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Kremlin envoy proposes a 'Putin-Trump tunnel' to link Russia and US
Reuters, Published on 17/10/2025
» MOSCOW - Russia and the United States should build a "Putin-Trump" rail tunnel under the Bering Strait to link the two countries, unlock joint exploration of natural resources and "symbolise unity", a Kremlin envoy has suggested.
Epstein birthday book renews pressure on Trump, other former pals
AFP, Published on 12/09/2025
» WASHINGTON - A decades-old book of cheerful, often lewd birthday messages has set off a political bomb in Washington -- helping bring down the British ambassador and inflaming the most perilous scandal of Donald Trump's presidency.
Police, art sleuth crack case of Brueghel stolen in Poland in 1974
AFP, Published on 04/03/2025
» THE HAGUE - With the help of a well-known art detective and arts magazine journalists, Dutch police say they have cracked the case of the mysterious disappearance of a Brueghel painting from a Polish museum 50 years ago.
Charlie Hebdo unveils special edition 10 years since attack
AFP, Published on 06/01/2025
» PARIS - French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo unveiled a special edition Monday to mark 10 years since an attack on its offices by Islamist gunmen that decimated its staff.
'I cried all day': Serbia reels after deadly school shooting
AFP, Published on 04/05/2023
» BELGRADE: Serbia was in mourning on Thursday a day after a 13-year-old suspect shot dead eight fellow students and a security guard after allegedly drawing up a kill list.
Nine dead in Belgrade school shooting
AFP and Reuters, Published on 03/05/2023
» BELGRADE: Eight students and a security guard were killed during a school shooting in Belgrade on Wednesday, with police accusing the detained 13-year-old suspect of plotting the attack for a month and making a kill list.
Queen Elizabeth II's top quotes
AFP, Published on 09/09/2022
» LONDON - Queen Elizabeth II was one of the most recognisable people on earth, seen often but not always heard from.
Betty White, doyenne of US television, dead at 99
AFP, Published on 01/01/2022
» LOS ANGELES - Actress Betty White, who made US television audiences laugh for more than seven decades, starring on popular sitcoms "The Golden Girls" and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," has died, US media reported Friday. She was 99.
Ceremonies chief sacked on eve of troubled Tokyo Olympics
AFP, Published on 22/07/2021
» TOKYO - The director of the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony was fired for jokes about the Holocaust on Thursday, causing fresh embarrassment a day before the pandemic-delayed Games finally get under way.
No fans, fewer athletes: Tokyo Olympics set for unusual opening ceremony
AFP, Published on 22/07/2021
» TOKYO - One of the strangest Olympics in history will get off to an equally unusual start when the Tokyo 2020 opening ceremony takes place in front of thousands of empty seats on Friday.