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After 600 years of night watchmen, Lausanne gets first watchwoman
AFP, Published on 27/08/2021
» GENEVA: After over 600 years of night watchmen, a woman has for the first time been tasked with shouting out the time each hour through the night from the Lausanne cathedral bell tower.
Pulitzer Board honors teen who filmed George Floyd murder
AFP, Published on 12/06/2021
» NEW YORK - The Pulitzer Prize Board awarded a "special citation" on Friday to the teenager whose video of the murder of George Floyd by a white police officer sparked worldwide protests against racial injustice.
Crew members were asleep on doomed California dive boat
AFP, Published on 13/09/2019
» LOS ANGELES: All six crew members were asleep when a fire broke out last week on board a California dive boat, leaving 34 people dead, the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday.
Ngbaba, a sport lost in time, returns to battered C. Africa
AFP, Published on 27/08/2019
» BANGUI (CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC) - Two teams confronted each other on the dusty sports field, wielding roughly cut sticks to whack a homemade puck at high speed.
India's Modi bears all, sniffs dung with Grylls
AFP, Published on 13/08/2019
» NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Narendra Modi hit Indian television screens like never before on Monday, talking about his life and the environment -- and smelling elephant dung -- with Bear Grylls.
Modi earns global praise for landslide win in Indian election
AFP, Published on 24/05/2019
» NEW DELHI - Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed to build an inclusive India on Thursday after scoring a landslide election win that he hailed as the "biggest event in world democracy".
India awaits results from world's biggest election
AFP, Published on 23/05/2019
» NEW DELHI - Results were due Thursday from India's acrimonious election, with exit polls pointing to a victory for Prime Minister Narendra Modi but the opposition clinging to hopes of a surprise win.
India's epic election ends as Modi meditates
AFP, Published on 19/05/2019
» VARANASI (INDIA) - Voting in India's election, the world's biggest ever, ends on Sunday after an acrimonious and at times violent campaign awash with insults, fake news -- and lots of petals.
'Love vs. hate' in penultimate Indian election round
AFP, Published on 12/05/2019
» NEW DELHI: Tens of millions voted Sunday in the penultimate round of India's increasingly bad-tempered election, with all eyes on the coveted capital New Delhi after an ugly campaign of slaps and savage pamphlets.
Kashmir dominates as India's mega vote enters second round
AFP, Published on 18/04/2019
» NEW DELHI - Indian authorities poured security forces into the restive region of Kashmir on Thursday as it took centre stage for the second round of the country's enormous national election.