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King Charles acknowledges Commonwealth's 'painful' history with slavery
Reuters, Published on 25/10/2024
» APIA - Britain's King Charles said on Friday the Commonwealth should acknowledge its "painful" history, as African and Caribbean nations continue to advocate for reparations for the country's role in the transatlantic slave trade.
In the Colombian jungle with ELN rebels
AFP, Published on 16/11/2023
» RIO BAUDO (COLOMBIA) - Unidentified men approach from the river.
Iraq's marshes are dying, and a civilisation with them
AFP, Published on 13/07/2023
» CHIBAYISH (IRAQ) - Mohammed Hamid Nour is only 23, but he is already nostalgic for how Iraq's Mesopotamian marshes once were before drought dried them up, decimating his herd of water buffaloes.
First self-driving urban ferry sets sail in Stockholm
AFP, Published on 09/06/2023
» STOCKHOLM - A self-driving electric ferry set sail in Stockholm on Thursday, making the Swedish capital the world's first city to put the technology to use, the company behind it said.
Chad floods leave victims in despair
AFP, Published on 19/10/2022
» N'DJAMENA - One of the poorest and most arid states in the world, the landlocked nation of Chad has been hit by exceptional floods that have affected hundreds of thousands of lives.
Spinal cord implant helps paralysed patients walk again
AFP, Published on 08/02/2022
» TOKYO: In 2017, Michel Roccati was in a motorbike accident that left his lower body completely paralysed. In 2020, he walked again, thanks to a breakthrough new spinal cord implant.
'Many didn't make it': Haitian migrants' traumatic journey to Panama
AFP, Published on 26/08/2021
» BAJO CHIQUITO (PANAMA) - When Moise Cliff Raymond arrives at the Tuquesa River, he plunges in to wash off the filth from trekking five days through the perilous Darien Gap jungle in order to cross the Colombian border into Panama.
Benin's rare swamp forest 'at risk of disappearing'
AFP, Published on 31/07/2021
» HLANZOUN FOREST (BéNIN) - In the freshwater swamp forest of Hlanzoun in southern Benin, majestic trees hum with chirping birds and playful monkeys.
Portuguese brave lockdown to re-elect President Rebelo de Sousa
AFP, Published on 25/01/2021
» LISBON - Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa won re-election Sunday according to media projections and partial results, after a poll held at the height of the country's coronavirus crisis.
Sea turtles find protection from Senegal fishermen
AFP, Published on 04/07/2020
» JOAL-FADIOUTH (SENEGAL) - In a classic case of "poacher turning gamekeeper", the fishermen of Senegal have joined forces to protect one of the ocean's most endangered species -- the sea turtle.