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France grants safe haven to anti-Kremlin couple detained by ICE
AFP, Published on 17/02/2026
» PARIS — France has granted safe haven to an anti-Kremlin Russian activist couple detained by ICE in the United States, but his wife was nowhere to be found after he landed in Paris on Monday. After France issued the couple humanitarian visas to avoid them being deported to Russia, Alexei Ishimov, 31, arrived in Paris from Seattle on Monday morning, Agence France-Presse (AFP) correspondents saw.
Nepal 'addicted' to the trade in its own people
AFP, Published on 16/02/2026
» KATHMANDU - Rudra Bahadur Kami returned to Nepal through a back door of Kathmandu airport in a battered coffin after working for more than a decade in Saudi Arabia to feed his family back home.
Paw patrol: Larry the cat marks 15 years at 10 Downing Street
AFP, Published on 16/02/2026
» LONDON - Larry the cat, the UK's most famous feline, marks 15 years on Sunday as the country's chief mouser patrolling the corridors of power around number 10 Downing Street.
Palestine activists win legal challenge against UK ban
AFP, Published on 13/02/2026
» LONDON - London’s high court on Friday upheld a challenge to a government ban on activist group Palestine Action, saying the proscription had interfered with the right to freedom of speech.
'Madness': Ukrainians furious over Olympian ban for memorial helmet
AFP, Published on 12/02/2026
» KYIV — Ukrainians were outraged Thursday by a decision from the International Olympic Committee to disqualify their skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych from the Winter Olympics over his helmet honouring killed athletes.
Thomas Tuchel extends contract as England football coach until Euro 2028
AFP, Published on 12/02/2026
» LONDON — Thomas Tuchel has signed a new contract that will see him remain head coach of the England national football team through to the end of Euro 2028 in the United Kingdom (UK) and Ireland, the Football Association (FA) announced on Thursday.
UK’s crumbling canals threatened with collapse
AFP, Published on 11/02/2026
» WHITCHURCH, England - On a misty winter’s day in the English midlands, engineers struggled to drag stranded narrowboats from a waterless, mud-filled canal that collapsed weeks earlier, in a delicate, multi-million-pound rescue operation.
'Outrage' as LGBTQ Pride flag removed from Stonewall monument
AFP, Published on 11/02/2026
» NEW YORK - The removal of an LGBTQ rainbow pride flag from the United States' most prominent gay monument after new rules issued by the Trump administration sparked an outcry and a noisy protest on Tuesday.
South Korea averts team boycott of Women’s Asian Cup
AFP, Published on 10/02/2026
» SEOUL - A dispute that saw South Korea’s players threaten to boycott next month’s Women’s Asian Cup over “discriminatory conditions” has been resolved, football officials in the country said on Tuesday.
Lies, horror, trauma: Kenyans recount forced Russian recruitment
AFP, Published on 09/02/2026
» NAIROBI — The scars on Victor's forearm remind him constantly of the day a Ukrainian drone attacked him after he was forcibly conscripted, like hundreds of young Kenyans, into the Russian army.