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'It wasn't clean': Mother mourns son killed in US Maduro assault
AFP, Published on 19/01/2026
» CARACAS — As the first explosions rocked his military base in Caracas, 18-year-old Saul Pereira Martinez sent his mother a simple message: "I love you. It has begun."
Doctor jailed for supplying ketamine to 'Friends' star Matthew Perry
AFP, Published on 04/12/2025
» LOS ANGELES - A doctor who supplied Friends star Matthew Perry with ketamine in the months before he fatally overdosed, musing to a fellow physician over "how much this moron will pay" for the drug, was jailed in California on Wednesday.
TikTok chef whips up real-life Los Angeles restaurant after virtual success
AFP, Published on 25/07/2023
» LOS ANGELES - Tue Nguyen became a TikTok star by posting videos of herself cooking Vietnamese dishes during the pandemic.
Southern US swelters in brutal heat wave
AFP, Published on 27/06/2023
» HOUSTON - A dangerous and prolonged heat wave blanketed large parts of the southern United States on Tuesday, buckling highways and forcing people into air-conditioned shelters as temperatures soared past 115 degrees Fahrenheit (46 Celsius).
Hilary Mantel: bringing ghosts to life
AFP, Published on 23/09/2022
» LONDON: Hilary Mantel, whose death was announced on Friday, communed with ghosts throughout her life: the ghosts from history that stalked her fiction, the ghosts of her Irish Catholic ancestors and the ghosts of her unborn children.
France's 'Little Nicolas' illustrator Jean-Jacques Sempe dies aged 89
AFP, Published on 12/08/2022
» PARIS - Jean-Jacques Sempe, who illustrated the much-loved "Little Nicolas" series of French children's books, has died aged 89, his biographer told AFP on Thursday.
Russians bid to encricle Severodonetsk, Zelensky pleads for arms
AFP, Published on 14/06/2022
» KRAMATORSK (UKRAINE) - Russian forces on Tuesday stepped up efforts to cut off Ukrainian troops in the key industrial city of Severodonetsk in the east of the country despite Ukrainians insisting they were holding on.
'They bomb and they bomb': Anguish in Ukraine frontline city
AFP, Published on 14/06/2022
» LYSYCHANSK (UKRAINE) - Maksym Katerin was red-eyed Monday as he showed the fresh graves of his mother and stepfather, scattered with rose petals, in his garden in Ukraine's frontline city of Lysychansk.
Fear pervades Mexico City metro after deadly crash
AFP, Published on 05/05/2021
» MEXICO CITY - Commuters riding Mexico City's metro just a day after one of its worst ever accidents said they worried for their safety but had little choice other than to use the network.
'Brazil's most famous cobra' sparks trafficking probe, draws fans
AFP, Published on 25/07/2020
» RIO DE JANEIRO: A cobra that bit a veterinary student in Brazil, putting him in a coma, has turned into a celebrity by sparking an investigation into an alleged exotic animal trafficking ring.