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Ecuador's wild west shows limits of Noboa's 'iron fist'
AFP, Published on 14/02/2025
» PUERTO BOLIVAR (ECUADOR) - On Ecuador's lawless southwest coast, drug gangs operate with impunity and terrified residents ask if their president's "iron fist" security policies are just words.
Fashion Week hits Kenya's biggest urban slum
AFP, Published on 15/10/2023
» KIBERA (KENYA) - Towering models parade down a three-metre (10-foot) high catwalk overlooking the rusting tin roofs of Kibera, the Kenyan capital's biggest urban slum.
Chinese ships chase, block Philippine boats
AFP, Published on 23/08/2023
» ABOARD THE BRP CABRA: As a US military surveillance plane circled overhead, eight Chinese ships chased and briefly blocked four Philippine boats on a resupply mission to a tiny garrison in the hotly contested South China Sea.
Most oil removed from decaying tanker off Yemen
AFP, Published on 02/08/2023
» DUBAI: Most of the oil on board a rusting supertanker off war-torn Yemen has been moved to a replacement vessel in a bid to avert a catastrophic spill, the United Nations has said.
UN hands over ship for oil transfer from rusting Yemen tanker
AFP, Published on 17/07/2023
» ABOARD NAUTICA, Yemen: The United Nations on Monday handed over a vessel that will take on board oil from a decaying tanker in the Red Sea off war-torn Yemen, an operation aimed at averting an environmental catastrophe.
S.Africa's ghost hunters look for clues in hollow rooms
AFP, Published on 17/11/2022
» PRETORIA - Shortly after nightfall, flashlight in hand, Rivas Bright knocks twice on the broken window of an abandoned building in Pretoria, South Africa.
Doubts about Russia's retreat from Kherson
AFP, Published on 10/11/2022
» MYKOLAIV, Ukraine: Few Ukrainians shopping for socks and extension cords on the main market of the biggest city near the Kherson front on Thursday could believe the Russians really were pulling back.
Albania's Soviet-era sub awaits its fate, refusing to sink
AFP, Published on 18/05/2022
» VLORë (ALBANIA) - Retired sergeant Neim Shehaj spends his days repairing a Soviet-era submarine, a witness to Albania's tumultuous communist past that is now rusting, half-submerged, at an Adriatic naval base.
Smokestacks and skis: Beijing's most striking Olympic venue
AFP, Published on 10/02/2022
» BEIJING - When Chinese freestyle skier Eileen Gu won an Olympic gold on Tuesday with a stunning jump, only one thing threatened to overshadow the show -- the massive industrial cooling towers behind her, an unusual backdrop for a winter sport.
No tilling, no chemicals in S.African farmer's revolution
AFP, Published on 28/10/2021
» BALFOUR (SOUTH AFRICA) - It's spring in South Africa, and Danie Bester's tillers are rusting in a corner of his farm.