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New York (AFP) - Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama arrived Sunday in New York to undergo knee surgery, drawing a warm and festive welcome from thousands of followers. His office in the Indian hill town of Dharamsala, his adopted home, announced early this month that the 88-year-old Buddhist spiritual leader would travel to the United States to undergo "treatment" on his knees. He is scheduled to have surgery on both knees, but no further details have been released. Followers, many wearing traditional Tibetan outfits, waited outside the Dalai Lama's Manhattan hotel in crushing heat hopin...
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Toronto (Canada) (AFP) - For a few days, AI chip juggernaut Nvidia sat on the throne as the world's biggest company, but behind the its staggering success are questions on whether new entrants can stake a claim to the artificial intelligence bonanza. Nvidia, which makes the processors that are the only option to train generative AI's large language models, is now Big Tech's newest member and its stock market takeoff has lifted the whole sector. Even tech's second rung on Wall Street has ridden on Nvidia's coattails with Oracle, Broadcom, HP and a spate of others seeing their stock valuations s...
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London (AFP) - Taylor Swift got the London-leg of her Eras tour off to a good start, with the UK's Prince William posting a backstage picture of them posted on social media Saturday. After celebrating his 42nd birthday at Swift's Wembley Stadium concert with his children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte, William posted their backstage selfie. The US pop sensation seemed equally enamoured, posting a photo with the three royals and her boyfriend Travis Kelce. "Happy Bday M8! London shows are off to a splendid start," she wrote on X, formerly Twitter. A widely shared video on social media ap...
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Dearborn (United States) (AFP) - Abdullah Hammoud's election as the first Muslim mayor of Dearborn was a watershed moment for this city, an automaking hub home to the highest concentration of Arab-Americans in the United States. But while his early focus was on upgrading sewer infrastructure and investing in parks, he has now been thrust into the national spotlight for his outspoken criticism of fellow Democrat Joe Biden, over the president's support for Israel's military offensive in Gaza. "I'll be the first to say that we don't want to see (Donald) Trump reelected to the White House," Hammo...
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New York (AFP) - The original watercolor illustration for the first edition of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" -- the book that introduced the world to the young bespectacled wizard -- will go up for auction in New York on Wednesday. The work by Thomas Taylor, who was just 23 years old in 1997 when he painted the iconic image of the young boy with the lightning bolt scar and the round glasses, is expected to fetch from $400,000 to $600,000 at Sotheby's. Taylor was working at a children's bookstore in Cambridge, England, when he was tapped by publisher Barry Cunningham at Bloomsbury ...
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Washington (AFP) - The United States unveiled sanctions Friday against 12 top leaders of the Russia-based cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab, a day after banning the sale of its popular antivirus software on national security grounds. The widespread sanctions target many of Kaspersky Lab's most senior leaders, including its chief operating officer, while sparing the chief executive and the company itself, the Treasury Department said in a statement announcing the designation. "Today's action against the leadership of Kaspersky Lab underscores our commitment to ensure the integrity of our cyber d...
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Washington (AFP) - Existing home sales in the United States edged lower in May as prices reached a record high on continued tight inventory, according to industry data published on Friday. Sales of previously owned homes fell by 0.7 percent from a month earlier to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.11 million, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) said in a statement. This was slightly above market expectations, according to Briefing.com. Year-over-year sales were down 2.8 percent. "Existing home sales edged lower in May, reflecting the backup in mortgage rates a month or two earlie...
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Washington (AFP) - The United States unveiled sanctions Friday against 12 top leaders of the Russia-based cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab, a day after banning the sale of its popular antivirus software on national security grounds. The widespread sanctions target many of Kaspersky Lab's most senior leaders, including its chief operating officer, while sparing the chief executive and the company itself, the Treasury Department said in a statement announcing the designation. "Today's action against the leadership of Kaspersky Lab underscores our commitment to ensure the integrity of our cyber...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - The US state of Hawaii has reached an historic agreement in response to litigation by youth activists, promising to speed up the de-carbonization of its transport sector to protect their right to a safe and healthy climate. Thirteen young people from across the islands brought the case in June 2022, arguing that their constitutional rights to a life-sustaining climate were being violated. They asked the state government to take action to implement its goals of net negative emissions in the transport system by 2045. "The passion demonstrated by these young people in advocati...
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By W.G. DUNLOP Washington (AFP) - La jetée construite en mai à Gaza par les Etats-Unis avait pour but affiché de faciliter l'acheminement d'aide humanitaire dans ce territoire palestinien assiégé par Israël. Mais depuis son installation il y a un mois, celle-ci va de déboire en déboire. Plus de 4.100 tonnes d'aide ont été acheminées jusque-là dans la bande de Gaza via cette jetée qui a coûté 230 millions de dollars, loin de "l'augmentation massive" de livraisons promise par Joe Biden. Premier soutien militaire d'Israël, Washington a installé cette jetée face aux sévères restrictions imposées p...
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