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8 dead in Brazil school shooting
AFP, Published on 14/03/2019
» SAO PAULO: Two assailants opened fire inside a school near Sao Paulo on Wednesday, killing eight people including four children before turning their weapons on themselves, authorities said.
Trump fights impeachment talk ahead of looming Mueller report
AFP, Published on 14/03/2019
» WASHINGTON - No one even knows when it will come out, but Robert Mueller's top secret probe into possible collusion between Donald Trump and Russia has Washington on edge -- and the president mounting preemptive attacks against impeachment.
Trump ex-campaign chief facing nearly seven years in jail
AFP, Published on 14/03/2019
» WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump's former campaign chief Paul Manafort, already facing 47 months in prison for tax and bank fraud, was sentenced to an additional 43 months in jail on Wednesday on conspiracy charges.
California suspends death penalty
AFP, Published on 14/03/2019
» LOS ANGELES: State governor Gavin Newsom imposed a moratorium on carrying out the death penalty in California on Wednesday, granting a reprieve to 737 condemned inmates -- the largest death row population in the United States.
US slams rights record of China and Iran, goes easier on N. Korea
AFP, Published on 14/03/2019
» WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday denounced China and Iran as Washington offered its annual human rights report, while going easier on other countries like North Korea in the name of "US interests."
NASA chief acknowledges more trouble with SLS rocket
AFP, Published on 14/03/2019
» WASHINGTON - The US space agency NASA on Wednesday cast a shadow on the future of its new heavy-lift rocket, the SLS -- acknowledging development delays on a project that is already years behind.
US grounds Boeing 737 MAX amid growing safety concerns
AFP, Published on 14/03/2019
» WASHINGTON - The ban on the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft became worldwide on Wednesday after US President Donald Trump joined Canada and other countries in grounding the aircraft amid mounting global fears for the jets' airworthiness.
Mane double breaks Bayern to send Liverpool through
AFP, Published on 14/03/2019
» MUNICH (GERMANY) - Sadio Mane scored twice to steer Liverpool into the Champions League quarter-finals on Wednesday after a superb 3-1 win at Bayern Munich dumped out the German giants.
Klopp says Liverpool 'back at the top' after Bayern triumph
AFP, Published on 14/03/2019
» MUNICH: Jurgen Klopp said his Liverpool side proved they are "back on the European stage" after an impressive 3-1 win at Bayern Munich on Wednesday put them into the Champions League quarter-finals.
Defying Trump, Senate votes to end US support for Yemen war
AFP, Published on 14/03/2019
» WASHINGTON - The US Senate on Wednesday dealt a stinging bipartisan rebuke to Donald Trump's foreign policy and his alliance with Riyadh, voting to end support for the bloody Saudi-led war effort in Yemen.