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A journey across London on the Elizabeth Line
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 18/06/2023
» London's magnificent Elizabeth Line opened last May, and on its first birthday there's so much to celebrate.
Marvel superhero holds fast to Maya roots
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 30/04/2023
» For her big underwater scene in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Guatemalan actress María Mercedes Coroy had to hold her breath as her character, Princess Fen, gives birth in a hazy ocean world to a winged serpent son.
'Pushy' China outstaying welcome
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 12/02/2023
» Down a dirt road outside the Solomon Islands' capital city, past Chinese construction projects and shops where Chinese merchants sell snacks, a tribal chief tried to explain what it feels like to have a rising superpower suddenly take an interest in a poor, forgotten place desperate for development.
Sheeran to crown queen's four-day jubilee party
AFP, Published on 05/06/2022
» LONDON: British pop superstar Ed Sheeran was on Sunday set to bring the curtain down on four days of momentous nationwide celebrations to honour Queen Elizabeth II's historic Platinum Jubilee.
Russian bullet shatters life-long Bucha love
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 15/05/2022
» She called him Sunshine. He called her Kitty.
More sanctions on Russia over Ukraine, Biden to talk to Xi
Reuters, Published on 18/03/2022
» KYIV/LVIV, Ukraine: Japan and Australia on Friday slapped fresh sanctions on Russian entities as punishment for Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, which the West says has been stalled by staunch resistance but continues to take a devastating toll on civilians.
Eritrean troops killed 'hundreds' in Ethiopia massacre: Amnesty
AFP, Published on 26/02/2021
» NAIROBI - Eritrean soldiers fighting across the border in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region killed hundreds of people in a massacre last year in a likely crime against humanity, Amnesty International said Friday.
Europe moves ahead with lockdown easing, but caution in Asia
AFP, Published on 29/05/2020
» PARIS - Several European countries including France and Britain on Thursday moved to further lift crippling coronavirus lockdown measures, but fresh restrictions in parts of Asia signalled the crisis is far from over.
Operation Tsukiji: Tokyo battles rats as iconic market shuts
AFP, Published on 12/09/2018
» TOKYO - The operation must be ruthless, thorough and silent. Without alerting the watchful enemy, a unit of highly trained Japanese agents will throw up a ring of steel to block any escape from the vast battleground.
France's 'Up All Night' protests gather strength -- and causes
AFP, Published on 10/04/2016
» PARIS - In the heady new world of "Up All Night" it was March 38 on Saturday to the some 2,000 people gathered in a main Paris square to share their aspirations for change.