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'Bending Of Reality': US Liberals Stoke Political Conspiracies

The United States confronts 'liberal' conspiracy theorists.
From false claims of a "staged" assassination attempt on Donald Trump to a viral joke about his running mate having sex with a couch, American liberals have taken a page from the far-right's playbook in pushing wild conspiracy theories ahead of US elections.
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Firefighters watch as flames and smoke move through a valley in the Forest Ranch area of Butte County as the Park Fire continues to burn near Chico, California, on July 26, 2024

Wind, Temperatures Pick Up As Fire Scorches Northern California

The so-called Park Fire outside of Chico had burned more than 357,000 acres (144,500 hectares) as of Sunday afternoon, said Cal Fire incident commander Billy See, making it the seventh-largest ever recorded in the state's history.
AFP news Jul 29, 2024
Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves is to announced that the country is 'broke' on Monday

Finance Minister To Reveal Fiscal Audit Of 'Broke' Britain

Reeves, appointed to the role following the center-left Labour party's landslide election victory on July 4, will tell MPs the previous Conservative government "overspent this year's budgets by billions of pounds".
AFP news Jul 29, 2024
Student rallies over civil service job quotas sparked days of violence in Bangladesh this month, killing more than 200 people, according to an AFP count of police and hospital data

Bangladesh Protests To Resume After Ultimatum Ignored

Student rallies against civil service job quotas this month sparked days of violence that killed at least 205 people including several police officers, according to an AFP count of police and hospital data.
AFP news Jul 29, 2024
Some 800,000 passengers were affected by the attacks on France's high-speed train network

'Sabotage' Hits French Trains Hours Before Olympics

Arson attacks scrambled France's high-speed rail network for tens of thousands of passengers on Friday, after what officials called premeditated acts of "sabotage" just hours before the Paris Olympics opened.
AFP news Jul 26, 2024
Typhoon Gaemi left two dead in Taiwan, where heavy rains and strong gusts continued to lash the island

Deadly Typhoon Hits Taiwan, 9 Sailors Missing After Ship Sinks

The strongest typhoon to hit Taiwan in eight years killed three people and flooded parts of the island's second-biggest city on Thursday, while rescuers searched for nine sailors missing after their cargo ship sank in the storm.
AFP news Jul 25, 2024
Benjamin Netanyahu and Joe Biden hugged when the US president visited Israel after the October 7 attacks

Netanyahu, Biden To Meet On Elusive Gaza Deal

Netanyahu will also meet Vice President Kamala Harris -- the likely new Democratic presidential nominee -- at the White House on Thursday, one day after he gave a speech to the US Congress vowing "total victory" against Hamas.
AFP news Jul 25, 2024
The remains of Bangladesh state broadcaster after students set it on fire during protests against government jobs quota system

Bangladesh PM Surveys Destruction As Unrest Recedes

Last week's violence killed at least 193 people including several police officers, according to an AFP count of victims reported by police and hospitals, in one of the biggest upheavals of Hasina's 15-year tenure.
AFP news Jul 25, 2024
A handout photo taken by the South Korean Defence Ministry in early June shows officers checking trash from a balloon sent by North Korea

Trash Balloons From North Korea Hit South's Presidential Compound

It is the first time the South Korean leader's office in downtown Seoul, which is protected by scores of soldiers and a no-fly zone, has been directly hit by any of the thousands of trash-carrying balloons launched by Pyongyang since May.
AFP news Jul 24, 2024
US authorities have stepped up security in the capital Washington ahead of Netanyahu's address

Israel PM To Rally US Congress Support Amid Tensions With Biden

Washington has been increasingly critical of the mounting toll on civilians from more than nine months of war in the narrow coastal territory, while protests in Israel by families of hostages taken by Hamas are also causing headaches for Netanyahu at home.
AFP news Jul 24, 2024
US President Joe Biden addresses the nation from the Oval Office of the White House on July 14, 2024, about the assassination attempt on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania

Biden To Address US As Clock Ticks On Presidency

With the world's eyes already on a looming clash between Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, Biden will insist in his address to the nation that he still has work to do despite his historic decision to bow out.
AFP news Jul 24, 2024
Taiwan closed schools, suspended the stock market, and issued a typhoon holiday on Wednesday as Gaemi barrelled towards the island

Taiwan Shuts Down As Typhoon Gaemi Approaches

Typhoon Gaemi, packing sustained wind speeds of 190 kilometers (118 miles) per hour, also affected Japan and the Philippines -- which announced government offices would close for the day.
AFP news Jul 24, 2024

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