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Stampede kills 37 during Congo army recruitment drive
AFP, Published on 21/11/2023
» BRAZZAVILLE - Thirty-seven people were trampled to death in a stadium in the Republic of Congo's capital Brazzaville, officials said Tuesday, in one of the deeply poor country's worst tragedies in years.
US retailer calls out climate deniers with blunt message on label
AFP, Published on 22/09/2020
» LOS ANGELES: Outdoor retailer Patagonia, known for championing environmental causes, has put it bluntly to voters in a label on a limited-edition pair of shorts that says "VOTE THE ASSHOLES OUT".
Last redoubt: Pygmies return to forest to isolate against coronavirus
AFP, Published on 05/06/2020
» BAYANGA, Central African Republic: Dzanga-Sangha, a wildlife sanctuary in southwest Central African Republic, is a remote place, linked to the rest of the world by a narrow trail that becomes impassable in heavy rain.
Mediterranean sorrow as virus upends greeting rituals
AFP, Published on 29/05/2020
» MARSEILLE - To greet friends and acquaintances by kissing, hugging and shaking hands is considered part of the essence of Mediterranean identity.
Facebook researchers use maths for better translations
AFP, Published on 13/10/2019
» PARIS: Designers of machine translation tools still mostly rely on dictionaries to make a foreign language understandable. But now there is a new way: numbers.