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Trump dismantles legal basis for US climate rules
AFP, Published on 13/02/2026
» WASHINGTON (UNITED STATES) - President Donald Trump on Thursday revoked a landmark scientific finding that underpins US regulations aimed at curbing planet-warming pollution, marking the administration's most far-reaching rollback of climate policy to date.
Chinese fraudster’s luxury life on the run ends in UK jail
Reuters, Published on 12/11/2025
» LONDON - As Chinese police closed in on the architect of a massive Ponzi scheme that cost thousands their life savings, a woman in her mid-40s was taken by an accomplice to the Myanmar border on a moped to begin nearly seven years on the run.
Suspect in kidnappings of French crypto tycoons arrested
AFP, Published on 04/06/2025
» PARIS - A 24-year-old Franco-Moroccan man suspected of masterminding a series of kidnappings targeting cryptocurrency entrepreneurs in France has been arrested in Morocco, France said.
N.Korean hackers sent stolen crypto to Cambodian payment firm
Published on 15/07/2024
» LONDON - A major Cambodian payments firm received crypto worth over $150,000 from a digital wallet used by North Korean hacking outfit Lazarus, blockchain data shows, a glimpse of how the criminal collective has laundered funds in Southeast Asia.
Grinding inflation clouds 'Black Friday' shopping bonanza
AFP, Published on 25/11/2022
» NEW YORK - Retailers braced for their biggest test of the year: Will US consumers open their wallets wide for the Black Friday sales that kick off the holiday shopping season?
Why crypto creators want to stay anonymous
AFP, Published on 18/02/2022
» PARIS: The two lifelong friends from Florida never sought the limelight, but then they built a multi-million-dollar empire selling digital art and people wanted to know who they were.
ISIS branch biggest immediate terror threat to evacuation in Kabul
Eric Schmitt of the New York Times, Published on 26/08/2021
» WASHINGTON: The United States has been battling the Taliban and their militant partners in Afghanistan, al-Qaida and the Haqqani network, for 20 years. But the biggest immediate threat to both the Americans and the Taliban as the United States escalates its evacuation at the Kabul airport before an Aug 31 withdrawal deadline is a common rival that is lesser known: Islamic State Khorasan, or ISIS-K, the terrorist group’s affiliate in Afghanistan.
'Dead body carrier': Covid surge overwhelms Myanmar burial volunteers
AFP, Published on 19/07/2021
» YANGON: With hospitals in junta-run Myanmar empty of pro-democracy medical staff and coronavirus cases surging nationwide, volunteers are going house-to-house to collect the fast-rising number of victims dying in their homes.
New Peruvian frog leaps into amphibian species ledger
AFP, Published on 22/04/2021
» LIMA: Peruvian officials on Wednesday announced the discovery of a brand-new frog, a spotted brown critter with an unusual eye coloring and no eardrum, in a natural park in the Amazon jungle.
Pilgrims trickle back to the Ganges as India lockdown eases
AFP, Published on 30/06/2020
» HARIDWAR, India: Life is slowly returning to normal among the hallowed temples of Haridwar, one of Hinduism's holiest places, but the Indian pilgrimage town still has a forlorn air as the country emerges from its coronavirus lockdown.