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Pakistan's Kashmiris return to homes, but keep bunkers stocked
AFP, Published on 12/05/2025
» CHAKOTHI (PAKISTAN) - As an uneasy calm settled over villages on the Pakistan side of contested Kashmir on Sunday, families returned to their own beds but were sure to leave their bunkers stocked.
Tears of a child as Nepalis cremate quake dead
AFP, Published on 05/11/2023
» JAJARKOT (NEPAL) - The wails of eight-year-old Prem Kala Kami echoed across her Nepali village on Sunday, as the shroud-wrapped bodies of her parents and two of her brothers lay beside her awaiting cremation.
Ramaphosa: From Mandela protégé to scandal-hit leader
AFP, Published on 02/12/2022
» JOHANNESBURG: Pragmatic, wealthy and ambitious, Cyril Ramaphosa promised "a new dawn" for corruption-ridden South Africa when he became president.
Taliban shoot dead 2 women in search operation
AFP, Published on 20/09/2022
» Taliban forces shot dead two Afghan women during a search of their house in the southern province of Helmand over the weekend, a cleric and an official said on Tuesday.
'Tornado of fire': Algeria forest blazes kill 38
AFP, Published on 19/08/2022
» EL KALA (ALGERIA) - Algerian firefighters battled Thursday to rein in forest fires that have ravaged large parts of the drought-hit North African country, killing almost 40 people including 12 who died in a bus trapped by the flames.
For Pakistani dockworkers in Dubai, kushti is a way of life
AFP, Published on 17/04/2018
» DUBAI - Every Friday evening in Dubai's bustling Deira district, a sandy lot is transformed into the ring of champions. It is kushti wrestling night and Kala Pehlwan is ready to fight.