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Washington (AFP) - Joe Biden is looking to convince voters of his leadership credentials with a striking flurry of major announcements on Gaza, Ukraine and the Mexican border, analysts say. In the space of just six days, the 81-year-old US president unveiled bold proposals to tackle arguably the three biggest policy challenges facing the White House ahead of November's election. Experts say that behind the rush is both a desire to bring order to a set of crises that have bedeviled the past year of his presidency -- and to show that he is better placed to do so than his election rival, former p...
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San Francisco (AFP) - Apple is expected to make the case next week that it is not being left behind as tech world rivals blaze ahead with artificial intelligence. AI and perhaps even a partnership with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI will likely be a driving theme at the Monday kickoff of Apple's annual WWDC developers' conference in Silicon Valley, according to analysts. The conference is an annual jamboree for developers who create apps and software for Apple's ecosystem, and CEO Tim Cook will work hard to persuade them that the company is a key AI player as rivals Microsoft and Google roll out innova...
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Cape Canaveral (AFP) - Boeing on Wednesday launched its very first astronauts bound for the International Space Station aboard a Starliner capsule, which joins a select club of spacecraft to carry humans beyond Earth. The third time turned out to be the charm for the aerospace giant, after two previous bids to fly were aborted with the crew strapped in and ready to go. Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, both of whom have two previous spaceflights under their belts, blasted off at 10:52 am (1452 GMT) atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Stati...
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Wilmington (United States) (AFP) - Jurors at Hunter Biden's trial for allegedly buying a handgun while using crack cocaine heard testimony Wednesday from his ex-wife who recalled finding a crack pipe in their family home. On Tuesday the court heard that Hunter Biden -- the first child of a sitting US president to be prosecuted -- was a heavy drug user and allegedly lied about this on the paperwork when purchasing the firearm. Hunter Biden's ex-wife, Kathleen Buhle, described discovering the implement for smoking the drug in the side porch of their home in 2015 and later worrying their daughter...
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Washington (AFP) - Donald Trump is now a felon. Here's what that means for the rights of the former US president -- the first ever convicted of a crime -- as he seeks to recapture the White House in November: Presidential bidTrump is expected to receive the Republican presidential nomination at the party's convention in Milwaukee, which is to begin just four days after his July 11 sentencing in New York for his conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. The Constitution only requires that a president be a natural-born US citizen, be at least 35 years old and have been a res...
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New York (AFP) - New York dropped a controversial plan Wednesday that would have charged drivers to enter central Manhattan, amid criticism that it would hit businesses and poorer motorists disproportionately. The plan to charge most cars $15 to enter the busiest parts of Manhattan in daytime was just weeks from starting and was aimed at improving air quality in the Big Apple by unclogging traffic-choked streets. It was also hoped the system, the first of its kind in the US, would raise much-needed revenue to upgrade a creaking subway system that is used by around four million New Yorkers ev...
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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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Wilmington (États-Unis) (AFP) - Une agente du FBI a témoigné mercredi lors de procès pénal de Hunter Biden, sur la côte est des Etats-Unis, au sujet de son enquête sur le fils du président américain accusé d'avoir acheté une arme alors qu'il consommait encore de la drogue en 2018. Hunter Biden, avocat et homme d'affaires de 54 ans reconverti en artiste, qui s'est sorti d'années de dépendance au crack et à l'alcool, est une cible privilégiée des adversaires de son père - l'ancien président républicain Donald Trump au premier chef. Ils le voient comme le point faible de Joe Biden, locataire démo...
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New York (AFP) - Two modern day treasure hunters in the United States appeared to strike gold when they uncovered a safe stuffed with $100,000 in cash -- but there was a catch. The banknotes were ruined. Barbara Agostini and James Kane, both in their 40s, have been propelled to celebrity status beyond their magnet fishing community after making the discovery in a New York pond over the weekend. "It's surreal, I thought it was a joke until I saw it with my eyes," said Barbara Agostini. Though not the pair's first time discovering a safe, it was their first one containing more than random odds a...
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Washington (AFP) - Throughout the annals of American space exploration, a select few spacecraft have had the distinction of carrying human beings beyond our home planet. Boeing now joins this elite group with the long-awaited launch of its Starliner capsule, just the sixth class of vessel built in the United States for NASA astronauts. Here's a recap of their storied past, marked by groundbreaking triumphs and some devastating setbacks. MercuryKnown as America's "man-in-space" program, Project Mercury was born just days after NASA itself was formed in 1958, and officials settled on the term "a...
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