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If confirmed as health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr would take the helm of a department overseeing more than 80,000 employees and a $1.7 trillion annual budget

Trump's Health Sec Pick RFK Jr Faces Critical Senate Hearing

If confirmed, the 71-year-old Kennedy family scion and former environmental lawyer would take the helm of a department overseeing more than 80,000 employees and a $1.7 trillion budget at a time when scientists are sounding the alarm over the potential for bird flu to trigger a human pandemic.
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Donald Trump will be sworn in for a second term as president

Triumphant Trump Set For Return To Power

Freezing weather has forced the 78-year-old's inauguration at the US Capitol indoors, but the first hours of the most extraordinary comeback in American politics will be a blaze of activity.
AFP news Jan 20, 2025
US President Joe Biden delivers his farewell address to the nation from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 15, 2025.

Biden Warns Of Trump 'Oligarchy' In Dark Farewell Speech

In a primetime speech from the Oval Office at the end of his single term in office, he warned of an ultra-wealthy "tech industrial complex" that he said could gain unchecked power over the American people.
AFP news Jan 16, 2025
Bangladesh's interim leader Muhammad Yunus demanded the return of stolen assets, decrying the 'scale of corruption' under the ousted government of Sheikh Hasina

Bangladesh's Yunus Demands Return Of Stolen Billions

Bangladesh's interim leader Muhammad Yunus on Wednesday demanded the return of stolen assets, decrying the scale of corruption under the ousted government of Sheikh Hasina, toppled by a revolution last year.
AFP news Jan 15, 2025
Francois Bayrou is looking to the left for tacit support

New French PM Faces First Key Parliamentary Hurdle

Bayrou, who became France's fourth prime minister in a year when he took office a month ago, faces a huge challenge to get agreement on long-overdue budget plan for 2025 and resolve bitter disputes over a 2023 pension reform.
AFP news Jan 14, 2025
Pete Hegseth, US President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of defense, faces allegations of sexual misconduct and excessive drinking

Trump's Cabinet Picks Come Under US Senate Spotlight

Thirteen nominees will be grilled before 11 committees, and while many will sail through, others face controversies ranging from alleged sexual assault and heavy drinking to their relationships with dictators and vaccine skepticism.
AFP news Jan 14, 2025
Lebanese lawmakers broke a two-year deadlock to appoint Joseph Aoun president

New Lebanon President Starts Consultations On Naming PM

New Lebanese President Joseph Aoun began parliamentary consultations Monday to designate a prime minister tasked with forming a government desperately needed to tackle major challenges in the crisis-hit country.
AFP news Jan 13, 2025
Police said more than a million members of an influential religious sect gathered in the Philippine capital on Monday

Philippine Sect Gathers To Oppose VP Duterte Impeachment

Crowds wearing white shirts and carrying banners calling for unity flocked to Manila's Quirino Grandstand for the "national rally for peace", organized by the conservative Iglesia ni Cristo (Church of Christ).
AFP news Jan 13, 2025
Zoran Milanovic (L) is hoping to defeat Dragan Primorac (R) to secure a second term as Croatia's president

Croatia's Populist President Tipped For Re-election

The outspoken Milanovic won more than 49 percent of the vote in the first round of the election in late December, narrowly missing an outright victory in the contest by less than one percent.
AFP news Jan 10, 2025
Asian markets mostly got the week off to a healthy start, though traders struggled to match the strong lead from Wall Street

Stock Markets Diverge As Traders Eye Trump 2.0

Concerns about China's stuttering economy, the outlook for US interest rates and the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East were causing a sense of uncertainty ahead of Trump's return to the White House on January 20.
AFP news Jan 06, 2025
Mike Johnson (C) became Republican speaker of the US House of Representatives after his predecessor was ousted in 2023

Top US Republican Fights For Future In Cliffhanger Vote

Having seized the gavel in a palace coup in 2023, the Louisiana conservative is vying for reelection as speaker of the House of Representatives and has President-elect Donald Trump's backing as the deeply divided Congress opens for the new term.
AFP news Jan 03, 2025
People visit former president Jimmy Carter's boyhood home on December 30, 2024 following his death

In Carter's Hometown Hamlet, A Long Anticipated Goodbye Begins

Those in the rural hamlet -- centered around a few old storefronts in the shadow of several massive agricultural silos and buildings -- said the centenarian's death was sad, but in the same breath they recounted fond memories of time spent with the former US leader and global humanitarian.
AFP news Dec 31, 2024
Members of Economic Freedom Fighters call for "National Shutdown" and resignation of President Ramaphosa in Pretoria

EFF Backs Mozambique Protesters, Urges South Africa To Stay Alert

The unrest in Mozambique has affected regional trade, with South Africa temporarily closing the Lebombo border post due to protests and vehicle fires. Although the border has been partially reopened for cargo, the situation still disrupts trade and travel.
Sana Khan Dec 27, 2024

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