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England seek end to Women's Rugby World Cup pain as Canada try to 'burst their aura'
AFP, Published on 26/09/2025
» LONDON - England, the team that have everything except the thing they most want, face Canada in Saturday's Women's Rugby World Cup final, with coach John Mitchell hoping lessons he learned in the men's game can end their long wait for global glory.
Greeks count cost of wildfire ‘tragedy’ near Athens
AFP, Published on 09/08/2025
» PALAIA FOKAIA, Greece - In the municipality of Palaia Fokaia, an hour’s drive south of Athens, a typical bucolic Greek landscape of olive groves and hamlets was transformed by a raging Friday wildfire into a dystopia of blackened land and incinerated homes.
Turkish inflation near 60% after policy U-turn
AFP, Published on 03/10/2023
» ISTANBUL - Turkey's annual inflation rate held steady near 60 percent last month, official data showed Thursday, offering the first evidence that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's economic policy U-turn was working.
EU targets 1 million shells a year as Ukraine saps ammo
AFP, Published on 03/05/2023
» BRUSSELS - The EU will put forward a plan to boost its production capacity of artillery shells to one million a year, officials said Tuesday, as it scrambles to arm Ukraine and refill its own stocks.
Plastic recycling remains a myth, study finds
Business, AFP, Published on 25/10/2022
» WASHINGTON: Plastic recycling rates are declining even as production shoots up, according to a Greenpeace USA report that blasts industry claims of creating an efficient, circular economy as "fiction."
Farnborough airshow opens amid heatwave
AFP, Published on 18/07/2022
» FARNBOROUGH: Global aviation's Farnborough airshow opens Monday amid a sweltering heatwave, with the sector aided by a modest recovery in air traffic and with Ukraine boosting defence budgets.
Fukushima region forges renewable future after nuclear disaster
AFP, Published on 09/03/2022
» NAMIE (JAPAN) - Solar farms along tsunami-ravaged coastlines, green energy "micro-grids" and the experimental production of non-polluting hydrogen: 11 years after its nuclear nightmare, Japan's Fukushima region is investing in a renewable future.
'A little aid would help': Philippine typhoon survivors beg for food
AFP, Published on 23/12/2021
» SURIGAO CITY, Philippines: Jennifer Vetonio stands on a road in the southern Philippines begging for money and food from passing drivers. A week after Super Typhoon Rai destroyed her house, she has not received a scrap of government aid.
'We have nothing left': Philippine typhoon survivors plead for help
AFP, Published on 22/12/2021
» LOBOC, Philippines: Concepcion Tumanda picks through the mud-caked wreckage of her home on a Philippine island devastated by Typhoon Rai that left hundreds dead across the country and survivors pleading for food and water.
WHO warns of 'dangerous' variants as Covid cases rise globally
AFP, Published on 15/07/2021
» PARIS - The World Health Organization (WHO) warned Thursday that "more dangerous" variants of Covid-19 could tear across the world as global infections soared to half a million daily, largely driven by the virulent Delta strain.