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Aristocrats flock to Russia for rare royal wedding
AFP, Published on 02/10/2021
» SAINT PETERSBURG: Russia on Friday held its first royal wedding since the 1917 Bolshevik revolution toppled the Romanov monarchy, with aristocrats travelling from across Europe for the lavish ceremony.
At top Confederate general's home near Washington, enslaved voices elevated
AFP, Published on 02/09/2021
» ARLINGTON (UNITED STATES) - Statues of Robert E. Lee have been toppled as the United States grapples with its racist past but on a hill overlooking the nation's capital, the top Confederate general's house has been totally revamped.
Libyan capital's neglected Old City gets facelift
AFP, Published on 15/04/2021
» TRIPOLI - In alleys criss-crossing the Libyan capital's Old City, construction crews are hard at work restoring former glory to architectural treasures neglected under ex-dictator Moamer Kadhafi and in the decade since.
Can Italy's Dante get justice, 700 years after his death?
AFP, Published on 12/03/2021
» FLORENCE: Dante's "Divine Comedy," considered one of the world's greatest literary works, came to light after a miscarriage of justice which Italian legal experts now want to correct -- some seven centuries on.
Footballer's 'racism' ban: an attack on a culture?
AFP, Published on 15/01/2021
» MONTEVIDEO: "Touch one Uruguayan, touch us all," grumbles Silvina Rosas as she adorns wine bottles with labels bearing the controversial phrase "Gracias Negrito".
US Supreme Court hears case on art trove bought by Nazi Germany
AFP, Published on 07/12/2020
» WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court will hear Monday a case involving an important medieval art collection that Nazi Germany acquired from Jewish dealers.
Kuwait's emir Sheikh Sabah dies at age 91
AFP, Published on 29/09/2020
» KUWAIT CITY - Kuwait's emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, the architect of the nation's modern foreign policy and mediator in some of the worst crises to grip the Gulf, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, the royal court announced.
Mawla the 'Destroyer', brutal new head of Islamic State
AFP, Published on 21/07/2020
» PARIS: With monikers as divergent as the "Professor" and the "Destroyer", the Islamic State group's new head has a reputation for brutality, but otherwise remains largely an enigma.
Royal rivalry in Italian Riviera 'micronation'
AFP, Published on 09/07/2020
» SEBORGA (ITALY) - The princess showed off her tiny realm, sitting peaceful and picturesque, high above the Italian Riviera.
Relative of extinct tortoise located in Galapagos
AFP, Published on 01/02/2020
» QUITO - A scientific expedition to the Galapagos Islands has discovered a tortoise with a "strong" genetic link to a presumed-extinct subspecies made famous by the popular Lonesome George, national park officials said Friday.