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‘How’s the climate accord doing?’: Trump rips Macron amid massive pension protests & labor strike US President Donald Trump has taken a swipe at his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, highlighting a series of heated protests unfolding across France over a hot-button pension reform and poking fun at the Paris climate deal. From his perch on Twitter, President Trump shared a brief video clip showing a line of parked cars set ablaze in Paris on the cusp of the New Year on Tuesday, adding only a simple caption: How is the Paris Accord doing? Don’t ask! How is the Paris Accord doing? Don’t ask! https://t.co/9N0yibmDkj— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 31, 2019 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Macron...

US sending 4,000 troops to Middle East after Baghdad embassy siege – reports Some 500 paratroopers from the US Army’s 82nd Airborne Division are already on their way to Kuwait, and 3,500 more are set to follow, after the US embassy in Baghdad was stormed and nearly taken by angry Iraqi militiamen. The 82nd’s alert brigade has been ordered to deploy on Tuesday evening, Fox News reported citing multiple Pentagon officials.  The initial force has already departed Fort Bragg, North Carolina on board C-17 transports. Alert sequence for the Deployment Ready Brigade (DRB) calls for the full deployment within 96 hours. Also on rt.com US sends reinforcements to its Baghdad embassy amid Iraqi protests over strikes H...

Unrest at US embassy reveals Iraqis are fed up with American ‘occupiers’ Anti-American sentiment has taken deep root in Iraqi society and ultimately fueled the fiery siege of the US Embassy in Baghdad, as the locals blame Washington for the sorry state of Iraq, military and political analysts tell RT. Chanting “Death to America” and “Death to Israel,” a crowd of protesters surrounded the US diplomatic mission on Tuesday, angered by the death of two dozen Iraqis in US airstrikes against the Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah militia over the weekend. At one point, the mob set a checkpoint at the entrance on fire and attempted to storm the embassy. Dozens of people made it inside the heavily-guarded compound and delivered some damage to the property befo...

This is not warning, it is a threat: Trump declares US embassy in Iraq safe, says Iran will pay ‘big price’ for attack US President Donald Trump said that the embassy in Baghdad has been secured by US and Iraqi troops, and threatened to hold Iran “fully responsible” for any damages or loss of life at any American facility. “This is not a Warning, it is a Threat,” Trump declared in a tweet on Tuesday afternoon, adding that Iran will “pay a very BIG PRICE!” for the embassy siege earlier in the day. ....Iran will be held fully responsible for lives lost, or damage incurred, at any of our facilities. They will pay a very BIG PRICE! This is not a Warning, it is a Threat. Happy New Year!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 31, 2019 h...

‘Trump’s Benghazi’ or crisis averted? Embassy siege brings up parallels with Clinton’s darkest hour As Iraqi protesters battered the walls of the American embassy in Baghdad, pundits and commentators drew parallels with the deadly assault on the US diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya in 2012. Protesters entered Baghdad’s heavily fortified ‘Green Zone’ on Tuesday, incensed at an american airstrike that left 25 members of the Kataib Hezbollah militia dead two days earlier. Embassy security resisted a barrage of stones hurled by protesters, firing tear gas and stun grenades. The State Department later said that the embassy itself remained secure, and would not be evacuated. Also on rt.com US sends reinforcements t...

Iran slams US ‘audacity’ to blame it for Baghdad embassy storming Iran has flatly rejected US accusations that it is behind violent protests which broke out at the American embassy in Baghdad in response to US airstrikes on militia groups in Iraq. In a tweet on Tuesday, US President Donald Trump accused Iran of "orchestrating an attack on the US Embassy in Iraq," and said Tehran will be held "fully responsible.” Trump also called on "millions" of Iraqis to resist Iran. Iran hit back at the “audacity” of Washington to blame Tehran for the attacks in a statement posted by the Foreign Ministry. "America has the surprising audacity of attributing to Iran the protests of the Iraqi people against (Washington's) savage killing of at least 25 Iraqis…," it s...

French chef thought of suicide after Michelin star lost over using English cheddar French courts have dealt a fresh blow to a chef who said he thought of suicide when his restaurant was stripped of a Michelin star, dismissing his request for the prestigious guide to explain its claim he used cheddar in a dish. Chef Marc Veyrat said the only reason he was given for the shocking decision to strip one of his three Michelin stars was that he had used English cheddar in a souffle instead of a French cheese.  "Can you imagine the sense of shame I feel?” Veyrat told local reporters months after losing the star. “I am the first chef in history to have won a star and lost it the next year.” “I'm at the end of my tether,” he added. “I have dark thoughts.” ...

‘US is torturing Chelsea Manning’: Top UN official says her treatment is ‘cruel and degrading’ Chelsea Manning is being subjected to cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment, constituting torture by the US government over her refusal to testify against whistleblower website WikiLeaks, a top United Nations official has said. UN special rapporteur on torture Nils Melzer accused the government of torturing Manning in a November letter, which was just released on Tuesday. In the letter, Melzer wrote that Manning is suffering “an open-ended, progressively severe measure of coercion” which fulfils “all the constitutive elements of torture.” Manning, a former Army intelligence analyst, was arrested on May 16 after she refused to testify against WikiLeaks b...