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In the black: the business of mourning Thailand's queen mother
AFP, Published on 31/10/2025
» In a bustling Bangkok market, hundreds of wholesale vendors have been selling black clothing since dawn -- several with hefty discounts -- in honour of Thailand's late former queen.
Sounds serious: New York City noise pollution takes a toll
AFP, Published on 20/08/2025
» NEW YORK — Tim Mulligan moved to central Manhattan in the United States so he could be closer to work and avoid a daily ordeal on the rattling, screeching subway, just one part of the urban noisescape that tests New Yorkers every day.
Indian activists seek to save child brides
AFP, Published on 23/06/2025
» BEED (INDIA) - When wedding season comes in India, the phone of child rights activist Tatwashil Kamble never stops ringing with appeals to stop girls from being married off due to poverty.
Ghosts of past spies haunt London underground tunnels
AFP, Published on 31/01/2025
» LONDON - Behind a blue door in a narrow London passage lies a little-known network of tunnels deep underground, once home to British spies and a secret long-distance telephone exchange.
Trump freezes federal aid to Americans, triggering fury
AFP, Published on 29/01/2025
» WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump ordered a freeze starting Tuesday on potentially trillions of dollars in federal funding to Americans, impacting everything from education grants to small businesses loans -- and sparking accusations that he is violating the constitution.
US-Canada military 'tracks' Santa for 68th year
AFP, Published on 24/12/2023
» WASHINGTON - The joint US-Canadian military monitoring agency has continued its decades-long tradition of tracking Santa's whereabouts, helping children around the globe find out when his reindeer-powered, present-filled sleigh is coming to town.
China ready to be 'partner and friend' of US: Xi
AFP, Published on 16/11/2023
» SAN FRANCISCO - China is "ready to be a partner and friend of the United States," President Xi Jinping told US business leaders on Wednesday, as concerns mount over the country's slowing economy.
Biden and Xi set for high-stakes summit
AFP, Published on 15/11/2023
» SAN FRANCISCO - US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping will try to stop the superpowers' rivalry from spilling into conflict when they meet for the first time in a year at a high-stakes summit in San Francisco on Wednesday.
Xi-Biden talks aim to 'stabilise' ties, says US
AFP, Published on 10/11/2023
» WASHINGTON - US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet on Nov 15 in the San Francisco area to try to "stabilise" relations after recent tensions between the two superpowers, US officials said.
Telecoms outage cuts off millions of Australians
AFP, Published on 08/11/2023
» SYDNEY - More than 10 million Australians were cut off from internet and phone services on Wednesday after unexplained outages struck one of the country's largest communications companies.