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Finns flock to ‘shepherd weeks’ to disconnect on holiday
AFP, Published on 10/07/2025
» KUHMOINEN, Finland - Finnish holidaygoers are clamouring to shell out hundreds of euros to work as shepherds for a week as a vacation, seeking tranquility in nature and a chance to disconnect from their busy lives.
Dutch govt talks in chaos as Wilders-appointed 'scout' quits
AFP, Published on 27/11/2023
» THE HAGUE: Already difficult talks to form a government coalition in the Netherlands after Geert Wilders's shock election win were thrown into disarray Monday as the man tasked with overseeing them resigned.
Some female aid workers return in Afghanistan
AFP, Published on 06/06/2023
» KABUL: Afghan women employed by a leading international NGO have resumed their work in some provinces, months after the Taliban government banned them from working.
More than 71m people internally displaced worldwide in 2022
AFP, Published on 11/05/2023
» GENEVA: A "perfect storm" of overlapping crises forced tens of millions to flee within their own country last year, sending the number of internally displaced people to a record high, monitors said on Thursday.
More than 100 million people forcibly displaced: UN
AFP, Published on 23/05/2022
» GENEVA: Russia's war in Ukraine has pushed the number of forcibly displaced people around the world above 100 million for the first time ever, the United Nations said Monday.
Nearly 60m people internally displaced worldwide in 2021
AFP, Published on 19/05/2022
» GENEVA: Conflicts and natural disasters forced tens of millions to flee within their own country last year, pushing the number of internally displaced people to a record high, monitors said Thursday.
Another 52,000 Ukrainians flee war as refugees
AFP, Published on 27/04/2022
» GENEVA: More than 5.3 million Ukrainians have fled their country since Russia invaded two months ago, the United Nations said Wednesday, with more than 52,000 joining their ranks in the past 24 hours.
Record 55 million people internally displaced worldwide
AFP, Published on 20/05/2021
» GENEVA - Conflicts and natural disasters forced someone to flee within their own country every second of last year, pushing the number of people living in internal displacement to a record high, monitors said Thursday.
Yemen donor conference seeks $3.85 billion to prevent famine
AFP, Published on 01/03/2021
» DUBAI: The United Nations said it hopes to raise $3.85 billion on Monday to prevent large-scale famine in Yemen, warning that life in the war-ravaged nation was unbearable, with children enduring a "special kind of hell".
Don't worry, Modi tells India's Muslims
AFP, Published on 23/12/2019
» NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought Sunday to reassure India's Muslims over a new citizenship law that has sparked deadly protests and put his Hindu nationalist government under pressure like never before.