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Phony AI clickbait stealing fans away during baseball playoffs
AFP, Published on 20/10/2025
» WASHINGTON - Baseball fans are facing an onslaught of phony AI content on Facebook, pushed by a clickbait network in Southeast Asia capitalizing on interest in the lead-up to the sport's World Series, an AFP investigation has found.
US firm brought back extinct dire wolves
AFP, Published on 11/04/2025
» WASHINGTON — They whimper, drink from baby bottles and crawl oh so tentatively -- they look like cute white puppies, not the fruit of a daring project to resuscitate an extinct species.
Hundreds face sentencing in historic Italian mafia trial
AFP, Published on 20/11/2023
» LAMEZIA TERME, Italy: Hundreds of alleged mobsters were being sentenced on Monday by an Italian court, the culmination of a historic, nearly three-year trial against Calabria's notorious 'Ndrangheta mafia.
Hundreds face sentencing in historic Italian mafia trial
AFP, Published on 20/11/2023
» LAMEZIA TERME (ITALY) - Hundreds of alleged mobsters will be sentenced Monday by an Italian court, the culmination of a historic, nearly three-year trial against Calabria's notorious 'Ndrangheta mafia.
Hundreds of mobsters face hard time after Italian 'maxi-trial'
AFP, Published on 13/11/2023
» ROME: Hundreds of alleged members of the 'Ndrangheta -- Italy's most powerful organised crime group -- and their white-collar collaborators face sentencing this week following a historic, nearly three-year trial.
Oldest dog in the world dies aged 31 years
AFP, Published on 24/10/2023
» LISBON - Bobi, who was this year ordained the oldest dog in the world by Guinness World Records, has died at the ripe old age of 31, Portuguese media reported Monday.
Rush to save trapped animals in Turkish city after tremor
AFP, Published on 19/02/2023
» ANTAKYA (TURKEY) - With helmets and flashlights, the rescuers enter a collapsed house in the earthquake-hit Turkish city of Antakya. Their objective: to rescue Asghar and Nouma, two bulls trapped under rubble.
Canadian offices going to the dogs as work-from-home ending
AFP, Published on 09/05/2022
» OTTAWA: Daisy moseys over to greet visitors, her tail wagging. She's listed as chief morale officer on Tungsten Collaborative's website, and is among the many pets joining their owners returning to Canadian offices after working from home through the pandemic.
Dangerous stray dogs pose culling dilemma in N.Africa
AFP, Published on 07/04/2022
» ARIANA (TUNISIA) - Packs of stray dogs, a common sight in North African cities, are in the crosshairs after the deaths of two schoolchildren, but animal rights groups urge more humane solutions than mass culling.
Shelling fails to shift last civilians from Kyiv's ghost suburb
AFP, Published on 14/03/2022
» IRPIN (UKRAINE) - Most of the citizens of Irpin, a once well-to-do commuter suburb of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, have fled the Russian army's bombardment.