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Trump hosting White House crypto summit
AFP, Published on 07/03/2025
» WASHINGTON - Donald Trump is preparing to host top cryptocurrency players at the White House on Friday, a political boost for an industry that has struggled to gain legitimacy — and where the Republican president faces conflict of interest concerns.
Argentina holds cliffhanger election with economy at stake
AFP, Published on 19/11/2023
» BUENOS AIRES - Desperate for a way out of a crippling economic crisis, Argentines will vote Sunday in a nail-biter election race between embattled Economy Minister Sergio Massa and the libertarian outsider Javier Milei.
Argentina devalues peso after shock primary election result
AFP, Published on 15/08/2023
» BUENOS AIRES - Argentine monetary authorities on Monday devalued the peso by around 20 percent as the country reeled from the strong showing of far-right politician Javier Milei in a presidential primary election.
Slow progress as Lebanon awaits IMF economic deal
AFP, Published on 29/12/2021
» BEIRUT - Lebanon is mired in an economic crisis branded by the World Bank as one of the worst in modern times, but officials are yet to strike an international bailout deal.
As poverty bites, Lebanese give up their pets
AFP, Published on 14/05/2021
» BEIRUT - Ibrahim al-Dika had raised his Belgian shepherd Lexi since she was a tiny pup, but then Lebanon's economic crisis made him jobless and he had to sell her to repay a bank loan.
Ice cold Kroos keeps Real Madrid in the hunt for trophies again
AFP, Published on 13/04/2021
» MADRID - When Toni Kroos arrived for his first training session with Real Madrid in 2014, he went the wrong way.
US investors bet on 'sleeping giant' Serie A's return to glory days
AFP, Published on 27/02/2021
» ROME: Parma and Spezia have become the most recent Italian clubs to pass into US ownership with more than a quarter of Serie A outfits now in the hands of north American owners.
'State, what state?' Lebanese together in solidarity and rage
AFP, Published on 06/08/2020
» BEIRUT - In Beirut's beloved bar districts, hundreds of young Lebanese ditched beers for brooms on Wednesday to sweep debris in the absence of a state-sponsored cleanup operation following a deadly blast.
Utter devastation as toll from Beirut monster blast tops 100
AFP, Published on 05/08/2020
» BEIRUT: Rescuers searched for survivors in Beirut Wednesday after a cataclysmic explosion at the port sowed devastation across entire neighbourhoods, killing more than 100 people, wounding thousands and plunging Lebanon deeper into crisis.
Saudi downturn deepens Yemen's economic despair
AFP, Published on 22/06/2020
» RIYADH: On top of war and the coronavirus pandemic, Yemen faces looming economic disaster as a crisis gripping its main benefactor Saudi Arabia dents remittances and leaves state coffers running dry.