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Las Vegas (AFP) – Donald Trump received a standing ovation at a Republican Party gathering Saturday, even as several possible White House rivals lashed out at his election denialism and insisted it was time to move on from the former US president. In h…

San Francisco (AFP) – Elon Musk expressed excitement Saturday as he watched votes pour in on a Twitter poll he has posted on whether to readmit Donald Trump to the messaging platform. “Reinstate former President Trump,” the billionaire Twitter owner po…

San José (United States) (AFP) – Elizabeth Holmes’s startup Theranos made her a multi-billionaire hailed as the next US tech visionary by age 30, but it all evaporated in a flash of lawsuits, ignominy and, finally, an 11-year prison sentence on Friday….

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Fresh Russian strikes hit cities across Ukraine on Thursday, the latest in a wave of attacks that have crippled the country’s energy infrastructure as winter sets in and temperatures drop. Repeated barrages have been disrupting e…

Palm Beach (United States) (AFP) – Waving flags and adorned in Donald Trump paraphernalia from head to toe, thousands of die-hard supporters of the former US president waited for hours outside his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida with bated breath. They are …

Los Angeles (AFP) – A controversial US anti-immigration rule imposed at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic that automatically blocked asylum-seekers trying to enter the country has been struck down. The measure, Title 42, had been branded “inhumane” b…

Washington (AFP) – Police on Monday arrested a former US college football player suspected of shooting dead three ex-teammates at the University of Virginia, a few hours south of the US capital. The latest outburst of campus gun violence came as four p…

Kherson (Ukraine) (AFP) – President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday said it was “impossible to kill Ukraine” as he hailed the liberation of city of Kherson in a surprise visit. NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg meanwhile cautioned that Ukraine was f…

Nusa Dua (Indonesia) (AFP) – US President Joe Biden meets China’s Xi Jinping in Bali on Monday hoping to set “guardrails” for relations between the world’s two largest economies as they vie for international primacy. The US-China superpower sitdown, on…

Fort McMurray (Canada) (AFP) – It burns, it drifts, it falls victim to insects. And it’s shrinking. The boreal forest, which is second only to the Amazon in terms of its vital role in ensuring the future of the planet, encircles the Arctic — and it is…