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UK, France mull social media bans for youth as debate rages
AFP, Published on 19/01/2026
» PARIS - Countries including France and Britain are considering following Australia's lead by banning children and some teenagers from using social media, but experts are still locked in a debate over the effectiveness of the move.
India probes deadly Delhi car blast
AFP, Published on 11/11/2025
» NEW DELHI - India’s defence minister vowed on Tuesday that those responsible for a deadly car explosion in the heart of the capital that killed at least eight people will face justice.
India trials Delhi cloud seeding to combat deadly smog
AFP, Published on 24/10/2025
» NEW DELHI - India trialled cloud seeding over its smog-filled capital for the first time, spraying a chemical from an aeroplane to encourage rain and wash deadly particles out of the air.
Toxic haze chokes Indian capital
AFP, Published on 20/10/2025
» NEW DELHI - India's capital New Delhi was shrouded in a thick, toxic haze on Monday as air pollution levels soared to more than 16 times the World Health Organization’s recommended daily maximum.
Sumo stars make giant splash in London
AFP, Published on 16/10/2025
» LONDON — For one week, a corner of London has been transformed into a pocket of ancient Japan, with dozens of sumo wrestlers descending on the city in a rare foray outside the sport's homeland.
Floods devastate India's breadbasket of Punjab
AFP, Published on 16/09/2025
» GURDASPUR (INDIA) - The fields are full but the paddy brown and wilted, and the air thick with the stench of rotting crops and livestock -- the aftermath of record monsoon rains that have devastated India's breadbasket.
ICJ to hand down watershed climate opinion
AFP, Published on 23/07/2025
» THE HAGUE - The world's top court will Wednesday deliver a landmark ruling laying out what legal obligations countries have to prevent climate change and whether polluters should pay up for the consequences.
'World's oldest marathon runner' dies aged 114 in road accident
AFP, Published on 15/07/2025
» NEW DELHI - India's Fauja Singh, believed to be the world's oldest distance runner, has died in a road accident aged 114, his biographer said Tuesday.
UK considers envoy for Britons held abroad
AFP, Published on 29/06/2025
» LONDON - Britain is preparing to emulate the United States by appointing an envoy tasked with freeing citizens arbitrarily detained abroad, as it faces calls to do more to bring them home.
India, Canada return ambassadors as Carney, Modi look past spat
AFP, Published on 18/06/2025
» KANANASKIS (CANADA) - India and Canada agreed Tuesday to return ambassadors to each other's capitals, turning the page on a bitter spat over an assassination as Canada's new leader welcomed counterpart Narendra Modi.