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th Asian Games by Ngoc Truong from the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) has won an award at the "21st Century photos world news agencies". The photo contest is part of the second congress of world news agencies held in Spain last week. Entries were pictures on sports, festivals and disasters. The first prize for sports photo went to a photographer of Spain's EFE News Agency and awards for the two remaining categories went to VNA and TASR of Slovakia. Source: HNM Translated by Hoang Anh … [Read more...] about VNA wins prize at world news agencies photo contest

Nation and World News By Associated Press | Thursday, April 12, 2018, 12:05 a.m. Share this story California joins Guard border mission, shuns Trump’s message SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Jerry Brown accepted President Donald Trump’s call to send the National Guard to the Mexican border, but rejected the White House’s portrait of a burgeoning border crisis and insisted that his troops will have nothing to do with immigration enforcement. ADVERTISING The Democratic governor broke a week of silence Wednesday by agreeing to contribute 400 troops, though not all will be on the border. Brown’s commitment brought pledges from the four states that border Mexico just shy of the low end of the president’s target to marshal 2,000 to 4,000 troops. Brown cast his decision as a welcome infusion of federal support to fight transnational criminal gangs and drug and firearms smugglers. “Combating these criminal threats … [Read more...] about AP News in Brief 04-12-18

Nation and World News By Associated Press | Saturday, April 14, 2018, 12:05 a.m. Share this story FBI probes Trump lawyer Cohen’s personal ‘business dealings’ NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors revealed on Friday that their probe of President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, involved suspected fraud and the attorney’s personal business dealings and was going on long enough that investigators had already covertly obtained his emails. ADVERTISING The details in court papers came as lawyers for Cohen and Trump sought to block the Department of Justice from examining records and electronic devices, including two cellphones, seized by the FBI on Monday from Cohen’s residences, office and safety deposit box. The raids enraged Trump, who called them an “attack on the country.” Trump, a Republican, sent his own lawyer to a hastily arranged hearing before a federal judge in Manhattan to argue that … [Read more...] about AP News in Brief 04-14-18

Nation and World News By Associated Press | Sunday, April 15, 2018, 12:05 a.m. Share this story A worker tries to clear snow and ice from the Metro Government Center Plaza station as the snow picked up in downtown Minneapolis on Saturday. (Anthony Souffle/Star Tribune via AP) Members of Bon Jovi, front row from left, Tico Torres, Jon Bon Jovi, David Bryan, back row from left, Phil X, and Hugh McDonald pose for a portrait in promotion of their new album “This House is Not for Sale” in New York on Oct. 19, 2016. (Photo by Drew Gurian/Invision/AP File) AP investigation: Doctors keep licenses despite sex abuse WASHINGTON — The first time that Dr. Anthony Bianchi came onto a patient, California’s medical board alleged, the gynecologist placed a chair against the exam room door, put his fingers into the woman’s vagina and exposed his erect penis. ADVERTISING The second time, the board claimed, he told a patient that he … [Read more...] about AP News in Brief 04-15-18

Nation and World News By Associated Press | Thursday, April 19, 2018, 12:05 a.m. Share this story Trump says unless North Korea summit ‘fruitful,’ he’ll pull out WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that although he’s looking ahead optimistically to a historic summit meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un he could still pull out if he feels it’s “not going to be fruitful.” ADVERTISING Trump said that CIA Director Mike Pompeo and Kim “got along really well” in their recent secret meeting, and he declared, “We’ve never been in a position like this” to address worldwide concerns over North Korea’s nuclear weapons. But speaking alongside Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, after the allies met at Trump’s Florida resort, he made clear that he’d still be ready to pull the plug on what is being billed as an extraordinary meeting between the … [Read more...] about AP News in Brief 04-19-18