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Danish PM calls on US to stop 'threatening' Greenland
AFP, Published on 05/01/2026
» COPENHAGEN - Denmark called on the United States to stop "threatening" Greenland Sunday as President Donald Trump told US media he "absolutely" needed the territory, a day after Washington seized the leader of Venezuela.
Gunman kills two, wounds nine at US university
AFP, Published on 14/12/2025
» PROVIDENCE (UNITED STATES) - A gunman killed two people and wounded nine others on Saturday at Brown University, plunging the eastern US campus into lockdown as hundreds of police hunted the suspect late into the night.
Elon Musk's rocket-fuelled ride with Trump flames out
AFP, Published on 30/05/2025
» WASHINGTON - Billionaire Elon Musk once compared his work for US President Donald Trump to a 2,500-year-old religion. In the end, it lasted just four turbulent months.
Trump accuses S.Africa of 'confiscating' land, cuts funding
AFP, Published on 03/02/2025
» NEW YORK - US President Donald Trump on Sunday asserted South Africa was "confiscating" land and "treating certain classes of people very badly" as he announced he was cutting off all future funding to the country pending an investigation.
Video game play gets frisky at CES gadget gala
AFP, Published on 10/01/2025
» LAS VEGAS - Video game play met romantic intimacy in a corner of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on Thursday -- but it hasn't always been smooth sailing for sex toys at the Las Vegas gadget extravaganza.
Black day? Guinness runs dry in UK pubs amid online craze
AFP, Published on 16/12/2024
» LONDON - At her London pub, landlady Kate Davidson has taken to issuing Guinness ration cards, but still the beer has run out amid a UK shortage of Ireland's national drink.
Gunman, 14, kills four in US high school shooting
New York Times, Published on 05/09/2024
» WINDER — A 14-year-old student rampaged through the hallways of his Georgia high school Wednesday, killing two students and two teachers before giving up his gun and surrendering, according to authorities.
An endangered whale species is speeding towards extinction
AFP, Published on 20/10/2023
» WASHINGTON - They're one of the most endangered mammals in the world, and a species you may never have even heard of: North Atlantic right whales.
Typhoon Mawar leaves trail of destruction as it moves from Guam
AFP, Published on 25/05/2023
» LOS ANGELES - A typhoon that slammed into Guam, knocking out power and flooding buildings with a powerful storm surge, was moving away Thursday -- leaving residents of the US Pacific Ocean territory to survey the damage.
US Justice Dept takes abortion pill fight to Supreme Court
AFP, Published on 13/04/2023
» WASHINGTON - The US Justice Department said Thursday that it will go to the Supreme Court to appeal restrictions imposed on a widely-used abortion pill in the latest round of an intensifying battle over reproductive rights.