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Judge rules that ex-Trump aide Manafort broke plea deal
AFP, Published on 14/02/2019
» WASHINGTON - Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort could face a much longer prison sentence than expected after a Washington judge ruled Wednesday that he had broken his plea deal with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.
Hundreds flee US-backed Syria battle for last IS holdout
AFP, Published on 12/02/2019
» OMAR OIL FIELD (SYRIA) - US-backed forces pressed the battle to expel diehard jihadists from the last pocket of land under their control in eastern Syria on Tuesday after hundreds fled the holdout overnight.
Racism and redemption: Virginia blackface row stirs painful past
AFP, Published on 11/02/2019
» RICHMOND (UNITED STATES) - Can a politician be forgiven for racist behavior from the past?
Man versus condor: the king of the Andes under threat
AFP, Published on 28/01/2019
» CERRITO (COLOMBIE) - By all accounts, Dasan and Illika should have died of poisoning.
Set in stone
News, Postbag, Published on 05/01/2019
» Re: "Government admits election delay", (BP, Jan 4).
Get to the root of it
News, Postbag, Published on 21/12/2018
» Re: "Media warned against revisiting past unrest", (BP, Dec 19).
Oceans of garbage prompt war on plastics
AFP, Published on 15/12/2018
» PARIS - Faced with images of turtles smothered by plastic bags, beaches carpeted with garbage and islands of trash floating in the oceans, environmentalists say the world is waking up to the need to tackle plastic pollution at the source.
Space oddity
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 12/12/2018
» Parking curbs, in different colours, are arranged in a pattern in a gallery, which occupies a section of a parking space. In one corner of the room are seven cardboard boxes, which contain dozens of brown, slightly dog-eared log books, handwritten by security guards and caretakers of the National Gallery, dating back to the 1990s. Dry report on daily activities fill page after page. "5pm: closed room 1-4. 5.30pm, close the office. Midnight: new shift starts. Situation normal," reads an entry from March 1998.
Red Sox rally to stun Dodgers, reach brink of World Series
AFP, Published on 28/10/2018
» LOS ANGELES - The Boston Red Sox, fueled by homers from Steve Pearce and Mitch Moreland, erased a four-run deficit to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 9-6 and move to the brink of a ninth World Series crown.
