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Trump demands $1bn from University of California over UCLA protests
AFP, Published on 09/08/2025
» LOS ANGELES (UNITED STATES) - President Donald Trump demanded a massive $1 billion fine from the prestigious University of California system on Friday as the administration pushed its claims of antisemitism in UCLA's response to 2024 student protests related to Gaza.
War, weather put ocean shippers on notice for rough seas
Reuters, Published on 06/01/2024
» LOS ANGELES - Recent hostilities in the Red Sea have thrown global shippers of vital goods for a loop — but it is hardly the only issue that big carriers are facing as 2024 kicks off.
UK finance minister announces boost for lowest earners
AFP, Published on 02/10/2023
» MANCHESTER (UNITED KINGDOM) - The UK minimum wage will go up next year, finance minister Jeremy Hunt said Monday, as the ruling Conservative party positions itself to battle an expected general election.
Philippine minister seeks top cops' resignations
Published on 04/01/2023
» MANILA: Hundreds of top-ranking police in the Philippines were asked to resign on Wednesday as the government seeks to “cleanse” the corruption-tainted force of officers involved in the illegal drug trade.
Romania's plagiarism hunter becomes the hunted
AFP, Published on 06/09/2022
» BUCHAREST - Romanian journalist Emilia Sercan has made it her mission to expose plagiarism at the country’s highest levels.
Dressing the dead: Indonesian villagers clean corpses in afterlife ritual
AFP, Published on 19/08/2022
» TIKALA (INDONESIA) - A family on an Indonesian island poses for a photo with an elderly relative no longer able to smile, while another clan tries to dress one of their eldest forebears in khakis and a shirt.
Shaken by Covid, some Americans try 'manifesting' a positive result
AFP, Published on 01/06/2021
» WASHINGTON - So you want money... love... success? Have you thought about trying to think about it -- really hard -- until your goals materialize? That, at least, is a core principle behind the trend, increasingly popular in pandemic times, of "manifesting," a mix of positive thinking and magical practices.
Journalists create their brands in growing 'direct' sales model
AFP, Published on 28/04/2021
» NEW YORK - Anna Codrea-Rado built a name for herself as a freelance journalist, building an audience of 2,500 for her email newsletter, "Lance," aimed at helping other independent writers.
'Worse than a jungle': the cartel controlling Iraqi borders
AFP, Published on 29/03/2021
» BAGHDAD - Along Iraq's borders, a corrupt customs-evasion cartel is diverting billions of dollars away from state coffers to line the pockets of armed groups, political parties and crooked officials.
Harvard astronomer argues that alien vessel paid us a visit
AFP, Published on 06/02/2021
» WASHINGTON - Discovering there's intelligent life beyond our planet could be the most transformative event in human history -- but what if scientists decided to collectively ignore evidence suggesting it already happened?