Lifelong farmer Joe Del Bosque knows that America can’t live without immigrants, but he worries that many of his countrymen think it can’t live with them either.”When they’re needed, they welcome them. When they don’t need them, they want to kick them out,” the 75-year-old told AFP. “Well, right now the country doesn’t know that they …
Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of Kurdish militant group the PKK is hailed by many Kurds as an icon, but within wider Turkish society many see him as a terrorist who deserves to die.On Saturday, Ocalan, who has been held in solitary confinement in Turkey since 1999, received his first political visit in nearly a …
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Crowds will marvel at fireworks and toast champagne to greet 2025 on Tuesday, waving goodbye to a year that brought Olympic glory, a dramatic Donald Trump return and turmoil in the Middle East and Ukraine.It is all but certain that 2024 will go down as the hottest year on record, with climate-fuelled disasters wreaking havoc …
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Israel’s devastating campaigns against Iran’s regional allies have severely weakened its arch-enemy’s ability to project its power, but Yemen’s Tehran-backed Huthi rebels remain a stubborn thorn in its side, analysts say.With the ranks of Palestinian group Hamas and Lebanon’s Hezbollah decimated after more than a year of war, and with the fall of Bashar al-Assad …
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A South Korean court has issued an arrest warrant for suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol, investigators said Tuesday, prompting hundreds of supporters to gather at the gates of his private residence.Investigators probing Yoon over his December 3 declaration of martial law requested the warrant after he failed to report for questioning a third time.Crowds gathered …
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his deputy hit back Tuesday at Elon Musk’s support for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, as the billionaire continued intervening in the country’s politics.Without naming Musk directly, Scholz said in a New Year’s Eve speech set to be broadcast on television on Tuesday evening that “what will happen …
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South Korean authorities said Tuesday they were investigating the role of a concrete barrier at the end of Muan airport runway in the country’s worst air disaster, which killed 179 people as a Jeju Air jet crashed on landing.US investigators, including from Boeing, were at the crash site in southwestern Muan, officials said, as South …
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Taiwan said Tuesday that this year was the hottest since records began 127 years ago, echoing unprecedented temperature highs felt around the world.Climate change sparked a trail of extreme weather and record heat globally in 2024, fuelling natural disasters that caused billions of dollars worth of damage.As of Sunday, the annual average temperature in Taiwan …
Beijing insisted on Tuesday that it had shared information on Covid-19 “without holding anything back”, after the World Health Organization implored China to offer more data and access to understand the disease’s origins.Covid-19, which first emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2020, went on to kill millions of people, shred economies …
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The wall was tagged with graffiti above 22-year-old Sidi’s bed in the lone psychiatric hospital in Mauritania, a country whose mental health system is as sparse as its desert landscapes.”Stress kills your neurons,” said the message scrawled in room 13, one of just 20 beds available for psychiatric patients in the African country of five …
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