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Albanians strive to save world's rarest seal
AFP, Published on 12/04/2023
» VLORA, Albania: A team of Albanian marine biologists scan the azure waters of the Ionian Sea for a sign of one of the rarest marine mammals in the world.
Italy's 'Fourth Mafia', little-known but extremely violent
AFP, Published on 17/03/2023
» FOGGIA (ITALY) - It took a loaded pistol pointed at Lazzaro D'Auria's head for the Italian landowner to finally say yes to the country's newest and most violent mafia.
Turkish govt aims to ban opposition party
AFP, Published on 10/01/2023
» ISTANBUL: Turkey's chief prosecutor made his final case in court Tuesday to shut down a Kurdish-backed opposition party before the country heads to the polls later this year.
Turkish doctor on 'terror' trial over chemical arms comment
AFP, Published on 24/12/2022
» ISTANBUL - The head of Turkey's main medical union went on trial Friday on "terror" charges linked to her calls for a probe into the army's alleged use of chemical weapons against Kurdish fighters in Iraq.
Painter Pierre Soulages, French master of black, dies at 102
AFP, Published on 26/10/2022
» PARIS - French abstract artist Pierre Soulages, who has died aged 102, was the Henry Ford of painting: for him there was just one colour, black, and he spent a lifetime exploring the light within it.
'Extremely rare' Rameses II-era burial cave found in Israel
AFP, Published on 19/09/2022
» JERUSALEM - Israeli archaeologists on Sunday announced the "once-in-a-lifetime" discovery of a burial cave from the time of ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Rameses II, filled with dozens of pottery pieces and bronze artefacts.
Life in the abyss, a spectacular and fragile struggle for survival
AFP, Published on 29/06/2022
» PARIS - Cloaked in darkness and mystery, the creatures of the deep oceans exist in a world of unlikely profusion, surviving on scant food and under pressure that would crush human lungs.
Life in the abyss, a spectacular and fragile struggle for survival
AFP, Published on 28/06/2022
» PARIS: Cloaked in darkness and mystery, the creatures of the deep oceans exist in a world of unlikely profusion, surviving on scant food and under pressure that would crush human lungs.
UK unveils radical rewrite of EU pact for N. Ireland
AFP, Published on 18/05/2022
» LONDON - The UK government on Tuesday unveiled a plan to drastically overhaul post-Brexit trade rules in Northern Ireland, arguing the changes are needed to end political paralysis in the divided territory.
'We won't eat tonight': hunger plagues Afghans in historic valley
AFP, Published on 05/10/2021
» BAMIYAN (AFGHANISTAN) - They have long survived hand to mouth, but since the Taliban conquered the Bamiyan valley, rural Afghans living in its mountainside caves have been left weak from hunger and fear.