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Along underwater highway, workers fix Channel tunnel at night
AFP, Published on 14/02/2023
» COQUELLES (FRANCE) - Deep under the Channel, men in orange jackets and white hard hats drive up and down one of the world's longest underground highways, beavering away to keep passenger trains running.
Arctic cold 'no sweat' for electric cars in Norway
AFP, Published on 01/02/2023
» JESSHEIM (NORWAY) - Norwegian electric car owners have a word for the way they feel when they look nervously at their battery indicators while driving in subfreezing weather: "rekkevideangst", or "range anxiety".
US diplomat's wife gets suspended sentence for fatal UK crash
AFP, Published on 09/12/2022
» LONDON - A US diplomat's wife on Thursday narrowly avoided jail in Britain for killing a teenage motorcyclist by driving on the wrong side of the road and then fleeing the country.
Russia's 'disposable soldiers' in Ukraine
AFP, Published on 27/10/2022
» BAKHMUT, Ukraine: With Russian artillery exploding around him, a Ukrainian soldier takes shelter in a tunnel and recounts the scene at the front line in Bakhmut, just a kilometre away.
A year under the Taliban
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 23/10/2022
» She was a girl of just five when the Taliban took over Afghanistan the first time, and her parents did not hesitate: With the militants bent on imposing a puritanical form of Islam, the family packed their bags and fled.
Myanmar's Rohingyas: 5 years of crisis
Published on 23/08/2022
» Myanmar's military launched a ferocious crackdown against the country's Rohingya Muslim population in 2017, driving more than 740,000 refugees into neighbouring Bangladesh.
Italy marks 30th anniversary of murder of anti-mafia judge Falcone
AFP, Published on 18/05/2022
» ROME: Thirty years ago, the Sicilian mafia killed judge Giovanni Falcone with a bomb so powerful it was registered by experts monitoring volcanic tremors from Etna on the other side of the island.
Drone pilot suffered for his craft
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 01/05/2022
» After hiding all night in the mountains, Air Force Capt Kevin Larson crouched behind a boulder and watched the forest through his breath, waiting for the police he knew would come. It was Jan 19, 2020. He was clinging to an assault rifle with 30 rounds and a conviction that, after all he had been through, there was no way he was going to prison.
The Smugglers' Paradise of Afghanistan
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 20/03/2022
» The smuggler barrelled down the narrow dirt road, bouncing into craters and over rocks that jutted out from the scrubland. His headlights were off and as the car picked up speed, he tightened his grip on the steering wheel trying to wrestle it under his control.
Freedom's choice for Afghans: Over the wall or through the desert
AFP, Published on 09/03/2022
» ZARANJ (AFGHANISTAN) - Amid a roar of engines and clouds of dust, Sattar Amiri clambers into a pickup truck with his wife and infant son in a remote Afghan frontier town, ready for a perilous drive through the desert.