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Hong Kong's bamboo scaffolders preserve ancient technique
AFP, Published on 08/05/2023
» HONG KONG - Mo Jia Yu wraps his legs around a pole to balance high above the ground and secure a joint, a skill he must master to become a bamboo scaffolder in Hong Kong.
'Our hero': tributes to security guard killed in Belgrade shooting
AFP, Published on 05/05/2023
» BELGRADE - Dragan Vlahovic was known for remembering the students' names at Vladislav Ribnikar elementary school in Belgrade and reminding them to wear their coats when it was cold.
Five teachers among eight killed in Pakistan sectarian attack
AFP, Published on 05/05/2023
» PARACHINAR (PAKISTAN) - Five teachers were among eight people killed in rural Pakistan Thursday as a long-simmering row between Sunni and Shiite Muslims erupted into deadly violence, police and officials said.
'I cried all day': Serbia reels after deadly school shooting
AFP, Published on 04/05/2023
» BELGRADE: Serbia was in mourning on Thursday a day after a 13-year-old suspect shot dead eight fellow students and a security guard after allegedly drawing up a kill list.
Sheeran copyright battle could stoke songwriting paranoia
AFP, Published on 04/05/2023
» NEW YORK - Ed Sheeran is preparing for a blockbuster tour and album release amid regular trips to Manhattan's federal court, where he's defending his songwriting in a closely watched copyright case.
'Abusing scripture': The rise of Kenya's Christian cults
AFP, Published on 26/04/2023
» NAIROBI - "Jesus told me that the work he gave me had come to an end," said Kenyan self-styled pastor Paul Mackenzie Nthenge, explaining his 2019 decision to close the Good News International Church.
'Be a real man': Russian army launches recruitment drive
AFP, Published on 26/04/2023
» MOSCOW - A slick new video that has gone viral on Russian social media platforms shows a taxi driver, a security guard and a fitness coach at work.
What foreign nations are doing to extract citizens from Sudan
AFP, Published on 26/04/2023
» KHARTOUM - Multiple nations have scrambled to evacuate embassy staff and citizens by road, air and sea from chaos-torn Sudan, where fighting between the army and paramilitaries has killed hundreds.
Learning a language for loss: Uyghur school in US offers link to homeland
AFP, Published on 24/04/2023
» FAIRFAX (UNITED STATES) - At a weekend school in the US state of Virginia, language classes serve a dual purpose for young Uyghurs -- cultural preservation, and access to vocabulary to discuss the plight of relatives in China.
Paris court gives Canada-based professor life for 1980 synagogue bomb
AFP, Published on 22/04/2023
» PARIS - A Paris court on Friday sentenced a Lebanese-Canadian sociology professor to life in prison in absentia for the 1980 bombing of a synagogue in the French capital that left four people dead.