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Venezuela's El Dorado, where gold is currency of the poor
AFP, Published on 17/06/2025
» EL DORADO — In the Venezuelan mining community of El Dorado, the majority of residents carry around gold instead of cards or cash to pay for groceries.
Gold and mercury, not books, for Venezuela's child miners
AFP, Published on 20/09/2023
» EL CALLAO (VENEZUELA) - At 10 years old, Martin cannot read, but he is an old hand at detecting traces of the gold he and his young cousins dig for at an open-pit mine in southeastern Venezuela.
World's biggest warship visits Oslo, angering Russia
AFP, Published on 25/05/2023
» OSLO: The world's biggest warship, the USS Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier, arrived in Oslo on Wednesday for a stopover criticised by neighbouring Russia as an "illogical and harmful" show of force.
Drugs from the deep: scientists explore ocean frontiers
AFP, Published on 03/03/2023
» PARIS - Some send divers in speed boats, others dispatch submersible robots to search the seafloor, and one team deploys a "mud missile" -- all tools used by scientists to scour the world's oceans for the next potent cancer treatment or antibiotic.
'Operation Exodus': Brazil miners flee Yanomami land
AFP, Published on 09/02/2023
» ALTO ALEGRE (BRAZIL) - Wearing broken flip-flops held together by a frayed cord, Joao Batista, an illegal gold miner in the Brazilian Amazon, has been walking for days to escape the jungle, fleeing a looming security-force crackdown.
Latin American cocaine cartels bring violence to Europe
AFP, Published on 16/01/2023
» PARIS: "Seventy euros for one, 120 for two," said the cocaine dealer as the young woman opened her door on Paris's chic Left Bank.
Scientists successfully grow plants in soil from the Moon
AFP, Published on 13/05/2022
» WASHINGTON: That's one small pot of soil, one giant leap for man's knowledge of space agriculture: scientists have for the first time grown plants in lunar soil brought back by astronauts in the Apollo program.
From the shadows: the secret, threatened lives of bats
AFP, Published on 26/08/2021
» NOYAL-MUZILLAC (FRANCE) - It could be a scene from a bad horror movie: Torchlights slice through the darkness inside a church in western France as the building echoes with the shrieks of hundreds of bats.
Last of the Everly Brothers duo dies aged 84
AFP, Published on 23/08/2021
» LOS ANGELES: US country rock pioneer Don Everly, who was the surviving half of the Everly Brothers, has died aged 84 after a career delighting fans with a string of hits such as "Bye Bye Love" and "Wake Up Little Susie."
Iceland, home to world's most expensive feather treasure
AFP, Published on 26/07/2021
» STYKKISHOLMUR (ICELAND) - On a remote island in Breidafjordur Bay off the west coast of Iceland, a thousand-year-old harvest takes place -- the hunt for elusive eiderdown, used to make some of the world's best duvets and quilts.