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Iran vows revenge for slain supreme leader despite Trump threat
AFP, Published on 01/03/2026
» TEHRAN - Iranian top officials vowed Sunday to avenge their slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and declared a new wave of strikes on US bases in the Gulf, defying US President Donald Trump's threat of an unprecedented escalation in force.
Music, mourning after Iran's Khamenei killed
AFP, Published on 01/03/2026
» PARIS - Cheers in Tehran. Retaliation and mourning announced by Iran. Protests erupting in some parts of the Muslim world, celebrations in others.
Latest developments after US, Israeli strikes kill Iran's Khamenei
AFP, Published on 01/03/2026
» PARIS (FRANCE) - Iranian state television confirmed the death of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday, after US President Donald Trump said he had been killed.
Shenzhen, China's land-starved tech hub, making space by moving massive landfill
Published on 08/12/2025
» The southern Chinese megacity of Shenzhen, a symbol of the country's rapid urbanisation and development, has spent decades transforming urban villages and tenement blocks into dense public housing estates and massive industrial and office parks.
'I know it's immoral': Child labour still common in Pakistan
AFP, Published on 13/10/2025
» KARACHI - From the age of 10, Amina has been scrubbing, sweeping and cooking in a middle-class home in Pakistan's megacity of Karachi.
China braces for travel rush as millions head home at end of 'golden week' holiday
Published on 07/10/2025
» The Chinese transport authorities are preparing for a major travel rush as millions take to the roads and railways at the end of the national "golden week" holiday.
Olympic Council of Asia says Saudi Winter Games 'on schedule'
AFP, Published on 25/08/2025
» HONG KONG - The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) says that preparations for the 2029 Asian Winter Games in Saudi Arabia are "on schedule" after South Korea and China emerged as potential replacements.
Sounds serious: New York City noise pollution takes a toll
AFP, Published on 20/08/2025
» NEW YORK — Tim Mulligan moved to central Manhattan in the United States so he could be closer to work and avoid a daily ordeal on the rattling, screeching subway, just one part of the urban noisescape that tests New Yorkers every day.
Afro-Brazilian carnival celebrates cultural kinship in Lagos
AFP, Published on 21/04/2025
» LAGOS - Thousands of young and old descendants of formerly enslaved people donned elaborate costumes Sunday to bring the rhythm, vibrancy and colours of Brazil's Rio Carnival to the streets of Lagos in Nigeria.
G-7 central banks prepare first responses to US tariff chaos
Published on 13/04/2025
» The first Group of Seven monetary policy decisions since President Donald Trump’s trade war unleashed global market turmoil may prompt diverging responses from either side of the Atlantic.