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Suspect in Charlie Kirk killing caught, widow vows to carry on fight
AFP, Published on 14/09/2025
» ST. GEORGE (UNITED STATES) - The widow of prominent right-wing activist Charlie Kirk pledged Friday to carry on her husband's work, after US authorities announced his alleged assassin had finally been captured.
11 foreigners among Lisbon funicular victims
AFP, Published on 05/09/2025
» LISBON - Eleven foreign nationals were among the 16 people killed when one of Lisbon's popular funicular trains crashed this week, Portuguese authorities announced on Friday.
Nepal community efforts revive red panda population
AFP, Published on 14/03/2025
» TāPLEJUNG — Nepali police officer Jiwan Subba still feels pangs of regret decades after he bludgeoned a strange creature he found wandering in his barn, not realising it was an endangered red panda.
One killed, dozens stranded in cable car accident in Turkey
Reuters, Published on 13/04/2024
» ISTANBUL - One person was killed and 10 others injured on Friday in the southern Turkish province of Antalya after a cable car cabin collided with a broken pylon, the interior ministry said on Saturday.
'Never seen such barbarity': the grim task of Israel's forensics teams
AFP, Published on 17/10/2023
» TEL AVIV - The stench of death is overwhelming in Israel's National Center of Forensic Medicine, where experts have been trying to identify the remains of hundreds of people slain in the Hamas attacks.
Helicopters, ziplining commandos rescue 8 from Pakistan cable car
AFP, Published on 23/08/2023
» PASHTO, Pakistan - Military helicopters and ziplining commandos rescued eight people, including six schoolboys, who were trapped for hours on Tuesday in a stricken cable car high above a remote Pakistani valley.
First children rescued from cable car over Pakistan ravine
AFP, Published on 22/08/2023
» PESHAWAR, Pakistan: A helicopter on Tuesday evening helped rescue the first two children from a cable car that had been dangling all day over a deep ravine in Pakistan, rescue officials said.
One dead in ship fire off Netherlands
AFP, Published on 26/07/2023
» THE HAGUE: One sailor died and several others were injured after a fire broke out on a car carrier ship off the Netherlands on Wednesday, the Dutch coastguard said.
Vietnam battles plastic blight in idyllic Ha Long Bay
AFP, Published on 26/05/2023
» HA LONG (VIETNAM) - Squinting in the bright light of a hot summer morning, Vu Thi Thinh perches on the edge of her small wooden boat and plucks a polystyrene block from the calm waters of Vietnam's Ha Long Bay.
Hong Kong embraces crowds of tourists during Workers' Day holiday
Published on 02/05/2023
» HONG KONG: Outside the Peak Tram ticket office at Central in downtown Hong Kong, was a stream of tourists queuing for tickets to the Peak, one of Hong Kong's top attractions.