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Deadline looms for US federal worker resignations under Musk plan
AFP, Published on 07/02/2025
» WASHINGTON - More than two million US federal workers were hours away from a deadline Thursday to quit with eight months' pay or risk being fired on the spot in a plan by billionaire Elon Musk to gut the civil service.
Ukraine slams 'fake elections' in occupied areas
AFP, Published on 08/09/2023
» KYIV - Ukraine denounced what it called "fake elections" being held by Moscow on its occupied territory Friday, while Russian air strikes across the country killed four people and wounded dozens more.
Priests in Bolivia 'saints by day, demons by night': alleged victim
AFP, Published on 08/06/2023
» LA PAZ - A Bolivian former seminarian who says he was the victim of a vast sex abuse network in the Catholic Church has told AFP of decades of "hell" meted out to children by men of the cloth.
'Operation Exodus': Brazil miners flee Yanomami land
AFP, Published on 09/02/2023
» ALTO ALEGRE (BRAZIL) - Wearing broken flip-flops held together by a frayed cord, Joao Batista, an illegal gold miner in the Brazilian Amazon, has been walking for days to escape the jungle, fleeing a looming security-force crackdown.
In Lula's home state, Brazilian rodeo riders lean left
AFP, Published on 18/10/2022
» CABROBO: Brazil's powerful agribusiness industry may back far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, but at the "Grab the Bull Bush Rodeo" in runoff rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's home state, the death-defying cowboys love the leftist ex-president.
Russia warns against 'destructive' sanctions on Putin
AFP, Published on 26/01/2022
» MOSCOW: Russia hit back Wednesday at US threats of direct sanctions against President Vladimir Putin, saying moves against the Russian leader would be ineffective and hurt efforts to lower tensions over Ukraine.
Laos’ scenic railway built on mountain of Chinese debt
AFP, Published on 19/12/2021
» Laos opened a new $6 billion rail link with China to much fanfare this month, but analysts warn the party could be short-lived as the government grapples with a potential debt crisis.
Tradition vs credibility: Inside the SE Asian meet that snubbed Myanmar
Reuters, Published on 19/10/2021
» Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore pushed for a harder stance against Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing at a "tense" meeting that decided to exclude him from a regional summit this month, four people with knowledge of the talks said.
Venezuela's inflation-battered bolivar sheds 6 zeroes
AFP, Published on 02/10/2021
» CARACAS - The official exchange rate of Venezuela's bolivar went from 4.18 million to the US dollar overnight to just 4.18 as the impoverished country slashed six zeroes off its inflation-battered currency Friday to simplify transactions.
Zimbabwe's new biggest banknote is worth just $0.60
AFP, Published on 07/07/2021
» HARARE - Zimbabwe's central bank on Tuesday announced the introduction of a new 50-dollar note, the country's highest denomination, worth only around $0.60 in US currency.