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Helicopters, ziplining commandos rescue 8 from Pakistan cable car
AFP, Published on 23/08/2023
» PASHTO, Pakistan - Military helicopters and ziplining commandos rescued eight people, including six schoolboys, who were trapped for hours on Tuesday in a stricken cable car high above a remote Pakistani valley.
US hits China on 'forced assimilation' of Tibetan children
AFP, Published on 23/08/2023
» WASHINGTON - The United States said Tuesday it was imposing visa sanctions on Chinese officials pursuing "forced assimilation" of children in Tibet, where UN experts say one million children have been separated from their families.
First children rescued from cable car over Pakistan ravine
AFP, Published on 22/08/2023
» PESHAWAR, Pakistan: A helicopter on Tuesday evening helped rescue the first two children from a cable car that had been dangling all day over a deep ravine in Pakistan, rescue officials said.
Pakistan police guard Christian colony after mob attack over 'blasphemy'
AFP, Published on 17/08/2023
» FAISALABAD (PAKISTAN) - Police were guarding a Christian neighbourhood in central Pakistan on Thursday, after hundreds of Muslim men rampaged through its streets setting fire to churches and ransacking homes over accusations of blasphemy a day earlier.
Thousands of coup supporters gathered near French base in Niger
AFP, Published on 11/08/2023
» NIAMEY (NIGER) - Thousands of supporters of Niger's coup leaders gathered on Friday near a French military base on the outskirts of the capital Niamey, AFP reporters saw.
Wolf cubs offer bright future for Portuguese rugby
AFP, Published on 09/08/2023
» LISBON - Portugal may have snuck into this Rugby World Cup through the back door but the future looks bright for a country where the game is steadily building its numbers among the younger generation.
Pope tells youth to tackle climate crisis, poverty
AFP, Published on 03/08/2023
» LISBON: Pope Francis on Thursday urged young people to combine fighting to save the planet with tackling poverty during the second day of his visit to Portugal.
The fight to save 'sacred' Carpathian forests from loggers
AFP, Published on 02/08/2023
» CARPATHIANS - Vast gaps in the forest canopy are visible from above Romania's Carpathian mountains, while stumps studding the ground are reminders of the trees chopped into logs and piled beside dirt roads.
Suicide blast kills at least 44 at Pakistan political party meet
AFP, Published on 31/07/2023
» PESHAWAR (PAKISTAN) - At least 44 people were killed and more than 100 others wounded Sunday by a suicide bombing at a political gathering of a leading Islamic party in northwest Pakistan, officials said.
German teachers pushed out for exposing 'far-right' pupils
AFP, Published on 29/07/2023
» BURG, Germany: Two teachers have been pressured out of their jobs in a small German town after denouncing the alleged right-wing extremism of their pupils, in a case that sparked a national outcry.