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Harrowing recording captures final moments before plane crashed during takeoff…

Posted by June 15, 2024

Published 13:15 15 Jun 2024 GMT+1An audio recording from the cockpit of American Airlines flight 587 has revealed the plane's 'chilling' last momentsWarning: Th

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US Navy faces its most intense combat since World War…

Posted by June 14, 2024

ABOARD THE USS LABOON IN THE RED SEA -- The U.S. Navy prepared for decades to potentially fight the Soviet Union, then later Russia and China, on the world's wa

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G7 leaders agree to send $50bn of frozen Russian assets…

Posted by June 12, 2024

The American deal will be the 15th of more than 30 bilateral agreements signed between Kyiv and its Western allies since the id

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US widens sanctions on Russia to discourage countries such as…

Posted by June 12, 2024

The United States widened its sanctions against Russia Wednesday as G7 leaders prepared to gather in Italy for a summit where the top priorities will be boostin

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World Bank boosts forecast: Strength of US economy will support…

Posted by June 11, 2024

WASHINGTON -- The World Bank upgraded its outlook for the global economy Tuesday, estimating that it will expand 2.6% this year on the strength of sustained gro

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Stock market today: Asian markets mixed following hotter-than-expected US jobs…

Posted by June 10, 2024

HONG KONG -- Asian markets were mixed on Monday after a jobs report released Friday came in hotter than expected, while the euro fell after French President Emm

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UN food agency pauses its aid work at US pier…

Posted by June 10, 2024

WASHINGTON -- The director of the U.N. World Food Program said Sunday the program has “paused” its distribution of humanitarian aid from an American-built p

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Biden honors US war dead with a cemetery visit ending…

Posted by June 9, 2024

PARIS – President Joe Biden closed out his trip to France by paying his respects at an American military cemetery that Donald Trump notably skipped visiting w

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At D-Day ceremony, American veteran hugs Ukraine’s Zelenskyy and calls…

Posted by June 7, 2024

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, second left, greets World War II veterans at the international ceremony at Omaha Beach, Thursday, June 6, 2024, in Norm

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Stock market today: Stocks slip and bond yields jump following…

Posted by June 7, 2024

NEW YORK -- Stocks slipped and Treasury yields rose sharply Friday after the government released a jobs report whose headline numbers came in hotter than expect

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Attacks on businesses linked to US brands rattle Baghdad as…

Posted by June 7, 2024

BAGHDAD -- A dozen masked men jump out of two SUVs and a white pickup and storm a KFC in Baghdad, smashing everything in sight before fleeing the scene. A few d

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US imposes travel bans on Georgian officials over new law…

Posted by June 6, 2024

WASHINGTON -- The United States imposed sanctions Thursday on dozens of Georgian officials in response to the enactment of a law that drew weeks of protests by

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