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New York (AFP) – Billionaire Elon Musk said Tuesday his bid to buy Twitter won’t proceed unless he gets proof of the number of spam accounts plaguing the platform, adding more uncertainty to his roller-coaster pursuit of the social media giant. This la…

Washington (AFP) – The United States said Monday it is easing restrictions imposed during former president Donald Trump’s administration on travel to Cuba and on the sending of family remittances between the United States and the communist island. “The…

New York (AFP) – The racist mass shooting at a supermarket in upstate New York dominated a bloody weekend of gun violence across the United States, a scourge that has increased since the pandemic began. While the murder of ten Black people by a white s…

San Francisco (AFP) – Uber said Monday it is revving up to be a “go anywhere and get anything” service, testing delivery robots, weaving in Google voice commands and more as people shed their pandemic lifestyles. The San Francisco-based tech firm unvei…

New York (AFP) – American fast-food giant McDonald said Monday it will exit Russia in the wake of the Ukraine invasion, ending a more than three-decade run begun in the hopeful period near the end of the Cold War. The restaurant chain, which launched i…

Washington (AFP) – Rebecca Gomperts, a 55-year-old Dutch physician, has spent years fighting for women’s access to abortion around the world. Made famous by her “abortion boat,” as recounted in the 2014 documentary “Vessel,” she and her Women on Waves …

Los Angeles (AFP) – Marvel and Disney’s “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” saw a sharp dropoff this weekend from its blockbuster opening, but still reported $61 million in estimated ticket sales to top North America’s box office, industry wa…

Washington (AFP) – US President Joe Biden offered a potent condemnation of racist extremism Sunday after a murderous rampage in Buffalo, and he called for citizens to end the hate that remains a “stain on the soul of America.” “A lone gunman, armed wit…

Buffalo (AFP) – Grieving residents from the US city of Buffalo held vigils Sunday after a white gunman who officials have deemed “pure evil” shot dead 10 people at a grocery store in a racially-motivated rampage. Buffalo, New York police commissioner J…

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – NATO on Sunday pledged open-ended military support for Ukraine, as Finland hailed its “historic” bid to join the alliance and with Western claims that Russia had suffered heavy losses in its push east. The promise came after Finl…