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Japanese priest counsels elderly scam victims
AFP, Published on 10/11/2023
» NARITA (JAPAN) - In a serene temple in the countryside near Tokyo, the sound of a priest's mobile phone breaks the silence.
Arctic archipelago turns the page on its mining past
AFP, Published on 26/10/2023
» FORMER SVEA MINE (NORWAY) - At the old Svea mine in the Arctic, broken railway tracks overgrown with weeds lead nowhere. Of the hundred buildings that once made up the town, there's almost nothing left.
Gold and mercury, not books, for Venezuela's child miners
AFP, Published on 20/09/2023
» EL CALLAO (VENEZUELA) - At 10 years old, Martin cannot read, but he is an old hand at detecting traces of the gold he and his young cousins dig for at an open-pit mine in southeastern Venezuela.
North Korea spy satellite crashes into sea
AFP, Published on 31/05/2023
» SEOUL: North Korea attempted to launch a spy satellite Wednesday but it crashed into the sea after a rocket failure, with the South Korean military retrieving part of the likely wreckage in a potential intelligence bonanza.
Teodoro Obiang, Equatorial Guinea's iron-fisted ruler
AFP, Published on 27/11/2022
» LIBREVILLE - Confirmed for a sixth term as president, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has ruled oil-rich Equatorial Guinea since August 1979, overseeing a regime notorious for crushing dissent and fearing coups.
Grinding inflation clouds 'Black Friday' shopping bonanza
AFP, Published on 25/11/2022
» NEW YORK - Retailers braced for their biggest test of the year: Will US consumers open their wallets wide for the Black Friday sales that kick off the holiday shopping season?
China's Singles Day shopping spree enters final stretch
AFP, Published on 11/11/2022
» BEIJING - China's Singles Day shopping bonanza entered its final stretch Friday, with all eyes on whether sales can top a record one trillion yuan ($140 billion) despite the country's struggling economy.
'We don't eat lithium': S. America longs for benefits of metal boon
AFP, Published on 25/10/2022
» SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA (CHILE) - The turquoise glimmer of open-air pools contrasts sharply with the dazzling white of salt flats in Latin America's "lithium triangle," where hope resides for a better life fueled by a metal bonanza.
Angola's opposition rejects initial poll results
AFP, Published on 27/08/2022
» LUANDA - Angola's opposition leader Friday rejected preliminary election results that suggest President Joao Lourenco will stay in power despite the country's most competitive polls since independence.
Germany's Russian gas crisis sparks coal rush
AFP, Published on 17/08/2022
» BERLIN: "A rush like this in the summertime, it's unheard of -- everybody wants coal," says Frithjof Engelke, a supplier of the briquettes which have become a hot commodity in the German capital.