Clinton team pans letter from Trump's doctor

 

Donald Trump speaks at a rally on Aug. 25, 2016, in Manchester, N.H.Add caption

 

 

Donald Trump speaks at a rally on Aug. 25, 2016, in Manchester, N.H. (Photo: Darren McCollester, Getty Images)

Hillary Clinton’s campaign has some issues with the glowing letter Donald Trump’s doctor once wrote — 13 of them to be exact.
On Monday morning, Clinton tweeted a link to her campaign website with a post titled “Donald Trump got a clean bill of health from a physician who sounds remarkably like Donald Trump.”

Obama's own executive order requires intel briefings for Trump, Clinton

WASHINGTON — President Obama says he's obligated by law to allow Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton to receive classified intelligence briefings.
What he doesn't say is that the law he's referring to is an executive order — one that he signed.
Both Trump and Clinton have now received those classified briefings as part of a tradition that goes back to the Truman administration. Trump's briefing happened on August 17 in New York. Clinton received hers Saturday at the FBI Field Office in White Plains, N.Y., meeting alone with intelligence officials for 130 minutes, the campaign said.

Here's why U.S. allies are fighting each other in Syria

The United States’ attempts to bring together bitter enemies to tackle the Islamic State in Syria are unraveling, as Washington’s key partners turn their guns on each other.
Over the past few days, Syrian rebels backed by the Turkish military have clashed with Kurdish fighters inside Syria. That's thrown into chaos an anti-Islamic State alliance that includes all of the above, and is led by U.S. forces.

ISIS: Islamic State says top spokesman Abu Muhammed al-Adnani killed

Longtime Islamic State spokesman Abu Muhammed al-Adnani was killed in Aleppo, Syria, the Amaq News Agency, the media arm of the terror group, said Tuesday.
He was "martyred while surveying the operations to repel the military campaigns against Aleppo," Amaq said in a statement.
Amaq vowed revenge against the “filthy cowards in the sect of disbelief.” It said a generation raised in Islamic State-held territory would seek revenge.

Israel ready for negotiation with Palestine – Envoy

The Charge d’Affaires of Israel to Nigeria, Mr. Nadav Goren, has reaffirmed Israel’s support for a two-state solution to the ongoing conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
A statement by the Israeli Embassy in Abuja on Tuesday night quoted Goren as saying this when the Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Senator Shehu Sani, visited the embassy.
The diplomat said, “We agree on the need for a peaceful solution in the region but differ on the means to achieve it.”

Bongo re-elected, opposition rejects result

Gabon’s Ali Bongo has been re-elected as President, according to official results released on Wednesday, setting the stage for a potentially violent post-election showdown after his rival Jean Ping had already claimed victory.
Opposition members of the Central African oil producer’s electoral commission rejected Saturday’s first-past-the-post election result, which could extend nearly 50 years of Bongo family rule.

Hollande condemns post-election violence in Gabon

French President Francois Hollande delivers a speech after a visit to a primary school on the first day of the new school year in Orleans, on September 1, 2016.(AFP)

French President Francois Hollande on Thursday condemned the post-election violence and looting in Gabon and called for calm on all sides.
Hollande said he was “deeply concerned” by the situation in the former French colony where violence flared following Wednesday’s announcement that President Ali Bongo had been re-elected by a wafer-thin margin.

Canada to join Beijing-led bank in readiness to bolster ties

Canada said on Wednesday that it had applied to join China’s version of the World Bank, breaking with previous leaders who had shared United States officials’ skepticism of the new Beijing-led lender.
The move came during a five-day trip to China by the prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, who is seeking to burnish trade, business and political ties with Beijing. China’s relationship with the previous Canadian government had been lukewarm.