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Thailand votes after three leaders in two years
AFP, Published on 08/02/2026
» BANGKOK - Thais vote Sunday in an election pitting the popular reformists who won last time against the conservative who ended up as prime minister, with ex-leader Thaksin Shinawatra looming large from his prison cell.
'A kind of freedom': Amsterdam celebrates 750 years
AFP, Published on 28/10/2025
» AMSTERDAM — World-famous city of canals, bikes and tolerance, Amsterdam celebrated 750 years since its founding Monday, but the Dutch capital is now grappling with the very modern problems of overtourism and a housing shortage.
Tall ships sail into Amsterdam for giant maritime festival
AFP, Published on 21/08/2025
» AMSTERDAM - Tall ships from around the world paraded up the North Sea Canal into Amsterdam on Wednesday, with crews from Peru, Uruguay, Germany and France waving from their decks as crowds cheered along the banks.
'Ridiculous': How Washington residents view the new troops in town
AFP, Published on 15/08/2025
» WASHINGTON — Outside the busiest train station in Washington, newly deployed National Guard troops wearing camouflage lean on a huge military Humvee.
Global cocaine market hits record high, says UN
AFP, Published on 26/06/2025
» VIENNA - Cocaine production, seizures and use all hit record highs in 2023, the United Nations (UN) drug agency said on Thursday, with the illicit drug's market the world's fastest-growing.
Uruguay's 'poorest president' Mujica dies aged 89
AFP, Published on 14/05/2025
» MONTEVIDEO - Uruguay's former president Jose "Pepe" Mujica, an ex-guerrilla fighter and hero of the Latin American left, has died at the age of 89, the government said Tuesday.
'Unprecedented' Europe raids net 200 arrests, drugs haul
AFP, Published on 15/04/2025
» ISTANBUL - Police in Europe staged "unprecedented" raids against four organised crime groups on Tuesday, arresting more than 200 people across five countries, primarily in Turkey, in a "massive blow" against drug-trafficking networks.
Russia, US swap prisoners in push for closer ties
AFP, Published on 11/04/2025
» WASHINGTON — A Los Angeles-based ballet dancer released by Russia as part of a prisoner swap landed safely in the United States Thursday night, the second swap under President Donald Trump as Moscow and Washington push to rebuild ties.
Ice park threatened by climate change given new life
AFP, Published on 20/03/2025
» OURAY, Colorado - America's ice-climbing epicentre was facing a bleak future, with climate change endangering its water supply, until an unlikely saviour came to its rescue: a nearby silver mine.
Ghosts of past spies haunt London underground tunnels
AFP, Published on 31/01/2025
» LONDON - Behind a blue door in a narrow London passage lies a little-known network of tunnels deep underground, once home to British spies and a secret long-distance telephone exchange.