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Parisians hot under the collar over A/C in apartments
AFP, Published on 08/08/2025
» PARIS — As summer temperatures rise, many Parisians are warming to the idea of installing air conditioning (A/C) in their apartments, ending a longstanding resistance to what is considered a basic comfort in many capitals elsewhere.
Villagers win race to save UK pub, as thousands close
AFP, Published on 29/07/2025
» NEW RADNOR, Wales — A nearly 200-year-old pub, the Radnor Arms in rural Wales stood abandoned a few years ago. Water ran down the walls, ivy crept around broken windows and rats' skeletons littered the floor.
'Fear and anxiety': Bangkok residents seek quake-proof homes
AFP, Published on 07/04/2025
» BANGKOK - Shaken hours earlier by a massive earthquake, Phatsakon Kaewkla's terror was magnified when he came home to find gaping cracks in the walls of his 22nd-floor Bangkok apartment.
'Sea of misery': Indian rights lawyer spotlights plight of jailed women
AFP, Published on 30/11/2023
» MUMBAI - After three years in detention experiencing the "sea of misery" endured by women in Indian jails, one of the nation's best-known rights lawyers warns that society's prejudices are amplified behind bars.
After Hamas attack, Arab Americans fear return to post-9/11 prejudices
AFP, Published on 18/10/2023
» WASHINGTON - In the days following Hamas' bloody attack on Israel, many Arab and Muslim Americans have worried over signs of a return to the atmosphere of suspicion that hung over their communities in the United States after 9/11.
Pakistani biryani: a spicy recipe for delectable debate
AFP, Published on 28/09/2023
» KARACHI - Eying each other across a stream of traffic, rival Pakistani biryani joints vie for customers, serving a fiery medley of meat, rice and spice that unites and divides South Asian appetites.
Mould and red tape: Ukrainians hosted in UK struggle to find own housing
AFP, Published on 29/11/2022
» LONDON - Viktoriya arrived in the UK in March after fleeing war-torn east Ukraine with her two sons and their cat and dog.
In New York, renters desperate as soaring rents exacerbate housing crisis
AFP, Published on 09/08/2022
» NEW YORK: In mid-May, Paula Sevilla and her roommates joined the many New Yorkers suffering under the city's crushing housing crisis, which has seen rents soar in the pandemic's wake.
Defiant Maxwell says sex crimes charges 'not proven'
AFP, Published on 18/12/2021
» NEW YORK - A defiant Ghislaine Maxwell said Friday that prosecutors had failed to prove her guilty of sex crimes, as her defense wound up in a trial that heard lurid claims she groomed minors for abuse by the late financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Pandemic pushes new homeless onto Sao Paulo streets
AFP, Published on 29/08/2021
» SAO PAULO - When Monica's landlord suddenly doubled the rent on the room where she lived with her three daughters in Sao Paulo, she says they had little choice but to go live on the streets.