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Elite US universities feel heat over alleged anti-Semitism
AFP, Published on 14/12/2023
» WASHINGTON - Since the start of the conflict between Israel and Hamas, prestigious US universities have come under fire, accused of not doing enough to combat anti-Semitism.
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France to ban wearing Islamic abayas in schools: minister
AFP, Published on 28/08/2023
» PARIS - French authorities are to ban the wearing in school of abaya dresses worn by some Muslim women, the education minister said Sunday, arguing the garment violated France's strict secular laws in education.
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New Indonesia capital branded 'ecological disaster'
AFP, Published on 06/01/2023
» BALIKPAPAN, Indonesia: The twisting road that leads to Indonesia's future capital is lined with dense rainforest and pockets of plantations, punctuated every so often with monkeys enjoying a laze out on the tarmac.
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Inside a fatal Amazon journey
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 24/07/2022
» It was 4am, the sun had yet to rise over the Itaquai River deep in the Amazon, but a team of indigenous men was already busy preparing a breakfast of coffee, fried meat and fish. They worked on the small stove in their patrol boat, where they had lived for the past month, on the hunt for poachers.
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'King of streets': Last skateboarder on Ukraine front
AFP, Published on 06/05/2022
» KRAMATORSK (UKRAINE) - The baby-faced teenager in baggy shorts races his skateboard past the bombed burger joint and hit Peace Square just as air raid sirens rolled over the Ukrainian front.
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Jerusalem's Christian churches resist Israeli settlers
AFP, Published on 14/04/2022
» JERUSALEM - Churches in Jerusalem are up in arms against Jewish "radicals" who are settling in the Christian Quarter and threatening a fragile religious balance in the ancient Holy City.
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France implements Macron's Covid pass despite protests
AFP, Published on 09/08/2021
» PARIS: People in France will from Monday need to show a health pass to enjoy usually routine activities such as sipping a coffee in a cafe or travelling on an intercity train, in a plan championed by President Emmanuel Macron to squeeze Covid-19 infections and encourage vaccination.
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China's trekking elephants wait for youngster to catch up
AFP, Published on 15/06/2021
» BEIJING: A herd of elephants on a mammoth trek across China is taking an enforced break -- as they wait for a wayward youngster to catch-up.
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Ethiopian Jews' long wait for life in Israel
AFP, Published on 13/04/2021
» GONDAR (ETHIOPIA) - The hillside Jewish cemetery in northern Ethiopia was never supposed to get so big.
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Tragic yarn: India-China border spat hits global cashmere production
AFP, Published on 09/06/2020
» SRINAGAR, India: The world is heading for a shortage of the highly prized and super-soft cashmere wool as pashmina goats that live on the "roof of the world" become caught up in the fractious border dispute between nuclear neighbours India and China.
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