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Israel battles Hamas militants inside south Gaza city
AFP, Published on 07/12/2023
» GAZA STRIP (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) - Israeli troops battled Hamas fighters Thursday in the heart of southern Gaza's main city where a top militant leader is believed to be hiding, while pressing their offensive across the besieged territory.
Tantric yoga sect guru to appear before France judge
AFP, Published on 01/12/2023
» PARIS: The leader of a controversial tantric yoga sect was to go before a French judge on Friday, a judicial source said, after he was arrested in a probe along with over a dozen others on suspicion of kidnapping, rape and people trafficking.
France arrests guru, 40 others in raids on yoga sect
AFP, Published on 28/11/2023
» PARIS - French authorities on Tuesday arrested 41 people in raids against a controversial yoga sect, including its leader, the guru Gregorian Bivolaru, a source close to the case told AFP.
Israel pounds Gaza as UN warns order 'starting to break down'
AFP, Published on 29/10/2023
» GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories: Israel pounded Hamas-ruled Gaza with more air and ground attacks Sunday in an escalating military campaign as the UN warned civil order was "starting to break down" in the besieged Palestinian territory.
The 'kidneys of Kolkata': Indian wetlands under threat
AFP, Published on 18/07/2023
» KOLKATA - Wetlands just outside India's Kolkata have for generations provided tonnes of food daily and thousands of jobs as they filter sewage through fish ponds -- but rapid urbanisation is threatening the ecosystem.
Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch drops January 6 defamation case in Australia
AFP, Published on 21/04/2023
» SYDNEY - Fox Corporation chief executive Lachlan Murdoch on Friday dropped a high-profile defamation case against an Australian website that accused his family's conservative media empire of fuelling the 2021 US Capitol riots.
UK unveils cost-of-living budget as strikes rage
AFP, Published on 16/03/2023
» LONDON - Britain's government on Wednesday vowed a hefty pound sterling94 billion ($114 billion) in cost-of-living support for this year and next, as it forecast the UK to stay out of recession and inflation to slow sharply.
Climate activists take to the trees to save German village
AFP, Published on 12/11/2022
» LüTZERATH (GERMANY) - After the last farmer packed up and left in October, climate activists are the only people left in the village of Luetzerath, Germany, which sits above a rich vein of coal.
Albania's former 'Stalin City' looks West with Nato airbase
AFP, Published on 12/04/2022
» KUCOVA, Albania: In an Albanian city once named for Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, dozens of Soviet- and Chinese-made planes rust in the open air on a former communist airbase, some with flat tyres, others covered with dust.
US approves $95m sale of missile defence support to Taiwan
AFP, Published on 06/04/2022
» WASHINGTON: The United States announced Tuesday it has approved the sale of up to US$95 million worth of training and equipment to support Taiwan's Patriot missile defence system, something Taipei said would help protect the island from any invasion by China.