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Turkey's Antioch rises from the ruins, stone by stone
AFP, Published on 21/07/2023
» ANTAKYA (TURKEY) - The old priest painted a warning on the cracked walls of his shack: "Twelve children were born here! Don't touch this house."
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Dead or alive? The Palestinians wrongly declared 'martyrs'
AFP, Published on 13/03/2023
» AQABAT JABR (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) - For two weeks after Palestinian mother Basma Aweidat received the devastating news her son had been shot dead by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank, she was in mourning.
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Vivienne Westwood, punk queen turned fashion dame, dies aged 81
AFP, Published on 30/12/2022
» PARIS: Doyenne of British design Vivienne Westwood, who melded music and fashion together to create punk and brought rebellious politics to the catwalk, died on Thursday aged 81, her family said.
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Prepay meters worsen energy inequality in UK
AFP, Published on 21/12/2022
» LONDON - A bitter cold descends on snow-topped terraced houses in the north London suburb of Arnos Grove, as Samantha Pierre-Joseph warms her living room with a small whirring fan heater.
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'Work to be done': aviation still overwhelmingly male
AFP, Published on 22/07/2022
» FARNBOROUGH (UNITED KINGDOM) - Rebecca Lutte regularly takes to the skies behind the controls of her RV-10 kit plane.
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Key Facebook force Sheryl Sandberg steps down
AFP, Published on 02/06/2022
» SAN FRANCISCO: Meta's second most powerful executive Sheryl Sandberg made the shock announcement Wednesday she will leave after a 14-year tenure that included helping steer scandal-prone Facebook to advertising dominance.
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S.Africa's deadly floods shine spotlight on housing crisis
AFP, Published on 24/04/2022
» DURBAN (SOUTH AFRICA) - Thulisile Ntobela, once lived in an apartment, but when her rent went up 25 percent, the unemployed mother of five could no longer afford and moved out.
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Mira Rai: child soldier, ultra-runner, mentor
AFP, Published on 08/03/2022
» KATHMANDU: For years Nepali child soldier turned ultra-runner Mira Rai trained alone every morning, but now she leads other young women up and down the hills, hoping the sport can help them break cycles of poverty and discrimination.
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Biles out of more Olympic events as doping case rocks athletics
AFP, Published on 31/07/2021
» TOKYO: Simone Biles pulled out of two more events at the Olympics on Saturday, raising major doubts over whether she will compete again in Tokyo as Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare was thrown out after failing a doping test.
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Splash of colour: UK beach huts brighten pandemic gloom
AFP, Published on 23/07/2021
» WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE (UNITED KINGDOM) - In her yellow-and-white striped beach hut, Melanie Whitehead boils the kettle for a cup of tea and sits gazing out over the North Sea.
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