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Gaza fighting enters fourth day amid hopes for truce
AFP, Published on 12/05/2023
» GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: Israel's military launched further strikes on Gaza on Friday after militants fired rockets from the territory, on the fourth day of fighting which has killed dozens of Palestinians and one in Israel.
Israel, Palestinian militants trade deadly fire over Gaza
AFP, Published on 11/05/2023
» GAZA CITY (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) - Israel's army and Gaza militants traded heavy cross-border fire overnight, with at least 22 Palestinians killed over two days in the worst escalation of violence to hit the coastal territory in months.
AFP journalist Arman Soldin killed in eastern Ukraine
AFP, Published on 10/05/2023
» CHASIV YAR (UKRAINE) - AFP's Ukraine video coordinator Arman Soldin was killed on Tuesday by rocket fire near Chasiv Yar in eastern Ukraine, AFP journalists who witnessed the incident said.
US readies for migrant influx
AFP, Published on 09/05/2023
» BROWNSVILLE, Texas: The United States is girding for the arrival of thousands of migrants this week, with the expiry of pandemic-era rules that have made claiming asylum at the border all but impossible.
Top militants among 12 killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza
AFP, Published on 09/05/2023
» GAZA CITY (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) - Israel launched pre-dawn air strikes Tuesday against the militant group Islamic Jihad in Gaza, which killed 12 people according to the health ministry in the Hamas-controlled Palestinian territory.
New alliances form in Myanmar struggle
Published on 19/04/2023
» At dusk in northern Myanmar, fighters from the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) patrol their frontlines and mark the positions of junta troops, their decades-long conflict with the military fraught with new risks since the coup two years ago.
'Steel heart of Ukraine' steps in to battle
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 16/04/2023
» Inside the gloom of the vast Zaporizhstal steel plant, a towering blast furnace wheezes like a giant black lung, inhaling chunks of iron ore, thermal coal and limestone, blending them at temperatures reaching several thousand degrees with oxygen-enriched air, and then exhaling vapour and molten metal.
China would gain swift air superiority over Taiwan, US leaks show
AFP, Published on 15/04/2023
» WASHINGTON - China would probably gain air superiority very quickly in any attack on Taiwan, something Russia crucially failed to do in its invasion of Ukraine last year, leaked US intelligence documents show, according to media reports Saturday.
'They took my grandson': Frontline Ukraine town evacuates children
AFP, Published on 05/04/2023
» AVDIIVKA, Ukraine: Kateryna's blue eyes fill with tears as she tells how police ordered her grandson to evacuate from the frontline town of Avdiivka in Ukraine, where she lives in a cellar.
Helpless fish need heroes, too
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 02/04/2023
» Construction workers have been at work demolishing an abandoned tuberculosis hospital in Queens, New York, over the past several months, dismantling the long-empty wards and carting off the bricks. But first, they had to figure out what to do with a school of goldfish that for unknown reasons had come to call the flooded basement home. Three hundred of them.