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Thousands of Afghans flee Pakistan as deadline looms
AFP, Published on 31/10/2023
» PESHAWAR, Pakistan - More than 10,000 Afghans living in Pakistan rushed to the borders on Tuesday, just hours before a deadline for 1.7 million people to leave Pakistan voluntarily or face arrest and deportation.
Thousands of Afghans flee Pakistan as deadline looms
AFP, Published on 31/10/2023
» PESHAWAR, Pakistan - More than 10,000 Afghan migrants rushed to the border on Tuesday, the last day of a deadline for 1.7 million Afghans to leave Pakistan voluntarily or face arrest and deportation.
King Charles visits Kenya as colonial past looms large
AFP, Published on 31/10/2023
» NAIROBI - King Charles III begins a state visit to Kenya on Tuesday, where he will be confronted by widespread calls for an apology over Britain's bloody colonial past.
Israel says war has entered ‘new phase’
AFP, Published on 28/10/2023
» Israel said on Saturday its war with Hamas had “entered a new phase” as the army relentlessly pounded Gaza three weeks into a conflict sparked by the deadliest attack in the country’s history.
'Severely punished': Vietnam environmental activists face crackdown
AFP, Published on 25/10/2023
» HANOI - Hoang Thi Minh Hong had worried for months she could become the next environmental activist swept up in Vietnam's crackdown, so she closed her NGO and began keeping a low profile.
Russia extends detention of second US journalist
AFP, Published on 21/10/2023
» KAZAN (RUSSIA) - Russia on Friday ordered Russian-American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva to be detained for three more days, after prosecutors said she had failed to register as a "foreign agent".
Deposed Niger president's lawyers deny escape bid
AFP, Published on 20/10/2023
» ABIDJAN - Lawyers for Niger's ousted president on Friday rejected claims by the new military rulers that he had tried to escape, as France said its forces would be gone from the West African country by year's end as planned.
Race to save the Amazon leaves out Brazil's crucial savanna
AFP, Published on 20/10/2023
» SãO DESIDéRIO (BRAZIL) - People thought she was crazy when Carminha Maria Missio and her family bought what was considered "sterile" land in the Brazilian savanna to farm soybeans, she says.
Old Twitter vs X: Israel-Gaza war spotlights 'information crisis'
AFP, Published on 20/10/2023
» WASHINGTON - Twitter won fame in the Arab uprisings nearly a decade ago as a pivotal source for real-time crisis information, but that reputation has withered after the platform's transformation into a magnet for hate speech and disinformation under Elon Musk.
Blinken woos uneasy US allies in Saudi, Egypt to pressure Hamas
AFP, Published on 16/10/2023
» CAIRO: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday sought pressure against Hamas in talks with the leaders of Egypt and Saudi Arabia, both eager to highlight their influence despite at times uneasy alliances with Washington.