U.S. Senate passes government funding bill despite deep division among Democrats

15 mars 2025 à 03:15

WASHINGTON -- The Senate passed a Republican-led spending bill Friday hours before a government shutdown, overcoming sharp Democratic opposition to the measure and sending it to President Donald Trump to be signed into law. Read More

Pakistan army says India is sponsoring terrorism after 26 hostages killed in train attack

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Par :The Associated Press

15 mars 2025 à 01:28

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan's military accused neighboring India on Friday of sponsoring insurgents in a restive southwestern province, where an unprecedented attack by armed separatists this week killed 26 passengers aboard a hijacked train. Read More

American who snatched baby wombat from its mother has left Australia

National Post

Par :The Associated Press

14 mars 2025 à 20:46

MELBOURNE, Australia — An American influencer left Australia on Friday after the government announced it was reviewing her visa over a video she posted of her snatching a baby wombat from its mother. Read More

John Lennon honoured on U.K. coin collection

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Par :The Associated Press

14 mars 2025 à 19:07

LONDON — John Lennon is being honoured in a specially minted British coin collection to mark the year the Beatles great and peace advocate would have turned 85, the Royal Mint said Friday. Read More

Middle East latest: Hamas says it will free a US-Israeli hostage to keep ceasefire talks rolling

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Par :The Associated Press

14 mars 2025 à 15:58

Hamas says it has accepted a proposal from mediators to release one living American-Israeli hostage and the bodies of four dual-nationals who had died in captivity

Big March storm system threatens US with tornadoes, blizzards and wildfire risk

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Par :The Associated Press

14 mars 2025 à 05:06

A sweeping storm system moving across the U.S. threatens to bring tornadoes, blizzards and possibly wildfires to different regions of the country

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

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Par :The Associated Press

14 mars 2025 à 04:29

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Putin agrees in principle with proposed Ukraine ceasefire but says ‘there are issues’

National Post

Par :The Associated Press

14 mars 2025 à 01:36

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that he agrees in principle with a U.S. proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine, but he emphasized that the terms are yet to be worked out and added that any truce should pave the way to lasting peace. Read More

'A legacy that is unmatched:' Tributes pour in for longtime Arizona congressman Raúl Grijalva

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Par :The Associated Press

14 mars 2025 à 00:13

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Utah judge orders release of suspect in 1977 Hawaii killing after prosecution stalls

The Independent

Par :The Associated Press

13 mars 2025 à 20:14

A Utah judge has ordered the release of a 66-year-old suspect in the 1977 killing of a Hawaii teenager after prosecutors in Honolulu said they weren’t ready to proceed with a murder charge against him

Judge temporarily blocks parts of ‘chilling’ Executive Order aimed at punishing Washington law firm

National Post

Par :The Associated Press

13 mars 2025 à 17:14

WASHINGTON — A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s administration Wednesday from enforcing portions of an Executive Order designed to punish a prominent law firm linked to Democratic-funded opposition research during the 2016 presidential campaign into ties between the Republican candidate and Russia. Read More

Trump says Ireland cheats U.S. as its leader visits Oval Office

National Post

Par :The Associated Press

13 mars 2025 à 14:33

President Donald Trump welcomed Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin on Wednesday for the annual St. Patrick's Day celebration at the White House, where he added Ireland to the list of countries he says are taking advantage of the United States. Read More

Middle East latest: UN-backed experts accuse Israel of sexual and gender-based violence in Gaza

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Par :The Associated Press

13 mars 2025 à 10:58

United Nations-backed experts have accused Israel of “the systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other gender-based violence” in its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip

Russia says it has retaken Kursk's biggest town from Ukraine as US awaits Putin's ceasefire response

The Independent

Par :The Associated Press

13 mars 2025 à 10:41

Russia's Defense Ministry says its forces have driven the Ukrainian army out of the biggest town in Russia’s Kursk border region, as U.S. officials sought the Kremlin’s response to a proposed 30-day ceasefire in the three-year that Ukraine has endorsed

The Latest: Education Department guts its civil rights office

The Independent

Par :The Associated Press

12 mars 2025 à 21:10

The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs

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