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LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The Golden State Warriors boosted their hopes of an automatic playoff berth with a crucial road victory over the Dallas Mavericks on Wednesday as Ja Morant made a smooth return from suspension for the Memphis Grizzlies. Steph Curry finished with 20 points as the Warriors clinched only their ninth away win of the season to edge past the Mavericks 127-125 at Dallas’s American Airlines Center. A see-saw battle saw […]
Helsinki, Finland (AFP) by Elias HUUHTANEN in Helsinki and Julie EZVAN in Liverpool Marie Kondo may have admitted defeat, but a new generation of “cleanfluencers” is taking social media by storm, with millions watching them scour filthy homes and dole out cleaning hacks. Digging through a mountain of trash, Auri Kananen uncovered a rotten piece of pizza on the floor of a Helsinki flat, with insects devouring it. “I love cleaning, I love dirt,” declared […]
by Marcelo SILVA DE SOUSA Agence France-Presse BRASÍLIA, Brazil (AFP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has not even been in power for 100 days but has already provoked the wrath of foreign oil companies with the creation of a new tax on crude exports. Multinationals Repsol, TotalEnergies, Shell, Equinor and Galp have petitioned a federal court to suspend the 9.2 percent tax due to run from March to July and announced by […]
by Huw GRIFFITH Agence France-Presse LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — A tornado tore through a southern California city Wednesday, ripping roofs off buildings and throwing cars around, as the state’s ongoing winter weather drama turned even wilder. A swirling mass of wind — of the kind usually seen in the Midwest — raked the city of Montebello near Los Angeles, breaking windows and sending residents scurrying to safety. “I was driving… and I saw […]
(Eagle News) — A 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck off Cagayan on Thursday, March 23. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake hit at 7:32 a.m. The epicenter was 20 kilometers northwest of Dalupiri Island, Calayan. The depth of focus was 43 kilometers. The following instrumental intensities were reported: Instrumental Intensities: Intensity III – Pasuquin, Ilocos Norte; San Antonio, Zambales Intensity II – Laoag City, Ilocos Norte; Narvacan, Ilocos Sur; Ilagan, Isabela; Intensity I […]
by Simon EVANS Agence France-Presse MIAMI GARDENS, United States (AFP) — Canada’s Bianca Andreescu won a first-round battle of former US Open champions, defeating Britain’s Emma Raducanu 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 on Wednesday to advance to the second round of the Miami Open. There was further bad news for Britain with two-time Miami winner Andy Murray crashing out in the first round after a 6-4 7-5 loss to Serbia’s Dusan Lajovic. Andreescu and Raducanu, both born […]
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) The EU’s executive arm proposed new rules on Wednesday that would force manufacturers to allow customers to have broken products repaired, in a bid to cut the number thrown out. The EU estimates that the number of viable products, such as dishwashers, televisions and mobile phones, binned prematurely in the bloc each year result in 35 million tonnes of waste. Buying replacements costs consumers 12 billion euros annually. Under the proposals — […]
by Shaun TANDON Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday brushed off China’s diplomacy with Russia as a “marriage of convenience,” and said Beijing had not yet provided military aid to “junior partner” Moscow to fight in Ukraine. President Xi Jinping on Wednesday closed a trip to Moscow that was closely watched in Washington, which considers China the greatest long-term adversary of the United States — and […]
Vienna, Austria (AFP) Gustav Klimt’s well-known Attersee lake painting tilted by two degrees, Egon Schiele’s painting of a tree in late autumn rotated by five degrees. As part of the initiative “A Few Degrees More”, Vienna’s Leopold Museum has tilted 15 paintings by the number of degrees unchecked climate change could affect the landscapes depicted. The initiative, launched on Wednesday, comes after climate activists poured black liquid over a glass screen protecting a Klimt piece […]
Washington, United States (AFP) by Paul HANDLEY Forty years after US president Ronald Reagan stunned the nation and world with his “Star Wars” plan to take nuclear competition into outer space, a new battle of the satellites has emerged in the stratosphere. Largely because it far outpaced technology at the time, very little became of Reagan’s March 23, 1983 declaration that the United States would head to space to seek absolute supremacy in the Cold […]
Blankenfelde, Germany (AFP) by Sophie MAKRIS Balancing on a sloping tiled roof, apprentice Pascal Ode installs a solar panel under the watchful eye of his trainer. Hopes are high that Ode may soon be able to install the systems on both homes and businesses. When he is trained, he will be a much-needed new pair of hands in the industry that is crucial to Germany’s energy transition — but is suffering from an acute worker […]
Taipei, Taiwan (AFP) — Taiwan on Wednesday condemned Beijing and Moscow for a joint statement that called the self-ruled island an “inalienable” part of China, accusing Russia of “dancing to China’s tune”. Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping for two days of talks this week, with the leaders signing a joint statement pledging to deepen their strategic partnership — and affirming Russia’s support for China on Taiwan. Beijing views the self-ruled and […]
