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White nationalist agenda? Minorities in front line of Trump policy targets

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How’s the United States' 249-year old experiment in democracy going?

FBI probes Minneapolis church shooting as terrorism, anti-Catholic hate crime

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The FBI is investigating Wednesday’s deadly shooting at a Minneapolis church, which left at least two students dead and 17 others wounded, as an act of domestic terrorism and an anti-Catholic hate crime, FBI Director Kash Patel announced Thursday.

Latest launch of SpaceX's Starship successfully deploys 8 dummy satellites

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SpaceX launched the latest test of its mega rocket Starship on Tuesday night and completed the first-ever deployment of a test payload — eight dummy satellites — into space. After just over an hour coasting through space, Starship splashed down as planne

Trump calls for racketeering charges against Soros and his son

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US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that billionaire financier George Soros and his son should be charged under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act over their support of ‘violent protests’, reviving long-debunked conspiracy theori

Engaged! Kelce put a ring on it - Swiftly

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As Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announce their engagement, we take a look at how the celebrity bombshell was minutely planned and how the widespread enthusiasm isn't just viral buzz. It holds many a societal lesson too.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce get engaged and break the internet

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PRESS REVIEW – Wednesday, August 27: The news of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's engagement breaks the internet. But first: Australian papers discuss alleged Iranian involvement in terrorist attacks last year. Next, Nigel Farage's migration plan makes he

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce get engaged after two-year romance

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Pop superstar Taylor Swift and National Football League player Travis Kelce are engaged to be married, the couple announced on social media on Tuesday. Story by Ellen Gainsford.

Pix, the payment system revolutionising Brazil's economy

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From small transactions at the beach to buying a new apartment, you can pay for everything in Brazil through Pix! FRANCE 24's Jan Onoszko takes a closer look at the free banking system, powered by the Brazilian central bank.

"Invite me to your wedding": fans react to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's engagement

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Pop superstar Taylor Swift and National Football League player Travis Kelce are engaged to be married, the couple announced on social media on Tuesday. In a joint Instagram post, the pair wrote: "Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting marr

USA: Trump endorses death penalty return in Washington D.C.

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President Donald Trump said Tuesday he would seek the death penalty for murders in Washington, as part of a crackdown on what he calls out-of-control crime in the US capital. Story by Oliver Farry.

SpaceX's Starship passes development test after two failed attempts

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SpaceX's Starship rocket on Tuesday deployed its first batch of mock Starlink satellites in space and tested new heat shield tiles on its plunge through Earth's atmosphere, clinching development milestones that had been held up by a streak of previous te

USA: Trump seeks death penalty in Washington, DC for homicide cases

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The US government will start seeking the death penalty in Washington, DC, homicide cases, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday. "If somebody kills somebody in the capital, Washington, DC, we're going to be seeking the death penalty, and that's a very s

Brazil's Bolsonaro declared a 'flight risk', placed under 24-hour watch ahead of coup trial verdict

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Brazil's far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro was placed under 24-hour watch on Tuesday ahead of the conclusion to his trial for attempting to stay in power after his 2022 election loss to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. If convicted, Bolsonaro faces a p

Was Trump removed from a list of Nobel Peace Prize nominees?

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Nobel laureates are gathering in Germany this week for a meeting dedicated to the field of economic science. Hoping to join their ranks in the future is US President Donald Trump, who has made no secret of the fact that he would like to be awarded the pr

At least 34 soldiers kidnapped in Colombia after operation against FARC dissidents

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At least 34 soldiers were kidnapped by armed civilians in a jungle area of southeastern Colombia as they were evacuating after a military operation against members of a dissident faction of the former FARC rebel group, Colombia’s Defense Minister Pedro S

Geopolitical & economic threats: 'US is incredibly unreliable as core of European financial system'

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Jens van ’t Klooster, Professor of Political Economy at the University of Amsterdam, warns that the EU must craft a strong long-term economic strategy to challenge the US directly. He argues Europe has been overly dependent and unassertive in its transat

'Netanyahu not under pressure from US, Mideast, Int'l community to alter trajectory, end tragic war'

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Protesters in Israel on Tuesday torched tires, blocked highways and clamored for a ceasefire that would free hostages still in Gaza, even as Israeli leaders moved forward with plans for an offensive which they argue is needed to defeat Hamas. The disrupt

Fed governor Lisa Cook vows not tostep down, saying Trump lacks authority to fire her

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Financial markets worldwide have been rattled by President Donald Trump's announcement that he's firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, an unprecedented move and sharp escalation in his effort to exert greater control over what has long been consider

Has the US shut its ‘Five Eyes’ allies out of intelligence on Ukraine-Russia peace talks?

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US media has accused Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard of refusing to share information from Ukraine-Russia peace negotiations with Washington’s closest allies – to the potential benefit of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Are cracks appea

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook says Trump 'has no authority' to fire her

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US President Donald Trump on Monday said he was firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, an unprecedented attempt to exert control over the independent body that decides US monetary policy and a move likely to be challenged in court. Cook responded thr

US Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook fights back Donald Trump's move to fire her

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President Donald Trump said Monday night that he's firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, an unprecedented move that would constitute a sharp escalation in his battle to exert greater control over what has long been considered an institution independ

USA: 'Trump is a wannabe dictator' says Illinois Governor on National Guard deployments

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Illinois Governor JB Pritzker called Donald Trump "a wannabe dictator" who "wants to use the military to occupy a US city, punish his dissidents, and score political points." This came after President Trump said he was considering sending the military in

Kilmar Abrego Garcia faces new deportation efforts after ICE detains him in Baltimore

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose case has become a flashpoint in President Donald Trump’s aggressive effort to remove noncitizens from the U.S., was detained by immigration authorities in Baltimore on Monday to face renewed efforts to deport him after a brief

Trump fires Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook over mortgage loan allegations

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US President Donald Trump said Monday he fired Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook over alleged mortgage loan improprieties, an unprecedented move likely to test the limits of presidential authority over the independent monetary policy body.

SpaceX postpones latest Starship rocket launch due to bad weather

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Bad weather forced SpaceX to postpone Monday’s launch of its Starship rocket, the key vehicle for Elon Musk’s Mars ambitions and NASA’s Moon missions. The tenth test flight, now expected Tuesday, comes amid scrutiny over the world’s most powerful rocket

Bolivia right-wing candidate pledges to scrap lithium deals with China, Russia

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Bolivian right-wing presidential candidate Jorge Quiroga vowed on Monday to cancel multi-billion-dollar lithium extraction agreements signed by the outgoing government with Russia and China if elected president in October, saying he would seek alternativ

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Judge temporarily halts deportation of Salvadoran Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda

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A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked the deportation of Salvadoran national Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, halting a case tied to US President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. Garcia, wrongly deported to El Salvador in March, was arrested

Venezuela builds up border security in response to deployment of US warships

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Venezuela on Monday announced the deployment of 15,000 troops to the Colombia border to fight drug trafficking amid accusations from Washington that Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro is heading a cocaine-trafficking cartel. Three US warships have bee

'Unprecedented territory: 10th Amendment reserves power of local law enforcement to the states'

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Donald Trump has threatened to deploy troops to other Democratic strongholds, including Chicago and Baltimore, putting him on a collision course with the US Constitution as the US president seeks to expand his executive powers on an unprecedented scale

Three things you should know about ICE

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US President Donald Trump made cracking down on immigration a key promise on the campaign trail in 2024.To fulfil his intended goal, he has enlisted the help of a controversial federal police force: the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). FRA

'Avoid disaster: Any new leader meeting Trump has foremost in their minds a risk of being ambushed'

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US President Donald Trump hosts South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in Washington for their first summit meeting after the countries struck a trade deal last month lowering US tariffs on the Asian ally to 15% from a threatened 25%. Alongside trade, US p

Washington trades military support to Sahel juntas for access to mineral wealth

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Under President Donald Trump, the United States has quietly recalibrated its Sahel strategy, trading military support to West African juntas battling jihadists for lucrative access to the region’s vast mineral wealth, experts say. The strategy marks a st

National Guard patrols begin carrying firearms in Washington, DC

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National Guard troops deployed to Washington, DC as part of President Donald Trump's crime crackdown began carrying firearms on Sunday, according to a spokesman for the National Guard task force. Several members of the South Carolina National Guard were

US stands by Ambassador Kushner in row over French efforts against anti-Semitism

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A diplomatic rift between France and the US deepened on Monday after the US ambassador to Paris, Charles Kushner, wrote a letter accusing France of a “lack of sufficient action” on anti-Semitism, a critique France called “unacceptable”. In Washington, U

2025年8月24日星期日

Is Trump’s Ukraine gambit 'sending a signal to the world that America does not stand by its allies'?

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Ukraine launched a wave of drone strikes on Russia, triggering a fire at a nuclear power plant as it celebrated Ukrainian independence day against a backdrop of fading hopes for recent peace efforts.The brutal three-and-a-half-year war of attrition, whic

Trump administration plans to deport newly freed Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda

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The US government is seeking to deport El Salvadoran national Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongfully expelled from the US in March before returning to face detention in the US, to Uganda, his defence attorneys said Saturday. Abrego Garcia reportedly de

US seeks to deport migrant Abrego Garcia to Uganda

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US immigration authorities plan to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, a move his lawyers denounce as “vindictive” on the part of President Donald Trump’s administration. According to a court filing released Saturday, the decision followed Abrego Garc

Venezuela's Maduro rallies civilian militia volunteers, citing US invasion 'threat'

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Thousands of Venezuelans on Saturday queued up across Caracas to enlist in a civilian militia in response to "threats" of a US invasion. The show of force counters earlier accusations by the Trump administration that President Nicolas Maduro is leading a

2025年8月23日星期六

Colombia: Deadly attacks cast a shadow on President’s peace policy

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Colombia on Friday promised to counter the threat from "desperate" armed groups after twin guerrilla attacks killed 19 people and deepened the country's worst security crisis in decades. France24 welcomes Nicholas Morgan, Lecturer in Latin American Studi

Colombia reels after guerilla attacks

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Colombia on Friday promised to counter the threat from "desperate" armed groups after twin guerrilla attacks killed 19 people and deepened the country's worst security crisis in decades. Peter O'Brian reports.

Maduro rails at ‘illegal’ US deployment off Venezuela

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On Friday, President Nicolás Maduro condemned the US deployment of three warships off Venezuela’s coast, denouncing the move - presented as an anti–drug trafficking effort- as an “illegal” bid for regime change. Florent Marchais reports.

Canada drops many of its retaliatory tariffs on the US

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Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Friday that his country will drop some of its billions of dollars in retaliatory tariffs on US goods, though it will keep levies on autos, steel and aluminium. Simon Moritz tells us more.

Texas lawmakers approve new electoral map designed to secure Trump's hold on Congress

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Texas lawmakers approved a new electoral map early Saturday that would likely give the Republicans five new seats in next year's midterm elections in a move explicitly designed to preserve US President Donald Trump's grip on Congress. Republican State Go

Ghislaine Maxwell tells US Justice Department Epstein didn't keep 'client list'

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The US Justice Department on Friday released a transcript of an interview with Ghislaine Maxwell conducted by US President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year-prison sentence f

Ghislaine Maxwell tells US Justice Department Epstein didn't keep 'client list'

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The US Justice Department on Friday released a transcript of an interview with Ghislaine Maxwell conducted by President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer and current Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence for

Hegseth fires Pentagon intel chief whose agency cast doubt on Iran strikes' impact

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US Defense Intelligence Agency head Lieutenant General Jeffrey Kruse has been fired, US officials say, the latest top military officer to lose their job under the presidency of US President Donald Trump. The agency's initial assessment of the damage caus

Lyle Menendez denied parole despite celebrity campaign for his release

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Joseph Lyle Menendez was denied parole Friday a day after his brother Erik was also ordered to remain in prison. The American brothers, who murdered their parents more than three decades ago, have become the focus of a campaign for freedom following the

2025年8月22日星期五

Erik Menendez's parole denied three decades after parents' murder

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Erik Menendez was denied parole on Thursday, the California Board of Parole Hearings said, three decades after being jailed for life – along with his brother Lyle – for killing their parents in their Beverly Hills home in 1989. The pair say they acted in

Colombia truck bomb, drone attacks kill 18 amid deepening security crisis

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Two attacks by dissident guerrilla groups killed 18 people and wounded dozens in Colombia on Thursday, authorities said, as a truck bomb struck Cali and a drone downed a police helicopter at a northern coca farm, deepening the country’s worst security cr

Erik Menendez denied parole three decades after parents’ 1989 murder

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Erik Menendez, serving a life sentence with his brother Lyle for killing their parents in their Beverly Hills home in 1989, was denied parole on Thursday, the California Board of Parole Hearings said. The brothers have been in prison for 35 years for the

Trump administration reviews 55 million visa holders for violations

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The administration of US President Donald Trump said Thursday it is reviewing more than 55 million valid US visa holders for potential violations that could lead to deportation, in a broadening crackdown on foreigners legally in the country amid heighten

FBI searches home of Trump’s former adviser and current critic John Bolton

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John Bolton served as national security adviser during US President Donald Trump’s first term before quitting and facing scrutiny over a book he wrote about his time in government. The FBI raided his Maryland home Friday as part of a probe into the handl

Newsom approves California November vote to counter Texas Republican redistricting

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California voters will decide in November on a Democrat-proposed congressional map aiming to secure five more US House seats. This follows Texas Republicans advancing a map for similar GOP gains. Governor Gavin Newsom signed the legislation, escalating a

2025年8月21日星期四

Macrons' defamation suit designed to 'deter' Owens from engaging in 'socially reprehensible conduct'

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In a dramatic legal salvo, French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte have filed a landmark defamation suit in Delaware against far-right US commentator Candace Owens, accusing her of spreading a "verifiably false and devastating" conspiracy

Brazil police accuse Bolsonaro and son of obstruction of justice over coup trial

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Police in Brazil on Wednesday called for former president Jair Bolsonaro and his son Eduardo to be charged with obstruction of justice for their efforts to meddle in the ex-leader's trial for attempting to stage a coup. The police investigation also reve

Amnesty International says US authorities using AI to surveil pro-Palestinian protesters

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Amnesty International accused US authorities on Wednesday of using Palantir and Babel Street AI tools to surveil immigrants and target non-citizens at pro-Palestinian protests. The rights group said a review of public records shows the software enables m

2025年8月20日星期三

Texas lawmakers approve congressional maps favouring Republicans

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Texas Republicans advanced new congressional maps on Wednesday that could secure the party up to five additional US House seats. The proposed districts, urged by President Donald Trump to boost GOP midterm chances, must now pass the state Senate and be s

US hits ICC with more sanctions, targets French judge involved in Netanyahu arrest warrant

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday announced more sanctions on International Criminal Court judges, saying that the court was a "national security threat" because it had sought to prosecute US or Israeli nationals. Judge Nicolas Guillou of Fr

Trump renews attacks on the Smithsonian with threats to cut funding

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US President Donald Trump on Tuesday renewed attacks on the Smithsonian Institution, threatening to cut its funding due to its focus on 'how bad slavery was' in the US. He said the prestigious museum complex should instead focus more on success and the f

Trump renews attacks on Smithsonian over focus on 'how bad slavery was'

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US President Donald Trump on Tuesday renewed attacks on the Smithsonian Institution, threatening to cut its funding due to its focus on "how bad slavery was" in the US. He said the prestigious museum complex should instead focus more on success and the f