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Norway police search ex-PM Jagland's properties in probe over Epstein links
AFP, Published on 12/02/2026
» OSLO — Norwegian police said Thursday they had searched properties belonging to former prime minister Thorbjorn Jagland following the launch of a corruption probe over his dealings with US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Kirk killing sparks fierce US free speech debate
AFP, Published on 19/09/2025
» WASHINGTON - For Americans, the words are practically sacred: the First Amendment to the US Constitution guarantees freedom of speech.
Del Toro delivers his monster, 'Frankenstein', at Venice
AFP, Published on 31/08/2025
» VENICE - Mexican director Guillermo del Toro gave birth to another monster Saturday, his big-budget "Frankenstein" movie, joking that the effort had left him worn out as his creation got its world premiere in Venice.
Hundreds of fungi species threatened with extinction: IUCN
AFP, Published on 27/03/2025
» PARIS - Deforestation, farming and climate-fuelled fires are driving increasing threats to fungi, the lifeblood of most plants on Earth, the International Union for Conservation of Nature warned Thursday.
'Child soldiers' and blood feuds: Sweden's out-of-control gang wars
AFP, Published on 17/11/2023
» UPPSALA (SWEDEN) - One night in September, teacher Thomas Cervin was woken by gunshots in his apartment building in Uppsala. His neighbour had just become the latest target in Sweden's terrifying gang wars.
Astronaut who led humanity's first mission around the Moon dead at 95
AFP, Published on 10/11/2023
» WASHINGTON - Frank Borman, the NASA astronaut who led the 1968 Apollo 8 mission, the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon, has died at the age of 95, the US space agency said Thursday.
Man Utd cannot afford brotherly love from Hojlund in Copenhagen reunion
AFP, Published on 23/10/2023
» MANCHESTER (UNITED KINGDOM) - Manchester United have no time for sentimentality from Rasmus Hojlund as he faces his younger twin brothers and former club on Tuesday when FC Copenhagen visit Old Trafford.
UK police charge Greta Thunberg after climate protest arrest
AFP, Published on 19/10/2023
» LONDON - UK police on Wednesday charged Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg with a public order offence, following her detention at a protest outside an annual gathering of energy industry figures in London.
Jens Stoltenberg: NATO chief who faced Russia and Trump
AFP, Published on 04/07/2023
» BRUSSELS: NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg had already lined up a job as head of the central bank in his native Norway when Russia's invasion of Ukraine pushed allies last year to ask him to stay on.
Runaway W. Antarctic ice sheet collapse not 'inevitable': study
AFP, Published on 16/01/2023
» PARIS - The runaway collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet -- which would trigger catastrophic sea level rise -- is not "inevitable", scientists said Monday following research that tracked the region's recent response to climate change.