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British journalist missing for 11 days in Brazil 20 Feb 2025 - 12:14 am
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US to designate several drug cartels as 'terrorist' groups: document 19 Feb 2025 - 10:42 pm
This handout picture released on February 17, 2025, by the Mexican Army shows Mexican soldiers dressed in biosecurity suits dismantling a drug production laboratory in Cosala, Sinaloa State, Mexico. (Photo by Handout / MEXICAN ARMY / AFP)
Ecuador says will ask allied countries for special forces to fight drug gangs 19 Feb 2025 - 10:25 pm
A handout picture released by Ecuador's Presidency Press Office shows President Daniel Noboa giving an interview with the journalist Mauricio Ayora at a local TV channel in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on February 18, 2025. (Photo by Handout / Ecuador's Presidency press office / AFP)
Trump brands Zelensky 'a dictator' 19 Feb 2025 - 07:33 pm
(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on February 19, 2025 shows, L-R, US President Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Florida, on February 18, 2025 and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on February 19, 2025. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT and Tetiana DZHAFAROVA / various sources / AFP)
Russia, US to name negotiators on ending Ukraine war 18 Feb 2025 - 11:35 pm
This handout picture taken and released by the Russian Foreign Ministry shows Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov giving a press conference after the meeting with US Secretary of State, National Security Advisor and Middle East envoy at Riyadh's Diriyah Palace on February 18, 2025. (Photo by Handout / Russian Foreign Ministry / AFP)
Trump admin fires thousands of federal workers without evidence report 18 Feb 2025 - 08:22 pm
US President Donald Trump speaks with the press as he meets with unseen Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, alongside US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (2nd R), US Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum (R), Elon Musk (top C) and US Secretary of Commerce nominee Howard Lutnick (top R), in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 13, 2025. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP)
US lawmakers due to confirm Howard Lutnick as commerce secretary 18 Feb 2025 - 06:43 pm
(FILES) US President Donald Trump speaks to the press after signing an executive order, alongside US Secretary of Commerce nominee Howard Lutnick (R), in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 10, 2025. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)
Energy prices push up Canada January inflation to 1.9% 18 Feb 2025 - 06:15 pm
Four rigs drill at the Super Pad in Seven Generations Energy's Kakwa River Project in northwest Alberta, Canada in a photo provided January 19, 2018. Seven Generations Energy Ltd/Handout via Reuters
Anglo American exits nickel market with sale of Brazil mines 18 Feb 2025 - 05:22 pm
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Musk has no formal decision-making authority: White House 18 Feb 2025 - 02:21 pm
Elon Musk speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 11, 2025. Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP
Video: Delta plane flips upside down in Toronto crash, at least 18 injured 18 Feb 2025 - 08:08 am
A Delta Airlines plane lies overturned after crashing earlier in the day at Toronto Pearson International Airport on February 17, 2025 in Toronto, Canada. Katherine KY Cheng/Getty Images/AFP
Delta plane flips upside down in Toronto crash, 8 wounded 18 Feb 2025 - 12:00 am
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US dollar ticks up 17 Feb 2025 - 11:19 pm
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US DOGE seeks access to IRS system housing sensitive taxpayer data report 17 Feb 2025 - 10:38 pm
A sign for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is seen outside its building on February 13, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
Argentine prosecutors to probe Milei over 'cryptogate' 17 Feb 2025 - 08:34 pm
(FILES) Argentina's President Javier Milei attends the Atreju political meeting organised by the young militants of Italian right wing party Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d'Italia) on December 14, 2024 in Rome. (Photo by Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP)
Mexico says to sue Google if it insists on using 'Gulf of America' 17 Feb 2025 - 07:48 pm
This photo illustration shows the Gulf of Mexico branded as Gulf of America displayed on the Google Maps application on a tablet on February 11, 2025, in Bogota, Colombia. (Photo by Luis ACOSTA / AFP)
Musk's DOGE seeks access to US tax system: reports 17 Feb 2025 - 11:50 am
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'Smartest AI on Earth' chatbot Grok 3 will be unveiled Monday: Elon Musk 16 Feb 2025 - 10:39 pm
Elon Musk / Photo by Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post