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Trump condemned for saying critical filmmaker brought on own murder
AFP, Published on 16/12/2025
» WASHINGTON (UNITED STATES) - Donald Trump faced a storm of condemnation on Monday after posting "perverse" and "sick" remarks suggesting Rob Reiner and his wife were murdered because of the celebrated filmmaker's criticism of the US president.
Britain rolls out royal red carpet for Trump's state visit
AFP, Published on 17/09/2025
» LONDON - Britain will roll out a supersized royal welcome for Donald Trump's unprecedented second state visit on Wednesday, with the king to greet the US president who has compared himself to a monarch.
UN Charter: a founding document violated and ignored
AFP, Published on 26/06/2025
» UNITED NATIONS - Eighty years ago Thursday, 50 countries came together in the ashes of World War II to sign the United Nations’ founding charter in order “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war”.
Bolt beams as Alfred, Duplantis and Warholm light up Oslo Diamond League
AFP, Published on 13/06/2025
» OSLO - Karsten Warholm, Julien Alfred and Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis lit up Thursday's star-studded Diamond League meet in Oslo where Jamaican sprint legend Usain Bolt was on hand to lend further glitter to a gripping evening of track and field.
UK's top court to rule on how to define a 'woman'
AFP, Published on 16/04/2025
» LONDON - Britain's highest court will hand down a landmark ruling Wednesday on the definition of a "woman", weighing in on a long-running, divisive debate about biological sex versus gender identity.
'Did not push hard enough': Navalny lawyer speaks of regrets
AFP, Published on 22/01/2025
» PARIS - The top lawyer of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in a Russian prison in February last year, told AFP she regretted not finding the right words to stop him returning to Moscow in 2021.
In field of would-be Trumps, Haley gains ground
AFP, Published on 22/11/2023
» WASHINGTON - There is Trump, there are wannabe Trumps, and then there is Nikki Haley -- the sole woman in the Republican presidential field and now on the cusp of consolidating second place after showing there may be another way than simply aping the main man.
Richardson trumps Jamaicans for stunning women's 100m gold
AFP, Published on 22/08/2023
» BUDAPEST - American Sha'Carri Richardson crushed Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce's hopes of a sixth women's world 100-metre title when she stormed to victory in Budapest on Monday.
Business tough in China as national security trumps all
AFP, Published on 20/05/2023
» SHANGHAI - Doing business in China has become harder and potentially more perilous as the government prioritises an ever-widening definition of national security over all else, despite insisting the country has reopened for trading.
Captagon connection: How Syria became a narco state
AFP, Published on 03/11/2022
» BEKAA VALLEY, Lebanon: A decade of appalling civil war has left Syria fragmented and in ruins but one thing crosses every front line: a drug called captagon.