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'God's Influencer' to become first millennial saint
AFP, Published on 05/09/2025
» VATICAN CITY - An Italian teenager dubbed "God's Influencer" for his efforts to spread the Catholic faith online will become the first millennial saint Sunday at a canonisation attended by thousands of pilgrims.
Venezuelans watch in horror as Trump sends family to El Salvador
AFP, Published on 20/03/2025
» MARACAIBO (VENEZUELA) - Mervin Yamarte's family in Venezuela thought the 29-year-old -- arrested by US authorities amid President Donald Trump's migrant crackdown -- would be put on a deportation flight home. But the plane never arrived.
Former China leader Jiang Zemin dead
AFP, Reuters, Kyodo News, Published on 30/11/2022
» China's former leader Jiang Zemin, who steered the country through a transformational era from the late 1980s and into the new millennium, died Wednesday at the age of 96, China's state news agency said.
Four decades of AIDS
AFP, Published on 05/06/2021
» WASHINGTON - Forty years ago this month the first men began dying of a mysterious disease in California that would later be identified as AIDS.
Ex-Honduras president disgraced by FIFAgate dies aged 76
AFP, Published on 05/04/2020
» TEGUCIGALPA - Honduran ex-president Rafael Callejas, who pleaded guilty in the United States for his part in the sweeping FIFAgate football corruption scandal, died Saturday aged 76, his family said.
Hospital shortages a death sentence for Venezuelan children
AFP, Published on 31/05/2019
» CARACAS - Gilberto Altuve places his son Erick's toys on a white cloth alongside cards from friends and the mask he used while waiting for a desperately needed bone marrow transplant that never came.
Novartis gets US approval for $2.1 million gene therapy
AFP, Published on 25/05/2019
» WASHINGTON - Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis on Friday announced it had received US regulatory approval for a gene therapy that treats a rare childhood disorder and has a price tag of $2.1 million, making it the most expensive drug in history.
Leaders foreign and domestic prepare goodbyes to Bush
AFP, Published on 05/12/2018
» WASHINGTON - International dignitaries will join US leaders present and past on Wednesday in saying their final goodbyes to former president George H.W. Bush, whose life will be honored at a funeral service in Washington.
Trump plane to collect Bush casket for days-long homage
AFP, Published on 03/12/2018
» HOUSTON - Solemn preparations were underway Sunday for America's national farewell to George H.W. Bush, whose casket is to be flown from Texas to Washington aboard a presidential aircraft to lie in state at the start of a days-long state homage.
Targeted cancer treatments far outperform traditional methods
AFP, Published on 02/06/2018
» MIAMI - Cancer treatments that attack tumors based on their individual genetic traits -- not their location in the body -- far outperform traditional methods, extending survival for twice as many patients, a study said Saturday.