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San Francisco (United States) (AFP) - Amazon on Friday pledged more than $1 billion over five years for US communities that host its data centers, the latest tech giant seeking...

Geneva (AFP) - Haiti's gang violence crisis has left at least 5,700 people dead or wounded this year while more than 1,000 women and girls have been raped, UN human rights...

New York (AFP) - New York Governor Kathy Hochul vowed Friday to close a legal loophole that makes it harder to prosecute rape cases if the victims were willingly intoxicated,...

New York (AFP) - New York Attorney General Letitia James has been appointed special prosecutor to investigate an alleged gang rape at Cornell University, the state's governor announced, following an...

Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) - The Walt Disney Company's President Dana Walden said on Thursday that the company's layoffs were "extremely painful" but necessary for its survival. Disney has...

New York (AFP) - Nike plans to cut an undetermined number of jobs and establish a new campus in India as it seeks to accelerate a turnaround following another downcast...

New York (AFP) - A judge on Thursday denied an acquittal request by an American mother accused of murdering her three children, a court filing showed, weeks after a jury...

Washington (United States) (AFP) - A condemned female murderer who survived two lethal injections during a botched execution by the US state of Tennessee was in critical condition and receiving...

Milwaukee (AFP) - The United States told Europe on Thursday to cooperate with Washington's efforts to lower diesel prices, while a top EU official said a US export ban of...

Washington (United States) (AFP) - An unprecedented botched execution that left a female murderer alive after two lethal injections triggered international calls Thursday for the US state of Tennessee to...