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Los Angeles (AFP) – A 19-year-old accused of shooting Lady Gaga’s dog walker to steal her French bulldogs last year has been recaptured after being mistakenly released, authorities in Los Angeles have said. The news that James Howard Jackson, had been …

Istanbul (AFP) – The first shipment of grain from Ukraine since the Kremlin’s invasion five months ago sailed through Istanbul on Wednesday under a landmark deal designed to help alleviate a global food crisis sparked by the war. The Sierra Leone-flagg…

Washington (AFP) – The surprise vote in Republican-heavy Kansas to repudiate a push for abortion bans fired shockwaves through the US political landscape ahead of November’s midterm elections, with President Joe Biden’s Democrats now seeing a glimmer o…

Los Angeles (AFP) – Legendary Major League Baseball broadcaster Vin Scully, “voice” of the Los Angeles Dodgers for 67 years, died Tuesday at age 94, the club announced. Scully, who retired in 2016, began as the Dodgers broadcaster in 1950 when the club…

Los Angeles (AFP) – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences elected film producer Janet Yang as its new president, the group behind the Oscars announced Tuesday. Yang, best known for hits including “The Joy Luck Club” and “The People vs. Larry …

Taipei (AFP) – US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi landed in Taiwan late Tuesday, defying a string of increasingly stark warnings and threats from China that have sent tensions between the world’s two superpowers soaring. Pelosi, second in line to the presid…

Washington (AFP) – Weeks before the first anniversary of a retreat from Afghanistan that critics said exposed President Joe Biden’s weakness, he shrugged off both Covid and critics to announce the killing in Kabul of Al-Qaeda’s leader — an operation t…

Olathe (United States) (AFP) – Abortion rights advocates and opponents looked anxiously to Kansas Tuesday as the Midwestern US state held the first major vote on the flashpoint issue since the Supreme Court overturned the national right to the procedur…

Yreka (United States) (AFP) – Firefighters faced “extremely dangerous” conditions Monday as they battled to save a community of 8,000 residents, with lightning strikes threatening to worsen a blaze that has already killed at least two people and become…

Singapore (AFP) – The White House on Monday warned China against overreacting to a trip by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan, saying she would have every right to visit the self-ruled island despite Beijing viewing it as a highly provocative chal…