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Meet Alex, the taxi driver who became a Grand Slam-winning coach
AFP, Published on 02/02/2020
» MELBOURNE - It wasn't so long ago that Sofia Kenin's father was driving New York taxis and spoke English so poorly that he didn't know where he was supposed to be going. These days Alex Kenin, despite starting with close to zero tennis knowledge, is coaching a Grand Slam champion.
China virus death toll surges past 300
AFP, Published on 02/02/2020
» BEIJING: The death toll from China's coronavirus epidemic soared to 304 on Sunday, as an increasing number of countries imposed extraordinary Chinese travel bans to combat the spread of the disease.
China seals off more cities as virus toll climbs
AFP, Published on 24/01/2020
» WUHAN: China sealed off millions more people near the epicentre of a virus outbreak on Friday, shutting down public transport in an eighth city in an unprecedented quarantine effort as the death toll from the disease climbed to 25.
Medic, driver, witness, baker: four faces of Iraqi's uprising
AFP, Published on 10/12/2019
» BAGHDAD - Tears roll out from behind Ayat's oversized glasses but her hands, facing the sky, are steady. Her friends are gone, killed protesting Iraq's government, but their "revolution" continues.
Pressure rises on Malta PM to resign over slain reporter case
AFP, Published on 30/11/2019
» VALLETTA - Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat came under increasing pressure to resign on Friday as protesters cried foul over the latest twist in the case of slain investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.
Gas, food running short in Bolivia amid protests
AFP, Published on 18/11/2019
» LA PAZ - Bolivian taxi driver Carlos Lara has spent three nights sleeping in his car at a service station, hoping that gas supplies held up by supporters of ex-president Evo Morales will make it through.
Electric motorcycles ride to rescue in fuel-short Cuba
AFP, Published on 09/11/2019
» HAVANA - It is rush hour in Havana and the queue at the bus stop is longer than ever. Then a fleet of electric motorcycles appears, beeping their horns.
Over a million protesters demand Chile president's resignation
AFP, Published on 26/10/2019
» SANTIAGO - More than one million people took to the streets in Chile Friday for the largest protests in a week of deadly demonstrations demanding economic reforms and the resignation of President Sebastian Pinera.
Dissidents under late Uzbek leader still out in the cold
AFP, Published on 07/10/2019
» TASHKENT - Journalist and former prisoner Dilmurod Saidov knows a thing or two about the brutal rule of Uzbekistan's first leader, the late Islam Karimov.
First Hong Kongers appear in court for defying mask ban
AFP, Published on 07/10/2019
» HONG KONG: Hong Kong democracy protesters arrested for defying a new face mask ban appeared in court on Monday following a violent weekend of unrest which saw bloody clashes with police and widespread vandalism that crippled the city's train network.