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Nearly 700,000 UK nationals affected by Equifax breach: company

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Nearly 700,000 British consumers may have had personal data compromised in the massive breach at Equifax, the US credit reporting agency said Tuesday. “Although our UK business was not breached, the attack regrettably compromised the personal information of a range of UK consumers,” the company said in an emailed statement. The company, which last month announced one of the most potentially damaging data breaches affecting some 145 million Americans, said the […]

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15 dead as wildfires torch California wine country

 by Julie Charpentrat with Glenn Chapman in San Francisco Agence France-Presse SANTA ROSA, United States (AFP) — Firefighters battled wildfires in California’s wine region on Tuesday as the death toll rose to 15 and thousands were left homeless in neighborhoods reduced to ashes. “The homes are gone, they are like dust,” said Jack Dixon, a personal trainer who lives in Santa Rosa, a city of 175,000 in Sonoma County. “It is just like we were nuked.” Dixon told […]

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Filipino doctor denies involvement in NY jihadist plot, to fight extradition, says lawyer

    MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — A Filipino doctor accused of wiring money for a foiled jihadist plot targeting New York’s subway and Times Square rejects the allegations and has vowed to fight US extradition, his lawyer said Tuesday. Russell Salic and two others have been charged with involvement in the plan to stage the attacks in the name of the Islamic State group during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in 2016. On Tuesday, his […]

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Las Vegas killer was high roller, Valium user: CNN

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Las Vegas mass killer Stephen Paddock was a compulsive player of video poker who took the anxiety drug Valium, CNN reported on Monday. The report gave new details about the background of the 64-year-old who, on October 1, gunned down 58 people and wounded almost 500 for reasons which investigators still have not been able to fathom. Paddock said in a 2013 court deposition that he was “the biggest video poker player in […]

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Top Republican lawmaker says US on course for WWIII with Trump at helm

  by Issam AHMED Agence France-Presse   WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – A top Republican lawmaker warned Sunday that US President Donald Trump’s impulsive threats against other countries could set America “on the path to World War III,” in comments capping an unusually hostile and public feud between the pair on social media. Bob Corker, who chairs the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, slammed the president for running his office as a “reality show” in […]

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Anti-IS force says near ‘final’ week of Raqa fight

by Maya Gebeily and Gihad Darwish Agence France Presse RAQA, Syria (AFP) — US-backed fighters battling to oust the Islamic State group from Syria’s Raqa were nearing the “final week” of their assault, the campaign’s commander told AFP on Sunday. The Syrian Democratic Forces have captured around 90 percent of IS’s one-time bastion and are closing in on the jihadists in a pocket of territory near Raqa city centre. Captured by IS in 2014, the […]

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Philippines to start extradition process for Filipino jihadist involved in NY terror plot, says DOJ chief

A Filipino suspect in a thwarted jihadist plot targeting New York’s subway and Times Square will face legal proceedings seeking his extradition to the United States, Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II said on Sunday. Russell Salic and two others have been charged with involvement in the plan to carry out the attacks in the name of the Islamic State group during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in 2016. Salic was arrested in the Philippines […]

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Deadly Hurricane Nate approaches US

  by Rafael Martinez © Agence France-Presse   CANCUN, Mexico (AFP) — Hurricane Nate gathered strength Saturday as it swept towards the US Gulf Coast after dumping rain heavy that killed at least 28 people in Central America. New Orleans, which was ravaged by deadly Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and other US Gulf coast cities were under a hurricane warning. President Donald Trump issued an emergency declaration allowing federal emergency aid to be sent to help mitigate the […]

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A changing China on view in New York art show

by Thomas Urbain © Agence France-Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — A generation of artists deeply marked by the Tiananmen Square massacre, globalization and the liberalization of China’s economy is at the heart of a new exhibition at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. The period bookended by Tiananmen (1989) and the 2008 Beijing Olympics witnessed what the museum’s senior curator for Asian art Alexandra Munroe called “the greatest transformations in the lives of 1.3 billion […]

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Las Vegas shooter booked Chicago hotel during Lollapalooza

CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock had booked a hotel room in Chicago during the hugely-popular Lollapalooza music festival, it emerged Thursday, raising the prospect he had been planning a large-scale attack for months. The Blackstone hotel, with rooms facing a downtown city park where the festival was held, said a man of the same name had a reservation there in August — just as hundreds of thousands were attending the four-day outdoor concert […]

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Deadly tropical storm lashes C. America, heads for US

by Marc Burleigh with Blanca Morel in Managua Agence France-Presse SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AFP) — A tropical storm sliding north along Central America Thursday has unleashed heavy rains killing at least nine people in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, with forecasters predicting it could strengthen into a hurricane headed for the United States. Costa Rica declared a national emergency as it struggled with mudslides, washed out roads and overflowing rivers. Schools, universities, government offices and banks across the […]

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To rebuild trust, US cops offer coffee and a friendly ear

by Nova SAFO Agence France-Presse CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — In a diverse Chicago neighborhood where dozens of languages are spoken, two police officers are visiting a McDonald’s restaurant. They have a jug of coffee in hand and are offering a friendly ear, willing to listen to anyone who wants to have a chat. Welcome to “Coffee with a Cop” day, an initiative held Wednesday in Chicago and across the United States for police to […]

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