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Trump stirs tensions with surprise order to test nuclear weapons
AFP, Published on 30/10/2025
» WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump landed back in the United States Thursday after a surprise directive to begin nuclear weapons testing that raised the specter of renewed superpower tensions.
With missiles overhead, Tel Aviv residents huddle underground
AFP, Published on 24/06/2025
» TEL AVIV - As night falls in Israel's coastal city of Tel Aviv, hundreds make the familiar descent into the depths of the metro to escape the latest salvo of Iranian missiles.
Trump's tariff exemptions give markets relief, but tensions loom
AFP, Published on 14/04/2025
» WASHINGTON - US tariffs exemptions for electronics prompted market rallies Monday from Asia to Wall Street but failed to settle nerves over a global trade war that Chinese leader Xi Jinping warned would have "no winner."
US-China trade war surges, overshadowing Trump climbdown
AFP, Published on 10/04/2025
» WASHINGTON - The US-China trade war intensified Thursday, sending the global economy into unknown territory and dampening relief after President Donald Trump's earlier climbdown from a wider tariff onslaught against the rest of the world.
Venezuela-Guyana tensions soar, US mounts military exercises
AFP, Published on 07/12/2023
» GEORGETOWN (GUYANA) - The United States announced joint military flight drills in Guyana on Thursday as soaring tensions over a contested oil-rich region with neighbor Venezuela prompted the UN Security Council to call an urgent meeting.
Israeli strikes rock Gaza for second day after truce collapse
AFP, Published on 02/12/2023
» GAZA STRIP (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) - Israel carried out deadly bombardments in Gaza for a second day on Saturday after a week-long truce with Hamas collapsed despite international calls for an extension.
Car blast shuts down US-Canada border crossing
AFP, Published on 23/11/2023
» NEW YORK - US terrorism investigators deployed Wednesday after a car erupted into a fireball at a US-Canada checkpoint, triggering border closures on one of the busiest travel days in the American holiday calendar
UN chief cites 'madness' of nuclear arms race, as N.Korea warns of war
AFP, Published on 27/09/2023
» UNITED NATIONS (UNITED STATES) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Tuesday against a new atomic arms race bringing the threat of "annihilation" to the world, as North Korea charged that its peninsula was on the brink of nuclear war.
Biden agrees to meet Netanyahu in US, easing lengthy tensions
AFP, Published on 18/07/2023
» WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden agreed Monday to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later this year in the United States but declined, amid months of tension, to specify if this would be at the White House.
Espionage: life of a Russian 'illegal' bared in US charges
AFP, Published on 29/03/2023
» WASHINGTON - Brazilian Viktor Ferreira was elated in May 2018 when he was accepted into the elite Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington.