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Slain AFP reporter's frontline act of kindness
AFP, Published on 10/05/2023
» KYIV (UKRAINE) - One telling thing stands out among AFP journalist Arman Soldin's coverage of devastation in Ukraine. It was a humane act of tenderness amid the brutality of war -- the rescue of a wounded hedgehog.
Belarus cadets train on Russian tanks
AFP, Published on 18/02/2023
» MINSK, Belarus: In Moscow-allied Belarus, officers look out across a snowy training ground outside the capital Minsk as Russian and Soviet-era tanks fire into the distance.
Teacher turns home into school in destroyed Ukraine village
AFP, Published on 27/01/2023
» SHANDRYGOLOVE, Ukraine: Teacher Oleksandr Pogoryelov occasionally strolls up the sloping road to the school in his village in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine where he taught for more than two decades.
Ukraine schools return to sound of war
AFP, Published on 02/09/2022
» POKROVSKé (UKRAINE) - Antonina Sidorenko has put on her favourite clothes, selected the prettiest ribbon to adorn her hair and can recite by heart the poem given by her schoolteacher.
Semenya falls well short in bold bid at world 5000m
AFP, Published on 21/07/2022
» EUGENE (UNITED STATES) - Caster Semenya's first appearance in a world championships in five years on Wednesday saw the controversy-mired South African fail to qualify for the women's 5000m finals.
In east Ukraine, the war-weary listen out to stay alive
AFP, Published on 05/05/2022
» KRAMATORSK, Ukraine: After hearing the shells raining down around her for weeks, 58-year-old Ludymyla is still learning to differentiate between the sounds of the explosions ripping apart towns in war-scarred Donbas.
Several wounded in German lecture hall shooting, gunman dead
AFP, Published on 24/01/2022
» FRANKFURT - A gunman injured several people in a shooting inside a lecture hall at Heidelberg University in southwestern Germany on Monday, police said, adding that the perpetrator was now dead.
French teachers walk out over Covid confusion
AFP, Published on 14/01/2022
» PARIS - Huge numbers of French teachers went on strike Thursday, with the biggest teachers' union saying half of primary schools were closed as staff demand clarity from the government on coronavirus measures.
French teachers to walk out over Covid confusion
AFP, Published on 13/01/2022
» PARIS - Half of French schools could close Thursday as up to three-quarters of teachers walk out, pushing back against the government after three changes of Covid rules for classrooms in the space of a week.
Austria re-enters Covid lockdown after violent protests in Europe
AFP, Published on 22/11/2021
» VIENNA: Austria returned to a partial lockdown in the most dramatic Covid-19 restrictions seen in Western Europe for months after a weekend of violence against virus measures rocked several cities on the continent.