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WASHINGTON, July 29, 2023 (AFP) – An American nurse and her child have been kidnapped in Haiti, a Christian aid group said Saturday, days after the US government ordered its nonessential personnel out of the impoverished Caribbean country due to spiraling insecurity. Alix Dorsainvil and her child were kidnapped Thursday morning near Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, El Roi Haiti said in a statement on its website. She is the wife of the group’s director, who is […]
WASHINGTON, July 31, 2023 (AFP) – The United States has ordered its nonessential personnel and family of government employees to leave Haiti as the Caribbean nation faces spiraling insecurity, the State Department said. Issuing an updated travel advisory Thursday evening, the State Department also reiterated its warning that Americans should not travel to Haiti. “US citizens in Haiti should depart Haiti as soon as possible by commercial or other privately available transportation options, in light […]
SYDNEY, July 31, 2023 (AFP) – Authorities have lost hope of finding survivors after a military helicopter plunged into the sea during war games over the weekend, Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles said Monday. Rescuers initially clung to slim hopes they would find the four crew members alive, but those were dashed after the discovery of “significant wreckage” from the aircraft, Marles said. The chopper had been taking part in the large-scale Talisman Sabre exercise, […]
WASHINGTON, July 28, 2023 (AFP) – Former US president Donald Trump said Friday he would not end his run for the White House if he were convicted and sentenced in any of the criminal investigations mounting against him. The 77-year-old Republican frontrunner was asked about his reaction to the federal and state charges he faces as he bids for a second term in 2024, a day after federal prosecutors added three felony counts to the […]
WASHINGTON, July 28, 2023 (AFP) – WASHINGTON, July 28, 2023 (AFP) – A key indicator of US inflation cooled in June to the lowest annual rate in over two years, although this remains above the central bank’s target, according to government data released Friday. The Federal Reserve’s preferred gauge of inflation, the personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index, rose 3.0 percent last month from June 2022, down from a 3.8 percent jump in May, said […]
BRISBANE, Australia, July 28, 2023 (AFP) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin visited Australia Friday on the final leg of a Pacific tour designed to reinforce Washington’s standing in the region. The United States has been ramping up efforts to re-engage in the South Pacific, where China has emerged as a rising diplomatic and military power. Blinken’s trip to Brisbane caps a diplomatic blitz in which he has also […]
LOS ANGELES, July 28, 2023 (AFP) – Immigration advocates sued the US government on Thursday, arguing that conditioning asylum requests on the use of an app violates migrants’ human rights, according to the legal action filed in federal court. The suit, the latest legal challenge to the Biden administration’s immigration agenda, takes aim at the CBP (Customs and Border Protection) One app, which it says makes it impossible for many to seek asylum in the […]
By Kelly MACNAMARA Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Blistering heat that has baked swathes of North America and Europe this month would have been “virtually impossible” without human-caused climate change, researchers said Tuesday, as intense temperatures spark health alerts and stoke ferocious wildfires. With tens of million people affected in the northern hemisphere and July on track to be the hottest month globally since records began, experts warn that worse is to come unless […]
NEW YORK, July 21, 2023 (AFP) – Tony Bennett, the last in a generation of classic American crooners whose ceaselessly cheery spirit bridged generations to make him a hitmaker across seven decades, died Friday in New York. He was 96. Raised in an era when big bands defined US pop music, Bennett achieved an improbable second act when he started winning over young audiences in the 1990s — not by reinventing himself but by demonstrating […]
SEOUL, July 21, 2023 (AFP) – When a member of a tour group visiting the Demilitarized Zone on South Korea’s border suddenly sprinted away from the pack, a US soldier shouted: “Get him”. But it was too late. Private Second Class Travis King had crossed the border into nuclear-armed North Korea, where he is now believed to be in Pyongyang’s custody, with the United States saying it was “very concerned” about how he would be […]
By Andrew MARSZAL Agence France-Presse SAN DIEGO, United States (AFP) — Comic books, video games and colorful “cosplay” outfits took center stage at Comic-Con as the giant pop culture event kicked off Thursday without its usual A-list stars due to the Hollywood strike. Braving the soaring heat, tens of thousands of fans dressed as characters from Wonder Woman to Barbie and Ken flocked to San Diego, California. While Comic-Con typically draws headlines for glitzy movie […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (Google is working with news publishers to design a new AI-backed tool to help journalists report and write their stories, the company said on Thursday. The project was first reported by The New York Times, which is working with The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal in testing the new product. Citing anonymous sources, the report said the tool — known internally as Genesis — was in an early testing […]
