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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.
Tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted of national security charges in Hong Kong
AFP, Published on 15/12/2025
» HONG KONG - Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai was on Monday found guilty on two counts of foreign collusion and of seditious publication, in one of the Chinese city's highest-profile national security trials.
US still pushing big territorial concessions from Ukraine: Zelensky
AFP, Published on 12/12/2025
» KYIV (UKRAINE) - The United States is still pushing for Kyiv to make big territorial concessions to Russia to halt the war that started with Moscow's February 2022 invasion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday.
In Jerusalem, Merz reaffirms Germany's support for Israel
AFP, Published on 07/12/2025
» JERUSALEM - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz reaffirmed Berlin's support for Israel during a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem on Sunday before talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Nigeria declares national emergency after mass kidnappings
AFP, Published on 27/11/2025
» LAGOS - Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday declared a "nationwide security emergency" as the country scrambled to respond to a wave of mass kidnappings that have seen hundreds of people, mostly schoolchildren, captured in a week.
COP30 dragged into clash over gender language
AFP, Published on 20/11/2025
» BELéM (BRAZIL) - Conservative delegations from the Vatican to Iran are pushing to narrow the definition of "gender" at UN climate talks in Brazil -- a move aimed at excluding trans and non-binary people and threatening to complicate the summit's outcome.
Meta wins major antitrust case as US judge rules no monopoly
AFP, Published on 19/11/2025
» WASHINGTON - A US judge dismissed the federal government's antitrust lawsuit against Meta on Tuesday, ruling that the tech giant's acquisition of Instagram and Whatsapp did not constitute an illegal monopoly in social media.
Pakistan says peace talks with Afghanistan 'failed'
AFP, Published on 29/10/2025
» ISLAMABAD — Pakistan said Wednesday that negotiations for a lasting truce with Afghanistan had "failed to bring about a workable solution", warning it would take steps to protect its people.
Colombian president lashes out at Trump 'executions'
AFP, Published on 24/10/2025
» BOGOTá - Colombia's leftist president ramped up denunciations of Donald Trump's anti-drug air strikes and swatted aside US threats to freeze hundreds of millions of dollars in aid Thursday.
China vows to boost consumption
AFP, Published on 23/10/2025
» BEIJING - China’s ruling Communist Party said on Thursday the country has to “vigorously boost consumption” and “consolidate national security” in the next five years, state media reported, as a key gathering concluded in Beijing.