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Australia falls silent, lights candles for Bondi Beach shooting victims
AFP, Published on 21/12/2025
» SYDNEY - Australians fell silent in flickering candlelight Sunday to honour the Bondi Beach shooting victims, marking one week since gunmen fired into crowds at a Jewish festival.
Racing towards great white sharks in Australia
AFP, Published on 11/12/2025
» SYDNEY - Sensible people might prefer to flee at torpedo speed from a great white shark, but there’s one job in Australia that pays you to race towards the predators.
Greeks count cost of wildfire ‘tragedy’ near Athens
AFP, Published on 09/08/2025
» PALAIA FOKAIA, Greece - In the municipality of Palaia Fokaia, an hour’s drive south of Athens, a typical bucolic Greek landscape of olive groves and hamlets was transformed by a raging Friday wildfire into a dystopia of blackened land and incinerated homes.
Belgium learns to share beaches with sleepy seals
AFP, Published on 12/05/2023
» OSTEND, Belgium: Visitors to Belgium's coast are having to get used to North Sea visitors not seen for a while — dozens of seals that are using the short sandy coastline as a resting place.
13 killed in Russian strikes near nuclear plant
AFP, Published on 10/08/2022
» KYIV, Ukraine: Ukraine on Wednesday accused Russia of rocket strikes that killed 13 civilians in areas near a Russian-held power plant, where renewed fighting has raised fears of a nuclear disaster.
Fighter jets and warships: Russians get a taste of Crimea summer vacation
AFP, Published on 27/07/2022
» SEVASTOPOL: Russian tourist Alexandra Rumyantseva is tanning on a beach in Moscow-annexed Crimea, not far away from the front lines of Ukraine's eastern and southern territories.
Disputed Russian cargo ship remains stranded off Turkish coast
AFP, Published on 05/07/2022
» KARASU (TURKEY) - A Russian-flagged cargo ship at the centre of a fight over grain between Kyiv and Moscow remained anchored Tuesday off Turkey's Black Sea coast four days after its unexpected arrival.
Rare sighting of killer whales off Brazil's coast
Published on 19/12/2021
» A family of orcas surprised beachgoers in Rio de Janeiro this week, when the black-and-white whales could be seen frolicking in the shallow waters off the city's iconic Ipanema beach.- REUTERS
Self-isolation? Some in southern US choose beach instead
AFP, Published on 26/04/2020
» TYBEE ISLAND, US: After being locked down for weeks, many residents in Georgia are thumbing their noses at the deadly coronavirus and seeking sanctuary in the sun, sand and waves of the southern state's beaches.
Self-isolation? Some in Georgia choose beach instead
AFP, Published on 26/04/2020
» TYBEE ISLAND (UNITED STATES) - After being locked down for weeks, many residents in Georgia are thumbing their noses at the deadly coronavirus and seeking sanctuary in the sun, sand and waves of the southern state's beaches.