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US launches Christmas Day strikes on IS targets in Nigeria
AFP, Published on 26/12/2025
» PALM BEACH (UNITED STATES) - President Donald Trump said US forces conducted "powerful and deadly" strikes Thursday against Islamic State militants in northwestern Nigeria, weeks after he warned against any systemic assault on Christians in the country.
Frustration in Indonesia as flood survivors await aid
AFP, Published on 03/12/2025
» TUKKA — Officials in Indonesia and Sri Lanka battled Wednesday to reach survivors of deadly flooding in remote, cut-off regions as the toll in the disaster that hit four countries topped 1,300.
South Korea workers head home after US immigration raid
AFP, Published on 12/09/2025
» SEOUL - Hundreds of South Korean workers were headed back to Seoul on Friday after their detention in a US immigration raid that Hyundai warned will delay completion of its battery factory.
Seoul says ‘bewildering’ US immigration raid could chill investment
AFP, Published on 11/09/2025
» SEOUL - South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said Thursday that a massive US immigration raid on a Hyundai-LG battery factory site was “bewildering” and could have a chilling effect on future investment.
South Korea's ex-first lady Kim arrested
AFP, Published on 13/08/2025
» SEOUL — South Korea's former first lady Kim Keon Hee was arrested late Tuesday over a range of charges including stock manipulation and corruption, prosecutors said.
China to unveil 2025 growth goals eyeing trade war woes
AFP, Published on 05/03/2025
» BEIJING - China's leadership will on Wednesday unveil their growth goals for the coming year as they eye a mounting trade war with the United States and deepening economic doldrums at home.
UBS to pay $1.4 bn to settle US fraud charges on subprime loans
AFP, Published on 15/08/2023
» NEW YORK - UBS will pay $1.4 billion to settle US charges that it defrauded investors in the sale of mortgage-backed securities, resolving the last big case stemming from the 2008 financial crisis, the Justice Department announced Monday.
US credit downgrade 'entirely unwarranted': Yellen
AFP, Published on 03/08/2023
» MCLEAN (UNITED STATES): A US credit downgrade by Fitch was "entirely unwarranted," Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Wednesday, pushing back against the second-ever decrease by a major ratings agency following repeated debt limit standoffs in Washington.
Fitch downgrades US credit rating after debt limit standoffs
AFP, Published on 02/08/2023
» WASHINGTON - Fitch downgraded the United States' top-notch credit rating by a step on Tuesday, citing a growing federal debt burden and an "erosion of governance" that has manifested in debt limit standoffs.
US takes 'extraordinary' steps to avoid looming default
AFP, Published on 19/01/2023
» WASHINGTON - The US Treasury began taking measures Thursday to prevent a default on government debt, as Congress heads towards a high-stakes clash between Democrats and Republicans over raising the borrowing limit.