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North Korea to welcome first tourists in 4 years
Published on 12/01/2024
» North Korea is preparing to allow the first group of tourists to visit the country since it shut its borders at the start of the pandemic in 2020, in a sign of opening that could be followed by a football match against Japan’s national women’s team.
World rings in 2024 after war, bots and Barbie
AFP, Published on 01/01/2024
» SYDNEY - Jubilant crowds began bidding farewell on Sunday to the hottest year on record, closing a turbulent 12 months marked by clever chatbots, climate crises and wrenching wars in Gaza and Ukraine.
Macron: Notre Dame to reopen on time
AFP, Published on 08/12/2023
» PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron promised on Friday that the restoration of Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral, badly damaged by fire in 2019, would be completed in time for its planned reopening next December.
'Failure' in psychiatric care of Paris attacker: minister
AFP, Published on 04/12/2023
» PARIS: There was a clear failure in the psychiatric care of the radicalised Islamist suffering from mental troubles who stabbed a German tourist to death in central Paris at the weekend before being arrested, France's interior minister said Monday.
Outlaw militias torch 35 buses in Rio after crime boss is killed
AFP, Published on 24/10/2023
» BRASíLIA - Suspected paramilitary militia members torched 35 buses and a train drivers' cabin in Rio de Janeiro Monday, paralyzing parts of the scenic Brazilian city after one of their leaders was killed in a police operation, officials said.
Dissident's secretive past comes to light
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 23/07/2023
» It wasn't as if Bei Zhenying didn't know that her husband was unusual, or even that he had some secrets.
How Paris is remaking the Seine
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 28/05/2023
» An electric delivery boat pushed up the Seine, past the former palaces and elegant museums and under the low-slung stone and metal bridges before turning at the Eiffel Tower and gliding to the riverbank.
Across globe, women battle 'gendered disinformation'
AFP, Published on 23/03/2023
» WASHINGTON - Fake photos showing Ukraine's first lady sunbathing topless, incorrect video subtitles defaming Pakistani feminists for "blasphemy", slow-motion clips falsely depicting "drunk" female politicians -- a barrage of disinformation targets women in the public eye.
Immigrants who give up and go home
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 19/03/2023
» In August 2021, more than three decades after sneaking across the southern border as young adults to work and support their families in Mexico, Irma and Javier Hernandez checked in at LaGuardia Airport for a one-way flight from New York to Oaxaca. They were leaving behind four American children, stable jobs where they were valued employees and a country they had grown to love.
Japan's biggest ad agency indicted in Olympic scandal
AFP, Published on 28/02/2023
» TOKYO: Japan's biggest advertising agency and five other companies were indicted on Tuesday for allegedly violating an anti-monopoly law, in a corruption scandal over bid-rigging during the Tokyo Olympics.