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AFP, Published on 06/04/2016
» WASHINGTON - Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton looked Wednesday to bounce back from unsettling presidential primary losses in Wisconsin, setting their sights on the next White House contests on friendlier ground -- their home state of New York.
AFP, Published on 06/04/2016
» TRIPOLI - The head of Libya's unrecognised authority in charge of Tripoli said Wednesday he was refusing to hand over power to a UN-backed unity government, contradicting an earlier pledge by his administration.
AFP, Published on 06/04/2016
» GENEVA - Uruguay's Juan Pedro Damiani has resigned from FIFA's ethics committee after the Panama Papers showed his law firm acted as an intermediary for a disgraced FIFA official.
AFP, Published on 06/04/2016
» THE HAGUE - Six convoys of semi-automated "smart" trucks arrived in Rotterdam's harbour Wednesday after an experiment its organisers say will revolutionise future road transport on Europe's busy highways.
AFP, Published on 06/04/2016
» GENEVA - Swiss police on Wednesday searched UEFA's headquarters for contracts linked to a Champions League television rights deal revealed in the so-called "Panama Papers", which involves FIFA's new president Gianni Infantino.
AFP, Published on 06/04/2016
» AUGUSTA (UNITED STATES) - Augusta National's famous 18-hole layout consists of some of the best-known holes in the world of golf and an array of tantalising and challenging shots.
AFP, Published on 06/04/2016
» LONDON - Jurors at the inquests into the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster retired to consider their verdicts on Wednesday, over two years since the hearings began.
AFP, Published on 06/04/2016
» MONTEVIDEO - Juan Pedro Damiani publicly crusaded against corruption in South American football as a member of FIFA's ethics committee and now his naming in the Panama Papers has cast a cloud over the world body's efforts to redeem its scandal-tainted name.
AFP, Published on 06/04/2016
» YANGON - Myanmar’s president Wednesday signed a bill giving Aung San Suu Kyi a new role of state adviser, shoring up her influence across all branches of government despite vehement opposition from the still-powerful military.
AFP, Published on 06/04/2016
» MADRID - Spain's Santander, the eurozone's biggest bank, said Wednesday during a meeting with unions that it plans to slash up to 1,200 jobs in its Spanish home market, unions and other sources close to the talks said.