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French winemaker jailed for huge champagne fraud
AFP, Published on 02/09/2025
» REIMS, France - A French winemaker who made and sold thousands of bottles of fake champagne in an elaborate scam involving carbonating Spanish wine was jailed on Tuesday.
Medical charity decries US-backed Gaza aid
AFP, Published on 27/06/2025
» GENEVA - The medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) called on Friday for a controversial Israel- and US-backed relief effort in Gaza to be halted, branding it “slaughter masquerading as humanitarian aid”.
First severe bird flu case in US sparks alarm
AFP, Published on 19/12/2024
» WASHINGTON - An elderly patient in Louisiana is in a "critical condition" with severe avian influenza, US authorities announced Wednesday, the first serious human case in the country as fears grow of a possible bird flu pandemic.
Slovakia campaign rhetoric raises LGBTQ concern
AFP, Published on 26/09/2023
» BRATISLAVA - A year after a homophobic double murder, Slovakia's LGBTQ community is concerned about the increase in hate speech ahead of elections on Saturday in a country where gay people have few legal rights.
The flying hospital bringing Ukraine's wounded west
AFP, Published on 29/03/2023
» ON BOARD A BOEING 737 MEDEVAC PLANE (POLAND) - You can see the pain held just in check in the faces of Ukraine's war wounded as they are evacuated in a flying hospital.
SAS and pilots' unions reach agreement, ending strike
AFP, Published on 19/07/2022
» STOCKHOLM - Scandinavian airline SAS and the unions representing their pilots said Tuesday that they had reached an agreement, ending a two-week strike that has cost the ailing airline between $9 and $12 million a day.
Belarus opposition calls for more pressure after plane arrest
AFP, Published on 25/05/2021
» MINSK: Belarus's opposition called Tuesday for more pressure on strongman Alexander Lukashenko as Europe moved to cut air links with the country over the extraordinary diversion of an airliner and arrest of a dissident on board.
Europe sounds alarm over resurgent virus crisis
AFP, Published on 23/10/2020
» STOCKHOLM: The EU's disease control agency on Friday joined frantic health workers across Europe in sounding the alarm about the surge in coronavirus infections.
US deaths top 100,000 as countries reimpose distancing measures
AFP, Published on 28/05/2020
» WASHINGTON - The US coronavirus death toll passed 100,000, as some countries reimposed social distancing rules following a resurgence of cases that raised the spectre of a dreaded second wave of infections.
Anti-graft party wins Slovakia vote haunted by journalist murder
AFP, Published on 01/03/2020
» BRATISLAVA - Slovak voters handed a resounding victory to the centre-right, anti-graft OLaNO opposition party in Saturday's general election, dominated by an angry backlash over the 2018 murder of a journalist probing corruption in the eurozone state.