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‘Sabotage’ on French rail network before Olympics: What we know
Paris (AFP) - Arson attacks scrambled France's high-speed rail network for tens of thousands of passengers on Friday, after what...
Video game actors to strike in California
Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) - Hollywood's video game actors will go on strike early Friday to demand safeguards against...
Sweden seeks to be winemaking’s next frontier
Bastad (Sweden) (AFP) - Far north of iconic wine regions like Bordeaux and Tuscany, Sweden is seeing a burgeoning industry...
New Japan film camera aimed at ‘nostalgic’ young fans
Tokyo (AFP) - Keita Suzuki leads a group of young analogue photography fans around a coastal city in Japan, stopping...
Boeing guilty plea deal filed in fatal 737 Max crashes
New York (AFP) - Boeing will plead guilty to fraud as part of a deal with the US Department of...
NBA signs 11-year media deals worth reported $76 bn
New York (AFP) - The NBA announced 11-year global media rights deals with The Walt Disney Company, NBCUniversal and Amazon...
Disneyland strike averted as unions agree tentative deal
Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) - Unions representing Disneyland theme park employees in California reached a tentative deal with the...
Olympic partner Coca-Cola chided over French taxes
Paris (AFP) - The French tax authorities have claimed Olympics sponsor Coca-Cola owes it millions of euros, documents showed Wednesday,...
‘Truly frightening’: Pesticides increasingly laced with forever chemicals
Washington (AFP) - Toxic "forever chemicals" are increasingly being used in US pesticides, threatening human health as they contaminate waterways...
Tesla reports profit drop on price cuts, lower vehicle sales
New York (AFP) - Tesla reported a hefty drop in second-quarter profits Tuesday due to the effect of price cuts...
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