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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.
School's in session, power or not
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 05/02/2023
» When the blare of the siren rang out over the loudspeaker, the students in a school in central Kyiv, Ukraine, quickly rose from their desks, packed their things and filed calmly down the stairs behind their teachers. But this wasn't a drill.
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.
Can smartphones help predict suicide?
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 23/10/2022
» In March, Katelin Cruz left her latest psychiatric hospitalisation with a familiar mix of feelings. She was, on the one hand, relieved to leave the ward, where aides took away her shoelaces and sometimes followed her into the shower to ensure that she would not harm herself.
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.
Sounding a new note
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 31/07/2022
» On some nights, when her dorm room in Lisbon turns dark and the church bells stop ringing, the young trumpet player thinks about the distant afternoon when her uncle took her to the graveyard to gather stones.
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.
Chinese students are heading home to escape Covid-hit Hong Kong
Published on 06/03/2022
» HONG KONG: As Hong Kong grapples with a worsening Covid-19 outbreak and fears of a full lockdown grow, some mainland university students are fleeing the city.
On Mars, a year of surprise and discovery
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 27/02/2022
» A year ago, Nasa's Perseverance rover was accelerating to a collision with Mars, nearing its destination after a 466.7-million-kilometre, seven-month journey from Earth.