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Dutch windmill village churned by overtourism debate
AFP, Published on 05/08/2025
» ZAANDIJK — With its historic windmills and gabled wooden houses nestling by a meandering river, the picture-perfect and TikTok-famous area of Zaanse Schans is a must-see for any visitor to the Netherlands.
Moulin Rouge windmill twirls again 14 months after accident
AFP, Published on 11/07/2025
» PARIS - Hundreds of people gathered outside the Moulin Rouge cabaret in Paris on Thursday to see its famed blades start turning again, 14 months after they tumbled to the ground.
Dutch windmill offers last link to paint made in Vermeer's day
AFP, Published on 08/05/2023
» ZAANDAM (NETHERLANDS) - Every morning for the last 42 years, Piet Kempenaar has cast a careful eye over the Dutch sky before releasing a brake and "steering" the giant blades of his centuries-old mill into the wind.
Macron names first French female PM in three decades
AFP, Published on 17/05/2022
» PARIS - President Emmanuel Macron on Monday named Labour Minister Elisabeth Borne as prime minister to lead his ambitious reform plans, the first woman to head the French government in over 30 years.
'Water is life': Covid-19 exposes chronic crisis in Navajo Nation
AFP, Published on 29/05/2020
» THOREAU, United States: Amanda Larson pulls up at a water station a few miles from her home in the Navajo Nation and her three children get to work filling up large bottles lying on the bed of her pickup truck.
Britain votes in 'Brexit election'
AFP, Published on 12/12/2019
» LONDON: Britain goes to the polls on Thursday to determine the immediate future of Brexit, in a vote described as the most important in a generation.
Paris celebrates France's march to the World Cup final
AFP, Published on 11/07/2018
» PARIS: The French national anthem La Marseillaise, chants of "We're in the final" and a cacophony of car horns and fire crackers rang out over Paris on Tuesday as residents of the capital celebrated France's march to the World Cup final.