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Myanmar scam cities booming despite crackdown -- using Musk's Starlink
AFP, Published on 14/10/2025
» BEIJING - They said they had smashed them. But fraud factories in Myanmar blamed for scamming Chinese and American victims out of billions of dollars are still in business and bigger than ever, an AFP investigation can reveal.
‘Contemplated suicide’: Ethiopians recount SE Asia scam centre horrors
AFP, Published on 27/02/2025
» NAIROBI - Starved, beaten and electrocuted, Ahmed remains traumatised months after being trafficked to Southeast Asia, one of an untold number of Africans forced to work in scam centres far from home.
South Africa beat New Zealand by a point to win record fourth Rugby World Cup
AFP, Published on 29/10/2023
» PARIS - Handre Pollard kicked four penalties to help South Africa to a nail-biting 12-11 victory over 14-man New Zealand in the Rugby World Cup final on Saturday to claim a record fourth title.
Swiss voters may get last word on 'inclusive' writing
AFP, Published on 12/08/2021
» GENEVA - Ensuring gender neutrality in writing is a tricky business, and nowhere more so than in Switzerland which uses four languages and may soon put the issue to the popular vote.
Japan 'Twitter killer' sentenced to death for nine murders
AFP, Published on 15/12/2020
» TOKYO: A Japanese man dubbed the "Twitter killer" was sentenced to death by a Tokyo court Tuesday for murdering and dismembering nine people he met on the social media platform.
In deep-white Iowa, first Latino-majority town shows future
AFP, Published on 02/02/2020
» WEST LIBERTY (UNITED STATES) - At the Catholic church in the small Iowa meatpacking town of West Liberty, the surrounding expanses of farmland covered with fresh white snow, the priest says Mass twice on Sunday.
South Korea closes biggest dog slaughterhouse complex
AFP, Published on 22/11/2018
» SEOUL - South Korean officials on Thursday began to dismantle the country's largest canine slaughterhouse complex, as animal rights activists push to end the custom of eating dog meat.