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New York (AFP) - Environmental campaigners in New York have kept up a campaign of direct action against one of the city's foremost banking empires, Citi, accusing the group of...

New York (AFP) - The co-founder of the Sinaloa drug cartel claimed Saturday that he had been kidnapped in Mexico and delivered into US custody against his will, deepening international...

Moscow (AFP) - Russia said Saturday it had evacuated tens of thousands of people from its border region and launched a "counter-terror operation" as it struggled to contain a major...

Paris (AFP) - Los Angeles 2028 organisers said Saturday they will force spectators to take public transportation to Olympic venues and encourage remote working in a bid to sidestep the...

San Francisco (AFP) - Tech pioneer and former YouTube chief Susan Wojcicki, who played an instrumental role in the rise of Google, has died at the age of 56 after...

Moscow (AFP) - Moscow on Saturday mounted a "counter-terror operation" in three border regions adjoining Ukraine to halt Kyiv's advance deeper into Russia and warned that the fighting endangered a...

Washington (AFP) - Two astronauts stranded in space may sound like the start to a big-screen science thriller, but the Boeing Starliner mission is no work of Hollywood fiction. Astronauts...

Washington (AFP) - US health regulators on Friday denied an application for treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with the drug MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy, saying more investigation needed to...

Caracas (AFP) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro suspended access to the social media site X on Thursday, as he faced renewed pressure from a trio of friendly Latin American nations...

Cotonou (AFP) - Lilith Dorsey is an American citizen living in New Orleans, but it is in Benin that she could end her days to "feel closer to her homeland"....