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Buffalo (AFP) – A heavily armed 18-year-old white man shot 10 people dead on Saturday at a Buffalo, New York grocery store in a “racially motivated” attack that he live-streamed on camera, authorities said. The gunman, who was wearing body armor and a …

Washington (AFP) – A US federal court on Friday temporarily blocked part of an Alabama law which made it a felony to give gender-affirming medical treatment to transgender minors. Such treatments have become a cultural and political lightning rod in th…

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Finland on Saturday sought to allay Moscow’s fears about its bid to join NATO, as fierce fighting raged in Ukraine’s east, slowing down a hoped-for Russian advance. Wives and parents of Ukrainian fighters trapped in the bowels of…

New York (AFP) – The 62-year-old man arrested for allegedly shooting 10 people on the New York subway last month pleaded not guilty on Friday to federal terrorism charges. Frank James was taken into custody a day after the April 12 attack, which took p…

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Finland took a step Thursday towards fast-track NATO membership, triggering a blunt warning from the Kremlin, as the war in Ukraine throttled supplies of Russian gas to Europe and the number of people who fled the country passed …

Washington (AFP) – President Joe Biden on Thursday welcomed Southeast Asian leaders to Washington, promising support for clean energy and maritime security in the face of a rising China. The Biden administration made the pledge as it opened a two-day s…

Washington (AFP) – Matthew War Bonnet was just six years old when he was shipped off to a US government-funded boarding school in South Dakota for Native American children. Beaten, starved, stripped of his Lakota language and culture, the next eight ye…

Washington (AFP) – The leading US House Republican, Kevin McCarthy, was subpoenaed Thursday to testify in the congressional probe of last year’s assault on the Capitol by Donald Trump supporters. The subpoenas were issued to McCarthy and four other Rep…

Washington (AFP) – At just 33 years old, Caltech assistant professor Katie Bouman is already a veteran of two major scientific discoveries. The expert in computational imaging — developing algorithms to observe distant phenomena — helped create the p…

Washington (AFP) – US President Joe Biden warned nations attending Thursday’s virtual global summit on Covid-19 that there was “still so much left to do” to quell the pandemic, as more than $3 billion in new funding was pledged. The veteran Democrat ma…