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AFP, Published on 02/01/2024
» LOS ANGELES - A Chinese exchange student who fell victim to a "cyber kidnapping" scam in which his parents were extorted for $80,000, was found alive but "cold and scared" in a tent in the Utah wilderness, police said.
AFP, Published on 01/01/2024
» SYDNEY - Jubilant crowds began bidding farewell on Sunday to the hottest year on record, closing a turbulent 12 months marked by clever chatbots, climate crises and wrenching wars in Gaza and Ukraine.
AFP, Published on 30/12/2023
» WASHINGTON - In the middle of the Pacific ocean, an abandoned US airfield once key to dropping the nuclear bomb on Japan — and nearly lost to history amid encroaching forest — is being revived.
AFP, Published on 29/12/2023
» HONG KONG - Hong Kong democracy activist Tony Chung said on Friday he had fled to Britain because he could no longer endure living in fear, with authorities pressuring him to become a paid informant while banning him from working.
AFP, Published on 28/12/2023
» SOCORRO (COLOMBIA) - In northeast Colombia, police guard warehouses stacked high with confiscated timber with a noble new destiny: transformation into homes for bees beleaguered by pesticides and climate change.
AFP, Published on 28/12/2023
» HONG KONG - Six lapel pins bearing the Civic Party's founding date are all Hong Kong veteran politician Alan Leong kept when the once-prominent opposition group cleared its headquarters and shuttered its doors days before the new year.
AFP, Published on 22/12/2023
» BEIJING - Air pollution in China worsened in 2023, the first time it has done so in a decade, according to study released on Friday.
AFP, Published on 21/12/2023
» WASHINGTON - The United States released an ally of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in exchange for 10 American detainees and a fugitive dubbed "Fat Leonard" in a sweeping prisoner swap deal between the rival governments on Wednesday.
AFP, Published on 20/12/2023
» JISHISHAN (CHINA) - Survivors of China's deadliest earthquake in years huddled in aid tents on Wednesday after overnight temperatures plunged well below zero, with the death toll rising to 131.
AFP, Published on 19/12/2023
» TOKYO - A second-hand pop-up store in Tokyo by casual clothing giant Uniqlo was a first for the Japanese firm, but also a sign that a local aversion to used garments may finally be fading.