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Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that he expected the situation to “stabilise” in Ukrainian regions annexed by the Kremlin after Moscow suffered military setbacks and lost several key towns to Kyiv. Ukraine earlier…

Ginowan (Japan) (AFP) – For decades, residents of Japan’s Okinawa have strongly opposed the US military bases that dot the region but a subtle shift is under way, driven by Chinese sabre-rattling and economic challenges. The bases are often seen as a d…

Washington (AFP) – Former US president Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to intervene in the legal tussle over classified documents seized in the FBI raid of his Florida home. Trump urged the conservative-dominated court to stay a ruling …

Washington (AFP) – The US Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday in a racially-charged case involving the rights of Black voters. The case involves the 1965 Voting Rights Act and a congressional redistricting map in the southern state of Alabama that…

Washington (AFP) – The United States needs to keep engaging Pakistan despite lingering distrust over Afghanistan, with investment and climate cooperation key to reducing the South Asian nation’s growing reliance on China, a study group recommended Tues…

New York (AFP) – Loretta Lynn, America’s groundbreaking country titan whose frank lyricism delving into women’s experiences with sex, infidelity and pregnancy touched the nerve of a nation, has died. She was 90 years old. She “passed peacefully in her …

San Francisco (AFP) – Elon Musk has offered to push through with his buyout of Twitter at the original agreed price, reports said Tuesday, just weeks before the opening of a bitter court case over his effort to withdraw from the deal. US media said the…

Washington (AFP) – The conservative-dominated US Supreme Court, after delivering landmark rulings on abortion, guns and the environment, began a new term on Monday packed with more controversial cases. First up on the docket for the nation’s highest co…

Washington (AFP) – President Joe Biden flew to Puerto Rico on Monday to inspect storm damage, saying in a veiled jab at his predecessor Donald Trump that the territory had not “been taken very good care of” during a crippling series of past hurricanes….

Washington (AFP) – US manufacturing growth slowed in September to its weakest pace in more than two years amid a decline in orders, as well as easing price pressures, according to an industry survey released Monday. The Institute for Supply Management …