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Dueling interests for Trump and Putin at Alaska summit
AFP, Published on 15/08/2025
» ANCHORAGE - US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin -- and, from a distance, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky -- have dueling interests going into a high-stakes summit in Alaska on Friday.
Ex-aide Musk drops bombshell on Trump
AFP, Published on 05/06/2025
» WASHINGTON - Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill has careened into an Elon Musk-shaped brick wall, complicating its passage into law and risking a schism between the most powerful man in the world and the wealthiest.
Australia’s opposition parties on track to return to coalition
Reuters, Published on 25/05/2025
» Australia’s two centre-right opposition parties appear to be on track to return to the Coalition, a longstanding alliance between the pair that suffered a surprise split last week in the wake of a disastrous election showing.
M23 seize key city amid mounting fears of DR Congo breakup
AFP, Published on 16/02/2025
» BUKAVU (DR CONGO) - Columns of M23 fighters allied with Rwandan troops on Sunday entered the centre of another key city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo as the African Union highlighted growing fears that the strife-torn country could break up.
Tech billionaires take center stage at Trump inauguration
AFP, Published on 21/01/2025
» WASHINGTON - US tech multibillionaires -- including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos -- were given prime positions at Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday, in an unprecedented demonstration of their power and influence in the White House.
France, Niger on familiar path to breakup in coup-prone Sahel
AFP, Published on 31/07/2023
» NIAMEY - After bust-ups with Mali and Burkina Faso, France is now watching its relationship with Niger spiral downwards following the Sahel's third military takeover in as many years.
Difficult times bring Russia and Cuba closer together
AFP, Published on 26/05/2023
» HAVANA: For the first time since the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russia is taking an intense interest in Cuba as Moscow has become increasingly isolated over its invasion of Ukraine.
'Future Yugoslavs' emerge in Serbia to resist nationalism
AFP, Published on 22/05/2023
» BELGRADE: Every year, a small group of elderly people in well-worn World War II uniforms bedecked with Communist paraphernalia queue in Belgrade to pay their respects to their former leader, Josip Broz Tito.
'I want it banned': reality TV targeted in Serbia after shootings
AFP, Published on 12/05/2023
» BELGRADE - Serbian TV is a diet of women being beaten and threats issued at gunpoint. But this is not fiction. It is reality shows where, among others, infamous mobsters and war criminals are the stars.
President vows to ‘disarm’ Serbia after mass shootings
Published on 05/05/2023
» BELGRADE: Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic vowed on Friday to launch a large-scale disarmament plan to remove hundreds of thousands of guns from the country following two mass shootings in less than 48 hours.