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Versailles orchestra plays New York in 'Affair of the Poisons'
AFP, Published on 23/07/2025
» NEW YORK — Acrobatics, fortune tellers, opulent gowns and palace intrigue: the New York debut of the Versailles Royal Opera Orchestra was a performance befitting the era it recalls.
Verstappen hoping rule change can propel his title charge
AFP, Published on 29/05/2025
» BARCELONA - Max Verstappen returns to the scene of his maiden Formula One victory chasing his fourth consecutive Spanish success this weekend with his Red Bull team hoping a rule change will end McLaren's supremacy.
Cicadas re-emerge in US after 17 years
AFP, Published on 01/05/2025
» WASHINGTON - The last time these thrumming, red-eyed bugs burrowed out of the ground across America’s suburbs and woodlands was the early summer of 2008.
David Lynch: the dark side of the American dream
AFP, Published on 17/01/2025
» PARIS - For seven years, US director David Lynch drank the same chocolate milkshake each day at the same time from the same place in Los Angeles because he believed it helped his creativity.
Top US Republican fights for future in cliffhanger vote
AFP, Published on 03/01/2025
» WASHINGTON - United States Republican leader Mike Johnson was set to face down critics Friday in a vote in Congress that could see him returned as one of the country's top statesmen -- or jettisoned to the back benches and political obscurity.
Surge in anti-LGBTQ disinformation targets Pride in Europe
AFP, Published on 23/06/2023
» BELGRADE - As Pride events got underway in Europe in June, disinformation and hate speech targeting the LGBTQ community spread across social media, triggering extreme online responses, including incitements to violence.
Notorious FBI double-agent Robert Hanssen dead
AFP, Published on 06/06/2023
» WASHINGTON - Robert Hanssen, the notorious FBI double agent who secretly fed Russia some of America's deepest secrets in the 1980s and 1990s, died in a top-security prison Monday, prison officials said.
Has Ukraine's counter-offensive really begun?
AFP, Published on 16/05/2023
» PARIS: Fighting is raging and Kyiv is relentlessly pressing its allies for more military hardware.
Fed likely to hike rates again as bank fears resurface
AFP, Published on 03/05/2023
» WASHINGTON: The US Federal Reserve is widely expected to raise its benchmark lending rate for a 10th — and possibly final — time on Wednesday, as it aims to bring down inflation while preventing fresh banking concerns from spreading.
Fox News grapples with revelations in defamation case
AFP, Published on 12/03/2023
» NEW YORK - Can Fox News, media tycoon Rupert Murdoch's influential conservative outlet, overcome its legal travails and revelations of behind-the-scenes intrigue?