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US President Donald Trump ‘unpredictable’: Greenland PM
Nuuk (AFP) - US President Donald Trump, who wants to take over Greenland, is very erratic, the island's premier said...
Five years ago, WHO’s pandemic call shook world into action
Geneva (AFP) - Five years ago on Tuesday, the World Health Organization announced Covid-19 had become a pandemic -- a...
Texas tech boom: Silicon Valley’s southern outpost rises
Austin (AFP) - Held every year in the capital of conservative-leaning Texas, the South by Southwest festival increasingly celebrates the...
Opium farming takes root in Myanmar’s war-wracked landscape
Pekon (Myanmar) (AFP) - Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes...
Trump declines to rule out 2025 US recession
Washington (AFP) - President Donald Trump declined Sunday to rule out the possibility that the United States might enter a...
US takes rivalry with China to the high seas
Paris (AFP) - The United States may still have the world's most powerful navy but it seems to have realised...
Global stocks mixed as Trump shifts on tariffs weighs on sentiment
New York (AFP) - Global stocks were mixed Friday as President Donald Trump's unpredictable tariff tinkering weighed down sentiment even...
From critic to investor: Trump welcomes crypto leaders to White House
Washington (AFP) - Donald Trump on Friday doubled down on his embrace of cryptocurrencies as he hosted top industry players...
Trump says dairy, lumber tariffs on Canada may come soon
Washington (AFP) - US President Donald Trump said Friday that he could impose reciprocal tariffs on Canadian dairy and lumber...
Tears, ruined plans as WWII bomb halts Paris-London trains
Paris (AFP) - From missed funerals to scrambled birthday plans, the travellers caught in the cancellation Friday of Paris-London trains...
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