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'It wasn't clean': Mother mourns son killed in US Maduro assault
AFP, Published on 19/01/2026
» CARACAS — As the first explosions rocked his military base in Caracas, 18-year-old Saul Pereira Martinez sent his mother a simple message: "I love you. It has begun."
Jerome Powell: The careful Fed chair standing firm against Trump
AFP, Published on 13/01/2026
» WASHINGTON (UNITED STATES) - US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has generally avoided escalation in the face of Donald Trump's relentless criticism -- but in recent months, the central banker has become a rare figure to publicly resist his attacks.
Brazil's Lula hunts for deal at Amazon climate summit
AFP, Published on 20/11/2025
» BELéM (BRAZIL) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva hit the corridors of COP30 in Belem on Wednesday, in a push to land a deal at the UN climate talks as nations remained divided over contentious issues.
Ex-jihadist Syrian leader heads for the White House
AFP, Published on 07/11/2025
» DAMASCUS - President Ahmed al-Sharaa will become Syria’s first leader to pay an official visit to the White House on Monday, a crowning achievement for the ex-jihadist who since taking power has ended his country’s isolation.
Philippine death toll tops 140 as typhoon heads towards Vietnam
AFP, Published on 06/11/2025
» LILOAN (PHILIPPINES) - Typhoon Kalmaegi killed at least 140 people and left another 127 missing after unleashing devastating flooding across the central Philippines, official figures showed Thursday, as the storm headed towards Vietnam.
Cement maker Lafarge on trial in France on charges of funding jihadists
AFP, Published on 04/11/2025
» PARIS - Cement group Lafarge goes on trial in France on Tuesday, accused of paying the Islamic State group and other jihadists protection money to build its business in war-torn Syria.
Tanzania president to be inaugurated as opposition says hundreds dead
AFP, Published on 03/11/2025
» NAIROBI - Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan was to be inaugurated Monday with the internet still blocked after election protests in which the opposition says hundreds were killed by security forces.
Tanzanian president wins landslide amid deadly protests
AFP, Published on 01/11/2025
» DAR ES SALAAM - Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan has won a landslide election victory, official results showed on Saturday, after key opponents were jailed or barred from running, leading to days of deadly protests.
Tanzania polls open with opposition excluded
AFP, Published on 29/10/2025
» ZANZIBAR — Polls opened on Wednesday in Tanzania elections in which the main challengers were either jailed or barred from running, with rights groups decrying a "wave of terror".
Archaeologists unearth clues on French colonial massacre in Senegal cemetery
AFP, Published on 28/10/2025
» THIAROYE — Holes in the ground, clods of earth next to headstones, dislocated concrete outlines: the Thiaroye military cemetery near Dakar bears the marks of recent excavations meant to unearth the truth behind a WWII-era massacre by French colonial forces.