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Netflix announces fourth season of hit show 'Stranger Things'

NEW YORK (AFP) -- Netflix announced Monday a fourth season of retro sci-fi show "Stranger Things," the site's most successful original production, as it bids to fend off intense competition from othe...

October 1, 2019
Television
China celebrates 70 years as Hong Kong unrest looms large

BEIJING (AFP) -- China celebrates 70 years of Communist Party supremacy Tuesday with a parade of tanks, missiles and troops, a muscular display of its rising superpower status even as it faces an unp...

October 1, 2019
World News
Australian PM confirms Trump asked for help investigating Mueller probe

WASHINGTON (AFP) -- Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has confirmed that US President Donald Trump asked him to help gather information for an inquiry into Robert Mueller's investigation of Ru...

October 1, 2019
World News
Unleashed from Trump, Bolton says N. Korea still seeks nukes

WASHINGTON (AFP) -- John Bolton warned Monday that North Korea had not truly chosen to give up nuclear weapons in the hawk's first public appearance since he left as President Donald Trump's national...

October 1, 2019
North Korea
Xi bows to Mao ahead of China's 70th anniversary

BEIJING (AFP) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping paid his respects to Chairman Mao Zedong's embalmed body Monday in a rare gesture ahead of China's celebration of 70 years of Communist rule. Xi and oth...

September 30, 2019
World News
Taiwan shrugs as communist China hails 70th anniversary

TAIPEI (AFP) -- Communist China's creation seven decades ago irrevocably changed Taiwan, but Beijing's huge celebrations this week will be met with a collective shrug on an island where people increa...

September 30, 2019
World News
As communist China turns 70, a 'Great Fracture' emerges with US

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) -- Seventy years after the founding of communist China, once rosy predictions of coexistence with the United States have dissipated with expectations rising instead of a long-ter...

September 29, 2019
World News
Sony, Marvel strike deal for new 'Spider-Man' film

LOS ANGELES (AFP) -- Spider-Man will spin his web on the big screen once again. A breakdown in talks between Sony Pictures and Marvel had imperiled the web-slinger's celluloid future, but the two co...

September 29, 2019
Film
No kidding: Japan airlines offer seat maps to avoid tots

TOKYO (AFP) -- Fed up with finding yourself next to a screaming child on a long-haul flight? On some Japanese airlines a seat map will warn you where potentially bawling babies are sitting. The faci...

September 27, 2019
World News
No UN breakthrough: Iran rules out talks as US intensifies sanctions

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) -- Iran's president on Wednesday closed the door on meeting Donald Trump despite last-minute European efforts to ease tensions as the United States again ramped up punishing sanc...

September 26, 2019
World News
Trump calls Democratic impeachment inquiry a 'joke'

NEW YORK (AFP) -- A downbeat Donald Trump on Wednesday dismissed as a "joke" the grounds laid out for the impeachment inquiry into him, as Democrats stood firm in accusing the US president of a "mafi...

September 26, 2019
World News
Famed opera singer Placido Domingo withdrawing from all future Met performance

NEW YORK (AFP) -- Placido Domingo, the legendary opera singer facing myriad sexual harassment accusations, is withdrawing from all future performances at New York's Metropolitan Opera, both he and th...

September 25, 2019
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Top Democrat announces formal Trump impeachment inquiry

WASHINGTON (AFP) -- US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Tuesday the opening of a formal impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, saying he had violated the constitution in seeking help...

September 25, 2019
World News
Prepare for a world with more tariffs, US Fed's Bullard says

WASHINGTON (AFP) -- Ignited by President Trump's conflict with China, the global economy is facing a future with higher tariffs and barriers to free trade than in the past eight decades, a Federal Re...

September 24, 2019
World News
Messi wins FIFA player of the year as Ronaldo skips ceremony

MILAN (AFP) -- Lionel Messi won the FIFA Men's Player of the Year award as beaten rival Cristiano Ronaldo stayed away from the star-studded ceremony in Milan's iconic La Scala Opera House on Monday. ...

September 24, 2019
Soccer

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