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US pushes for three-way nuclear deal with Russia and China
AFP, Published on 06/02/2026
» GENEVA - The United States on Friday urged three-way talks with Russia and China to set new limits on nuclear weapons, after the last treaty between top nuclear powers Washington and Moscow expired.
Mexico president defends world-first judicial vote despite low turnout
AFP, Published on 03/06/2025
» MEXICO CITY - Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum hit back Monday at criticism of her country's unprecedented election of judges, after most voters skipped a ballot that her opponents called a farce.
Mexicans elect their judges under shadow of crime, corruption
AFP, Published on 02/06/2025
» MEXICO CITY - Mexicans chose their judges on Sunday in unprecedented elections that sharply divided opinion in a country plagued by rampant crime, corruption and impunity.
Ukraine survives 'the most difficult winter'
AFP, Published on 01/03/2023
» KYIV: Ukraine said it had survived a months-long winter onslaught of Russian strikes on water and energy infrastructure, as it marked the first day of spring Wednesday.
Man cashed his dead mum's social security cheques for 26 yrs in US
New York Times, Published on 03/12/2022
» A Missouri man pleaded guilty this week to stealing his dead mother’s Social Security payments for more than a quarter century, accumulating nearly US$200,000 in the process, federal prosecutors said.
Dead rivers: The cost of Bangladesh's garment-driven economic boom
AFP, Published on 21/06/2022
» DHAKA: Bangladeshi ferryman Kalu Molla began working on the Buriganga river before the patchwork of slums on its banks gave way to garment factories -- and before its waters turned pitch black.
Left hopes for historic win in Colombia's 'change election'
AFP, Published on 27/05/2022
» BOGOTA - Colombians go to the polls Sunday in a deeply polarized election that could see a leftist -- and ex-guerrilla -- become president for the first time in the history of the violence- and inequality-plagued country.
In slap at China, US praises SAfrica's detection of new Covid strain
AFP, Published on 28/11/2021
» WASHINGTON - The United States praised South Africa Saturday for quickly identifying the new Covid strain called Omicron and sharing this information with the world -- a barely veiled slap at China's handling of the original outbreak of the novel coronavirus.
Generational shift or feigned ignorance? #MeToo's 'redrawn lines'
AFP, Published on 11/08/2021
» NEW YORK - New York's soon-to-be ex-governor Andrew Cuomo is the latest politician to blame inappropriate behavior on shifting cultural norms, a defense critics see as a tactic to shirk responsibility in the face of scandal.
Trump says US 'terminating' relationship with WHO
AFP, Published on 30/05/2020
» WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said Friday he was severing US ties with the World Health Organization, which he says failed to do enough to combat the initial spread of the novel coronavirus.