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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.
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After the silence, body bags: Turkish town counts its dead
Published on 10/02/2023
» During an "agonising" 10-minute wait, the jackhammers and excavators fell silent, traffic on a four-lane highway next to the pile of rubble came to a standstill with car engines switched off.
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Ghana braces as Sahel war spills into Gulf of Guinea
AFP, Published on 06/02/2023
» BAWKU (GHANA) - Standing near the dried river bed that marks Ghana’s northern border, Alima can see her hamlet, lying in Burkina Faso less than two kilometres (1.2 miles) away.
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Efforts since George Floyd killing fail to stem US police violence
AFP, Published on 29/01/2023
» WASHINGTON - The shocking death of Tyre Nichols after a police beating has reopened anguished debate across the United States about police violence, fueling a sense that the huge, nationwide demonstrations of 2020 have done little to solve the problem.
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Protesters stand ground as Peru congress mulls early elections
AFP, Published on 01/02/2023
» LIMA - Protesters who have brought parts of Peru to a standstill for weeks closed in on Lima's international airport Tuesday as lawmakers mulled bringing elections forward in a bid to end the deadly mobilization.
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Kyiv eyes 140 Western tanks, Russia claims east Ukraine gains
AFP, Published on 01/02/2023
» KYIV (UKRAINE) - Ukraine said Tuesday it was expecting up to 140 modern tanks from its Western allies, as Russian forces claimed new ground close to the frontline hotspot of Bakhmut.
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Search for radioactive capsule lost somewhere in Australia
Oliver John, Published on 01/02/2023
» SYDNEY: Mining giant Rio Tinto has lost a tiny, toxic radioactive widget in Western Australia, somewhere along on a 1,400 kilometre stretch of isolated highway through the arid Outback.
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Marvel actor Renner says 'messed up' after snow plow accident
AFP, Published on 04/01/2023
» LOS ANGELES - Marvel superhero actor Jeremy Renner said Tuesday he was "messed up" after being run over by his own snow plow as he tried to climb into the driver's seat of the giant 14,000-lb (six-ton) vehicle.
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Covid surge exposes China's healthcare gap
AFP, Published on 06/01/2023
» TANGSHAN, China: Understaffed and underfunded clinics stand half-empty in parts of the Chinese countryside even as hospitals in major cities heave under an unprecedented Covid wave — an illustration of the stark disparities in the country's healthcare system.
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17 killed, 22 injured in road accident in eastern China
Published on 08/01/2023
» Seventeen people were killed and 22 were injured Sunday in a road traffic accident in eastern China's Jiangxi province, state media reported.
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