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'He could get killed': Information war inflates Israel-Hamas fight
AFP, Published on 14/11/2023
» JERUSALEM - Months after he was discharged from hospital, his right leg amputated, Mohammed Zendiq saw his image swirling online in a vicious disinformation campaign downplaying the horrors of the Israel-Hamas war.
K-pop seduces youth in communist Cuba, birthplace of salsa
AFP, Published on 07/11/2023
» HAVANA - In Cuba, the home of salsa, young people are being seduced by a music phenomenon from a place that could hardly be more geographically -- or ideologically -- remote.
Halloween hits Hollywood strike as actors boycott Barbie costumes
AFP, Published on 01/11/2023
» LOS ANGELES - Generic ghosts and vague vampires haunted the Hollywood picket lines this Halloween, as striking actors tried to scare studio bosses by refusing to dress up as any of their famous characters.
Don't dress as Barbie this Halloween, union asks striking actors
AFP, Published on 21/10/2023
» LOS ANGELES - Actors: Put away those Barbie and Spider-Man costumes.
Oh my gourd: Hippo-sized pumpkin is world's biggest
AFP, Published on 11/10/2023
» LOS ANGELES - A monster pumpkin weighing the same as a hippopotamus has claimed the world record for the mightiest gourd -- and bagged its grower a $30,000 prize.
A new 'Exorcist' takes possession of N.America box office
AFP, Published on 09/10/2023
» LOS ANGELES - Fifty years after the original, newly released "The Exorcist: Believer" topped the North American box office this weekend with an estimated $27.2 million in ticket sales, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations said Sunday.
'Overwhelming': S. Korean families' grief compounded by online abuse
AFP, Published on 10/04/2023
» SEOUL - First, he lost his child in Seoul's Halloween crowd crush. Then came a torrent of online abuse, upending his family's once-private life and making him an internet-wide figure of mockery.
S. Korea police chief says crowd surge response was 'insufficient'
AFP, Published on 01/11/2022
» SEOUL: South Korea's police chief said Tuesday that officers had received multiple urgent reports of danger ahead of a deadly crowd crush at a Halloween event but their handling of them was "insufficient".
Delicious US gravestone recipes that are to 'die for'
AFP, Published on 31/10/2022
» WASHINGTON: For some, gravestones can evoke mourning, for others a tribute to a loved one, or, with a little imagination, a gaunt hand emerging from freshly turned earth.
South Korea mourns Halloween crowd surge victims
AFP, Published on 31/10/2022
» SEOUL: South Koreans flocked Monday to memorials honouring the 154 people killed in a crowd surge at Halloween celebrations, as authorities faced accusations that lax crowd control had caused the disaster.