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Hundreds flee as Israel orders Gaza hospital evacuated
AFP, Published on 18/11/2023
» KHAN YUNIS, Gaza - Hundreds of people fled on foot Saturday after Israel's army ordered the evacuation of Gaza's main hospital where more than 2,000 patients, medics and displaced people were trapped by the war between Israel and Hamas.
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Israel tightens ‘stranglehold’ around Gaza City
AFP, Published on 08/11/2023
» GAZA STRIP - Israel said it was tightening the "stranglehold" around Hamas in Gaza City as the military operation on Wednesday aimed at smashing the Palestinian militants gathered pace despite ceasefire calls.
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Israel battles Hamas in Gaza City
AFP, Published on 08/11/2023
» GAZA STRIP (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) - Israel's campaign to crush Hamas ground into its second month Wednesday as its forces battled the Palestinian militants in Gaza City, despite mounting calls for a ceasefire.
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The 'kidneys of Kolkata': Indian wetlands under threat
AFP, Published on 18/07/2023
» KOLKATA - Wetlands just outside India's Kolkata have for generations provided tonnes of food daily and thousands of jobs as they filter sewage through fish ponds -- but rapid urbanisation is threatening the ecosystem.
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Putin accuses West of wanting Russians 'to kill each other' in mutiny
AFP, Published on 27/06/2023
» MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday accused Ukraine and its Western allies of wanting Russians to "kill each other" during a revolt by mercenaries of the Wagner group, which stunned the country with an aborted march on Moscow over the weekend.
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How Paris is remaking the Seine
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 28/05/2023
» An electric delivery boat pushed up the Seine, past the former palaces and elegant museums and under the low-slung stone and metal bridges before turning at the Eiffel Tower and gliding to the riverbank.
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Meandering along the Seine: France's roving plastic rubbish
AFP, Published on 25/05/2023
» ROUEN, France: The scrap of red plastic in among the waterside reeds in northern France could be any fragment of the throwaway consumerism piling up across the planet, flowing into rivers, choking animals, even seeping into our bloodstreams.
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In Brazil, a damaged city lives on edge of abyss
AFP, Published on 05/05/2023
» BURITICUPU (BRAZIL) - A few steps from a cliff-edge, Deusimar Batista is hanging clothes to dry in her yard. Near it, a neighbor's house used to stand on a residential street, but they have all collapsed into the abyss.
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US west coast girds for more damaging storms
AFP, Published on 13/01/2023
» LOS ANGELES - Western US states were readying Thursday for yet more torrid weather as so-called atmospheric rivers lined up to dump heavy rain across the already soaked region.
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Cities under strain: India's predicted urban boom
AFP, Published on 08/11/2022
» MUMBAI: India is projected to see an explosion in its urban population in the coming decades, but its cities already cannot cope and climate change will make living conditions harsher still.
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