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Pogba, potions and impotence: the secret world of witch doctors in France
AFP, Published on 14/11/2023
» PARIS - "There's a lot of jealousy in football," said Sheikh Issa, holding up a piece of bark and a bottle of a yellowish potion.
'Snip-snip! Hooray!': TikTok trend dispels vasectomy myths
AFP, Published on 09/03/2023
» WASHINGTON: Squeezing his eyes shut, a man breaks into song while filming himself getting a vasectomy -- a TikTok trend helping dispel misinformation about the procedure whose demand has soared following US upheaval over abortion rights.
Families demand justice four years on from Nicaragua protest repression
AFP, Published on 17/04/2022
» MANAGUA - Alvaro Conrado's last words were: "It hurts to breathe."
Ukrainian, Russian troops fight in streets of Kyiv
AFP, Published on 26/02/2022
» KYIV - Ukrainian forces repulsed a Russian attack on Kyiv but "sabotage groups" infiltrated the capital, officials said Saturday as a defiant President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed Ukraine would never give in.
'The foxes are guarding the hen house': Russia's war highlights UN impotence
AFP, Published on 25/02/2022
» UNITED NATIONS (UNITED STATES) - It was arguably the ultimate illustration of UN powerlessness: an emergency Security Council meeting designed to avoid war rendered redundant by Russia's invasion of Ukraine just minutes after the late-night session began.
'Killer' Putin will pay price for election meddling: Biden
AFP, Published on 17/03/2021
» WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden said Russia will "pay a price" for meddling in US elections and he agrees with the assessment that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin is a "killer."
Olympics can't be 'marketplace of demonstrations'
AFP, Published on 24/10/2020
» LONDON: Olympic chief Thomas Bach warned against allowing the Games to "descend into a marketplace of demonstrations" on Saturday after criticism of a rule banning protests by athletes.
Life still precarious for pangolins despite Vietnam's illegal trade crackdown
AFP, Published on 24/09/2020
» NINH BìNH (VIETNAM) - Head keeper Tran Van Truong gently takes a curled-up pangolin into his arms, comforting the shy creature rescued months earlier from traffickers in Vietnam.
Survivor of Charlie Hebdo attack recalls 'horror' at trial
AFP, Published on 09/09/2020
» PARIS - The French cartoonist who was forced by the attackers of the Charlie Hebdo weekly to let them into its offices said Tuesday that she had been traumatised by feelings of guilt as she recalled the horror of the January 2015 massacre.
Pfizer to combine off-patent drug business with Mylan
AFP, Published on 30/07/2019
» NEW YORK: Pfizer announced Monday it will merge its off-patent drug business with generic drugmaker Mylan to create a global leader in low-cost treatment, a business that faces significant political pressure in the United States.