Showing 1 - 10 of 19
Trump has 'alcoholic's personality,' chief of staff says in bombshell interview
AFP, Published on 17/12/2025
» WASHINGTON (UNITED STATES) - Donald Trump said Tuesday he stood by his chief of staff Susie Wiles after she said the US president had an "alcoholic's personality" in an astonishing interview with Vanity Fair.
UK cedes Chagos Islands sovereignty to Mauritius
Reuters, Published on 03/10/2024
» LONDON - Britain said on Thursday that it would cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal it said secured the future of the UK-US Diego Garcia military base, and which could also pave the way for people displaced decades ago to return home.
As climate changes, farms in US 'Peach State' Georgia suffer
AFP, Published on 16/07/2023
» CONCORD (UNITED STATES) - From a distance, everything looks normal: neat rows of peach trees, their green leaves fluttering in the wind, near a pretty little American farmhouse.
Beyond sushi: Japan expands veggie options to tempt tourists
AFP, Published on 07/06/2023
» TOKYO - Even on a weekday, there's a queue at Tokyo's vegan Izakaya Masaka, including many tourists eager to try meat-free versions of Japanese classics like fried chicken and juicy dumplings.
Donald Trump's first wife Ivana dies aged 73
AFP, Published on 15/07/2022
» NEW YORK: Ivana Trump -- Donald Trump's first wife and mother of his three eldest children -- died on Thursday at the age of 73, the former president announced.
Ukraine slams Russian campaign in Donbas 'hell', US readies $40bn in aid
AFP, Published on 20/05/2022
» KYIV: The renewed Russian offensive in Ukraine's Donbas has turned the eastern region into "hell", President Volodymyr Zelensky said, as the United States approved a gargantuan US$40-billion aid package for the country.
Afghan pomegranate pickers jobless as fruits rot at shuttered border
AFP, Published on 14/10/2021
» KANDAHAR (AFGHANISTAN) - Afghanistan's festive pomegranate season has begun, but this year thousands of tonnes of the juicy red fruit risk rotting on trucks blocked at Pakistan's frequently shuttered border -- leaving thousands of farm workers unemployed.
Brazil high court confirms annulment of Lula graft convictions
AFP, Published on 16/04/2021
» BRASíLIA - Brazil's full Supreme Court upheld a ruling Thursday annulling former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's corruption convictions, which cleared the way for him to run for a new presidential term next year.
Spain: A paradise of weed for Europe's drug traffickers
AFP, Published on 17/10/2020
» SAN ESTEBAN SASROVIRAS (SPAIN) - It is the dead of night when police storm a house near Barcelona where hundreds of cannabis plants are growing in the basement under the glare of a sea of heat lamps.
Bolsonaro says he 'ended' Car Wash graft probe
AFP, Published on 08/10/2020
» BRASíLIA - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Wednesday that he has ended the country's biggest-ever corruption probe, "Operation Car Wash," as there is "no more corruption in the government."