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Restoring Milan's Duomo, one statue at a time
AFP, Published on 17/12/2024
» MILAN (ITALY) - In a workshop in the Milan suburbs, sculptor Giovanni Calderino completes his latest project -- a battered statue from the top of the Italian city's gothic cathedral, and its gleaming white replacement.
Heavy industry turns to carbon capture to clean up its act
AFP, Published on 30/10/2023
» RETY (FRANCE) - For decades heavy industry around Dunkirk in northern France has belched out millions of tonnes of climate-heating gases.
France to shut down climate NGO after protest violence
AFP, Published on 20/06/2023
» PARIS - French authorities are expected shortly to issue a decree shutting down a climate activist group after demonstrators clashed with police over a controversial irrigation project that left one man in a coma.
Washington recruits dogs and cats in war on rodents
AFP, Published on 19/06/2023
» WASHINGTON - On a hot June night, revelers descend on Washington's Adams Morgan neighborhood, a nightlife and dining hotspot in the US capital. But they aren't the only ones profiting from the good weather.
Easter Island blaze chars famous moai statues
AFP, Published on 07/10/2022
» SANTIAGO: A forest fire that tore through part of Easter Island has charred some of its fabled monumental carved stone figures, known as moai, authorities said Thursday.
Tug-of-war: Ukraine celebrates its tank-towing farmers
AFP, Published on 29/07/2022
» MALA ROGAN (UKRAINE) - Towed away gleefully as if it were parked illegally, the Soviet-era armoured personnel carrier doesn't look so intimidating as it is paraded before the delighted Ukrainians gathered to celebrate its seizure.
More violence after Israel arrests Palestinian axe murderers
AFP, Published on 09/05/2022
» JERUSALEM - Two Palestinians were shot dead and another was wounded in separate incidents in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and annexed east Jerusalem on Sunday, officials said, the latest in a spate of violence.
Taiwan rushes to contain sudden cane toad invasion
AFP, Published on 06/12/2021
» NANTOU COUNTY, Taiwan: Toads are a symbol of prosperity and good fortune in Taiwan, but the unexpected discovery of an invasive species has officials and environmentalists scrambling to contain their spread.
'The water is poison': Chinese activist spends life protecting polluted lake
AFP, Published on 16/11/2021
» KUNMING (CHINA) - Environmental activist Zhang Zhengxiang is almost blind, and lives in poverty -- but he has successfully faced down hundreds of companies on the banks of one of China's most polluted lakes.
45 killed in Philippine military plane crash
AFP, Published on 05/07/2021
» COTABATO, Philippines: At least 45 people were killed and dozens injured Sunday when a Philippine military aircraft carrying troops crashed and burst into flames after missing the runway in the country's south, officials said.