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The UK navy said on Sunday that a vessel caught fire after being hit by a projectile in the Gulf of Aden. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency, which is part of Britain's Royal Navy, said that the vessel was hit "by an unknown projectile on the aft section" at about 2340 GMT Saturday about 70 nautical miles (130 kilometres) south-west of Aden in Yemen. The hit "resulted in a fire," the UKMTO said, adding that no casualties were reported. Damage control was under way and the vessel was proceeding to its next port of call. The agency did not provide details about the vesse...
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Paris (AFP) - President Joe Biden on Saturday vowed Washington was "standing strong" with Ukraine as French counterpart Emmanuel Macron hosted him on a state visit overshadowed by Kyiv's fight against Russia's invasion and the looming US election. Speaking after visiting Normandy earlier this week to mark 80 years since the D-Day wartime landings, Biden repeatedly emphasised the value of America's European alliances in a swipe at his more isolationist election rival Donald Trump. With Ukraine struggling to repel Russian advances over two years into the war and in desperate need of greater West...
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Paris (AFP) - President Joe Biden on Friday urged the United States to protect democracy and follow the example of World War II heroes, in a speech on a clifftop in northern France that was the scene of a bloody confrontation between US troops and occupying Germans on D-Day. Biden gave the speech on the final day of ceremonies marking 80 years since the Allied landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944 that marked a turning point in World War II. The president is set to face Republican rival and predecessor Donald Trump later this year in elections that commentators predict will subject US democracy...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A British woman who claims she was the inspiration for the stalker in the smash Netflix hit "Baby Reindeer" sued the streamer Thursday, demanding $170 million in damages. Fiona Harvey has identified herself as the real-life "Martha," the delusional, violent and abusive woman at the center of Richard Gadd's global phenomenon, which claims in its opening episode to be "a true story." "The above quote... is the biggest lie in television history," the lawsuit, filed in California, says. "It is a lie told by Netflix and the show's creator, Richard Gadd, out of greed and lust for...
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Omaha Beach (France) (AFP) - US President Joe Biden on Thursday warned on the 80th anniversary of D-Day that democracy around the world was at risk, as leaders marked the 1944 landings in occupied France that helped defeat Nazi Germany in World War II. Biden, Britain's King Charles III, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and French President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to the tens of thousands of Allied troops who stormed the beaches of Normandy in northern France on June 6, 1944. An honoured additional guest was Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in a stark reminder of the war being...
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Saint-Lô (France) (AFP) - French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday hailed the "spirit of sacrifice" of the soldiers who liberated Europe from Nazi occupation, as he prepared to join US counterpart Joe Biden and King Charles III to mark 80 years since the World War II D-Day landings. The three days of events in France, which will peak Thursday with ceremonies attended by world leaders on the Normandy beaches where the landings took place, are haunted by the new war shadowing Europe as Ukraine battles Russia's invasion. Macron will host Biden, King Charles III and Canadian Prime Minister Ju...
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Florence (Italy) (AFP) - An Italian court on Wednesday reconvicted Amanda Knox of slander for accusing an innocent man of killing her British roommate in 2007, a murder she herself was jailed for before being acquitted. The American wiped away tears in court in Florence after she was sentenced to three years already served for having accused, during police questioning, a Congolese bar owner of murdering 21-year-old Meredith Kercher. "Amanda is very upset at the outcome of this hearing, she was looking to" draw a line under the saga "after 17 years of judicial procedure," her lawyer Carlo Dall...
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Washington (AFP) - Only a tiny number of people in Britain, France and Germany put great faith in the United States to guarantee their security over the coming decade, a survey said Wednesday, ahead of an election in which Donald Trump has thrown doubt on alliances. The Eurasia Group's Institute for Global Affairs, in its survey of the three western European nations, still found that more people than not expected the United States to be at least "somewhat" reliable. But only six percent said that the United States would be a "very reliable" guarantor of European security over the next decade, ...
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British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca on Wednesday announced the completion of the acquisition of Fusion Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing next-generation radioconjugates (RCs). AstraZeneca, through a subsidiary, has completed the acquisition of all outstanding shares of Fusion as per the definitive agreement. The acquisition was executed under a plan of arrangement, with each share priced at $21.00 in cash at closing and an additional non-transferable contingent value right of $3.00 per share in cash payable upon the attainment of a specified regulato...
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British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca on Wednesday announced the completion of the acquisition of Fusion Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing next-generation radioconjugates (RCs). AstraZeneca, through a subsidiary, has completed the acquisition of all outstanding shares of Fusion as per the definitive agreement. The acquisition was executed under a plan of arrangement, with each share priced at $21.00 in cash at closing and an additional non-transferable contingent value right of $3.00 per share in cash payable upon the attainment of a specified regulato...
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