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Taking to the hills: tribal groups face up to climate change
AFP, Published on 06/12/2015
» LE BOURGET (FRANCE) - Tashka Yawanawa's Amazonian tribe lived on the plains along the Gregorio River for millennia -- until a wall of flood water last year forced them to flee their homes for good.
N. Korea to release detained S. Korean NYU student
AFP, Published on 05/10/2015
» SEOUL - North Korea announced Monday it was releasing and deporting a South Korean citizen and US resident who was arrested back in April for illegal entry, South Korea's Unification Ministry said.
Far from the madding crowd: China's rich seek own islands
AFP, Published on 29/05/2015
» GUANLONG ISLAND (CHINA) - As sunset falls on his private island in the South China Sea, entrepreneur Lin Dong likes few things better than to lounge on a hammock strung between two trees as waves lap the shore.
NYU student held in N. Korea says he 'wanted to be arrested'
AFP, Published on 05/05/2015
» SEOUL - A South Korean student held in North Korea for illegal entry has told CNN in an interview from Pyongyang that he wanted to be arrested.
N. Korea arrests South Korean studying in US
AFP, Published on 03/05/2015
» SEOUL - North Korea said Saturday it had arrested a South Korean student, who attends New York University and has permanent US residency, for illegally entering the country from China last month.
Solar plane lands in east China ahead of most ambitious leg
AFP, Published on 22/04/2015
» BEIJING - Solar Impulse 2 landed late Tuesday in the Chinese city of Nanjing, finishing the sixth stage of its landmark 12-leg quest to circumnavigate the globe powered only by the sun.
Solar plane starts next round-the-world leg in China
AFP, Published on 21/04/2015
» BEIJING - A pioneering plane attempting to circumnavigate the globe powered only by the sun took off in China early Tuesday for the next stage of its journey, organisers said.
Solar plane off to Myanmar in epic round-the-world bid
AFP, Published on 19/03/2015
» VARANASI (INDIA) - Solar Impulse 2 took off from the Indian holy city of Varanasi Thursday for Myanmar, its fourth flight after embarking on a landmark journey to circumnavigate the globe powered solely by the sun.
Five years after quake, cholera epidemic haunts Haiti
AFP, Published on 10/01/2015
» PORT-AU-PRINCE - Five years after an earthquake demolished its capital, Haiti's efforts to get back on its feet are still hampered by an epidemic blamed on the UN troops there to help.
DR Congo confirms first Ebola cases
AFP, Published on 25/08/2014
» FREETOWN - The Democratic Republic of Congo confirmed its two first cases of Ebola this year, but claimed they were unrelated to the epidemic raging in four countries of West Africa.