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Washington, United States | AFP | Hiring in the US economy slowed slightly in September, as expected, while the jobless rate ticked back down to the same level as July, the government reported Friday. The data showed 263,000 jobs were added last month, while the unemployment rate slipped two-tenths of a percentage point to 3.5 percent, the Labor Department said. The steady slowdown in new positions added in the world’s largest economy is good news […]
Berlin, Germany | AFP | German sportswear giant Adidas put its partnership with Kanye West under review Friday after the US rap star triggered a furore by wearing a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt at Paris Fashion Week. “We have taken the decision to place the partnership under review,” the company said in a statement. The artist now known as Ye had been widely criticised over the T-shirt, which he wore and was also shown as […]
San Antonio, Philippines | AFP | by Mikhail FLORES US and Philippine marines stormed a beach near a disputed rocky outcrop in the South China Sea on Friday as part of joint military drills involving more than 3,500 troops. It is the first time the annual naval exercises have been held under Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, who has expressed strong support for the decades-old alliance, after rocky relations under his predecessor Rodrigo Duterte. But Marcos told US […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — US President Joe Biden said Thursday the world risks nuclear “Armageddon” for the first time since the Cold War and that he is trying to find Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “off-ramp” in the Ukraine conflict. “We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis” in 1962, Biden said at a Democratic party fundraising event in New York. Putin is “not joking” when he […]
New York, United States | AFP | by John BIERS A US judge on Thursday suspended litigation in the saga over Elon Musk’s proposed $44-billion takeover of Twitter, giving the parties until October 28 to finalize the on-again, off-again megadeal. Delaware Judge Kathaleen McCormick, ruling on a Musk request to freeze the case that had drawn a biting retort from Twitter, said a trial originally scheduled to begin in 11 days could be rescheduled for […]
The suspect is in custody after a stabbing that left 2 dead and 6 more injured. Click here for more: https://t.co/CLo48V7InD pic.twitter.com/wsRFoQoNkS — LVMPD (@LVMPD) October 6, 2022 Los Angeles, United States | AFP | An unprovoked stabbing rampage on the Las Vegas Strip left two people dead and six others hurt on Thursday, police in the US city said. Locals and tourists were caught up in the attack, which happened in the middle of […]
Los Angeles, United States | AFP | Two Russians who landed in a remote part of rural Alaska are seeking asylum in the United States, politicians in the far northern state said Thursday. The pair landed just weeks after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an unpopular mobilization of citizens in a bid to turn the tide on his faltering invasion of Ukraine. “Two Russian nationals landed at a beach near Gambell, located on the […]
Los Angeles, United States | AFP | by Huw GRIFFITH Actor Alec Baldwin has reached a civil settlement with the family of the woman he shot dead on a film set last year, he said Wednesday, as it was announced production on the movie would restart in January. The US actor was holding a Colt gun during a rehearsal for “Rust,” a low-budget Western being filmed in New Mexico last October when it discharged […]
New York, United States | AFP | A US federal judge blocked the enforcement of New York’s new gun law Thursday, undermining for the second time this year the state’s efforts to control a key factor in rising homicides. The judge accepted a petition to place a temporary stay on the state law passed on July 1 and implemented on September 1 that tightly restricted carrying guns in “sensitive places” such as Times Square […]
Seoul, South Korea (AFP) North Korea’s foreign ministry said Thursday its recent blitz of missile launches were “counteraction measures” against joint military drills by the United States and South Korea. As the United Nations Security Council met to discuss Pyongyang’s Tuesday firing of an intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan, North Korea said in a statement that such launches were “the just counteraction measures of the Korean People’s Army on South Korea-US joint drills”. Security […]
by Glenn CHAPMAN Agence France-Presse SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Elon Musk on Tuesday offered to push through with his buyout of Twitter at the original agreed price, as a trial over his efforts to withdraw from the deal loomed. The world’s richest man said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that he sent Twitter a letter vowing to honor the contract. The latest twist in the long-running saga came ahead […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — The South Korean and US militaries fired a volley of missiles into the sea in response to North Korea firing a ballistic missile over Japan, Seoul said Wednesday. Nuclear-armed North Korea fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years on Tuesday, prompting Tokyo to issue evacuation warnings for some residents. South Korea and the United States staged a drill of their own in response, […]
