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'Everything comes back': Morocco quake leaves mental scars
AFP, Published on 13/09/2023
» ASNI (MOROCCO) - When Khadija Temera, a survivor of Morocco's devastating earthquake, was sent to a psychiatrist on Tuesday, she was just one of a hundred newly traumatised patients who would be seen within 24 hours.
Moscow accused of war crimes as Ukraine atrocities mount
AFP, Published on 18/03/2022
» KYIV - Bloody new attacks on civilians fuelled accusations Thursday that Russia is committing war crimes in Ukraine, as the United States warned it will make China pay for any support given to Moscow's assault.
Tourists travel secret tunnels of Albania's communist-era paranoia
AFP, Published on 17/09/2020
» GJIROKASTRA (ALBANIA) - Snaking beneath a fortress in southern Albania, a covert tunnel network built during the communist era captures the secrecy and paranoia that defined the long rule of tyrant Enver Hoxha.
HBO's 'Watchmen,' Amazon's 'Mrs Maisel' top Emmy nominations
AFP, Published on 29/07/2020
» LOS ANGELES: HBO's "Watchmen," an innovative reimagining of a superhero graphic novel that tackled racism in America, topped the nominations for this year's Emmy Awards on Tuesday with 26 nods.
Umm Kulthum hologram entrances Cairo
AFP, Published on 07/03/2020
» CAIRO: The revered Arab singer Umm Kulthum returned to light up the stage once more on Friday, almost five decades after her death, in the form of a hologram that delighted a packed-to-capacity crowd at Cairo's Opera House.
'Silicon Saxony' stands on foundations laid under East Germany
AFP, Published on 04/11/2019
» DRESDEN (GERMANY) - When US computer processor maker AMD was building a factory in the eastern German city Dresden in the late 1990s, it sent around 200 local engineers for training to its site in Texas.
Sears, the once-mighty US retailer, files for bankruptcy
AFP, Published on 16/10/2018
» WASHINGTON: Sears, an anchor of retail life for generations of Americans, filed for bankruptcy on Monday and said it was closing almost 150 stores, the latest marquee victim of the online era.
Trump calls Woodward book a 'scam'
AFP, Published on 07/09/2018
» WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Friday slammed veteran investigative journalist Bob Woodward's damning portrayal of the inner workings of his administration as a "scam" based on made-up quotes.
Morgan Freeman apologizes after sexual harassment claims
AFP, Published on 25/05/2018
» LOS ANGELES - Octogenarian Oscar-winner Morgan Freeman apologized Thursday after a report of multiple sexual harassment accusations, making the actor the latest high-profile figure to face allegations of misconduct in the #MeToo era.
Wes Anderson, Norway teen massacre films lead Berlin fest race
AFP, Published on 24/02/2018
» BERLIN - Wes Anderson's "Isle of Dogs", an animated movie with political bite, and a controversial dramatisation of Norway's 2011 massacre of teenagers by a neo-Nazi gunman led the award favourites Saturday at the Berlin film festival.