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BUENOS AIRES (AFP) ― The fine print Argentina blames for failed negotiations with disgruntled creditors expires Thursday, theoretically clearing the way for …
TOKYO (AFP) ― Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Thursday pledged to carry out crucial structural reforms this year as part his drive to kickstart the …
NEW YORK (AP) ― A team of researchers think they have pinpointed how the Ebola epidemic in West Africa started ― with a small boy playing in a hollowed-out …
MIAMI (AFP) ― In the depths of an Indonesian rainforest, scientists have identified the first known frog that gives birth to tadpoles instead of laying eggs, …
Greece’s flirtation with an exit from the euro in 2011 and two cliffhanger elections in 2012 prompted the darkest days of the debt crisis, halted only by the …
PARIS (AFP) ― Agreements on climate change ― to paraphrase what the 19th-century German statesman Otto von Bismarck said about law-making ― are like …
GUECKEDOU, Guinea (AP) ― West Africa’s fight to contain Ebola has hampered the campaign against malaria, a preventable and treatable disease that is …
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton remains the woman most admired by Americans, followed by television icon Oprah Winfrey and …
When Yap Mei Mei, or Jules as she is better known online, said she was thinking about becoming a full-time blogger, no one really took her seriously. Little …
It is easier than ever to buy overseas items, but that’s not the real reason behind the booming ranks of China’s “haitao” consumers. Liu Xin, 32, a …