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Trump's Christmas gospel: bombs, blessings and blame
AFP, Published on 27/12/2025
» WASHINGTON (UNITED STATES) - Christmas under Donald Trump brought air strikes abroad and political threats at home, as the US president used the holiday to project a vision of power rooted less in peace than in grievance, even as his top lieutenants leaned hard into their Christian faith.
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.
‘No one could stop it’: Fleeing Sudanese describe mass rapes
AFP, Published on 05/11/2025
» TAWILA, Sudan - Sudanese mother Amira wakes up every day trembling, haunted by scenes of mass rapes she saw while fleeing the western city of El-Fasher after it was overrun by paramilitaries.
Nanjing massacre film set becomes China school holiday hotspot
AFP, Published on 29/08/2025
» SHANGHAI — The sound of machine gun fire rattled around collapsed buildings as schoolchildren eagerly explored the ravaged streets of 1930s Nanjing, delighted to be visiting the set of a Chinese blockbuster about a historic massacre.
Clashes, homes torched in south Syria's Sweida despite ceasefire
AFP, Published on 20/07/2025
» SWEIDA (SYRIA) - Smoke rose from burning houses in south Syria's Sweida on Saturday and an Arab tribal fighter vowed to "slaughter" residents as deadly clashes with Druze fighters persisted.
Syria tries to enforce ceasefire in Druze heartland
AFP, Published on 19/07/2025
» SWEIDA, Syria - Syrian interior ministry forces began deploying in Sweida on Saturday under a US-brokered deal intended to avert further Israeli military intervention in the Druze-majority province.
Medical charity decries US-backed Gaza aid
AFP, Published on 27/06/2025
» GENEVA - The medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) called on Friday for a controversial Israel- and US-backed relief effort in Gaza to be halted, branding it “slaughter masquerading as humanitarian aid”.
Muslim pilgrims 'stone the devil' as hajj concludes in Saudi
AFP, Published on 06/06/2025
» MINA (SAUDI ARABIA) - Pilgrims were set to perform the last major ritual of the hajj -- the "stoning of the devil" -- on Friday, as Muslims around the globe celebrated the beginning of the Eid al-Adha holiday.
Japan 'regrets' release of anti-whaling activist Watson
AFP, Published on 18/12/2024
» TOKYO - Japan's government voiced dismay on Wednesday over the release of anti-whaling activist Paul Watson after Danish authorities refused Tokyo's extradition request.
French court jails Rwandan ex-doctor 24 years over 1994 genocide
AFP, Published on 20/12/2023
» PARIS - A French court on Wednesday sentenced former Rwandan doctor Sosthene Munyemana to 24 years in prison for his involvement in the 1994 genocide of Tutsis in his native East African country.