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Relative of Jack the Ripper victim demands new inquest
AFP, Published on 13/01/2025
» LONDON - A descendant of one of Jack the Ripper's victims has demanded a new inquest into one of history's most notorious serial killers, after DNA evidence suggested the murderer was a Polish barber.
Louise Gluck, US poet and 2020 Nobel laureate, dies at 80
AFP, Published on 14/10/2023
» WASHINGTON - American poet Louise Gluck, winner of the Nobel and Pulitzer prizes for her distinctively austere writing, has died, a Yale University spokeswoman told AFP on Friday.
Global Covid cases up 80% as new subvariant rises
AFP, Published on 11/08/2023
» PARIS: The number of new Covid-19 cases reported worldwide rose by 80% in the last month, the World Health Organization said on Friday, days after designating a new "variant of interest".
Titanic sub hours from running out of air
Reuters and Bloomberg, Published on 22/06/2023
» A multinational search team scanned the sea near the century-old wreck of the Titanic on Thursday, the fifth day since a tourist submersible went missing with five people aboard and with just hours to go before its air supply was expected to run out.
Phony claims swirl around Sri Lanka's holiest tree
AFP, Published on 02/06/2023
» ANURADHAPURA (SRI LANKA) - When social media was inundated with rumours that Sri Lanka's holiest tree was being harmed by 5G mobile signals, Colombo's cash-strapped government pulled out all the stops.
'There was a city': VR tour peers into Hiroshima's past
AFP, Published on 18/05/2023
» HIROSHIMA, Japan: On a sunny street in Hiroshima, a tourist looks around, but instead of seeing a bustling riverside, they face a scene of horror, with burning bodies and rising flames.
Greece's ex-king Constantine, end of a dynasty
AFP, Published on 11/01/2023
» ATHENS - Greece's former king Constantine II, who died on Tuesday aged 82, was the last member of a century-long dynasty in power when a brutal army dictatorship seized control of the country in 1967.
M23 rebels' vow to retreat at odds with hazy reality in DR Congo
AFP, Published on 05/01/2023
» GOMA (DR CONGO) - M23 rebels in eastern DR Congo this week promised to retreat from a strategic position even as they conquered territories elsewhere, throwing confusion over the future direction of a year-long conflict.
UN experts point to Rwandan role in east DR Congo rebel crisis
AFP, Published on 23/12/2022
» KINSHASA - Rwanda's army "engaged in military operations" against DR Congo's military in the country's troubled east, according to a report by a group of independent United Nations experts seen by AFP on Thursday.
Rwandan army conducted military ops in DR Congo: UN experts
AFP, Published on 22/12/2022
» KINSHASA - Rwanda's army "engaged in military operations" against DR Congo's military in the country's troubled east, according to a report by a group of independent United Nations experts seen by AFP on Thursday.