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New York (AFP) - Sonny Rollins, the "Saxophone Colossus" whose hard-charging yet flowingly meditative works made him the last in a golden era of jazz greats, died Monday. He was...

Washington (United States) (AFP) - Haiti's first World Cup appearance since 1974 is a source of immense pride, but Emile, a Haitian living in Ohio, is afraid to attend a...

Beirut (Lebanon) (AFP) - The Israeli army intensified strikes in southern Lebanon on Monday, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had ordered the military to escalate its offensive in...

Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) - The threat of a toxic chemical tank explosion in Southern California has subsided enough to allow some of the 50,000 residents who were evacuated...

Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Leo XIV called Monday for the "disarming" of artificial intelligence in his long-awaited manifesto on the rapidly developing technology, and warned of "new forms of...

(AFP) - Oil prices fell and Asian stocks climbed on Monday over hopes a deal between the United States and Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz could be brokered....

Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) - Authorities in California on Sunday said they discovered a crack in a damaged tank of toxic chemicals, potentially relieving pressure as the threat of...

Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) - Firefighters warned Saturday that a tank of toxic chemicals in California is heating up, adding to fears of a catastrophic explosion that has already...

Washington (United States) (AFP) - The United States and Iran sought on Sunday to finalize an agreement to formally end the Middle East war after Donald Trump said a proposal...

Brooklyn (United States) (AFP) - World Cup fever is beginning to hit New York's immigrant communities where wariness of the Trump administration's deportation crackdown has weighed on foot traffic. In...