NORTH & SOUTH AMERICA

NORTH & SOUTH AMERICA COLUMN AT DEMOCRATIC ACCENT SIGNIFIES THE NEWS STORIES, ARTICLES AND OPINION FROM AMERICAN CONTINENT. IT MOSTLY COMPRISES THE LATEST GEOPOLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES, CANADA AND OTHER PROMINENT NATIONS IN THE AMERICAN CONTINENT.

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Portland mayor bans cops from using tear gas during protests

4:23 pm September 11, 2020

Portland: The mayor of Portland on Thursday ordered police in Oregon’s largest city to stop using tear gas for crowd control during the frequently violent protests that have racked the city for more than three months since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Mayor Ted Wheeler, a Democrat, was tear gassed when he went to a demonstration […]

US concerned by China's ongoing attempts to 'intimidate' neighbours: White House

Letters reveal public distaste for booze in JFK White House

7:19 pm September 10, 2020

Boston: It was a tempest in a teapot — or, more accurately, a whiskey tumbler. Presidential transitions are always at least a little tricky. Case in point: Researchers at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum have found a cache of letters from Americans objecting to JFK’s embrace of cocktails at White House events. The letters shed new […]

UK judge refuses extradition of WikiLeaks founder Assange

Assange extradition hearing paused over COVID-19 risk

6:38 pm September 10, 2020

London: The London hearing on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition from Britain to the United States was suspended Thursday because one of the lawyers may have been exposed to the coronavirus. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser ordered the proceedings adjourned until Monday while a lawyer representing the US government is tested for the virus. Assange’s attorney, […]

High alert: Deadly Northwest fires burn hundreds of homes

1:20 pm September 10, 2020

Estacada (US): Deadly windblown wildfires raging across the Pacific Northwest destroyed hundreds of homes in Oregon, the governor said Wednesday, warning it could be the greatest loss of life and property from wildfire in state history. The blazes from the top of the state to the California border caused highway closures and smoky skies and […]

Donald Trump set to return to the spotlight with CPAC speech

Book: Trump said of virus, ‘I wanted to always play it down’

11:48 pm September 9, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump seemed to understand the severity of the coronavirus threat even as he was telling the nation that the virus was no worse than the seasonal flu and insisting that the US government had it totally under control, according to a new book by journalist Bob Woodward. “You just breathe the air […]