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Hun Sen’s son hails ‘victory day’ before rigged election
Published on 21/07/2023
» PHNOM PENH: Cambodian leader Hun Sen’s eldest son and chosen successor hailed “victory day” in a final rambunctious rally on Friday, ahead of one-sided elections that his father’s ruling party is guaranteed to win.
A month into Sudan's brutal war, no end in sight
AFP, Published on 15/05/2023
» KHARTOUM: One month since Sudan's conflict erupted, its capital is a desolate war zone where terrorised families huddle in their homes as gun battles rage in the dusty, deserted streets outside.
Swedish retirees demand fairer pensions for women
AFP, Published on 13/04/2023
» STOCKHOLM - "Old ladies need more money!" a group of grey-haired women chants in front of Sweden's parliament, as their recurring protest against the country's pension system enters its 10th year.
Jailed at 17, dissident wrote to survive
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 02/04/2023
» Abdelrahman ElGendy envisioned the ending of his book would be inspiring, despite all the horrors he would have to recount.
Harrowing past emboldens PM
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 26/02/2023
» France's prime minister, Elisabeth Borne, sat on a recent, rainy evening in a dim room at a Red Cross shelter, listening to young women recount their personal stories of poverty, fractured homes and schooling struggles.
Along underwater highway, workers fix Channel tunnel at night
AFP, Published on 14/02/2023
» COQUELLES (FRANCE) - Deep under the Channel, men in orange jackets and white hard hats drive up and down one of the world's longest underground highways, beavering away to keep passenger trains running.
Turkey-Syria quake toll rises above 35,000
AFP, Published on 13/02/2023
» KAHRAMANMARAS, Turkey: The toll from last week's earthquake in Turkey and Syria rose above 35,000 on Monday, as rescue teams started to wind down the search for survivors and the aid effort shifted to hundreds of thousands of people made homeless.
UN admits aid failure for Syria as quake toll tops 33,000
AFP, Published on 13/02/2023
» KAHRAMANMARAS (TURKEY) - The United Nations decried Sunday the failure to ship desperately needed aid to war-torn regions of Syria, while warning the death toll of more than 33,000 from the earthquake that also struck Turkey is set to rise far higher.
UN admits aid failure for Syria as quake toll hits 33,000
AFP, Published on 13/02/2023
» KAHRAMANMARAS (TURKEY) - The United Nations denounced Sunday the failure to deliver desperately needed aid to war-torn regions of Syria, while warning the death toll of more than 33,000 from the earthquake that also struck Turkey is set to rise far higher.
'Waiting for our dead': Anger builds at Turkey's quake response
AFP, Published on 08/02/2023
» GAZIANTEP (TURKEY) - With every passing moment, Ebru Firat knows the chances dim of finding her cousin alive under the rubble of a flattened building in the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep.