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Under a drone canopy, Ukraine army medics rely on robots and luck
AFP, Published on 22/08/2025
» UNDISCLOSED (UKRAINE) - When Magician, a Ukrainian serviceman, was remotely steering a robot hauling a wounded soldier away from the front line towards safety, the worst-case scenario played out on his monitor.
Bitter pill: Cuba runs low on life-saving medicines
AFP, Published on 09/07/2025
» HAVANA - Cuban Jessica Rodriguez never knows if she will find the medicines that keep her four-year-old son alive in a country that has all but run out of essential drugs.
W.Africa bloc rejects Niger's three-year transition plan
AFP, Published on 21/08/2023
» NIAMEY (NIGER) - West African nations have rejected a call by Niger's coup leaders for a three-year transition back to democracy, as the crisis-hit country's neighbours weigh whether to take military action.
Last Ukraine doctors offer lifeline in shell-ridden Bakhmut
AFP, Published on 13/01/2023
» BAKHMUT (UKRAINE) - At a health centre in the frontline Ukraine city of Bakhmut, doctor Elena Molchanova ushers patients into a narrow office warmed by a wood-burning stove, where she hands out medication and fills in death certificates.
Plastic garbage covers Central American rivers, lakes and beaches
AFP, Published on 16/09/2022
» POTONICO (EL SALVADOR) - A blanket of multi-colored plastic waste flowing in from tributaries covers Lake Suchitlan in El Salvador.
3 decades after Pablo Escobar's death, drugs ravage Medellin
AFP, Published on 10/05/2022
» MEDELLíN, Colombia: Three decades after cartel boss Pablo Escobar was shot dead by police on a rooftop in Medellin, the very city he had sought to uplift with drug money is being ravaged by it.
Under Taliban, Kabul's drug addicts forced into withdrawal
AFP, Published on 18/10/2021
» KABUL - With shaved heads, oversized tunics and the terrified gaze of the hunted, the drug addicts rounded up by the Taliban brace for 45 days of painful withdrawal.
Children pay the price in Pakistan's mass HIV outbreak
AFP, Published on 14/06/2021
» RATO DERO, Pakistan: Since his son was diagnosed with HIV during a mass outbreak in Pakistan among babies and children, hard-up Shahzado Shar has often been forced to choose between food and medicine.
Nations tighten virus curbs as Dutch curfew protesters clash with police
AFP, Published on 25/01/2021
» PARIS - Clashes broke out in the Netherlands on Sunday as anti-curfew demonstrators protested against coronavirus restrictions, while France imposed new border controls with numerous countries under pressure to slow the spread of new variants.
Wuhan marks a year since Covid lockdown: virus world update
AFP, Published on 24/01/2021
» BRASíLIA: Thousands of people in Brazil protested on Saturday against President Jair Bolsonaro's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, on the anniversary of the Chinese city of Wuhan beginning its 76-day lockdown.