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Artemis and ISS astronauts share celestial call
AFP, Published on 08/04/2026
» HOUSTON - The Artemis astronauts hurtling back home after circling the Moon have had regular communication with their team on Earth, but on Tuesday they got to chat with colleagues floating elsewhere in space.
War in the Middle East: latest developments
AFP, Published on 08/04/2026
» PARIS (FRANCE) - The latest developments in the Middle East war:
Russian strike on Ukraine market kills five
AFP, Published on 04/04/2026
» KYIV - A Russian drone hit a covered market in the eastern Ukrainian city of Nikopol on Saturday, killing five people and wounding 19, officials said, as Moscow pressed on with intensified daytime attacks.
Russian court convicts German carnival float artist: reports
AFP, Published on 03/04/2026
» BERLIN - A German artist known for his carnival floats that satirise politicians has been sentenced in absentia to eight years and six months in jail by a court in Moscow, German media reported on Thursday.
War in the Middle East: latest developments
AFP, Published on 02/04/2026
» PARIS (FRANCE) - Here are the latest developments in the Middle East war:
Russian women decry plans to therapise them into having children
AFP, Published on 01/04/2026
» MOSCOW - Russian women say the idea of "therapising" them into having children is coercive, cruel and unworkable, and will do little to reverse declining birth rates -- currently at their lowest in 200 years.
France calls Olympic gender test ‘a step backwards’
AFP, Published on 27/03/2026
» PARIS - France on Friday called the International Olympic Committee’s new policy on gender testing to determine eligibility to compete in women’s events a “step backwards”, but other countries welcomed the move.
Arctic sea ice at lowest level ever this winter
AFP, Published on 27/03/2026
» WASHINGTON (UNITED STATES) - Arctic sea ice reached its lowest level ever recorded, statistically tying last year's record, a leading US climate observatory for this geopolitically significant region said on Thursday.
Olympic women's sport to be limited to biological females
AFP, Published on 26/03/2026
» LAUSANNE - The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Thursday it was re-introducing testing for gender to determine eligibility to compete in the female category, preventing transgender women from competing.
Somalia football slowly becomes a women’s game
AFP, Published on 26/03/2026
» MOGADISHU, Somalia - Hundreds of Somali spectators cheered as they watched two teams of young women play football in a Mogadishu stadium — an unimaginable scene in the conservative, conflict-hit country just a few years ago.