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Etsy targeted by child trafficking conspiracy theories
AFP, Published on 22/12/2023
» WASHINGTON - Conspiracy theorists who believe in a secret cabal of child sex traffickers have set their sights on yet another online retailer: Etsy, a website best known for selling handmade items.
Queen Elizabeth II was concerned about dying in Scotland: daughter
AFP, Published on 22/12/2023
» LONDON - Queen Elizabeth II was persuaded to step back from making decisions about her own funeral after mentioning that it would be "more difficult" if she died in Scotland, her daughter told a forthcoming documentary.
Khawaja insists armband was not political, after ICC reprimand
AFP, Published on 22/12/2023
» MELBOURNE - Australia's Usman Khawaja said Friday that a black armband he wore in the first Test against Pakistan was for a "personal bereavement" and not politically motivated, after the star batter was reprimanded by the International Cricket Council (ICC).
Wildcat Channel tunnel strike blocks France-UK train travel
AFP, Published on 22/12/2023
» PARIS - A shock strike by workers operating the Channel tunnel blocked train travel Thursday between Britain and France, leaving thousands of pre-Christmas travellers as well as freight traffic stranded.
Migrants call UK barge accommodation a ‘prison’
AFP, Published on 21/12/2023
» WEYMOUTH, England - In the damp December cold, a blue bus stops near Weymouth town centre in southwest England. A few men get off, relieved to be spending a few hours away from what they call their "prison" — a barge housing asylum seekers.
More Gaza targets hit as envoys seek truce
AFP, Published on 21/12/2023
» GAZA STRIP - The Israeli army said Thursday it bombed scores of targets in the Gaza Strip as diplomats pressed on with efforts to halt the fighting that Hamas says has killed 20,000 people in the Palestinian territory.
Shrinking Caspian Sea worries Turkmenistan
AFP, Published on 21/12/2023
» TURKMENBASHI, Turkmenistan - On the Caspian Sea coast in Turkmenistan — one of the world's most secretive states — Batyr Yusupov can no longer ferry his passengers between two ports. There is not enough water.
‘I’m a Mandalay girl’: Teen soldier on Myanmar front lines
AFP, Published on 21/12/2023
» SHAN STATE, Myanmar - An 18-year-old recruit in one of Myanmar's pro-democracy fighting units prepares to launch a drone strike on junta troops, driven by anger and her mother’s call for revolution.
Fading colours: Bangladesh's threatened rickshaw art
AFP, Published on 21/12/2023
» DHAKA - Vibrant greens and swirling yellows, film stars, birds and architecture: Bangladesh's bicycle rickshaw drivers have for decades used their transport as a unique moving canvas of urban folk art.
Israel orders more Gaza evacuations as envoys seek truce
AFP, Published on 21/12/2023
» GAZA STRIP (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) - Israel has ordered more evacuations in southern Gaza's main city as diplomats pressed on with efforts to secure a pause in the war that Hamas says has claimed 20,000 lives.