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In flooded Kryvyi Rih, residents defiant against Russia
AFP, Published on 18/09/2022
» KRYVYI RIG, Ukraine: The basement of Ukrainian grandma Lyubov Adamenko is full of mud and sludge from the flood that hit her house after Russians blew up a nearby dam.
Royal funerals: pomp, pageantry and sometimes privacy
AFP, Published on 16/09/2022
» LONDON - Funerals for senior royals since World War II have tended to be very public affairs, with pomp, pageantry and popular fervour.
Royal funerals: pomp, pageantry and sometimes privacy
AFP, Published on 10/09/2022
» LONDON: Funerals for senior royals since World War II have tended to be very public affairs, with pomp, pageantry and popular fervour.
Debate flares over Spain bull-running fiestas as 10 die
AFP, Published on 06/09/2022
» MADRID: Spain's controversial bull-running festivals have once again hit the headlines after a deadly summer in which at least 10 people lost their lives, exacerbating divisions over the centuries-old tradition.
Chinese police rescue 150 cats headed for dinner tables
AFP, Published on 31/08/2022
» Nearly 150 cats bound for slaughterhouses have been rescued by police in eastern China, an international animal welfare organisation said.
Contestants spar in great Argentinian grill-off
AFP, Published on 15/08/2022
» BUENOS AIRES - Argentine grill masters fired up their spits Sunday for the fourth annual Federal Roast Championship in Buenos Aires.
Hitler marionette's strange journey
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 24/07/2022
» The puppet stands 51 centimetres tall, carved out of wood and hand-painted, its uniform tattered and torn. But for all it has endured over more than 80 years -- buried in a backyard in Belgium at the outset of World War II; dug up after the war and taken on a nine-day cross-Atlantic journey; stored and almost forgotten in an attic in Oakland, California -- it remains, with its black toothbrush moustache and right arm raised in a Nazi salute, immediately and chillingly recognisable.
France's eye in the sky: Tracking Russian vessels in the Baltic
AFP, Published on 22/06/2022
» ONBOARD ATLANTIQUE 2 OVER THE BALTIC SEA: The cluster of dots on the Atlantique 2's screens may seem like a confusing mess to the untrained eye, but not to the crew of the French naval surveillance aircraft tasked with telling friend from foe in the Baltic Sea.
Thousands join Jewish pilgrimage year after stampede
AFP, Published on 19/05/2022
» JERUSALEM - Thousands of Jewish faithful converged on Israel's Mount Meron on Wednesday for an annual pilgrimage, amid tightened safety measures a year after 45 people were crushed to death in a stampede.
Charter schools take fight to the left
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 01/05/2022
» With only 1,500 students on a small-town campus in southern Michigan, Hillsdale College is far from the power corridors of government and top-ranked universities.