Singapore]( "U.S. destroyer McCain collision which killed 10 sailors caused by 'sudden turn': Singapore") A U.S. guided missile destroyer's deadly collision with an oil tanker near Singapore in 2017 was caused by "a sudden turn" made by the warship that put it in the path of the commercial vessel, said a report by the Singapore government on Thursday. The collision on Aug. 21, which killed 10 sailors and was one of a handful of incidents in the Asia Pacific region involving U.S. Navy warships, raised questions about Navy training and led to the removal of a number of officers. "The collision between the USS John S McCain (JSM) and Alnic MC (AM) as they were transiting through the Singapore Strait happened because of a sudden turn to Port by JSM, which caused it to head into the path of AM," the report said.
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| Jeff Sessions, California governor clash as feud escalates Posted: 08 Mar 2018 03:12 AM PST  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions dramatically escalated the Trump administration's war with California on Wednesday, suing over its so-called sanctuary state law and clashing with Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown in a fiery exchange of words.
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| Adam Rippon Is Changing His Tune On Mike Pence Meeting Posted: 08 Mar 2018 12:27 AM PST  Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon says now is the right time to meet with Vice President Mike Pence. "I agree with so many people that you don't get to make any sort of change if you don't try to at least reach across and have the opportunity to speak," Rippon said. Rippon had previously said that he has nothing personally to say to Pence, who has pushed an aggressive anti-LGBTQ agenda during his political career.
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| Michael B. Jordan Says His Company Will Adopt Inclusion Rider On All Projects Posted: 07 Mar 2018 10:44 PM PST  Actor Michael B. Jordan became one of the men leading the charge for a more equitable Hollywood when he announced on Wednesday that his production company would adopt inclusion riders on all its projects. The "Black Panther" and "Creed" star then linked to the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, led by Dr. Stacy Smith, who first publicly presented the inclusion rider as a solution to Hollywood's dismal diversity problem in a 2014 op-ed in The Hollywood Reporter.
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| California at 'war' with Washington over immigration: governor Posted: 07 Mar 2018 04:01 PM PST  California Governor Jerry Brown accused the Trump administration Wednesday of launching a war over the state's protections for illegal immigrants, after the Justice Department sued to block its sanctuary laws. "This is basically going to war against the state of California, the engine of the American economy. It's not wise, it's not right, and it will not stand," said Governor Jerry Brown.
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| Democratic surge in Texas primaries gives Republicans reason to worry Posted: 07 Mar 2018 03:27 PM PST  By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans have more reason to be nervous about the prospects of keeping control of the U.S. Congress this year after Democrats came out in force in Texas congressional primary elections. State figures show that more than 1 million Democrats cast votes in primary races across the state on Tuesday, almost twice as many as in 2014, the last time primaries were held for a midterm election. Texas has long been a conservative bastion, but the much stronger turnout in the primary races to select nominees from their own party shows Democratic voters are highly motivated, threatening Republican control of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives in midterm elections in November.
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