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Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) - A California court was sealed off Wednesday after a homemade bomb exploded, with witnesses saying a man had thrown some kind of device in...

Tampa (AFP) - Thousands of residents on Wednesday began evacuating parts of coastal Florida as the US state braces for Hurricane Helene, forecast to barrel ashore as a powerful, potentially...

United Nations (United States) (AFP) - The UN agency for Palestinian refugees is bracing for a triple crisis as Israeli strikes on Lebanon add to the strain it is facing...

Washington (AFP) - Two men on death row in the United States were executed Tuesday, including a Black man convicted of murder who had maintained his innocence and drawn support...

Washington (AFP) - Sales of new homes in the United States cooled less than expected in August, according to government data released Wednesday, with lower interest rates potentially boosting the...

United Nations (United States) (AFP) - President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia on Wednesday of plotting potentially catastrophic attacks on Ukranian nuclear plants, in a defiant UN address in which he...

New York (AFP) - Caroline Ellison, who testified against her former boyfriend and FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried at his crypto fraud trial, was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison...

Washington (AFP) - Two men on death row in the United States were executed Tuesday, including a Black man convicted of murder who had maintained his innocence and drawn support...

Caracas (AFP) - Venezuelan authorities launched an investigation Tuesday into a mysterious online fundraiser fronted by the founder of infamous US security contractor Blackwater, who claims to have raised over...

Washington (AFP) - The boss of the Danish pharmaceutical giant behind the blockbuster diabetes and weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy promised Tuesday to examine lowering their prices in the United...