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Harrowing docu-drama gives ‘voice’ to Gaza victims
AFP, Published on 03/09/2025
» VENICE - A gut-wrenching film premiering at the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday about a five-year-old girl killed by Israeli forces in Gaza last year gives a “voice” to Palestinian victims of the war, its director says.
North Korea fires ICBM missile that lands in Japan's EEZ
AFP, Published on 18/02/2023
» SEOUL - North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile Saturday which landed in Japan's exclusive economic zone, Seoul and Tokyo said, after Pyongyang warned of a strong response to upcoming US-South Korean military drills.
North Korea fires three ballistic missiles, Seoul says
AFP, Published on 03/11/2022
» SEOUL: North Korea fired one long-range and two short-range ballistic missiles Thursday, Seoul's military said, with one prompting warnings for residents of a South Korean island and people in parts of northern Japan to seek shelter.
New killings revive old fears in Darfur village
AFP, Published on 08/02/2021
» HAMADA VILLAGE, Sudan: Farmer Abbas Abdullah was among hundreds who had trickled back to his remote village in South Darfur nearly a decade after fleeing war there. Now, he thinks he rushed the decision.
The soundtrack of the Arab uprisings in 10 songs
AFP, Published on 30/11/2020
» BEIRUT - Few of the pro-democracy protesters who took the Middle East by storm a decade ago had a flag to raise or a leader to follow. But all of them had a song to sing.
Heat and confinement: Daily life in France's Indian Ocean territory
AFP, Published on 08/04/2020
» KAHANI (FRANCE) - "How can we be expected to stay indoors? It's like an oven inside!"
Japan telework orchestra strikes a chord in coronavirus gloom
AFP, Published on 03/04/2020
» TOKYO - The members of the New Japan Philharmonic orchestra tune up for their latest recital, more than 60 musicians ranging from trombonists to violinists and percussionists -- but this is no ordinary performance.
Desert truffles are Libya's 'manna from heaven'
AFP, Published on 25/03/2019
» AL-HAMADA AL-HAMRA (LIBYA) - Braving the cold and hostile Libyan desert, Milad Mohammed scratches the ground to extract what he calls "manna from heaven" -- white truffles coveted as a delicacy at home and abroad.
Japan backlash over 'mums should care for toddlers' remark
AFP, Published on 29/05/2018
» TOKYO : Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government came under fire Tuesday after a senior MP suggested only women should raise children under three and another urged newly-weds to have at least three kids.