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Abortion in Afghanistan: 'My mother crushed my stomach with a stone'
AFP, Published on 05/12/2025
» KABUL - When Bahara was four months pregnant, she went to a Kabul hospital to beg for an abortion. "We're not allowed," a doctor told her. "If someone finds out, we will all end up in prison."
Impoverished Filipinos forge a life among the dead
AFP, Published on 30/10/2025
» MANILA - In teeming Manila, where poverty runs deep and millions lack adequate shelter, some of the living have found refuge among the dead.
In Gaza's ruins, a grandmother keeps family and hope alive
AFP, Published on 26/10/2025
» GAZA CITY (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) - With no shoes to protect their tiny dust-covered feet, Hiam Muqdad's grandchildren toddled unfazed through the bombed-out ruins of their Gaza City neighbourhood in search of clean water.
Nearly 900m poor people exposed to climate shocks, UN warns
AFP, Published on 17/10/2025
» UNITED NATIONS (UNITED STATES) - Nearly 80% of the world's poorest, or about 900 million people, are directly exposed to climate hazards exacerbated by global warming, bearing a "double and deeply unequal burden", the United Nations warned Friday.
Border confusion as Thailand shuts land crossings with Cambodia
AFP, Published on 24/06/2025
» ARANYAPRATHET - Dozens of tourists and workers, some carrying children, were left stranded on Tuesday at Thailand's busiest land crossing with Cambodia, after the army stopped almost all border traffic in an escalating territorial dispute.
Ireland prepares to excavate 'mass grave' at mother and baby home
AFP, Published on 16/06/2025
» TUAM (IRELAND) - Over a decade since a historian discovered an unmarked mass burial site for children at a former mother and baby home in western Ireland, workers finally began on Monday to prepare for extensive excavations.
US baby with rare illness treated with tailor-made gene edit
AFP, Published on 16/05/2025
» WASHINGTON - A US infant with a rare condition has become history's first patient to be treated with a personalised gene-editing technique that raises hopes for other people with obscure illnesses, doctors said Thursday.
Afghan arrested after car ramming 'attack' wounds 28 in Germany
AFP, Published on 14/02/2025
» MUNICH (GERMANY) - Police have arrested an Afghan asylum seeker at the scene of what German leaders labelled a car ramming "attack" that wounded 28 people, some seriously, in the southern city of Munich on Thursday.
Nigeria army drone strike accidentally kills 85 civilians
AFP, Published on 05/12/2023
» LAGOS - A Nigerian army drone strike accidentally killed at least 85 civilians on Sunday in a village in northwest Kaduna State, officials said, in one of the country's deadliest military bombing mishaps.
Nigerian army drone strike error kills civilians
AFP, Published on 05/12/2023
» KANO (NIGERIA) - An army drone strike accidentally hit a village in northwestern Nigeria killing dozens of civilians celebrating a Muslim festival, local authorities, the military and residents said on Monday.