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Over 1m evacuate as deadly Super Typhoon Fung-wong nears Philippines
AFP, Published on 09/11/2025
» MANILA - More than a million people have been evacuated and at least two people killed as floodwaters rose in the Philippines on Sunday before Super Typhoon Fung-wong's expected landfall on the east coast.
Another President Bolsonaro? God knows
AFP, Published on 17/10/2025
» SAO PAULO - Brazil’s right is scrambling for a candidate in next year’s election after leader Jair Bolsonaro was convicted over a botched coup — and one of the names that keeps cropping up is that of his wife, Michelle.
Dozens hurt in fuel station blast heard across Rome
AFP, Published on 04/07/2025
» ROME - A huge explosion at a petrol station in a Rome suburb on Friday injured nearly 30 people, two of them seriously, and rattled windows across the Italian capital.
‘Extermination camp’ found in Mexico
The New York Times, Published on 15/03/2025
» MEXICO CITY — A group of volunteers searching for their missing relatives first received a tip last week about a mass grave hidden in western Mexico.
Swedish police say school killing spree gunman likely shot himself
AFP, Published on 05/02/2025
» ÖREBRO, Sweden - Swedish police indicated on Wednesday that a gunman who slaughtered 10 people at an adult education centre shot himself as the country mourned its worst mass killing.
‘Bodies on the ground’: mass shooting shocks Sweden
AFP, Published on 05/02/2025
» ÖREBRO, Sweden - Linn could not get the thought of “blood everywhere” out of her head after her usually quiet town of Orebro on Tuesday became the scene of the worst mass shooting in Swedish history.
'We want peace': Colombians swept up in bloody guerrilla violence
AFP, Published on 25/01/2025
» TEORAMA (COLOMBIA) - The children of northeastern Colombia have a message for guerrillas blamed for the country's worst violence in over a decade -- as well as for rival militants tempted to take revenge.
In a political year, some deaths spoke to the struggles for democracy
The New York TImes, Published on 01/01/2025
» In a year saturated with politics in an ever more polarised world, where the obituary many feared they’d be reading would be that of democracy itself, one death seemed to encapsulate the historical moment we’re in: that of Alexei Navalny.
Super typhoon Man-Yi set to weaken as it barrels through Philippines
Reuters, Published on 17/11/2024
» MANILA - Super typhoon Man-Yi swept across the Philippines' main island of Luzon on Sunday, threatening heavy rain in the capital region Metro Manila, after triggering more than a million evacuations and damaging buildings in several areas.
Takanakuy, the Andean 'fight club' that clears the air for a new year
AFP, Published on 01/01/2024
» LIMA - The fighting begins and ends with a hug, part of a singular ritual that has residents of the Peruvian Andes punching and kicking in a year-end fight competition known as Takanakuy.