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Vietnam battles plastic blight in idyllic Ha Long Bay
AFP, Published on 26/05/2023
» HA LONG (VIETNAM) - Squinting in the bright light of a hot summer morning, Vu Thi Thinh perches on the edge of her small wooden boat and plucks a polystyrene block from the calm waters of Vietnam's Ha Long Bay.
National parks ban single-use plastics
AFP, Published on 06/04/2022
» The government on Wednesday banned styrofoam packaging and single-use plastics from national parks as it fights a scourge of waste threatening wildlife.
Final push in Britain's Brexit election
AFP, Published on 11/12/2019
» LONDON - Britain's political leaders were to criss-cross the country on Wednesday's final day of general election campaigning as a key poll showed the outcome could be hanging in the balance.
British PM seeks Brexit breakthrough as polls tighten
AFP, Published on 11/12/2019
» LONDON: Prime Minister Boris Johnson vowed Tuesday to demolish three years of stalemate over Brexit, as Britain's political leaders geared up for a frantic final day of general election campaigning.
Canada to ban single-use plastics from 2021
AFP, Published on 11/06/2019
» MONTREAL - Canada will ban single-use plastics from 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday, declaring it a "global challenge" to phase out the plastic bags, straws and cutlery clogging the world's oceans.
In Syria, families flee IS holdout to dust and desperation
AFP, Published on 14/02/2019
» NEAR BAGHOUZ (SYRIA) - The cry echoed across the chalk-dry Syrian plain: "Water!" Within seconds, the truck carrying a few dozen bottles was emptied by parched refugees who had spent the night out in the open.
Belongings and belonging: the precious objects gathered by fleeing Rohingya
AFP, Published on 15/08/2018
» COX'S BAZAR (BANGLADESH) - The Rohingya had no time to consider what to take as Myanmar forces drove the Muslim minority into Bangladesh in a crackdown a year ago likened by the UN to ethnic cleansing.