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Ecuador's wild west shows limits of Noboa's 'iron fist'
AFP, Published on 14/02/2025
» PUERTO BOLIVAR (ECUADOR) - On Ecuador's lawless southwest coast, drug gangs operate with impunity and terrified residents ask if their president's "iron fist" security policies are just words.
California asks insurers to spare wildfire victims ‘the list’
New York Times, Published on 07/02/2025
» LOS ANGELES — California’s top insurance regulator urged insurance carriers Thursday to pay policyholders the full amount of the belongings in their coverage without requiring them to itemise every object lost — an undertaking that has burdened thousands of residents whose homes were destroyed by wildfires last month.
China says Philippine personnel pointed guns at Chinese coast guard in disputed waters
Reuters, Published on 02/06/2024
» BEIJING - Chinese state media said on Sunday that personnel on a Philippine ship pointed guns at China's Coast Guard in disputed waters of the South China Sea last month.
Chinese ships chase, block Philippine boats
AFP, Published on 23/08/2023
» ABOARD THE BRP CABRA: As a US military surveillance plane circled overhead, eight Chinese ships chased and briefly blocked four Philippine boats on a resupply mission to a tiny garrison in the hotly contested South China Sea.
Most oil removed from decaying tanker off Yemen
AFP, Published on 02/08/2023
» DUBAI: Most of the oil on board a rusting supertanker off war-torn Yemen has been moved to a replacement vessel in a bid to avert a catastrophic spill, the United Nations has said.
UN hands over ship for oil transfer from rusting Yemen tanker
AFP, Published on 17/07/2023
» ABOARD NAUTICA, Yemen: The United Nations on Monday handed over a vessel that will take on board oil from a decaying tanker in the Red Sea off war-torn Yemen, an operation aimed at averting an environmental catastrophe.
S.Africa's ghost hunters look for clues in hollow rooms
AFP, Published on 17/11/2022
» PRETORIA - Shortly after nightfall, flashlight in hand, Rivas Bright knocks twice on the broken window of an abandoned building in Pretoria, South Africa.
Doubts about Russia's retreat from Kherson
AFP, Published on 10/11/2022
» MYKOLAIV, Ukraine: Few Ukrainians shopping for socks and extension cords on the main market of the biggest city near the Kherson front on Thursday could believe the Russians really were pulling back.
Misery and disease conquer Afghanistan a year into Taliban rule
Joe Stenson and Qubad Wali of AFP, Published on 10/08/2022
» MUSA QALA, Afghanistan: The heaving wards of a ramshackle clinic in southern Afghanistan are just one sign of the catastrophic humanitarian crisis that has gripped the war-ravaged country since the Taliban returned to power a year ago.
Albania's Soviet-era sub awaits its fate, refusing to sink
AFP, Published on 18/05/2022
» VLORë (ALBANIA) - Retired sergeant Neim Shehaj spends his days repairing a Soviet-era submarine, a witness to Albania's tumultuous communist past that is now rusting, half-submerged, at an Adriatic naval base.