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Running wild: stray dogs threaten rare Balkan lynx
AFP, Published on 03/08/2023
» MAVROVO (MACEDONIA) - For years, the Balkan lynx has struggled to survive as deforestation destroyed its habitat and poachers targeted the elusive mountain cat along with the animals it relies on for food.
Expunging 'no-kid' zones
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 04/06/2023
» South Korea has the lowest birthrate in the world, but parents say the government isn't making it any easier for them to have children when hundreds of public facilities across the country are designated "no-kids zones".
Boom and bust: Quakes define legacy of Turkey's 'Erdonomics'
AFP, Published on 07/05/2023
» ISTANBUL - The earthquake's frightening rumble came deep in the night. Its ferocity killed thousands of people in their sleep and helped bring down a Turkish government.
Japan PM sacks aide for homophobic comment
Published on 04/02/2023
» TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Saturday sacked a close aide after he made remarks about sexual minorities that the premier called "outrageous".
UK cost-of-living crisis pushes mothers to the brink
AFP, Published on 26/01/2023
» LONDON: At an east London church on a bitterly cold winter's day, Beautine Wester-Okiya picks her way through boxes of donated baby clothes, toys and other assorted items destined for local people battered by the UK's cost-of-living crisis.
Mould and red tape: Ukrainians hosted in UK struggle to find own housing
AFP, Published on 29/11/2022
» LONDON - Viktoriya arrived in the UK in March after fleeing war-torn east Ukraine with her two sons and their cat and dog.
Marxist mayor a hit with the wealthy
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 28/08/2022
» That the conservative mayor would win yet again, and serve a fifth term, had been treated as a foregone conclusion in Graz, Austria's second-largest city, a place where it's not uncommon to encounter local residents proudly dressed in traditional lederhosen and dirndls.
Lending a helping hand
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 14/08/2022
» Abortion has been banned in Poland for 29 years, but that has done little to prevent women from finding access to the procedure, leaving Rev Tomasz Kancelarczyk a busy man.
Hong Kong's homeless numbers surge to 10-year high
Published on 07/08/2022
» HONG KONG: Hong Konger To Hanh-duyen, 47, slept on a bench in a park in Tai Kok Tsui for more than a month through summer nights.
Billionaire Icahn steps up campaign against McDonald's pig farm practices
AFP, Published on 21/02/2022
» NEW YORK - Billionaire Carl Icahn has nominated two allies to the board of McDonald's, the company confirmed Sunday, part of the activist investor's campaign against pig-farming practices used in the fast-food giant's supply chains.