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Tokyo (AFP) - Japanese convenience store chain FamilyMart has enlisted Lady Gaga for a recruitment campaign, convincing the pop icon to trade vocal registers for cash registers in an effort...

San Francisco (United States) (AFP) - The White House released Sunday lists of products that could benefit from lower tariffs under an arrangement with China affecting $30 billion in goods...

(AFP) - It bills itself as an "independent journalism" outfit, but the innocuous-sounding North Carolinian is among hundreds of partisan sites that researchers say masquerade as local news outlets in...

Washington (United States) (AFP) - US President Donald Trump said Sunday that he expects talks with Iran to resume in the coming week, a day after rejecting a truce proposal...

(AFP) - Donald Trump could become a lame duck president after US midterm elections but prospects at the ballot box are looking brighter for ducks of the feathered variety. When...

Washington (United States) (AFP) - US President Donald Trump said Sunday that he expects talks with Iran to resume in the coming week, despite his rejection of a truce proposal...

Washington (United States) (AFP) - A powerful off-season storm kept lashing the heavily populated US Northeast corridor on Sunday with wind, rain and large waves, knocking out power for thousands...

Fairford (United Kingdom) (AFP) - British counter-terrorism police were Sunday probing "a major" incident near a base used by the US air force after arresting five men on suspicion of...

Tehran (AFP) - Iran stood firm Sunday on its conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, despite US President Donald Trump's rejection of the proposal, leaving the Middle East war...

New York (AFP) - Heavy rain and strong winds battered the northeastern United States on Sunday as an unusually powerful autumn storm intensified, leaving tens of thousands without power and...