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Grief and suspicion in Ukraine village hit by deadly strike
AFP, Published on 06/10/2023
» GROZA (UKRAINE) - Galina Yudina, from the tiny Ukrainian village of Groza, is still reeling from the shock of Russia's missile strike that killed more than 50 people just a few dozen metres from her.
Russian missile strike on Ukraine village wreaks carnage
AFP, Published on 06/10/2023
» GROZA, Ukraine: Spread out on the grass opposite the ruins of a cafe, blackened and dismembered bodies lay among the carnage wrought by a Russian missile strike on the eastern Ukrainian village of Groza.
Saudi border guards killed hundreds of Ethiopian migrants: HRW
AFP, Published on 22/08/2023
» LONDON - Saudi border guards fired "like rain" on Ethiopian migrants trying to cross into the Gulf kingdom from Yemen, killing hundreds since last year, Human Rights Watch said in a report Monday.
Saudi border guards killed hundreds of Ethiopian migrants: HRW
AFP, Published on 21/08/2023
» LONDON - Saudi border guards fired "like rain" on Ethiopian migrants trying to cross into the Gulf kingdom from Yemen, killing hundreds since last year, Human Rights Watch said in a report Monday.
Ecuador counts the cost of days-long riot as guards freed
AFP, Published on 27/07/2023
» QUITO - Seventeen Ecuador corrections officials held hostage by prison inmates were freed Wednesday, authorities said, as they struggled to compile a death toll from the dismembered body parts left over from days of fighting between rival gangs.
Woman's remains found in bag in Paris park: security source
AFP, Published on 14/02/2023
» PARIS - Paris city workers discovered the dismembered lower torso of a woman in a bag in a popular park in the northeast of the French capital on Monday, security sources said.
US judge dismisses suit against Saudi prince in Khashoggi murder
AFP, Published on 07/12/2022
» WASHINGTON - A US judge dismissed Tuesday a lawsuit against Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for his alleged role in the 2018 murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Macron hosts Saudi crown prince despite rights outrage
AFP, Published on 28/07/2022
» PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron is hosting Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for talks in Paris on Thursday, defying criticism that the invitation is deeply inappropriate barely four years after the murder by Saudi agents of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
A year after it vanished, famed 'Guernica' tapestry returns to UN
AFP, Published on 06/02/2022
» UNITED NATIONS (UNITED STATES) - One year after its sudden and disconcerting disappearance from a wall at the United Nations, a vast tapestry representing Picasso's iconic "Guernica" has been returned by owners the Rockefeller family to its prominent place at the global body.
France releases Khashoggi suspect, admits identity mistaken
AFP, Published on 08/12/2021
» PARIS: French authorities said Wednesday they had released a man arrested on suspicion of playing a role in the 2018 Istanbul murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, after realising he was not the same individual on an arrest warrant issued by Turkey.