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Snipers and icy water: Ukrainians risk Dnipro river crossings
AFP, Published on 08/12/2022
» KHERSON (UKRAINE) - Gunning the engine of his ageing skiff, Oleksiy Kovbasyuk races away from Kherson towards an island in the Dnipro river, where stranded Ukrainians are desperate for help -- or to escape.
Twilight of the Tigris: Iraq's mighty river drying up
AFP, Published on 20/09/2022
» BAGHDAD - It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and helped give birth to civilisation itself.
The 97km that frustrate China's mastery of the Mekong
AFP, Published on 10/01/2020
» CHIANG KHONG: Ninety-seven kilometres of rocks in Thai waters stand between Beijing and dominance over the Mekong, a mighty river that feeds millions as it threads south from the Tibetan plateau through five countries before emptying into the South China Sea.
Struggle to save flood-stranded elephant in Bangladesh
AFP, Published on 06/08/2016
» DHAKA - Huge crowds of villagers following a wild elephant stranded in Bangladesh for more than a month by floods are hampering efforts to rescue it, forest officials said Saturday.
Distraught relatives protest over Bangladesh ferry tragedy
AFP, Published on 17/05/2014
» Anguished relatives protested a decision Saturday to stop searching for bodies of passengers they feared were trapped inside a ferry that sunk in central Bangladesh leaving at least 54 dead, police said.
Boats fill the Thames for queen's river pageant
AFP, Published on 04/06/2012
» Hundreds of rowing boats, barges and steamers filled the River Thames with a blaze of colour on Sunday as Queen Elizabeth II sailed through London as part of her spectacular diamond jubilee pageant.