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Latest articles from Agence France Presse
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88.5
Al Qaeda deputy warns Obama against troops to Afghanistan
DUBAI (AFP) - Al-Qaeda number two Ayman Zawahiri warned US president-elect Barack Obama against sending more troops to Afghanistan, in an Internet audiomessage release...
88.23US consumer prices plunge record 1% in October
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US consumer prices plunged a record 1.0 percent in October amid an accelerating global financial crisis, government data showed Wednesday.
87.35Automakers plead for help, markets fear sector's collapse
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US and European automakers, warning that their industry was now imperiled by the global economic meltdown, appealed for government help and sparked ...
87.35German group SolarWorld bids 1bln euros for Opel
FRANKFURT (AFP) - German solar energy company SolarWorld unveiled on Wednesday a surprise billion-euro (1.26-billion-dollar) takeover bid for Opel, a unit of US Genera...
84.27Indian warship shells pirates as super-tanker held to ransom
MOGADISHU (AFP) - An Indian warship opened fire at a Somali pirate "mother ship", the navy said Wednesday, as bandits demanded a ransom for a Saudi super-tanker seize...
83.99Asia-Pacific leaders meet for free-trade appeal
LIMA (AFP) - Top officials from across the Pacific rim were set to open talks here Wednesday on the global economic crisis and to issue a joint appeal against protecti...
83.6Maritime group warns Somalia pirates 'out of control'
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - An international watchdog said Wednesday that piracy in Somalia was "out of control" and called on the United Nations to step in after a Saudi su...
83.16Russians, Georgians gather for fresh stab at talks
GENEVA, (AFP) - Russian and Georgian delegates are to gather at the UN headquarters in Geneva on Wednesday in a fresh bid to tackle issues left over from their brief ...
83.14Somali pirate attacks 'out of control': watchdog
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Somali pirate attacks have spun "out of control", becoming more violent, frequent and extending further from the attackers' bases, a maritime watc...
81.32Germany set to extradite Rwandan official to France
PARIS, (AFP) - Germany was set Wednesday to extradite a Rwandan presidential aide to France to face anti-terror judges probing the downing of the former Rwandan presid...
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81.29
Endeavour astronaut loses tools in space
WASHINGTON (AFP) - An astronaut from the space shuttle Endeavour let slip her tool bag during a spacewalk and watched helplessly as it floated off into space, NASA said.
80.77Communist allies China, Cuba hold landmark summit
HAVANA (AFP) - China's President Hu Jintao made a landmark visit to Cuba, bearing millions of dollars in aid and promises of closer future trade ties.
79.96Texas jury indicts Cheney, Gonzalez in prison abuse case
WASHINGTON, (AFP) - A Texas grand jury has issued indictments against Vice President Dick Cheney and former attorney general Alberto Gonzalez over abuse at privately...
79.94China in September becomes largest holder of US treasuries
WASHINGTON (AFP) - China in September became the largest foreign holder of US treasuries ahead of Japan, the US Treasury Department reported in figures released Tuesday.
79.81Saudis wait for contact from pirates over hijacked super-tanker
MOGADISHU, (AFP) - The operators of a hijacked Saudi super-tanker carrying 100 million dollars of oil were waiting Wednesday for further contact from the Somali bandi...
79.32Party politics undermine German economic defences
BERLIN (AFP) - Just as Germany comes under pressure to do more to jumpstart the world's third biggest economy, party politics is rearing its ugly head and undermining ...
79.15US sees long road to recovery as economic gloom spreads
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US Treasury has said it would take time for the world's largest economy to begin to recover despite a massive financial bailout, amid growing fe...
78.07Obama picks first African-American attorney general: media
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US president-elect Barack Obama has named longtime lawyer Eric Holder to be attorney general, which if confirmed would make him the first African-Am...
77.52Landmark windpipe transplant uses patient stemcells
PARIS (AFP) - The pioneering transplant of a windpipe stripped of its cells and seeded with recipient stem cells has given a 30-year old Colombian woman a new lease on...
76.91Castro serenades China's Hu on landmark Cuba visit
HAVANA (AFP) - China's President Hu Jintao made a landmark visit to Cuba Tuesday, bearing millions of dollars in aid and promises of closer future trade ties.
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