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Five things to know about the Grand Egyptian Museum
AFP, Published on 02/11/2025
» CAIRO - Near the ancient Pyramids of Giza just outside Cairo, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is gearing up for its lavish opening on Saturday after two decades of delays.
Lethal pager hack exposes dark side of Asian supply chains
Reuters, Published on 21/09/2024
» The lethal hack of Hezbollah’s Asian-branded pagers and walkie-talkies has set off an intense search for the devices’ path, revealing a murky market for older technologies where buyers may have few assurances about what they are getting.
Merriam-Webster crowns 'authentic' as word of the year
AFP, Published on 28/11/2023
» WASHINGTON - In an age where forces from AI to Donald Trump have left Americans doubting the truth, United States dictionary Merriam-Webster says that 2023's most looked-up word was "authentic."
Fencing in turmoil after Poles cancel World Cup event over Russia
AFP, Published on 06/04/2023
» WARSAW - The rebellion against the decision by the International Fencing Federation (FIE) to reintegrate Russians and Belarusians into Olympic qualifying grew on Wednesday with the cancellation of the women's World Cup event in Poznan, Poland.
Gorbachev's love-hate relationship with Putin
AFP, Published on 31/08/2022
» MOSCOW: Mikhail Gorbachev struggled to make up his mind about Vladimir Putin.
Gorbachev: the man who let the Soviet empire go
AFP, Published on 31/08/2022
» MOSCOW - Mikhail Gorbachev changed the course of modern history by triggering the demise of the USSR and allowing Eastern Europe to free itself from Soviet rule, earning him accolades in the West but the scorn of many Russians.
The battle to keep Russia's internet free
AFP, Published on 18/03/2022
» PARIS - Western powers have seized the yachts of Russian oligarchs and booted Russian banks out of the international system in response to the Ukraine invasion, but sanctions that limit access to the internet are proving highly divisive.
'Non-lethal' guns -- a deadly scourge in Bogota
AFP, Published on 28/09/2021
» BOGOTA - One can buy them on street corners, legally, for the price of a toy -- so-called non-lethal guns that nevertheless maim, and which proliferate in Colombia's crime-plagued cities.
Steam rises as India and Pakistan take basmati battle to EU
AFP, Published on 07/06/2021
» LAHORE: From biryani to pilau, Pakistan and India's shared culinary landscape is defined by basmati, a distinctive long-grain rice now at the centre of the latest tussle between the bitter rivals.
Japan's wasabi producers farm 'green gold'
AFP, Published on 15/12/2020
» IZU (JAPAN) - If you've eaten sushi, you might assume you've tried wasabi. But chances are it was an artificial version that Japanese growers say is a world away from their 'green gold'.