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Paraguay official sacked after dealings with fictitious country
AFP, Published on 01/12/2023
» ASUNCION - A senior Paraguayan official was fired this week after signing a cooperation memorandum with a country he has since learned does not exist.
'We were duped' by studios, says Hollywood actor union president
AFP, Published on 14/07/2023
» LOS ANGELES - Hollywood actors were "duped" into extending negotiations for two weeks by studios who wanted more time to promote their summer blockbuster movies, union president Fran Drescher told AFP on Thursday.
Tuareg festival revives tourism dreams in Niger
AFP, Published on 09/12/2022
» IFEROUANE, Niger: Dishes of spit-roasted lamb were served and the sound of electric guitars echoed across the pink Saharan dunes towards the Air Mountains.
US Capitol assault panel to hear from key White House aide
AFP, Published on 28/06/2022
» WASHINGTON - A former top White House aide with unique access to Donald Trump and inner workings of the West Wing was expected to testify publicly Tuesday before the committee probing the attack on the US Capitol.
US Navy says sailors who refuse vaccine will be expelled
AFP, Published on 15/10/2021
» WASHINGTON - The US Navy said Thursday that personnel who refuse to be vaccinated against Covid-19 will be expelled from the force, ahead of the November 28 deadline for the injection.
The US father-son duo accused of masterminding Ghosn's Japan escape
AFP, Published on 21/05/2020
» NEW YORK - The American men accused of smuggling former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn out of Japan are a former US special forces operative who spent time in prison and his football-playing son.
Mexico church holds mass baptism despite leader's sex crimes scandal
AFP, Published on 14/08/2019
» GUADALAJARA (MEXICO) - Mexican Pentecostal church the Light of the World is in crisis, its leader facing pedophilia charges, but that has not stopped thousands of people from around the world traveling to its headquarters to be immersed in a giant baptismal pool.
US Army Twitter question highlights toll of America's wars
AFP, Published on 27/05/2019
» WASHINGTON - Days ahead of an annual holiday when Americans remember those who died while serving in the armed forces, the US Army's Twitter account asked people how their time in the military affected them and received an outpouring of grief.
Trump ramps up battle against Chinese telecom giant Huawei
AFP, Published on 16/05/2019
» WASHINGTON - Donald Trump stepped up his battle against Huawei Wednesday, effectively barring the Chinese telecom giant from the US market and adding it to a blacklist restricting US sales to the firm amid an escalating trade war with China.
North Korea sued for 'killing' former detainee Otto Warmbier
AFP, Published on 27/04/2018
» WASHINGTON - The parents of Otto Warmbier, the US student jailed by North Korea before being sent home in a coma where he died days later, sued the Pyongyang regime Thursday for the alleged torture and murder of their son.