Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney campaigned for national unity in Alberta on Thursday, before the oil-rich province votes on whether it wants a binding independence referendum. Polling indicates less than a quarter of Alberta’s roughly five million people want to break away from Canada, but Carney, who grew up in the western province, said “polls […]
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South Korea’s military on Friday dismissed Pyongyang’s doubts over Seoul’s homegrown hypersonic missile launch, as the two Koreas appear to be intensifying an arms race over the high-tech weapons. Hypersonic missiles travel at more than five times the speed of sound and can manoeuvre mid-flight, making them significantly harder to track and intercept. Days after […]
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Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong has vowed to take action against companies found responsible for fires in neighbouring Indonesia that have plunged the region into an air pollution crisis. The pledge comes as smoke from Indonesian wildfires blankets parts of Southeast Asia, closing schools and fuelling a surge in respiratory complaints across the region. The […]
Read MoreDonald Trump is crisscrossing America to drum up votes for Republican candidates facing tough midterm election races, but the US president’s rallies are often hijacked by his basking in the adulation of fervent supporters. AFP followed him on Tuesday and Wednesday during one such trip out West, a rapid succession of flights and rallies — […]
Read MoreUkraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is seeking to rally European allies at a Brussels summit on Friday after saying Kyiv would no longer abide by US President Donald Trump’s demands not to strike Russian oil refineries. Relations between Kyiv and Washington have soured since last week, when Trump eased sanctions on Russia in exchange for Moscow releasing […]
Read MoreThe spectre of far-right leader Marine Le Pen winning France’s presidency with a pledge to go head-to-head with the European Union is already giving Brussels the jitters — and looming large over Emmanuel Macron’s final months in power. France heads to the polls in April and May, after which Macron will exit as he can […]
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Bei einem Schusswaffenangriff in einer Grundschule in den USA sind Berichten zufolge vier Menschen getötet worden. Unter den Todesopfern seien der Kinder, berichteten die US-Sender CBS und CNN am Donnerstag unter Berufung auf Ermittlerkreise. Der Angreifer wurde nach Polizeiangaben am Tatort in der Stadt Bend im Bundesstaat Oregon erschossen. Die Polizei machte zunächst keine genauen Angaben […]
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Argentine demonstrators clashed with police on Thursday at a major protest in Buenos Aires over budget-slashing President Javier Milei’s higher education spending. The main demonstration outside parliament by thousands of university students and staff, trade unionists and opposition activists remained peaceful. But dozens of mostly hooded demonstrators who broke away from the crowd lobbed stones […]
Read MoreNew White House press secretary Katie Zacharia, under scrutiny over her legal credentials, seemed to acknowledge Thursday that she had failed the bar exam, but argued she was accurate in presenting herself as a lawyer. Appointed by US President Donald Trump, Zacharia has described herself as a lawyer during television appearances and on social media, […]
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