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Syria govt forces take control of Aleppo's Kurdish neighbourhoods
AFP, Published on 11/01/2026
» ALEPPO (SYRIA) - Syria's government was in full control of Aleppo on Sunday after taking over the city's Kurdish neighbourhoods and evacuating fighters there to Kurdish autonomous areas following days of deadly clashes.
In Somalia, a shaky front line barely holds back the 'dogs of war'
AFP, Published on 18/11/2025
» AW DHEEGLE — The helicopter pilot is worried. Any more than 20 minutes in this shattered frontline village and Somalia's Al-Shabaab militants could start lobbing mortars at their position.
Afghans return home to rubble, hoping truce holds with Pakistan
AFP, Published on 17/10/2025
» KABUL - Abdul Rahim surveys the rubble that was his home in Kabul, where he lived with six family members.
‘I’m alive’: Russian Kursk evacuees reunite with families
AFP, Published on 18/03/2025
» RUSSIA - Russian pensioner Olga Shkuratova trembled, clutching a scrap of paper bearing a handwritten phone number for her son.
PepsiCo sued by New York state over plastic pollution
AFP, Published on 16/11/2023
» NEW YORK - New York state sued PepsiCo on Wednesday, pointing to the soda giant's plastic waste as a scourge of waterways and blasting the company's "misleading" statements on the environment.
Burnt-out car transport ship limps into Dutch port
AFP, Published on 03/08/2023
» EEMSHAVEN (NETHERLANDS) - A burnt-out freighter carrying thousands of cars was towed into a Dutch port on Thursday, as an environmental disaster was averted more than a week after the ship caught fire off the coast.
Dutch race to put out blaze on car ship
AFP, Published on 27/07/2023
» THE HAGUE - Authorities were racing Thursday to prevent a possible ecological disaster off the Dutch coast where a blaze raged aboard a car carrier ship for a second day.
One dead in ship fire off Netherlands
AFP, Published on 26/07/2023
» THE HAGUE: One sailor died and several others were injured after a fire broke out on a car carrier ship off the Netherlands on Wednesday, the Dutch coastguard said.
Sudanese hold little hope for respite from fighting
AFP, Published on 20/04/2023
» KHARTOUM: Explosions and gunfire resounded in Sudan's capital Thursday as fighting between the forces of two rival generals showed no signs of abating ahead of festivities marking the end of Ramadan.
Space junk, not meteorites, remains biggest threat to spacecraft
AFP, Published on 12/01/2023
» PARIS - Dodging the kind of meteorite strike that forced Russia to plan a space station rescue mission is nearly impossible, yet the greater threat to spacecraft is actually the man-made debris in orbit, experts say.