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France's military pigeons race in memory of brave predecessors
AFP, Published on 14/07/2025
» MONT VALéRIEN (FRANCE) - These days, French military pigeon number 193-529 is no longer needed to carry tiny messages during war-time communication blackouts.
Nearly two centuries on, quiet settles on Afghanistan's British Cemetery
AFP, Published on 18/06/2025
» KABUL — Aynullah Rahimi's family has for decades tended the old cemetery in Kabul reserved for non-Afghans, but since the country's latest war ended and foreigners left in droves, he says few now enter the oasis of quiet in the capital.
Police arrest Japan taxi driver after running over pigeon
AFP, Published on 05/12/2023
» TOKYO - A Tokyo taxi driver was arrested for deliberately driving into a flock of pigeons and killing one, police said Tuesday, reportedly because he was angry that the birds were on the road.
Bird man in quake zone still tends to flock
AFP, Published on 18/02/2023
» ANTAKYA, Turkey: Murat Guzel scatters bird feed on the roof as the sun sets over the Antakya restaurant at which he used to work before the earthquake that destroyed the southern Turkish city.
Displaced Ukrainians move into room of their own in the park
AFP, Published on 20/04/2022
» LVIV (UKRAINE) - In a park in western Ukraine, Viktoria wheeled her four-month-old granddaughter in a pushchair between rows of prefabricated houses that have become home after escaping war.
Anguish and anger after Taiwan building blaze kills 46
AFP, Published on 15/10/2021
» KAOHSIUNG (TAIWAN) - Taiwanese residents voiced anguish and outrage on Friday after 46 people perished in an inferno that tore through a dilapidated housing block as investigators searched for what sparked the island's deadliest fire in decades.
After virus closures, Shakespeare returns... outside
AFP, Published on 14/07/2021
» STRATFORD-UPON-AVON (UNITED KINGDOM) - Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company has returned to the stage after an enforced 18-month absence due to the coronavirus pandemic -- at a specially built open-air theatre in the bard's home town.
French special forces dog awarded top UK gallantry medal
AFP, Published on 23/04/2021
» LONDON: A French special forces dog called Leuk was on Friday awarded a British animal charity's top award for gallantry, after he saved lives by cornering insurgents during an anti-terrorist operation in Mali.
'Narcocat' caught delivering drugs to Panama prison
AFP, Published on 17/04/2021
» PANAMA CITY: Authorities in Panama on Friday intercepted an unlikely smuggler, a fluffy white cat, bearing an assortment of drugs in a pouch tied to its body as it tried to enter a prison.
Passion for pigeons persists in Arab world
AFP, Published on 10/03/2021
» CAIRO - Atop his humble wooden dovecote overlooking the majestic Giza pyramids, Abdel-Rahman Gamal released 20 homing pigeons sending them soaring up into the Cairo sky reddened by the setting sun.