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United Nations (United States) (AFP) - Washington and its allies challenged North Korea at the United Nations on Friday over claims Pyongyang is breaching arms control measures by supplying weapons to Russia to use in its war in Ukraine. Washington's deputy envoy to the UN Robert Wood hit out at what he said were "unlawful arms transfers from the DPRK (North Korea) to Russia" as the two sides forge ever closer ties. "We condemn in the strongest possible terms, those unlawful transfers, which have significantly contributed to Russia's ability to conduct its war against Ukraine," Wood said ahead...
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Raleigh (United States) (AFP) - A fired-up Joe Biden came out swinging Friday as he tried to make up for a disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump, insisting he was the right man to win November's US presidential election. Biden's appearance at a campaign rally in the battleground state of North Carolina came amid rumblings in his alarmed Democratic Party about replacing the 81-year-old as their nominee -- and shortly before the nation's most influential newspaper urged him to step aside. "I don't walk as easy as I used to. I don't speak as smoothly as I used to. I don't debate as w...
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Washington (AFP) - The first astronauts to fly Boeing's troubled Starliner are definitely not "stranded" at the International Space Station, NASA insisted Friday despite having no clear timeframe for bringing them home. In an unusually defensive press call, officials attempted to put a positive spin on where things currently stood after weeks of negative headlines due to the spaceship's delayed return. Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams blasted off on June 5 following years of delays and safety scares affecting Starliner, as well as two aborted launch attempts that came as astronauts w...
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New York (AFP) - The first debate between US President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump drew 47.9 million viewers across all channels on Thursday evening, according to CNN -- down sharply from 2020. The program, produced by CNN and presented by two of its best-known journalists, fell 35 percent short of the 73.1 million viewers who tuned in on September 29, 2020, which pitted the same two candidates against each other for the first time. The second debate of the 2020 presidential election attracted 63 million viewers. Despite this marked decline, the audience for Thursday's live bro...
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Washington (AFP) - Prosecutors overstepped in charging January 6 rioters with obstruction for trying to prevent certification of the 2020 presidential election, the US Supreme Court said Friday, throwing hundreds of cases into doubt. The matter was brought to the court through an appeal by former police officer Joseph Fischer, a supporter of former president Donald Trump who entered the Capitol in Washington with hundreds of others on January 6, 2021. Writing the opinion for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts said prosecutors' interpretation of the law would "criminalize a broad swath of...
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Washington (AFP) - The conservative-majority US Supreme Court struck down 40 years of legal precedent Friday, curbing the power of federal agencies to regulate critical issues affecting Americans' daily lives, from air quality to drug safety and more. In a 6-3 vote, judges overruled the landmark 1984 ruling in Chevron v Natural Resources Defense Council, which said judges should defer to government experts in determining a "reasonable" interpretation of the law if the language is ambiguous. But that had proved to be "fundamentally misguided," and defied the command of a statute asking courts t...
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MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia should start producing previously banned midrange missiles, President Vladimir Putin said Friday, as Moscow warned the United States that drone reconnaissance flights over the Black Sea risked a "direct" military clash. The call to bolster Russia's military arsenal came days after Moscow angrily blamed Washington for a Ukrainian strike on the annexed Crimean peninsula that it says used US-supplied ATACMS missiles equipped with cluster munitions, killing four. Russia has pledged a tough response to what it calls increased US involvement in the conflict. In a televised addr...
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Rome (AFP) - L'actrice américaine Sigourney Weaver, célèbre notamment pour son rôle dans la saga Alien, recevra un Lion d'or d'honneur pour l'ensemble de sa carrière au 81e Festival du Film de Venise, ont annoncé vendredi les organisateurs. "Une actrice du calibre de Sigourney Weaver a peu de rivales", a salué le directeur artistique du festival, Alberto Barbera, dans un communiqué. Sigourney Weaver est honorée pour avoir construit des ponts "entre le cinéma d'art et d'essai le plus sophistiqué et les films qui interagissent avec le public de manière franche et originale, tout en restant fidèl...
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Atlanta (AFP) - President Joe Biden and Republican challenger Donald Trump squared off Thursday in a debate watched by millions, and what voters saw may have sparked more questions than answers. Here are five takeaways from the Atlanta showdown. Dems, we have a problemBiden -- diagnosed with a cold, according to his campaign -- looked all of his 81 years onstage, speaking in a halting, hoarse voice and missing key opportunities to forcefully and coherently push back against Trump. While the veteran Democrat showed occasional spark, he mostly appeared lackluster. The post-debate analysis came i...
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Atlanta (AFP) - Tempers and tensions were high Thursday as US President Joe Biden faced off against Republican rival Donald Trump in the first debate of the 2024 White House campaign. Here are some of the key quotes from the evening: DemocracyBiden: "And now he says that if he loses again, such a whiner that he is, that there could be a bloodbath." Biden: "This guy has no sense of American democracy." Trump, on political violence: "Of course, I believe that it's totally unacceptable." Trump, asked if he would accept the results of the election: "If it's a fair and legal and good election, abso...
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