UNITED NATIONS—President Barack Obama used his farewell UN address Tuesday to castigate strongmen and populists, taking aim at Vladimir Putin’s Soviet nostalgia and Donald Trump’s rise at home. Trump lashed out at Obama Monday after a spate of attacks in New York, New Jersey and Minnesota, saying “our country has been weak. “In a world that left the age of empire behind, we see Russia attempting to recover lost glory through force,” Obama said. Before the UN, Obama restated the case for multilateralism and an America that knows the limits of its own might. On Monday the Syrian military declared the ceasefire over and 18 UN aid trucks were destroyed as they tried to bring relief to war-ravaged citizens near Aleppo.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer September 21, 2016 05:03 UTC