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Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukraine on Wednesday accused Russia of carrying out rocket strikes that killed 14 civilians in areas near a nuclear power plant, as the G7 warned that Russian control of the facility “endangers the region”. Overnight strikes in t…

Virginia Beach (United States) (AFP) – Makayla Cox, a high school student in the US state of Virginia, thought she was taking medication that her friend had procured to treat pain and anxiety. Instead, the pill she took two weeks after her sixteenth bi…

Washington (AFP) – Top Republican leaders flung their support behind former US president Donald Trump on Tuesday after an extraordinary FBI raid on his palatial Florida residence sparked a political firestorm in an already bitterly divided country. The…

Washington (AFP) – A grand jury in Mississippi declined to indict a white woman whose accusation that Black teenager Emmett Till propositioned her in 1955 led to his abduction and murder, which helped sparked the civil rights movement, a prosecutor sai…

Washington (AFP) – US authorities’ search of Donald Trump’s Florida residence drew renewed attention to the various investigations involving the former president. Prosecutors and lawmakers are looking into questions from his potential role in the US Ca…

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Russia Tuesday attributed loud blasts at a key military airbase on the Moscow-annexed Crimean peninsula to exploding ammunitions, downplaying the possibility that the site was hit by Ukrainian fire. Dramatic amateur footage share…

Los Angeles (AFP) – Singer Olivia Newton-John, who gained worldwide fame as high school sweetheart Sandy in the hit musical movie “Grease,” died on Monday after a 30-year battle with cancer. She was 73. Newton-John “passed away peacefully at her ranch …

Washington (AFP) – A Georgia man and his father convicted of federal hate crimes for the murder of a Black man who was shot dead while jogging were sentenced to life in prison on Monday. Travis McMichael, 36, and his father, Gregory McMichael, 66, are …

Washington (AFP) – US news website Axios, which has shot to prominence since its 2016 founding, has agreed to a $525 million deal to sell itself to US telecom group Cox Enterprises, the firms said Monday.  The site, built by long-time Washington journa…

Washington (AFP) – President Joe Biden on Sunday deplored the killings of four Muslim men in New Mexico, which police say may be linked. “I am angered and saddened by the horrific killings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque,” the US president said on Tw…