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Italy's spread-out Olympics face transport challenge
AFP, Published on 03/02/2026
» MILAN, Italy - One of the biggest challenges in this month's Winter Olympics may be off the slopes: moving hundreds of thousands of spectators and athletes over a swath of northern Italy.
German president gets royal treatment on UK state visit
AFP, Published on 04/12/2025
» WINDSOR (UNITED KINGDOM) - Britain's King Charles III treated German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to a sumptuous banquet Wednesday, as the pair hailed the countries' deep ties during the first UK state visit by a German head of state in decades.
Coe hopeful with IOC vote finishing line in sight
AFP, Published on 01/02/2025
» PARIS - Sebastian Coe said on Friday he feels he has a fighting chance of becoming the next leader of the Olympic movement after he and his rivals faced an intense day of presentations.
Charles III to remember WWII bombing victims in Hamburg
AFP, Published on 31/03/2023
» BERLIN: Britain's King Charles III will commemorate German victims of World War II Allied air raids on Friday, a gesture carrying great significance for both countries.
UK cost-of-living crisis pushes mothers to the brink
AFP, Published on 26/01/2023
» LONDON: At an east London church on a bitterly cold winter's day, Beautine Wester-Okiya picks her way through boxes of donated baby clothes, toys and other assorted items destined for local people battered by the UK's cost-of-living crisis.
'No beds, not enough doctors': UK healthcare in crisis
AFP, Published on 18/01/2023
» LONDON: Five-year-old Yusuf Mahmud Nazir died from pneumonia after being sent home, despite a doctor describing his tonsillitis as the worst he had ever seen.
Auld reekie: Edinburgh bin strike leaves a bad smell
AFP, Published on 24/08/2022
» EDINBURGH - Trash overflowed from bins on the streets of Edinburgh on Tuesday as a strike by council workers hit the city during its internationally renowned arts festival.
UK students, French seniors team up for lockdown chats
AFP, Published on 22/03/2021
» LONDON - Every Monday at 4:30 pm British time -- 5.30 pm in France -- Elliot Bellman, 20, keeps an unlikely appointment with 97-year-old Jacqueline Tolu.
UK pubs try to avoid last orders as virus crisis deepens
AFP, Published on 12/05/2020
» LONDON: The French House survived two world wars and global recessions. Charles de Gaulle is said to have frequented it and Dylan Thomas once left his manuscript for "Under Milk Wood" at the bar.
German far right reopens wounds of Dresden bombing
AFP, Published on 13/02/2020
» FRANKFURT AM MAIN - Germany will mark 75 years since the destruction of Dresden in World War II on Thursday, with the far right seeking to inflate victim numbers and play down Nazi crimes.