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'Full Monty' star Tom Wilkinson dies aged 75
AFP, Published on 31/12/2023
» LONDON - Two-time Oscar-nominated actor Tom Wilkinson, who starred in "The Full Monty" about a group of unemployed steel workers who launched new careers as strippers died "suddenly" on Saturday.
Pope Francis in hospital, events cancelled
AFP, Published on 30/03/2023
» VATICAN CITY - The Vatican said Wednesday that Pope Francis, 86, was in hospital in Rome for previously scheduled health checks, before later cancelling his Thursday appointments.
'Woven air': Bangladesh revives elite forgotten fabric
AFP, Published on 04/03/2022
» TARABO, Bangladesh: With wooden spinning wheels and hand-drawn looms, Bangladesh is painstakingly resurrecting a fabric once worn by Marie Antoinette and Jane Austen but long thought forever lost to history.
Covid isolation hurting Hong Kong's reputation: industry group
AFP, Published on 25/10/2021
» HONG KONG - Hong Kong's decision to pursue a zero-Covid strategy and maintain some of the world's strictest quarantine measures is hammering the city's business reputation, the top lobby group for financial firms in the city said Monday.
Chicken and Mate: Pope health from colon to sciatica
AFP, Published on 05/07/2021
» VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis, who has just undergone surgery for an inflamed large colon, is believed to be otherwise in relatively good health, despite having had part of his lung removed when young.
Pope derides anti-mask movements, backs racial justice campaign
AFP, Published on 24/11/2020
» VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis took aim Monday at protests against coronavirus restrictions, contrasting them with the "healthy indignation" seen in the global demonstrations against racism after the killing of George Floyd in the United States.
Pope backs civil unions for gay couples
AFP, Published on 22/10/2020
» ROME - Pope Francis on Wednesday voiced support for same-sex couples, calling them "children of God" and saying they should be allowed to have legally recognised civil unions, in a radical shift from previous pontiffs.
Pope in first trip outside Rome since virus lockdown
AFP, Published on 03/10/2020
» ASSISI (ITALY) - Pope Francis makes his first trip Saturday since the Vatican's coronavirus lockdown, though it will be a solitary affair for the crowd-loving Argentine who has had to learn how to be close to the faithful from a distance.
US, Canada set for talks to revise NAFTA
AFP, Published on 28/08/2018
» WASHINGTON - With a deal with Mexico out of the way, US trade officials are due to resume talks with Canada on Tuesday to try to salvage the North American Free Trade Agreement as a trilateral deal.
Trump: 'Really good deal' reached with Mexico on trade
AFP, Published on 27/08/2018
» WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Monday the United States had reached a "really good deal" with Mexico and talks with Canada would begin shortly on a new regional free trade pact.