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For Moscow's quarantined, 100,000 cameras are watching
AFP, Published on 24/03/2020
» MOSCOW - A vast and contentious network of facial recognition cameras keeping watch over Moscow is now playing a key role in the battle against the spread of the coronavirus in Russia.
Conservatives ahead as Iran poll results trickle in
AFP, Published on 22/02/2020
» TEHRAN - Conservatives took an early lead Saturday as the first results of Iran's parliamentary election came in, boosted by a predicted low turnout following the disqualification of nearly half the candidates.
Dancing Afghans mark start of week-long partial truce
AFP, Published on 22/02/2020
» KABUL - A week-long partial truce took hold across Afghanistan on Saturday, with some jubilant civilians dancing in the streets as the war-weary country woke up to what is potentially a major turning point in its long conflict.
Addiction in paradise: Seychelles battles heroin crisis
AFP, Published on 20/02/2020
» LES MAMELLES (SEYCHELLES) - On a plain suburban street in Seychelles, far from the idyllic coastline and luxury resorts pampering honeymooners and paradise-seekers, heroin addicts queue anxiously for their daily dose of methadone.
First passengers exit quarantined ship in Japan
AFP, Published on 14/02/2020
» YOKOHAMA: Japan on Friday began allowing elderly passengers who test negative for the new coronavirus to leave a quarantined cruise ship and finish their isolation in government-designated lodging.
Motorcycle taxi ban brings Lagos to a halt
AFP, Published on 09/02/2020
» LAGOS: Even before a sudden controversial ban on motorcycle taxis and tricycles in Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos, crippling traffic jams were a daily ordeal for its more than 20 million inhabitants.
Meet Alex, the taxi driver who became a Grand Slam-winning coach
AFP, Published on 02/02/2020
» MELBOURNE - It wasn't so long ago that Sofia Kenin's father was driving New York taxis and spoke English so poorly that he didn't know where he was supposed to be going. These days Alex Kenin, despite starting with close to zero tennis knowledge, is coaching a Grand Slam champion.
China virus death toll surges past 300
AFP, Published on 02/02/2020
» BEIJING: The death toll from China's coronavirus epidemic soared to 304 on Sunday, as an increasing number of countries imposed extraordinary Chinese travel bans to combat the spread of the disease.
China seals off more cities as virus toll climbs
AFP, Published on 24/01/2020
» WUHAN: China sealed off millions more people near the epicentre of a virus outbreak on Friday, shutting down public transport in an eighth city in an unprecedented quarantine effort as the death toll from the disease climbed to 25.
Medic, driver, witness, baker: four faces of Iraqi's uprising
AFP, Published on 10/12/2019
» BAGHDAD - Tears roll out from behind Ayat's oversized glasses but her hands, facing the sky, are steady. Her friends are gone, killed protesting Iraq's government, but their "revolution" continues.