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Niger coup leaves France facing range of dilemmas
AFP, Published on 02/08/2023
» PARIS - The coup in Niger has left former colonial master France with an array of headaches ranging from how to extract its citizens in the face of a deteriorating security situation to future French military strategy.
Afghan women stopped from entering universities after Taliban ban
AFP, Published on 21/12/2022
» KABUL: Hundreds of young women were stopped by armed guards on Wednesday from entering Afghan university campuses, a day after the nation's Taliban rulers banned them from higher education in another assault on human rights.
Iraqi news anchor makes history
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 21/02/2022
» Randa Abd Al-Aziz was relaxing in a Baghdad cafe, making her friends laugh by reading a cosmetics pamphlet aloud in classical Arabic, the exaggeratedly formal language of speeches, official decrees -- and TV anchors.
Gambians await presidential result in test for young democracy
AFP, Published on 05/12/2021
» BANJUL (GAMBIA) - Gambians were waiting Sunday to find out the winner of the first presidential election in the tiny West African nation since former dictator Yahya Jammeh fled into exile, with incumbent Adama Barrow enjoying the advantage in partial results.
Lhasa building boom heightens divisions in Tibet
AFP, Published on 13/07/2021
» LHASA - Under towering mountains, cranes and newly-built blocks of flats stretch up to blue skies around the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, as a construction boom creates a two-tier system of property wealth between state workers and everyone else.
2m face statelessness as India publishes citizenship list
AFP, Published on 31/08/2019
» GUWAHATI, India: Almost 2 million people in northeast India were left facing statelessness on Saturday after the state of Assam published a citizenship list aimed at weeding out "foreign infiltrators", in a process the central government wants to replicate nationwide.
Indian state to publish contentious citizenship list
AFP, Published on 31/08/2019
» GUWAHATI (INDIA) - The Indian state of Assam was due Saturday to publish a highly contentious citizens' register that could potentially lead to several million people becoming stateless.
Life lessons for S. Korea's octogenarian school pupils
AFP, Published on 31/05/2019
» SUNCHEON (SOUTH KOREA) - When the tune of "Twinkle twinkle little star" plays in her South Korean classroom octogenarian pupil Nam Yang-soon sings along with classmates more than 70 years her junior.
In Pakistan public education suffocates under surging population
AFP, Published on 14/12/2018
» TANJAI CHEENA (PAKISTAN) - At the Tanjai Cheena school in northwest Pakistan students squeeze into makeshift classrooms where plastic tarps serve as walls and electricity is sparse, as a surging population overstretches the country's fragile education system.
Melania Trump in the limelight -- briefly
AFP, Published on 08/05/2018
» WASHINGTON - Melania Trump, until now seemingly more comfortable outside the media glare, briefly stepped into the spotlight Monday to unveil the focus of her work as first lady -- an awareness campaign aimed at helping children.