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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.
Israel military approves plan for new Gaza offensive
AFP, Published on 13/08/2025
» JERUSALEM - The Israeli military said on Wednesday it had approved the framework for a new offensive in the Gaza Strip, as Hamas condemned what it called “aggressive” Israeli ground incursions in Gaza City.
With missiles overhead, Tel Aviv residents huddle underground
AFP, Published on 24/06/2025
» TEL AVIV - As night falls in Israel's coastal city of Tel Aviv, hundreds make the familiar descent into the depths of the metro to escape the latest salvo of Iranian missiles.
A migrant's odyssey from Venezuela to the United States
AFP, Published on 27/12/2023
» MATAMOROS (MEXICO) - Lying in the jungle with a gun pointed at him, Marcel Maldonado remembered his mother's warning about the dangers of migrating overland to the United States -- and wondered if he'd get out alive.
Israeli mother of hostages torn between hope and despair
AFP, Published on 02/11/2023
» KIRYAT ONO (ISRAEL) - When Israeli mother Maayan Zin scrolls through her phone, she sees her worst nightmare and her only glimmer of hope as she desperately awaits news of her two young daughters, believed held hostage by Hamas.
Dozens dead in Hanoi apartment fire
AFP, Published on 13/09/2023
» HANOI - Dozens of people died in a fire at an apartment block in Vietnam's capital Hanoi, state media said Wednesday, with witnesses reporting screams from inside and a small boy thrown from the building.
Jailed ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan's lawyers to apply for bail
AFP, Published on 08/08/2023
» ISLAMABAD - Lawyers for Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan were Tuesday set to file a bail application for him, as he languished in a small cell of a century-old prison at the start of a three-year jail term for graft.
Jailed Pakistan former prime minister Imran Khan 'in good spirits'
AFP, Published on 08/08/2023
» ISLAMABAD - Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was in good spirits despite tough conditions in jail, his spokesman said Monday, following a graft conviction that has ruled him out of contesting elections due later this year.
Sleeping in a closet: Kyiv adapts to Russian strikes
AFP, Published on 26/05/2023
» KYIV: At the sound of the air raid siren, two little girls quickly unroll a mattress on the ground as their mother takes her other daughter, still asleep, to a closet.