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AFP – Hosts Turkey secured a semi-final meeting with Serbia after a 95-68 romp over helpless Slovenia in the quarter-finals of the world basketball championships Wednesday.
Turkey were deserved of their 27-14 lead at the end …

AFP – Cuban revolutionary icon Fidel Castro has joked that the “Cuban model doesn’t even work for us any more,” the Atlantic magazine reported Wednesday.
Meeting with a reporter from the US magazine, the 84-year-old former …

AFP – British manufacturing output rose for a third month running in July, official data showed on Wednesday.
Output climbed by 0.3 percent compared with June, the Office for National Statistics said in a statement. The …

AFP – World oil prices fell on Tuesday as the market reacted to the end of the peak demand season coming at a time when supplies are high, analysts said.
New York’s main contract, light sweet …

AFP – The main suspect in the Philippines’ worst political massacre goes on trial on Wednesday, amid allegations of witness intimidation and fears the case could drag on for years.
Andal Ampatuan Jnr and over 100 …

AFP – The Palestinian Authority has arrested several Hamas members for organizing and carrying out two recent attacks on Israeli settlers, a senior official said on Tuesday.
The Palestinian security official, speaking to AFP on condition …

Unlike the US, whose history compared to that of Europe sometimes seems just weeks old, France boasts a number of businesses over a century old that still bear the family name. Rambaud is one such …

AFP – The Iraqi government wants jailed former deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz to die in prison and has shown no compassion for his declining health, his Amman-based son said on Monday.
The warders of 74-year-old …

AFP – A senior culture ministry official and the head of a Cairo museum from which a Van Gogh painting was stolen will stand trial on charges of negligence, a judicial source said on Monday.
The …

AFP – Three hot air balloonists will set off from Nancy in eastern France on Sunday in a bid to reach England, and retrace a route only ever travelled by a French woman adventurer a …

AFP – Serbia recovered from a slow start to overcome fierce rivals Croatia 73-72 and reach the quarter-finals of the basketball world championships on Saturday with a thrilling, last-second win.
The game had looked like being …

AFP – Three hot air balloonists will set off from Nancy in eastern France on Sunday in a bid to reach England, and retrace a route only ever travelled by a French woman adventurer a …

AFP – More American adults are texting but they are not tapping out nearly as many messages per day on their cellphones as teenagers, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center.
The survey, …

AFP – Air France-KLM is considering setting up a "low-cost" domestic carrier to meet intense competition in the French market from budget rivals, company sources said on Thursday.
  
The new airline, dubbed ‘Air France Express,’ …

AFP – Four-time Olympic gold medallist Kosuke Kitajima will spearhead the Japanese swimming team for the Asian Games in November, officials said Friday.
The Japan Swimming Federation announced a team of 29 swimmers, nine fewer than …

As the war of words over expulsions of Roma from France escalates, the leader of France’s Socialist Party (PS) has been accused of hypocrisy for herself demanding the dismantling of a gypsy camp at Lille …