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Obama slams Trump's withdrawal from Paris accord, says it opened jobs in US

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US President claimed that the climate deal was unfair Former US President Barack Obama and other political leaders on Firday slammed Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the US from the historic Paris climate deal, saying he has squandered America's global leadership and put the country with "a small handful of nations that reject the future." "The nations that remain in the Paris Agreement will be the nations that reap the benefits in jobs and industries created. I believe the United States of America should be at the front of the pack," Obama said in rare a statement. "But even in the absence of American leadership; even as this administration joins a small handful of nations that reject the future; I'm confident that our states, cities, and businesses will step up and do even more to lead the way, and help protect for future generations the one planet we've got," he said. He said it was the steady, principled American ...

Chemical attack in Syria kills dozens; Trump blames Assad, Obama regime

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However, Syria denied that either its forces or Russian forces were behind the attack US President  Donald Trump  condemned the "intolerable" alleged chemical attack on civilians in Syria and blamed the Bashar al-Assad regime, media reports said. "Today's chemical attack in Syria against innocent people, including women and children, is reprehensible and cannot be ignored by the civilised world,"  Efe news  quoted Trump as saying on Teusday in a statement. Trump said that "heinous actions by the Bashar al-Assad regime are a consequence of the past administration's weakness and irresolution", referring to former President Barack Obama, who "said in 2012 that he would establish a 'red line' against the use of chemical weapons" in Syria but then "did nothing". "The United States stands with our allies across the globe to condemn this intolerable attack," the President concluded. Shortly before Trump...