4, March 2018
US: Man shoots himself dead outside White House 0
A man has shot himself dead outside the White House, the US Secret Service – in charge of protecting the residence of the American president – announced, noting that no one else was harmed in the incident.
“At approximately 11.46am, a white male suffered a self-inflicted gun-shot wound to the head outside the North White House fence line. The subject is deceased,” said the Secret Service in a statement on Saturday.
It further added, “The subject approached the vicinity of the North White House fence line and removed a concealed handgun and fired several rounds, none of which appear at this time to have been directed towards the White House.”

The White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley also briefed reporters about the apparent suicide event, saying: “We’re aware of the incident. The president has been briefed.”
The identity of the dead man and the motive behind his action remain unclear. Washington DC Police Department, which is leading the investigation into the incident, announced later in the day that it was “working to notify next of kin” of the dead individual, hinting that he has been identified.
At the time of the incident, US President Donald Trump was away from the White House and staying with his wife Melania at his Florida vacation spot, Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property.

According to local reports, Trump spent the morning at one of his golf courses in the southeastern state before flying back to Washington to attend an evening event.
Donald Trump was not in residence at the time of the incident. The president and his wife Melania were in Florida, staying at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property. Trump spent the morning at one of his golf courses in the state before flying back to Washington to attend an evening event.
At the time of the shooting, which took place near the main entrance of the White House, the building was placed on lockdown. Members of the White House press corps tweeted that they were sheltering in the briefing room.
Source: Presstv






















4, March 2018
Turkey seeks close ties with Africa 0
Ankara has been seeking to expand its influence in Africa in the face of tensions with Egypt, where calls are growing for a public boycott of Turkish goods.
Ties between Ankara and Cairo strained in 2013, when then Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah el-Sisi toppled the country’s first democratically-elected president, Mohamed Morsi, of the Muslim Brotherhood movement.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan described Sisi’s rise to power as a “coup” an accused the UN of having done “nothing but watch the events such as overthrowing the elected president in Egypt.”
Recently, Erdogan wrapped up a five-day tour of the African countries of Algeria, Mauritania, Senegal and Mali with a large business delegation and a diplomatic entourage.
“We want to walk with Africa while a new world order is being established,” he tweeted at the end of his trip.
This is while a public boycott of Turkish goods has been launched in Egypt to protest what its leaders call Erdogan’s “anti-Egyptian policies.”
The boycott campaign has become the hottest trending topic on Egyptian social media, with 12,000 tweets including #boycott Turkish products, privately-owned Egyptian daily Youm7 reported on Sunday.
Social media users called on the Egyptian government to take action against businessmen importing products from Turkey, saying that purchase of Turkish goods would “contribute to the killing of Egyptians.”
“Turkey acts against Egypt’s political interests everywhere,” said Hisham Baker, a legal expert who initiated the boycott campaign with his friends. “This is why Egyptians have a national and moral obligation to stop buying its products.”
Turkey and Egypt have also been at odds over the latter’s maritime demarcation deal with Cyprus in a potential struggle over resources in the gas-rich eastern Mediterranean.
Additionally, Cairo is concerned about Turkey’s close economic and military ties with Sudan.
Relations between Egypt and Sudan have been soured in recent months by disputes over the ownership of the “Halayeb Triangle” border territory, and over the broader issue of use of water from the River Nile that passes through their territories.
The triangle lies between Egypt and its southern neighbor and the borders have been contested by Sudan since 1958. Cairo says it is Egyptian territory.
Source: Presstv