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Accused spies chafe in legal limbo in Albania
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 23/07/2023
» Striking pictures of urban decay, including Soviet-era bomb shelters overgrown with weeds and the crumbling remains of factories across Eastern Europe, won a Russian photographer hundreds of thousands of Instagram followers eager to track her travels.
Martha's Vineyard migrants settle in
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 23/07/2023
» On a sprawling Martha's Vineyard estate not far from the seashore, Deici Cauro adjusted a baseball cap to keep the burning sun at bay. She was crouching to pull weeds with her bare hands when a familiar voice called out from the other side of the yard.
'Life or death': Arizona heat wave poses lethal threat to homeless
AFP, Published on 20/07/2023
» PHOENIX - On a sidewalk in Arizona's capital Phoenix, where a record-setting heat wave has prompted warnings for people to limit their time outside, Dana Page struggles to stay hydrated in her tarpaulin shelter.
Disappointment on Ukraine front line over NATO meeting
AFP, Published on 13/07/2023
» DONETSK REGION (UKRAINE) - From their boltholes in the trenches in the frontlines of Ukraine's battle to resist the Russian forces, Kyiv's troops expressed frustration that they could not join NATO immediately.
Gene therapy could curb stray cat problem
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 02/07/2023
» For all the cats who share our homes as companion animals, there is a vast shadow world of strays -- a sprawling and fast-breeding crowd.
Southern US swelters in brutal heat wave
AFP, Published on 27/06/2023
» HOUSTON - A dangerous and prolonged heat wave blanketed large parts of the southern United States on Tuesday, buckling highways and forcing people into air-conditioned shelters as temperatures soared past 115 degrees Fahrenheit (46 Celsius).
Gales lash India and Pakistan coast as cyclone approaches
AFP, Published on 15/06/2023
» MANDVI (INDIA) - Howling gales and crashing waves pounded the coastline of India and Pakistan on Thursday hours before a powerful cyclone was due to make landfall, with those unable to flee seeking shelter where they could.
Rescue dog that helped find lost kids in Amazon is now missing
AFP, Published on 14/06/2023
» BOGOTá - Six-year-old tracker dog Wilson, who went missing during the ultimately successful, weeks-long search for four missing Indigenous children in the Colombian Amazon, is now the target of a rescue mission himself.
Two killed by shelling in Russia border region
AFP, Published on 02/06/2023
» BELGOROD, Russia: Two civilians were killed on Friday in shelling on Russia's Belgorod region on the border with Ukraine, while Kyiv was hit by Russian strikes overnight for a sixth day in a row.
Sleeping in a closet: Kyiv adapts to Russian strikes
AFP, Published on 26/05/2023
» KYIV: At the sound of the air raid siren, two little girls quickly unroll a mattress on the ground as their mother takes her other daughter, still asleep, to a closet.