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'It wasn't clean': Mother mourns son killed in US Maduro assault
AFP, Published on 19/01/2026
» CARACAS — As the first explosions rocked his military base in Caracas, 18-year-old Saul Pereira Martinez sent his mother a simple message: "I love you. It has begun."
She was a child Instagram influencer. Her fans were grown men.
New York Times, Published on 14/11/2024
» NEW YORK — For her 18th birthday in March, "Jacky Dejo," a snowboarder, bikini model and child influencer turned social media entrepreneur, celebrated on the secluded island of Dominica.
Harris accepts nomination and lays out the case against Trump
New York Times, Published on 23/08/2024
» CHICAGO — Vice President Kamala Harris ceremonially accepted the Democratic Party's nomination for president Thursday night in a speech that alternated between calls for unity and stinging rebukes of former President Donald Trump as an "unserious man" whose return to the White House could have devastating consequences for the United States.
TikTok chef whips up real-life Los Angeles restaurant after virtual success
AFP, Published on 25/07/2023
» LOS ANGELES - Tue Nguyen became a TikTok star by posting videos of herself cooking Vietnamese dishes during the pandemic.
Southern US swelters in brutal heat wave
AFP, Published on 27/06/2023
» HOUSTON - A dangerous and prolonged heat wave blanketed large parts of the southern United States on Tuesday, buckling highways and forcing people into air-conditioned shelters as temperatures soared past 115 degrees Fahrenheit (46 Celsius).
Man kills 6, including ex-wife, in rampage in US
New York Times, Published on 18/02/2023
» A 52-year-old man armed with three guns went on a shooting rampage in a rural Mississippi county of the United States on Friday, killing six people, including his ex-wife, and shocking a community that had not seen such mass violence in more than two decades, authorities said.
France's 'Little Nicolas' illustrator Jean-Jacques Sempe dies aged 89
AFP, Published on 12/08/2022
» PARIS - Jean-Jacques Sempe, who illustrated the much-loved "Little Nicolas" series of French children's books, has died aged 89, his biographer told AFP on Thursday.
Russians bid to encricle Severodonetsk, Zelensky pleads for arms
AFP, Published on 14/06/2022
» KRAMATORSK (UKRAINE) - Russian forces on Tuesday stepped up efforts to cut off Ukrainian troops in the key industrial city of Severodonetsk in the east of the country despite Ukrainians insisting they were holding on.
'They bomb and they bomb': Anguish in Ukraine frontline city
AFP, Published on 14/06/2022
» LYSYCHANSK (UKRAINE) - Maksym Katerin was red-eyed Monday as he showed the fresh graves of his mother and stepfather, scattered with rose petals, in his garden in Ukraine's frontline city of Lysychansk.
Fear pervades Mexico City metro after deadly crash
AFP, Published on 05/05/2021
» MEXICO CITY - Commuters riding Mexico City's metro just a day after one of its worst ever accidents said they worried for their safety but had little choice other than to use the network.