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EU set to back migrant 'return hubs'
AFP, Published on 08/12/2025
» BRUSSELS (BELGIUM) - EU countries on Monday are expected to approve a significant tightening of Europe's immigration policy, including endorsing the concept of setting up "return hubs" for migrants outside the 27-nation bloc.
Louvre says hundreds of works damaged by water leak
AFP, Published on 08/12/2025
» PARIS (FRANCE) - A water leak in late November damaged several hundred works in the Louvre's Egyptian department, the Paris museum told AFP on Sunday, weeks after a brazen jewel theft raised concerns over its infrastructure.
Opium crops in Myanmar expand to 10-year high
News, Published on 08/12/2025
» Myanmar's opium cultivation reached a 10-year peak with "renewed cultivation risk" along the Thailand border, says the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) report launched early this month.
Lethal virus hits last rare blue macaws in Brazil wild
AFP, Published on 28/11/2025
» RIO DE JANEIRO - The only wild specimens of a rare blue parrot, which were recently returned to their natural habitat, have been diagnosed with an incurable, likely lethal virus, Brazil's government told AFP on Thursday.
Israeli forces shoot dead two Palestinians apparently surrendering in West Bank
AFP, Published on 28/11/2025
» JENIN (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) - The Israeli army and police said Thursday they were investigating the circumstances in which two Palestinians were shot dead in the occupied West Bank while seemingly surrendering to Israeli forces.
Vietnam flood death toll reaches 16
Published on 20/11/2025
» HANOI - The death toll from a new round of torrential rain, flooding and landslides in central Vietnam since the weekend has risen to 16, a government report said on Thursday, with water levels rising further in already inundated towns and villages.
'Like a horror movie': 770 km of fear for those fleeing Sudan's El-Fasher
AFP, Published on 14/11/2025
» AL DABBAH (SUDAN) - Survivors of the bloody takeover of El-Fasher walked for days through the desert, past bodies and armed men who humiliated them, desperate to escape the Sudanese city now overrun by paramilitary forces.
37 killed in Peru bus crash
Reuters, Published on 13/11/2025
» LIMA — At least 37 people were killed and dozens injured after a bus plunged into a ravine in the mountainous Arequipa region of southern Peru, local authorities said on Wednesday.
India probes deadly Delhi car blast
AFP, Published on 11/11/2025
» NEW DELHI - India’s defence minister vowed on Tuesday that those responsible for a deadly car explosion in the heart of the capital that killed at least eight people will face justice.
The Sudanese who told the world what happened in El-Fasher
AFP, Published on 10/11/2025
» PORT SUDAN (SUDAN) - "Sixteen killed." "Seven killed." "Thirty-one killed." "People are eating cowhide to survive." "The bombs are getting closer." "They're shooting people trying to run away."