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Israel says area of airport hit after Yemen missile launch
AFP, Published on 04/05/2025
» TEL AVIV - A missile launched from Yemen struck near Israel's main international airport on Sunday, authorities said, an attack that briefly halted air traffic and triggered threats of retaliation.
'Dynasty' to diplomacy for Xi-Biden summit estate
AFP, Published on 16/11/2023
» SAN FRANCISCO - Don't expect Joan Collins to show up, but the California estate where Joe Biden and Xi Jinping met Wednesday is perhaps best known as the setting of the 1980s soap opera "Dynasty".
Survivor recalls watching Israel festival massacre from atop a tree
AFP, Published on 11/11/2023
» TEL AVIV - Like most others his age, Uriel Balas was just excited to celebrate his 26th birthday with friends, having saved up for his ticket to Israel's much-anticipated Supernova music festival.
Gazans bury dead in orchards and football fields
AFP, Published on 09/11/2023
» GAZA STRIP - Before he fled his home in northern Gaza, where intense fighting now rages between Israel and Hamas, Mahmud al-Masri had a grim job to do: bury his three brothers and their five children in a nearby citrus orchard.
As climate changes, farms in US 'Peach State' Georgia suffer
AFP, Published on 16/07/2023
» CONCORD (UNITED STATES) - From a distance, everything looks normal: neat rows of peach trees, their green leaves fluttering in the wind, near a pretty little American farmhouse.
Cormac McCarthy, revered American novelist, dies at 89
AFP, Published on 14/06/2023
» NEW YORK: Celebrated author Cormac McCarthy, an unflinching chronicler of America's bleak frontiers and grim underbelly, died on Tuesday aged 89, his publisher said.
Paul Allen's art collection tops $1bn at Christie's
AFP, Published on 10/11/2022
» NEW YORK: Paintings and sculptures from the collection of late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen were auctioned off for a historic US$1 billion on Wednesday, Christie's auction house said, with records set for works by Van Gogh, Cezanne, Gauguin, Seurat and Klimt.
Paul Allen's art collection tops $1 bn at Christie's
AFP, Published on 10/11/2022
» NEW YORK - Paintings and sculptures from the collection of late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen were auctioned off for a historic $1 billion Wednesday, Christie's auction house said, with records set for works by Van Gogh, Cezanne, Gauguin, Seurat and Klimt.
India's mango man, father of 300 varieties
AFP, Published on 20/07/2022
» MALIHABAD (INDIA) - Every day, Indian octogenarian Kaleem Ullah Khan wakes at dawn, prays, then ambles about a mile to his 120-year-old mango tree, which he has coaxed into producing more than 300 varieties of the beloved fruit over the years.
Spanish agricultural drama 'Alcarras' wins Berlin film fest
AFP, Published on 17/02/2022
» BERLIN: The 72nd Berlin film festival awarded its Golden Bear top prize on Wednesday to Spanish director Carla Simon's semi-autobiographical drama "Alcarras", about a family of peach farmers fighting for their future.