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Venezuelan opposition blindsided by Trump, waiting it out
AFP, Published on 08/01/2026
» CARACAS - Its leaders in exile and frozen out by US President Donald Trump, its supporters too scared to claim the streets: Venezuela's opposition finds itself in limbo despite the weekend ouster of authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro.
Nine-year-old Thai tattooist makes his mark
AFP, Published on 17/03/2025
» Wielding a cumbersome tattoo gun with his small hands swamped in surgical gloves, nine-year-old Napat Mitmakorn expertly inks the pattern of a fanged serpent on a man's upper thigh.
Taiwan singers won't let curtain fall on Hakka opera
AFP, Published on 09/10/2023
» TAOYUAN (TAIWAN) - Dressed in a robe fringed with beaded tassels, traditional Taiwanese opera singer Jen Chieh-li applies the final touches to her heavily painted face as she prepares to take the stage.
Ancient priest's remains are a first-of-a-kind find for Peru team
AFP, Published on 28/08/2023
» LIMA - A group of Japanese and Peruvian archaeologists have discovered the 3,000-year-old tomb of a priest alongside ceramic offerings in northern Peru.
Rarely seen Klimt painting returns to Austria after 60 years
AFP, Published on 03/02/2023
» VIENNA - A major work from the Austrian painter Gustav Klimt has returned to Vienna where it will be shown in its homeland for the first time in nearly 60 years, after museum officials pieced together its tumultuous history.
Life and crimes of freed 'bikini killer' Sobhraj
AFP, Published on 23/12/2022
» For decades Asia's most wanted man, French serial killer Charles Sobhraj terrorised the continent with a string of murders in the 1970s that targeted tourists.
To strengthen ties, ancient Maya gifted neighbors a spider monkey
AFP, Published on 22/11/2022
» WASHINGTON - Seventeen hundred years ago, a female spider monkey was presented as a treasured gift -- and later brutally sacrificed -- to strengthen ties between two major powers of pre-Hispanic America, according to a new study.
Morocco 'breathing again' as tourists back after Covid shutdown
AFP, Published on 18/05/2022
» MARRAKESH (MOROCCO) - Moroccan snake-charmer Youssef watched as long-absent tourists again thronged Marrakesh's famous Jamaa El-Fna square, ending a long pause forced by the Covid pandemic.
'The Serpent' still haunting lives four decades on
AFP, Published on 21/06/2021
» BANGKOK: Nearly half a century after he sowed fear along the 1970s "hippie trail", French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, the "Serpent" of the hit TV drama series, still haunts the lives of those who crossed his path.
Ready, set, Zoom: India gypsy dancers take their art online
AFP, Published on 30/08/2020
» JODHPUR, India: As a blackout plunged her desert dwelling into darkness, Suwa Devi, a dancer belonging to India's Kalbeliya gypsy community, asked her neighbour to turn on his jeep's headlights so she could continue teaching her Zoom class, outside.