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Thousands of carpets sunbathe in Turkey
AFP, Published on 30/07/2025
» ANTALYA — Thousands of carpets and kilim rugs spread out in the sun form a festive and kaleidoscopic patchwork on the outskirts of Antalya, a coastal tourist city in southern Turkey.
Patients with leprosy face lasting stigma in Ethiopia
AFP, Published on 23/04/2025
» ADDIS ABABA — Tilahun Wale not only lost his right foot to leprosy -- a disease that still affects thousands in Ethiopia -- he also lost his family.
Ancient Iranian rug tradition gets makeover as sales sink
AFP, Published on 29/08/2022
» TEHRAN - Striking geometric shapes that recall 20th century abstract art are not what you would expect to see adorning a handmade Iranian rug.
Earning its stripes: tech bid to crack tiger trade
AFP, Published on 17/08/2022
» MONTROSE, UK: In a town in northeastern Scotland, Debbie Banks looks for clues to track down criminals as she clicks through a database of tiger skins.
Kyiv psychiatric home puts brave face on war
AFP, Published on 18/03/2022
» KYIV - Sometimes, when war makes the walls of her Kyiv psychiatric hospital shudder, head nurse Oksana Padalka hides so she can cry.
Stay or go? Dilemma facing last of the Afghan Sikhs
AFP, Published on 20/01/2022
» KABUL - The caretaker of the last Sikh temple in Kabul to regularly host open prayer surveysthe cavernous hall where throngs once gathered in worship.
Afghan families go back to making carpets as economy unravels
AFP, Published on 12/12/2021
» KABUL - Four Afghan brothers have hauled their family's carpet loom out of storage in the desperate hope of earning a living as the nation's economy teeters on the edge of ruin.
Sealand: the 'micronation' defying the UK and Covid
AFP, Published on 05/12/2021
» SEALAND - It's a hulking metal-and-concrete platform in the North Sea that has been run as an independent micronation in defiance of the UK government for the last 54 years.
UK businesses fear for Afghan rug weavers after Taliban takeover
AFP, Published on 24/08/2021
» HEBDEN BRIDGE (UNITED KINGDOM) - Overseas businesses selling colourful handwoven rugs and vivid handblown glass from Afghanistan are concerned for their suppliers as the Taliban's takeover of the country threatens those with links to the West.
Rug hunters risk death in search for Afghanistan's last antique carpets
AFP, Published on 03/03/2021
» KABUL: In his quest to track down the last of Afghanistan's antique rugs, Chari Allahqul has weathered high-country blizzards, suffered beatings from armed robbers, and skirted fighting with insurgents.