NewsAFP NewsIn Togo, hi-tech orthopaedic care goes through crucial test
In a consulting room in Togo's capital, Lome, Geraldo Emmanuel -- handicapped since birth six years ago -- waits patiently on a bed while a digital scan is taken of his right leg. "The child walks on his toes so I'm scanning his leg so we can make him an orthotic using a 3D printer,"
NewsAFP NewsS. Korea ex-PM and spy agency founder dies at 92
Kim Jong-pil, founder of South Korea's once-infamous spy agency and former prime minister, died Saturday in Seoul, his aide said. Kim was once a top figure in South Korean conservative politics, and along with former presidents Kim Young-sam and Kim Dae-jung, is considered one of the country'
NewsAFP NewsBrexit leaves ferry to Ireland in uncertain waters
The Carlingford ferry, which connects Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland, was launched one year ago but is already facing an uncertain future with a solution to the post-Brexit border problem still to be found. The project was ten years in the making when Britain voted in 2016 to leave the
NewsReutersU.S. judge says may rule next week on reuniting migrant children
While U.S. President Donald Trump bowed to political pressure on Wednesday and issued an executive order ending the separations, the administration has been silent on plans to reunite parents split from their children. More than 2,300 migrant children have been separated since the Trump administration
NewsReutersMexican airline Volaris offers free flights for separated children
Mexican airline Volaris said on Friday it was offering free flights to reunite families separated by the "zero tolerance" immigration policy of U.S. President Donald Trump. "It hurts us to see these children without their parents and it is our vocation to reunite them," Volaris said
NewsReutersFew client communications found so far in Michael Cohen documents: judge
A review of documents seized from U.S. President Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen has so far turned up only a handful of communications between Cohen and his clients, a federal judge said in a written order on Friday. Out of nearly 300,000 items reviewed so far, 161 are privileged
NewsReutersParted at U.S. border by Trump policy, migrants seek their children
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lilian Merida-Galicia and her 7-year-old daughter were apprehended after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona and separated by U.S. officials in mid-May. Since then, the 23-year-old Guatemalan has been trying to learn her daughter's whereabouts, according
NewsReutersPentagon indefinitely suspends some training exercises with South Korea
The United States and South Korea have agreed to indefinitely suspend two exchange program training exercises, the Pentagon said on Friday, in the aftermath of the summit earlier this month between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. "To support implementing the outcomes
NewsAFP NewsFact-check: Was migrant girl on US border taken from mother? Unfounded
Numerous photos and videos have been circulating on social media since the United States began implementing President Donald Trump's zero-tolerance policy towards illegal immigrants, leading more than 2,300 children to be separated from their parents. - Two photos that went viral on social media
NewsAFP NewsUS Navy planning new camps to support immigration crackdown: report
The US Navy plans to build sprawling detention centers for tens of thousands of immigrants on remote bases in support of President Donald Trump's "zero tolerance" policy against unlawful migration, a report said Friday. According to a draft memo obtained by Time magazine, the navy plans
NewsAFP NewsArgentina gets first $15 bn from IMF
Argentina on Friday received $15 billion, the first tranche of a $50 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund to help stabilize its fragile economy, the South American nation's central bank said. Following a currency crisis in April and May, the IMF announced the $50 billion standby loan
NewsAFP NewsTen days after Trump-Kim summit hard work yet to begin
The landmark summit between President Donald Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un ended with a pledge of "complete denuclearization," but ten days on no timetable for action has emerged. After flying back to Washington last week, giddy with success, the US leader tweeted "There is no longer
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Ohio Cop Is Fired After Threatening To Jail Daughter's Boyfriend On Bogus Charges
When a cop in Ohio spotted the car of his daughter's boyfriend, he turned the
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Conservative Columnist George Will: Vote Against GOP In Midterms
Longtime conservative columnist George Will is making a case against voting
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Antwon Rose Protests Continue In Pittsburgh For Third Straight Night
For the third day in a row, hundreds of protesters continue to call for
NewsAFP NewsUN chief appeals for end to fighting in south Syria
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday called for an immediate end to a military escalation in southwest Syria and a return to ceasefire arrangements agreed by Russia, the United States and Jordan.
NewsAFP NewsDespite summit, N.Korea still a nuclear threat, says Trump
US President Donald Trump on Friday cited "an unusual and extraordinary threat" from North Korea's nuclear arsenal to extend sanctions on Kim Jong Un's regime, despite touting the success of a historic summit earlier this month. After flying back to Washington last week, boasting of
FinanceReutersChina's ZTE expected to take last step to lift ban: U.S. official
(Reuters) - ZTE Corp is expected to deposit $400 million in an escrow account in a U.S. bank in the "next couple of days," the last step the Chinese company must take before a ban on U.S. suppliers can be lifted, a U.S. Department of Commerce official told Reuters on Friday. ZTE, which makes
NewsReutersAssad defies United States, presses assault in southwest Syria
Syrian government helicopters dropped barrel bombs on opposition areas of the country's southwest on Friday for the first time in a year, a war monitor and rebel officials said, in defiance of U.S. demands that President Bashar al-Assad halt the assault. Assad has sworn to recapture the area bordering
NewsReutersIdentifying U.S. troops returned from N. Korea may be challenging - experts
The U.S. military will face a difficult task in identifying the remains of soldiers missing from the Korean War as the Pentagon prepares to receive them from North Korea in coming days, officials and experts said. U.S. President Donald Trump, who met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at an historic
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