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New York (AFP) - After a tense overnight standoff, Columbia University officials and students appeared to agree to further talks Wednesday on clearing a pro-Palestinian protestor encampment that has paralyzed the New York campus. The prestigious institution is at the core of demonstrations spreading to campuses around the United States over the Israel-Hamas war and ensuing humanitarian crisis in Gaza. University administrators told student newspaper the Columbia Spectator that negotiations to dismantle the encampment would continue for another 48 hours following progress in talks. The Columbi...
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New York (AFP) - Troubled aviation giant Boeing reported a first-quarter loss of $343 million on Wednesday, reflecting recent safety troubles that have slowed production and deliveries. Boeing said it tempered production in the 737 program following a January near-catastrophic incident on an Alaska Airlines jet that has sparked heavy scrutiny from Washington and among Boeing's airline customers. The first-quarter loss, which was somewhat smaller than analysts expected, compared with a loss of $414 million in the year-ago period. Revenues fell 7.5 percent to $16.6 billion. Despite the loss, sha...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court was set to hear a crucial case Wednesday weighing whether Idaho's near-total ban on abortion violates federal law requiring hospitals to stabilize patients needing emergency care. It comes nearly two years after the conservative-majority bench overturned the national right to terminate a pregnancy, making reproductive rights a pivotal issue that could shape the outcome of the November presidential election. The ruling in the Idaho case could have sweeping consequences for hospitals across the country. Dozens of women's rights activists gathered in front ...
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By Shaun TANDON Shanghai (AFP) - Le secrétaire d'Etat américain Antony Blinken est arrivé en Chine mercredi pour sa deuxième visite en moins d'un an, avec pour mission d'augmenter la pression sur Pékin concernant différents dossiers, comme son soutien à la Russie, tout en cherchant une plus grande stabilité. Le chef de la diplomatie américaine a commencé son déplacement par Shanghai, a constaté l'AFP. Il doit y assister à un match de basket entre deux équipes comptant des joueurs américains dans leurs rangs. Cette étape, destinée à faire état des liens chaleureux entre Américains et Chinois, e...
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New York (AFP) - In the 1990s, Donald Trump famously gossiped to the tabloids about -- who else -- himself, a headline-chaser who loved none other than to see his name in lights, or at least in the supermarket checkout line. But those were Trump's good old days, an era of clubs and models, long before he launched a bid for the US presidency and found himself needing to squash the lewd, party boy stories he once boasted about. Cue David Pecker, the former publishing executive whose titles included the National Enquirer, and who on Tuesday in a Manhattan courtroom laid out the "catch and kill" s...
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Washington (AFP) - Le Sénat américain a adopté mardi une loi demandant au géant des réseaux sociaux TikTok de couper ses liens avec sa maison-mère ByteDance, et plus largement avec la Chine, s'il ne veut pas risquer d'être interdit aux Etats-Unis. Le président Joe Biden a aussitôt annoncé qu'il allait promulguer le texte, adopté quelques jours plus tôt aussi à la Chambre des représentants, l'autre composante du Congrès américain. Candidat à sa réélection en novembre, le chef de l'Etat démocrate avait redit son "inquiétude" à propos de TikTok lors d'un échange avec son homologue chinois Xi Jinp...
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Washington (AFP) - Three years ago, Derrick Evans was taking part in the January 6, 2021, assault on the US Capitol, joining hundreds of other Donald Trump supporters who refused to accept his defeat in the presidential election. Now he is campaigning to serve in the very legislative body he targeted that day. And he's not alone: across the United States, around a dozen people involved in the siege of the Capitol -- an attack that shook confidence in the stability of American democracy -- have sought or are seeking to hold local or national office this year. Evans is running in his state's...
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Washington (AFP) - Migrants, vaccines, pedophilia rings -- old conspiracy theories are resurfacing ahead of the US election despite being repeatedly debunked, in what researchers call "zombie" falsehoods that appear to resonate with polarized voters. Americans are deluged with misinformation about political hot-button issues that observers say have the potential to sway voters in the widely anticipated rematch between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump in November. That includes misinformation that is recycled online despite being repeatedly knocked down by fact-checkers in what seems like a...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Senate on Tuesday approved legislation requiring the wildly popular social media app TikTok to be divested from its Chinese parent company ByteDance or be shut out of the American market. The measure was part of a $95 billion foreign aid package, including military assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, which has now cleared Congress and heads to President Joe Biden's desk. US and other Western officials have voiced alarm over the popularity of TikTok with young people, alleging it allows Beijing to collect data and spy on users. It has 170 million users in the Uni...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Megan Thee Stallion forced her cameraman to watch her having sex in a moving car, according to a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles. Emilio Garcia says the incident, which happened on the Spanish holiday island of Ibiza, was part of a campaign of harassment that also included fat-shaming him. "Emilio should never have been put in a position of having to be in the vehicle with her while she had sex with another woman," said Garcia's lawyer Ron Zambrano. "'Inappropriate' is putting it lightly. Exposing this behavior to employees is definitely illegal." The suit alleges the inciden...
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