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Putin hails Ukraine gains, threatens more, in annual press conference
AFP, Published on 19/12/2025
» MOSCOW - Vladimir Putin on Friday hailed his troops' progress in Ukraine during an annual press conference in Moscow -- a staple of his 25-year rule -- with the Russian president emboldened by battlefield gains in Ukraine during a US diplomatic push to end the almost four-year war.
Ukraine: Mass grave contains mostly civilians
Reuters and AFP, Published on 16/09/2022
» KYIV: Most of the people buried in a mass grave discovered in the eastern Ukrainian city of Izium are civilians, Ukraine’s police chief said on Friday, based on a preliminary estimate.
'They bomb and they bomb': Anguish in Ukraine frontline city
AFP, Published on 14/06/2022
» LYSYCHANSK (UKRAINE) - Maksym Katerin was red-eyed Monday as he showed the fresh graves of his mother and stepfather, scattered with rose petals, in his garden in Ukraine's frontline city of Lysychansk.
Stable genius: Serbia's unlikely saviour of horses
AFP, Published on 29/04/2021
» LAPOVO (SERBIA) - Pasha was once a mighty stallion who starred in movies, modelled for magazines and won carriage races. Now, the 24-year-old is spending his dotage in Serbia's only sanctuary for horses.
Boar that stole nudist's laptop 'may be culled'
AFP, Published on 14/08/2020
» BERLIN: A wild boar that went viral after stealing a nudist's laptop by a lake in German capital Berlin last week could be caught up in a local cull, an official said Friday.
Earth's toughest creatures may now be living on Moon
AFP, Published on 07/08/2019
» WASHINGTON: There might be life on the Moon after all: thousands of virtually indestructible creatures that can withstand extreme radiation, sizzling heat, the coldest temperatures of the universe, and decades without food.
Bring home the bacon: the Taiwanese woman living with four pet pigs
AFP, Published on 01/02/2019
» TAICHUNG (TAIWAN) - Every year is the Year of the Pig in Jenny Tsai's ninth-floor apartment in Taiwan's Taichung City which she shares with one fellow human and four pampered porcine housemates.