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UK rock legends Oasis kick off 'historic' comeback tour
AFP, Published on 05/07/2025
» CARDIFF - British pop legends Oasis kicked off a hotly anticipated worldwide reunion tour in Cardiff on Friday, commencing an unlikely comeback few thought possible nearly 16 years after last performing together.
For 60 years, a hotline aims to keep cool between US and Moscow
AFP, Published on 30/08/2023
» WASHINGTON - Sixty years ago, a crisis hotline for the first time sent a message between the world's superpowers.
The art teacher who showed the world China's protests
AFP, Published on 09/12/2022
» ROME - Just a few months ago, he was an ordinary Chinese art teacher who posted his personal thoughts and paintings online.
'Even if no one cares': Russia's lone liberal lawyer
AFP, Published on 24/10/2022
» MOSCOW: In a Moscow court, lawyer Maria Eismont is looking on stunned at a losing battle: her client, a student accused of defaming Russia's military, is being called a "liar" and part of an anti-Russian "sect".
Japan eSports players with disabilities shoot down stereotypes
AFP, Published on 27/07/2022
» TOKYO - Street Fighter player Shunya Hatakeyama has muscular dystrophy, so he uses his chin to launch devastating combos. He is not the only Japanese gamer proving that disability is no barrier in eSports.
Online sleuths track down US Capitol attackers
AFP, Published on 06/01/2022
» WASHINGTON - The FBI is still searching for people who stormed the US Capitol on January 6.
Afghans sift through discarded junk from US occupation
AFP, Published on 23/06/2021
» BAGRAM, Afghanistan: Squatting in the dust by the main road to Afghanistan's biggest air base, Mir Salam sifts through a pile of broken electronics in front of him, salvaged from departing US troops.
Myanmar beauty queen takes up arms against junta
AFP, Published on 12/05/2021
» A former Myanmar beauty queen has joined ethnic rebels to take up arms against the country's military junta, posting photos of herself with an assault rifle.
The road not taken: South Korea's self-driving professor
AFP, Published on 02/04/2021
» YONGIN, South Korea: Decades before the race to build a self-driving car became a multi-billion-dollar contest between tech giants such as Tesla and Google, a South Korean professor built an autonomous vehicle and test-drove it across the country -- only for his research to be consigned to the scrapheap.
Trump to Biden, a contrast in styles in debut press conferences
AFP, Published on 26/03/2021
» WASHINGTON - Sporting a red tie, Donald Trump -- combative, goading, sometimes angry and insulting.