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Build strong foundations for all
Oped, Published on 26/01/2024
» As educators and students celebrate World Education Day this week, this moment provides an opportunity to reflect on the transformative power of education. And East Asian countries have a particularly relevant historical experience.
Magnetic surgical robot makes debut in Chilean hospital
Life, Reuters, Published on 13/12/2023
» SANTIAGO - A robot that uses powerful magnets to perform less invasive and more efficient surgeries completed its first international procedure, a gallbladder removal, at a public hospital in Chile this week, according to the company that developed the technology.
At Barcelona rally, Spanish right lambasts amnesty plan
AFP, Published on 08/10/2023
» BARCELONA - Spain's right-wing leaders lambasted plans to grant Catalan separatists an amnesty in exchange for supporting a new left-wing government at a Barcelona rally Sunday that drew tens of thousands.
At Barcelona rally, Spanish right lambasts amnesty plan
AFP, Published on 08/10/2023
» MADRID: Right-wing officials in Spain joined a mass rally in Barcelona on Sunday to protest plans to grant Catalan separatists an amnesty in exchange for their political support for a new left-wing government.
G77+China summit in Cuba seeks 'new economic world order'
AFP, Published on 15/09/2023
» HAVANA - The G77+China, a group of developing and emerging countries representing 80 percent of the global population, gathers Friday in Cuba seeking to promote a "new economic world order" amid warnings of growing polarization.
At funeral, hundreds mourn verger killed in Spain church attack
AFP, Published on 27/01/2023
» ALGECIRAS (SPAIN) - Hundreds of mourners gathered Friday for the funeral of the verger who was killed when a machete-wielding assailant attacked two churches in Spain as investigators probed the reasons for the deadly assault.
One dead in machete attack on Spain churches
AFP, Published on 26/01/2023
» ALGECIRAS (SPAIN) - A church official was killed and a priest seriously wounded late Wednesday when a man wielding a machete stormed two churches in southern Spain, the government said.
Spain to put video cameras in abattoirs
AFP, Published on 24/08/2022
» MADRID: Spanish slaughterhouses will have to install video surveillance to ensure animals are not mistreated before being killed, the government announced Tuesday, claiming a first in the EU.
Spain's spy chief sacked over phone hacking scandal
AFP, Published on 10/05/2022
» MADRID - Spain's government on Tuesday sacked the country's spy chief as part of a widening scandal over the hacking of the mobile phones of the prime minister and Catalan separatist leaders.
Pompeo hits Iran, China, Cuba in last-minute sanctions push
AFP, Published on 16/01/2021
» WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday imposed sanctions on three of his primary targets -- China, Iran and Cuba -- in a last-minute push aimed in part at boxing in President-elect Joe Biden.