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Giuffre memoir goes on sale, piling pressure on Prince Andrew
AFP, Published on 21/10/2025
» LONDON - The memoir of one of Jeffrey Epstein’s main accusers whose claims sparked the downfall of Britain’s Prince Andrew shot to the top of the Amazon UK bestseller list on Tuesday as it went on sale, ratcheting up pressure on the disgraced royal.
Virginia Giuffre shines light on Epstein ordeal in new memoir
AFP, Published on 21/10/2025
» NEW YORK — A memoir by one of Jeffrey Epstein's main accusers whose claims led to the downfall of Britain's Prince Andrew was released Tuesday, promising to keep Epstein's ties to United States President Donald Trump in the spotlight.
Trump hosts gala for memecoin buyers despite corruption concerns
AFP, Published on 23/05/2025
» WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump on Thursday will host a private event for hundreds of top investors in his crypto memecoin, with leaders of the Democratic opposition blasting it as "an orgy of corruption."
Brazil on edge as polarizing runoff goes down to wire
AFP, Published on 28/10/2022
» RIO DE JANEIRO - After a bitterly divisive campaign and inconclusive first-round vote, Brazil will elect its next president Sunday in a cliffhanger runoff between far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro and veteran leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Brazil's dirty campaign: a disinformation guide
AFP, Published on 21/10/2022
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's election campaign has been an orgy of mudslinging, social media attacks and outright lies so outlandish they are sometimes comical.
Virtual reality revives Iraq's war-ravaged heritage
AFP, Published on 29/08/2022
» MOSUL (IRAQ) - An Iraqi museum is using computer technology and virtual reality headsets to turn back time, so visitors can explore heritage sites destroyed by jihadist fighters and in battles to defeat them.
India court sentences 38 to death over 2008 bombings
AFP, Published on 18/02/2022
» AHMEDABAD, India: An Indian court sentenced 38 people to death on Friday over a string of bomb blasts in 2008 that killed dozens in the city of Ahmedabad, in one of the country's biggest mass death sentences.
Netherlands rocked by second night of Covid riots
AFP, Published on 21/11/2021
» THE HAGUE: Fresh rioting broke out late Saturday over the Dutch government's coronavirus measures, with rioters pelting police with stones and fireworks as protests turned violent for a second night in the Netherlands.
Dutch police fire warning shots as Covid riots hit Rotterdam
AFP, Published on 20/11/2021
» ROTTERDAM (NETHERLANDS) - Dutch police fired warning shots, injuring several people, after rioters against a partial Covid lockdown torched a police car and hurled stones in Rotterdam on Friday.
Rumsfeld, cocksure architect of Iraq war, dead at 88
AFP, Published on 01/07/2021
» WASHINGTON - Donald Rumsfeld, the cocksure and unrepentant defense secretary who led the United States into war in Iraq and Afghanistan, has died, his family announced Wednesday. He was 88.