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Washington (AFP) - US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will meet his Chinese counterpart, the Pentagon announced Friday, after Beijing carried out war games around Taiwan in a sign to the US-backed democracy's new leader. The Pentagon said that Austin would meet Chinese Admiral Dong Jun when they attend the May 31-June 2 Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual gathering of defense officials around the world. China this week encircled Taiwan with warships and fighter jets in a test of its ability to seize the island, which it claims. The drills followed the inauguration of President Lai Ching-te, who has ...
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Washington (AFP) - A US couple was among three missionaries shot and killed by a gang outside a church in the Haitian capital, which has endured months of extreme violence with deadly assaults on hospitals, prisons and government buildings. Missions in Haiti, an Oklahoma-based nonprofit founded in 2000, said Davy and Natalie Lloyd and a third person were killed in Port-au-Prince by armed men on Thursday evening. The third victim was identified by US media outlets as Jude Montis, the Haitian director of Missions in Haiti. "Davy and Natalie and Jude were shot and killed by the gang about 9 o'clo...
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East Meadow (United States) (AFP) - In the shadow of New York skyscrapers a field of dreams emerges, but it is not a baseball diamond. It's for another bat-and-ball sport -- cricket -- that supporters are betting will finally bowl Americans over. The centuries-old English game has a feverish following throughout much of the world, but the United States, long partial to American football, basketball and national pastime baseball, has been a stubborn holdout. That may change early next month when the United States has its moment in the cricket sun, co-hosting the Twenty20 World Cup -- the champi...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A Ukrainian pilot project to compensate women raped by invading Russian soldiers could offer a roadmap for dealing with wartime sexual violence, says a Nobel Prize winner and expert on conflict atrocities. Denis Mukwege, a 69-year-old medical doctor, has dedicated his life to helping victims of some of the most horrific violence committed by military men. In his native Democratic Republic of Congo, which has been riven by violence for years, he has treated tens of thousands of women raped or mutilated by rampaging militias. Many victims feel they are invisible, unable to sp...
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Houston (AFP) - Several families whose children were killed or wounded in a mass shooting at their Texas school two years ago have sued the gun manufacturer as well as Instagram and video game company Activision for marketing the weapon, their lawyer said Friday. Nineteen young children and two teachers were killed in the city of Uvalde on May 24, 2022 when a teenage gunman went on a rampage with an AR-15 style assault rifle at Robb Elementary School, in America's deadliest school shooting in a decade. The families accuse the companies of wrongful death and gross negligence, saying gun manufac...
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Washington (AFP) - Independent White House hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr on Friday accused Joe Biden and Donald Trump of trampling on the US constitution as he launched a trenchant defense of Americans' civil liberties. In a guest speech in front of a small crowd at the Libertarian Party's national convention in Washington, the anti-vaccine activist berated the president and his Republican predecessor over pandemic-era health curbs and threats to free speech. "If you treasure freedom, you'd better elect leaders who are inspired by it and who will wield it to inspire others, leaders who believe ...
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Washington (AFP) - De hauts niveaux de grippe aviaire ont été retrouvés chez des souris nourries avec du lait de vache cru contaminé par le virus, rapporte une étude publiée vendredi, suggérant un risque chez l'homme dans la consommation de cette boisson. Au cours des dernières années, une variante hautement pathogène de la grippe aviaire --HPAI H5N1-- a été retrouvé dans plus de 50 espèces animales, y compris depuis mars chez des bovins d'élevage aux Etats-Unis. Une cinquantaine de troupeaux dans le pays ont été touchés et deux infections chez l'homme ont été rapportées. Les deux individus di...
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Washington (AFP) - Mice fed raw cow's milk infected with bird flu experienced high levels of the virus in their lungs, according to a study published Friday that suggests risk to humans who consume the drink. Over the past few years, a highly pathogenic avian influenza virus called HPAI H5N1 has spread to infect more than 50 animal species, including, from March, dairy cattle in the United States. To date, 52 herds across the country have been affected, with two human infections involving farm workers who developed mild symptoms, including pink eye. In the new study, published in the New Engl...
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Washington (AFP) - Le premier vol spatial avec équipage du vaisseau Starliner de Boeing, déjà maintes fois reporté, s'apprête à décoller le 1er juin sans avoir réparé une fuite d'hélium détectée sur le vaisseau, ont annoncé l'entreprise américaine et la Nasa vendredi. Le lancement de cette mission vers la Station spatiale internationale (ISS), cruciale pour Boeing et attendue depuis des années, a déjà été reporté de nombreuses fois. Le décollage avait été annulé au dernier moment le 6 mai -- alors que les deux astronautes formant l'équipage étaient déjà installés à bord -- à cause d'un problèm...
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Washington (AFP) - Boeing is set to launch its first crewed space mission in June without fixing a small helium gas leak on its troubled Starliner spaceship, officials said Friday. The vessel, under development since 2010, has been plagued by technical problems and has yet to fulfill its purpose of ferrying astronauts to the International Space Station, allowing Boeing's rival SpaceX to zoom ahead with its Crew Dragon capsule. Starliner was supposed to finally fly astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the orbital outpost on May 6, but the mission was scrubbed hours before lift-off aft...
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