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Trump eyes N.Korea meet as he ambushes S.Korea leader
AFP, Published on 26/08/2025
» WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump said Monday he hoped again to meet North Korea's leaders as he fired off an extraordinary attack against the South's leader hours before opening talks with him.
Trump pardons of Capitol rioters spark jubiliation, outrage
AFP, Published on 22/01/2025
» WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump's sweeping pardons of Capitol rioters drew starkly contrasting reactions on Tuesday, largely embraced by his Republican supporters and vehemently condemned by Democrats.
Norwegian princess marries American guru
Reuters, Published on 31/08/2024
» OSLO - Princess Martha Louise of Norway married her long-time partner, American spiritual guru Durek Verrett, on Saturday in a ceremony attended by the Norwegian king and other royalty but marked by what critics saw as commercialisation of the event.
Tough time for Milei, no quick peace for Gaza: Peru shamans' predictions for 2024
AFP, Published on 28/12/2023
» LIMA - Tough times ahead for Argentina's new President Javier Milei, continued war in Gaza, and an Uruguay-Argentina 2024 Copa America final: Peru's shamans made their annual predictions Wednesday for the year ahead.
Gravity-defying: revamping an Inca rope suspension bridge
AFP, Published on 20/06/2023
» CUSCO (PERU) - Dangling over a vertiginous gorge, the Apurimac River flowing around 10 stories below, Indigenous Peruvians show no fear as they repair a centuries-old Inca rope suspension bridge -- the world's last.
Indonesians fall prey to fake shaman 'magic money' scams
AFP, Published on 19/05/2023
» KARAWANG (INDONESIA) - Indonesian mother-of-three Aslem was a domestic worker in Dubai when she started wiring cash to a self-professed shaman, believing that he would honour his promise to magically multiply her hard-earned wages.
In Amazon, Indigenous voters wear Lula support painted on faces
AFP, Published on 31/10/2022
» IRANDUBA (BRAZIL) - In the Brazilian Amazon, members of an Indigenous community painted their faces and put on traditional feather headdresses as they set out to vote Sunday in the hard-fought presidential runoff election.
What happens when Covid-19 becomes endemic?
New York Times, Published on 09/04/2022
» For months, some American and European leaders have foretold that the coronavirus pandemic would soon become endemic. Covid-19 would resolve into a disease that we learn to live with. According to several governors, it nearly has.
Illegal mining surges on Amazon indigenous land - report
AFP, Published on 25/03/2021
» RIO DE JANEIRO: Illegal mining, a leading cause of environmental destruction in the Amazon rainforest, expanded 30% last year on protected Yanomami indigenous lands, devastating the equivalent of 500 football pitches, according to a report released on Thursday.
Better behaviour, fledgling population immunity behind US case decline
AFP, Published on 30/01/2021
» WASHINGTON: The trend line is now unmistakable: the US Covid outbreak is easing, with new cases and hospitalisations down two weeks in a row, even though the overall numbers still remain far higher than prior to the fall-winter surge.