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Families demand justice four years on from Nicaragua protest repression
AFP, Published on 17/04/2022
» MANAGUA - Alvaro Conrado's last words were: "It hurts to breathe."
Rain-sodden Sydney ends lockdown after 106 days
AFP, Published on 11/10/2021
» SYDNEY: Elated Sydneysiders defied grey skies and drizzle to celebrate the end of almost four months of lockdown on Monday, hoping to put behind them a period of "blood, sweat and no beers" in Australia's largest city.
Facebook bans content promoting 'conversion therapy'
AFP, Published on 11/07/2020
» SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook on Friday said it is banning content that promotes "conversion therapy," which is based on the unfounded notion that gays can change their sexual orientation through psychological or spiritual intervention.
Japan's 'ama' grannies cling to their freediving fishing tradition
AFP, Published on 23/11/2018
» TOBA (JAPAN) - A group of Japanese grannies emerges from a boat returning to shore. Clad in black wetsuits and bubbling with energy, they are part of a dwindling community of "ama" -- freediving fisherwomen.
Kofi Annan: the UN's 'rock star' secretary-general
AFP, Published on 18/08/2018
» UNITED NATIONS (UNITED STATES) - Kofi Annan, who died Saturday at the age of 80, led the United Nations through the divisive years of the Iraq war and the trauma of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Former UN chief and Nobel laureate Kofi Annan dies
AFP, Published on 18/08/2018
» GENEVA - Former United Nations Secretary General and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kofi Annan died at the age of 80 on Saturday after a short illness, his foundation announced.
Kofi Annan dies at 80
News Agencies, Published on 18/08/2018
» Kofi Annan, one of the world’s most celebrated diplomats and a charismatic symbol of the United Nations who rose through its ranks to become the first black African secretary-general, has died. He was 80.