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Munich's surfers stunned after famed river wave vanishes
AFP, Published on 05/11/2025
» BERLIN - A standing wave in a Munich stream that has been a surfing magnet for more than four decades has vanished, leaving urban surfers high and dry.
Hope and hate: how migrant influx has changed Germany
AFP, Published on 29/08/2025
» BERLIN — Men sit outside shisha bars and women in hijabs push strollers past Middle Eastern restaurants and pastry shops in Berlin's Sonnenallee, a wide avenue which has become a symbol of how much Germany has changed in the last decade.
Saboteurs try to outfox hunters in England's countryside
AFP, Published on 22/12/2023
» THURLOW (UNITED KINGDOM) - Emerging from woods in a quiet corner of rural England, a small band of anti-foxhunting campaigners have just one goal: to confuse the pack of dogs chasing a fox and prevent its death.
Small store a lifeline in Ukraine war zone
AFP, Published on 31/03/2023
» CHASIV YAR, Ukraine: With pink-painted walls, the small general store stocks a little bit of everything — from cheese to cigarettes to shampoo — providing a lifeline to local residents and soldiers.
EU parliament head publishes list of gifts
AFP, Published on 19/01/2023
» STRASBOURG (FRANCE) - The speaker of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, has disclosed the many gifts she has received on behalf of the institution in the past year, as the scandal-hit institution seeks to rebuild credibility.
Contraband McMuffins cost traveller to Australia US$2,000
AFP, Published on 01/08/2022
» SYDNEY: A traveller arriving in Australia from Indonesia has been hit with an almost US$2,000 fine after border guards detected two McMuffins and a ham croissant secretly squirrelled away in their backpack.
Australians flee floods as toll rises to 12, Sydney on alert
AFP, Published on 02/03/2022
» GRAFTON, Australia: Floodwaters crashed into more towns on Australia's east coast as a deadly storm front barrelled south on Wednesday towards Sydney, where the main dam began to spill water.
Biden hails passage of infrastructure plan as 'monumental step forward'
AFP, Published on 06/11/2021
» WASHINGTON - US President Joe Biden on Saturday hailed congressional passage of his $1.2 trillion infrastructure plan as a "monumental step forward" after months of tough negotiations.
Anger over men-only foreign delegations to meet Taliban
AFP, Published on 27/10/2021
» ISLAMABAD - Global powers and aid groups that have loudly demanded an inclusive Afghanistan under the Taliban are now facing criticism for sending all-male delegations to Kabul to meet the hardline Islamists.
Inmate who leaked Russia prison rape video seeks French asylum
AFP, Published on 19/10/2021
» ROISSY-CHARLES DE GAULLE AIRPORT (FRANCE) - The former inmate behind a video leak showing alleged rape and torture inside a Russian prison said he could no longer keep the explosive revelations to himself, speaking to AFP from France where he is now seeking asylum.