NewsAFP NewsPutin says will deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday he would deploy tactical nuclear weapons in neighbour and ally Belarus.They have long placed their tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of their allies," Putin said.
NewsAFP News'My city is gone' -- Tornado kills at least 23 in Mississippi
At least 23 people were killed as a devastating tornado ripped across the southern US state of Mississippi, tearing off roofs, smashing cars and flattening entire neighborhoods.Tornadoes, a weather phenomenon notoriously difficult to predict, are relatively common in the United States, especially in the central and southern parts of the country.
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The embattled former president faces multiple investigations and a tough primary.
NewsAFP NewsBrazil's Lula, ill with pneumonia, postpones China trip
Brazil's leftist leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who was due to head to China for key talks with President Xi Jinping, has indefinitely postponed his trip to recover from pneumonia, the government said Saturday.- Ukraine, trade talks on hold - Just three months into his latest term as president, Lula has already visited Argentina and the United States -- and the six-day trip to China, Brazil's largest trading partner, was seen as key to his ambitions.
NewsAFP News'Direct hit' -- shock and grief after tornados strike Mississippi
"I know of two friends who lost their life," Rolling Fork business owner Ricky Cox said as he started to absorb the devastating consequences of tornadoes that ripped across Mississippi.Cox, who lives one hour away near the state capital Jackson, drove to Rolling Fork late on Friday to check on his business as the powerful storm hit.
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NewsAFP NewsNew violent clashes rock France in water protest
French police again clashed with protesters Saturday as campaigners sought to stop the construction of reservoirs in the southwest, the latest in a series of violent standoffs as social tensions erupt nationwide.Several protesters and members of security forces were wounded in the clashes around Saite-Soline as campaigners sought to stop the construction of reservoirs for the agricultural industry, according to the authorities.
NewsAFP NewsEarly wildfire in Spain rages out of control
Some 700 firefighters were battling Spain's first major forest fire of the year Saturday, which was raging out of control 48 hours after it began, forcing 1,500 people to flee. It has affected 3,900 hectares and has a 35-kilometre perimeter," they said, indicating the number of people forced out of their homes on Friday, some 1,500, had not changed.
PoliticsAFP NewsTrump to rally at site of deadly anti-government siege in Texas
Donald Trump stages his first presidential campaign rally Saturday at the site of a deadly 1993 standoff between an anti-government cult and federal agents in Texas, as he rails against multiple criminal probes threatening his bid for the White House."It's a ploy to remind his cult of the infamous Waco siege of 1993, where an anti-government cult battled the FBI," the former president's estranged niece Mary Trump said on Twitter.
NewsAFP NewsNew violent clashes in France in water protest: AFP
French security forces again clashed with protesters Saturday as campaigners sought to stop the construction of reservoirs for the agricultural industry in the southwest of the country, AFP correspondents said.Around the construction site, defended by the police, violent clashes quickly broke out between the security forces and radical militants, AFP correspondents said.
NewsAFP NewsMonks at historic Kyiv monastery defy eviction order
In a Kyiv monastery that has played a crucial role in both Ukrainian and Russian history, scores of monks accused of allegiance with Moscow are defying eviction.The monks are members of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which was under the authority of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Conservatives are lifting their culture-war playbook straight from the '70s in pursuit of a new national majority.
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NewsHuffPost1,500 Evacuated Amid Early Start To Spain Wildfire Season
Ximo Puig, the president of the Valencia region, said the effects of climate change “are undeniable, so the perspective of firefighting must be considered on an annual basis.”
NewsAFP News'Hotel Rwanda' hero Paul Rusesabagina freed from prison
Fiercely outspoken Rwandan government critic Paul Rusesabagina, whose efforts to save people during the 1994 genocide inspired the Hollywood film "Hotel Rwanda", has been freed from prison after more than 900 days behind bars.The film was inspired by his experience as a hotel manager during the genocide, when his family and hundreds of guests -- mainly ethnic Tutsis -- took refuge inside the Mille Collines as machete-wielding mobs killed people outside the hotel gates.
NewsAFP NewsEU, Germany reach deal on fossil fuel car phaseout plan
The European Union and Germany on Saturday said they had struck a deal after a dispute over the planned phaseout by 2035 of the sale of cars using fossil fuels.A landmark deal to prohibit new sales of fossil fuel cars from 2035 is key to the bloc's ambitious plan to become a "climate-neutral" economy by 2050, with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.
PoliticsHuffPostGOP Rep. Andy Biggs Receives Embarrassing Jan. 6 Fact Check Live On Air
A claim by the Donald Trump-loving Arizona Republican was quickly debunked by C-SPAN anchor Greta Brawner.
NewsAFP NewsLove, pain and loss at historic Ukraine cemetery
At a historic military cemetery in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, Valeriy Pushko lights up two cigarettes.Kyiv does not reveal the number of its military casualties but Western officials say more than 100,000 Ukrainians have been killed or wounded.
PoliticsHuffPostMichael Cohen Mocks Donald Trump Jr.'s Rants With An Impression
“I don’t understand what the f**k he’s doing," Donald Trump's former personal attorney and fixer said of the ex-president's son.
NewsAFP NewsCombative spoiler enters Turkey's election campaign
Turkey's top politicians have formed two camps heading into May's election: those who revere President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and those united in the single goal of ending his two-decade rule."The election will go to the second round, and in the second round I will be elected president with more than 60 percent of the vote," he said.
NewsAFP NewsNiger's army entered Mali in hunt for 'terrorists': ministry
Niger's defence ministry said Friday its troops killed 79 "terrorists" in operations last week that involved a foray into neighbouring Mali. Troops from the army's anti-jihadist Almahaou operation began the search after they were attacked by an "armed terrorist group" in the western town of Tiloa on March 10, the ministry said.
ScienceAFP NewsLarge asteroid to zoom between Earth and Moon
A large asteroid will safely zoom between Earth and the Moon on Saturday, a once-in-a-decade event that will be used as a training exercise for planetary defence efforts, according to the European Space Agency.At 19:49 GMT on Saturday it will come within a third of the distance from the Earth to the Moon, said Richard Moissl, the head of the ESA's planetary defence office.
NewsAFP NewsN. Zealand raises concerns with China over rights, Taiwan
New Zealand has raised concerns with China over human rights abuses and growing tensions with Taiwan, Wellington's foreign minister told AFP in an interview Saturday.She earlier said in a statement she had told her counterpart that the New Zealand government had "deep concerns regarding the human rights situation in Xinjiang and the erosion of rights and freedoms in Hong Kong".
PoliticsHuffPost‘Unhinged’: Trump Ripped In Withering Editorial From Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post
The previously pro-Donald Trump tabloid offered some harsh truths for supporters of the former president.
PoliticsHuffPostEx-RNC Chair Michael Steele Scorches Today's GOP With A Damning Question
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