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Epstein birthday book renews pressure on Trump, other former pals
AFP, Published on 12/09/2025
» WASHINGTON - A decades-old book of cheerful, often lewd birthday messages has set off a political bomb in Washington -- helping bring down the British ambassador and inflaming the most perilous scandal of Donald Trump's presidency.
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Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 12/02/2025
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Rajoelina, Madagascar's ambitious president who parties on
AFP, Published on 25/11/2023
» ANTANANARIVO - From the musical nights of his youth that earned his nickname "the disc jockey" to his political adventures over the past decade, life has been one long party of one kind or another for Andry Rajoelina, who on Saturday secured a second elected term as Madagascar's president.
Pakistan bound for crisis amid changed reality
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 04/04/2023
» Last year US President Joe Biden called Pakistan "one of the most dangerous countries in the world", presumably because of its potentially lethal cocktail of nuclear weapons and unstable politics. But somehow it staggers on endlessly, never resolving its permanent political crisis but never quite exploding either.
Bowled out: Pakistan's cricketer-turned-PM Imran Khan loses office
AFP, Published on 10/04/2022
» ISLAMABAD - Regarded as a wily cricket captain during his international playing days, Imran Khan found himself on a sticky wicket when it came to leading Pakistan.
Donald Trump: from the American dream to American nightmare
Published on 18/01/2021
» WASHINGTON: When Donald Trump looks down for the last time from his helicopter over the White House lawn Wednesday, the wreckage of his presidency will be inescapable.
Donald Trump: the wrecking ball who came to 'fix' America
AFP, Published on 08/11/2020
» WASHINGTON: Donald Trump rose to power proposing a simple solution to the United States' deepest problems: himself.
E.Guinea leader's son fined €30m in French embezzlement trial
AFP, Published on 11/02/2020
» PARIS: The playboy son of Equatorial Guinea's leader was handed a €30-million fine by a Paris court Monday on top of a suspended jail term and the confiscation of his assets for embezzling public funds.
E.Guinea leader's son fined 30mn euros, suspended jail confirmed
AFP, Published on 10/02/2020
» PARIS - The son of Equatorial Guinea's leader was handed a 30-million-euro fine by a Paris court Monday on top of a suspended jail term for using public money to fund a jet-set lifestyle in Europe.
Myanmar's China frontier 'wildlife supermarket'
AFP, Published on 26/04/2019
» MONGLA, Myanmar: Bentleys and BMW convertibles roll up to the "Venetian Casino" in Mongla on the Myanmar-China border, a melting pot of sex, drugs and gambling on a frontier that has also become a "supermarket" for illegally traded wildlife.