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Big automakers report US sales jump on pre-tariff consumer surge
AFP, Published on 02/07/2025
» NEW YORK - Several leading automakers including Detroit giants General Motors and Ford reported increased US car sales in the second quarter on Tuesday as consumers fast-forwarded purchases ahead of US tariffs.
US surgeons perform world's first whole eye transplant
AFP, Published on 10/11/2023
» WASHINGTON - A team of surgeons in New York has performed the world's first transplant of an entire eye in a procedure widely hailed as a medical breakthrough, although it isn't yet known whether the man will ever see through the donated eye.
Man arrested after car crashes into Downing Street gates: police
AFP, Published on 26/05/2023
» LONDON - Armed police arrested one man after a car crashed into the gates of the UK prime minister's Downing Street office and residence in central London on Thursday, Scotland Yard said.
Everton fans fear bleak future as Premier League status hangs by a thread
AFP, Published on 03/02/2023
» LIVERPOOL - Mired in the Premier League relegation zone and at war with the club's board, Everton fans fear a 69-year stay in English football's top flight is heading towards an inevitable end.
Swedish intel agent gets life for spying for Russia
AFP, Published on 20/01/2023
» STOCKHOLM - A judge on Thursday handed a life sentence to a former Swedish intelligence official convicted of spying for Russia for a decade and jailed his brother for 10 years.
Hadis, Minoo and Ghazaleh: the women victims of Iran's crackdown
AFP, Published on 05/10/2022
» PARIS: "I am really hoping that in some years from now, after everything has changed, I will be happy to have been involved by taking part in this protest," Iranian woman Hadis Najafi, 22, said in a self-recorded video as she prepared to take to the streets.
Teachers recount carnage of Myanmar school helicopter attack
AFP, Published on 22/09/2022
» Teachers at a Myanmar school hit by a military helicopter attack last week have spoken of the terrifying horror of the onslaught -- including watching a wounded child screaming in agony, begging to die.
Eleven schoolchildren killed in Myanmar air strike: UNICEF
AFP, Published on 21/09/2022
» YANGON - At least 11 schoolchildren died in an air strike and firing on a Myanmar village, according to the United Nations children's agency, an attack the country's junta said targeted rebels hiding in the area.
World Cup sponsors urged to back compensation for Qatar workers
AFP, Published on 20/09/2022
» BEIRUT: Human rights groups urged more sponsors of the World Cup in Qatar on Tuesday to support calls for compensation for migrant workers and their families over alleged abuses.
'Booked, blessed and busy': Lizzo returns
AFP, Published on 16/07/2022
» NEW YORK: Lizzo's summer turned up a notch Friday, with the poster child of self-love dropping her long-awaited album "Special" fresh off an Emmy nomination and ahead of a forthcoming tour.