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Minnesota ICE shooting puts new twist on gun rights debate
AFP, Published on 26/01/2026
» WASHINGTON - The shooting death of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse, by federal agents Saturday in Minneapolis has spurred a new kind of debate around gun rights in the United States.
Trump closes another door to immigrants after university shooting
Bloomberg News, Published on 19/12/2025
» WASHINGTON - The Trump administration has halted the US green card lottery programme, which it said was used by the suspect in the Brown University shooting and the killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor.
Five takeaways from Luigi Mangione evidence hearings
AFP, Published on 13/12/2025
» NEW YORK - Lawyers for the man accused of gunning down a health insurance executive on a Manhattan street have been in court seeking to have key pieces of evidence ruled inadmissible at his trial.
US sanctions equate us with drug traffickers: ICC dep. prosecutor
AFP, Published on 06/12/2025
» THE HAGUE - The deputy prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Friday lashed out at US sanctions, arguing they effectively put top court officials on a par with "terrorists and drug traffickers".
US halts asylum decisions as troop killing sparks migrant crackdown
AFP, Published on 29/11/2025
» WASHINGTON — The United States is freezing all asylum decisions, officials said Friday, as President Donald Trump hardens his anti-migrant stance after an Afghan national allegedly shot two National Guard members this week in Washington.
Trump orders review of immigrant visas after National Guard attack
AFP, Published on 28/11/2025
» WASHINGTON — The Donald Trump administration on Thursday said it was reviewing permanent residency status of immigrants from 19 countries, including Afghanistan, in its latest response to the shooting of two National Guard soldiers near the White House.
Hong Kong high-rise fire death toll rises to 55, about 200 unaccounted for
Kyodo News, Published on 27/11/2025
» HONG KONG — The death toll from a massive fire in a high-rise residential complex in Hong Kong has risen to 55, with about 70 people hospitalised and some 200 still unaccounted for more than a day later, local authorities said Thursday.
Shutdown-hit US federal employees line up for food
AFP, Published on 23/10/2025
» WASHINGTON - Standing in the middle of a parking lot in suburban Washington, surrounded by hundreds of federal employees waiting for food handouts amid the US government shutdown, Diane Miller summed it up simply.
Pro-Palestinian march, actions at Israel v Norway match
AFP, Published on 12/10/2025
» OSLO - Several hundred people demonstrated and expressed support for the Palestinian cause in Oslo on Saturday as Israel faced Norway in a football World Cup qualifier, AFP journalists reported.
Not all 'A's: Unconventional paths that led to Nobels
AFP, Published on 03/10/2025
» STOCKHOLM - Some Nobel laureates were straight-A students from the get-go. But others AFP spoke to recounted how they cut class, got expelled, and had doubts about their future.