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Mexico training ship that hit Brooklyn Bridge returns home
AFP, Published on 24/11/2025
» MEXICO CITY - The Mexican naval training ship that crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge in May, leaving two crew members dead, returned home on Sunday to official fanfare in the port of Veracruz.
Kim Jong Un to join Putin at Xi’s military parade
Bloomberg News, Published on 28/08/2025
» BEIJING — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will visit China for the military parade on Sept 3, a rare trip that would place him alongside other world leaders attending, including Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Scientist puts hope in nest boxes to save endangered cockatoos
AFP, Published on 19/08/2025
» HONG KONG — Above the teeming shopping streets of Hong Kong's Causeway Bay district, a fight to save one of the world's most endangered species is unfolding high in the branches of a decades-old cotton tree.
Not tired of winning: Trump on a roll, for now
AFP, Published on 04/07/2025
» WASHINGTON - Even for a man who once boasted that his supporters would get "tired of winning," US President Donald Trump is on a roll.
Protests and bad weather may rain on Trump’s parade
Reuters, Published on 14/06/2025
» WASHINGTON - Nationwide protests against President Donald Trump, tensions in the Middle East amid Israel’s strikes on Iran and expected rainy weather in Washington could dampen spirits at a military parade on the US Army’s 250th anniversary, set to feature tanks on the streets and aircraft flying overhead.
Trauma and tragedy in the City of Angels: covering the LA fires
AFP, Published on 16/01/2025
» PARIS - Terrified residents caught in blazing neighbourhoods, influencers ignoring the ban on drones and the frightening unpredictability of the wildfires are just some of what journalists covering the fires ravaging Los Angeles for AFP have had to manage.
Army and 'foreign' fighters accused of atrocity in Mali
AFP, Published on 12/05/2023
» DAKAR: The Malian army and foreign fighters executed at least 500 people during an anti-jihadist operation in Mali in March 2022, according to a much-awaited UN report released on Friday.
75 dead in India bridge collapse
AFP, Published on 31/10/2022
» AHMEDABAD (INDIA) - At least 75 people were killed on Sunday in India after an almost 150-year-old colonial-era pedestrian bridge collapsed, sending scores of people tumbling into the river below.
Hun Sen challenged by 'doomsday cult'
Published on 01/09/2022
» Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has called on the public to refrain from discriminating against the followers of a politician who has attracted thousands to what many commentators are calling a “doomsday cult”.
Russia readies Victory Day parade as fight for east Ukraine rages
AFP, Published on 09/05/2022
» SEVERODONETSK, Ukraine: Russia will celebrate its 1945 victory over Nazi Germany on Monday with a show of military might as its army battles Kyiv's forces in the east of Ukraine, where 60 people were killed in an air strike on a school sheltering civilians.