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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden on Friday publicly acknowledged his seventh grandchild for the first time -- a four-year-old girl his son Hunter fathered with an Arkansas woman -- after Republican criticism of his failure to recognize her. "This is not a political issue, it's a family matter," the president said in a statement to People magazine about the girl, Navy Joan Roberts. "Our son Hunter and Navy's mother, Lunden, are working together to foster a relationship that is in the best interests of their daughter, preserving her privacy as much as possible going forward." Biden sai...
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Geneva (AFP) - Nearly 40 countries at the United Nations backed LGBTQ families on Tuesday, at a time when some Muslim and African nations are contesting sexual orientation and gender identity language in UN forums. "Families play a fundamental role in society. Supporting families is an important element in promoting and protecting human rights," 37 countries said in a statement at the UN Human Rights Council. "This support must be inclusive of all family compositions, including multigenerational and extended families, single parent households, LGBTIQ+ families and Indigenous kinship groups," A...
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Geneva (AFP) - Rather than fixating on the impact of the world's soaring population, the world should look at women's reproductive rights to shore up "demographic resilience," the UN said Wednesday. The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) -- the UN's sexual and reproductive health agency -- acknowledged there was widespread anxiety over the size of the world's population, which is expected to peak at around 10.4 billion during the 2080s. But the UNFPA said the focus should be on giving women more power to control when and how they have children. "The question is: 'Can everyone exercise thei...
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Washington (AFP) - The parents of detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on Friday said that they remained optimistic for a positive outcome to his detention insisting that their son "still loved Russia." "It's one of the American qualities that we absorbed, you know, be optimistic, believe in a happy ending," Gershkovich's mother, Ella Milman told the Wall Street Journal, speaking out for the first time since his arrest. "But I am not stupid. I understand what's involved, but that's what I choose to believe," she added. Ella and her husband Mikhail Gershkovich fled the Soviet ...
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Ballina (Ireland) (AFP) - The picturesque town of Ballina on the banks of the River Moy in northwest Ireland hums with activity ahead of a visit by its celebrated descendant Joe Biden this week. The US president is due to arrive in the north County Mayo town Friday to address thousands in the place from which his family hailed before emigrating to Pennsylvania in the 19th century. It will be one of the last stops on a tour of Ireland and Northern Ireland taking in Belfast, Dublin and other locations from the proudly Irish-American president's family history. Biden's relatives still remain in t...
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Riyadh (AFP) - An American woman who had publically accused her Saudi ex-husband of trapping their daughter in the kingdom under so-called guardianship laws said she was released Wednesday following a brief detention over social media posts. Carly Morris was taken into custody on Monday and the whereabouts of her daughter, eight-year-old Tala, was unknown, according to the Washington-based Freedom Initiative, which describes itself as advocating on behalf of people wrongfully detained in the Middle East and North Africa. But when contacted by AFP on Wednesday, Morris said she had been release...
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New York (AFP) - Ivana Trump -- Donald Trump's first wife and mother of his three eldest children -- died on Thursday at the age of 73, the former president announced. Ivana Trump "passed away at her home in New York City," Donald Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. He did not provide a cause of death but the New York Times reported that law enforcement officials were investigating whether she fell down the stairs at her Manhattan apartment. A spokesperson for the New York Police Department told AFP in an emailed statement that officers responded to a call at her address on ...
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Kabul (AFP) - An Afghan whose daughter was among 10 relatives killed by a wrongly directed US drone strike expressed anger Tuesday at Washington's decision not to punish anyone for the deadly mishit. "God will take revenge," said Aimal Ahmadi, 32, who lost his three-year-old daughter Malika and nine other relatives in the August 29 strike, which came as the United States military scrambled to complete its withdrawal from Afghanistan. The Pentagon said Monday that no US service member would face disciplinary action for what it called an "honest mistake" in wrongly identifying the family's white...
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Chicago (AFP) - Michael Thompson, a 47-year-old executive recruiter from Illinois, expects his former wife to take him to court over vaccinating their two children against Covid-19. He doesn't trust the vaccine for children, but she wants to follow US health guidelines and have their eight-year-old and 10-year-old inoculated. It is a clash repeated among separated families across the United States, where widespread vaccine hesitancy has thwarted efforts to end the pandemic despite injections being free and easily available. "I'm vaccinated, but I don't feel the need for my kids to get the vacc...
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Washington (AFP) - With their tears, rage, dignity and solidarity, George Floyd's loved ones have become respected leaders of the fight against police brutality in the United States. "This just fell on my lap to take on and be his voice because he's no longer here," Bridgett Floyd said of her role since her brother died. Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, was killed on May 25, 2020 by a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, who kneeled on his neck for over nine minutes. Chauvin was convicted by a jury in Minneapolis, Minnesota, of murder and manslaughter on April 20 and is to be sentenced on June ...
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