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Violent protests greet Argentine labour reforms
AFP, Published on 12/02/2026
» BUENOS AIRES - Argentine workers hurled stones and bottle bombs Wednesday at police who responded with tear gas and rubber bullets as a protest against proposed labour reforms turned briefly violent.
UK’s crumbling canals threatened with collapse
AFP, Published on 11/02/2026
» WHITCHURCH, England - On a misty winter’s day in the English midlands, engineers struggled to drag stranded narrowboats from a waterless, mud-filled canal that collapsed weeks earlier, in a delicate, multi-million-pound rescue operation.
Ex-media boss Jimmy Lai jailed for 20 years under national security law
South China Morning Post, Published on 11/02/2026
» Hong Kong's High Court jailed former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying for 20 years on Monday for national security crimes, in what mainland Chinese authorities described as a "powerful declaration" that severe punishment awaited those who dared to challenge the law.
Warming climate threatens Greenland's ancestral way of life
AFP, Published on 10/02/2026
» SISIMIUT (DENMARK) - Standing in his boat with binoculars in hand, hunter Malik Kleist scans the horizon for seals. But this February, the sea ice in southwestern Greenland has yet to freeze, threatening traditional livelihoods like his.
US trial lawyer says Meta, YouTube 'engineered addiction' in children
AFP, Published on 10/02/2026
» LOS ANGELES (UNITED STATES) - Meta and Google-owned YouTube "engineered addiction" in children, a lawyer for the plaintiff said on Monday as a landmark trial on the effects of social media on minors began in earnest in a California court.
Epstein accomplice Maxwell seeks Trump clemency before testimony
AFP, Published on 10/02/2026
» WASHINGTON (UNITED STATES) - Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell refused on Monday to answer questions from a congressional panel but said she was prepared to speak if granted clemency by President Donald Trump.
Centre-left candidate Seguro beats far-right to Portugal's presidency
AFP, Published on 09/02/2026
» LISBON - Centre-left candidate Antonio Jose Seguro scored a convincing win over far-right rival Andre Ventura in Sunday's Portuguese presidential election, in a run-off vote held after days of devastating storms.
US ‘pressing Ukraine and Russia to end war by June’
AFP, Published on 07/02/2026
» KYIV - The United States wants Ukraine and Russia to end their four-year war by June, and has offered to host talks between the two sides in Florida next week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday.
In Finland's forests, soldiers re-learn how to lay anti-personnel mines
AFP, Published on 06/02/2026
» KAJAANI - Finland is barely out of the treaty banning them but the country's armed forces are already training soldiers to lay anti-personnel mines, citing a threat from neighbouring Russia.
Ukraine talks continue in Abu Dhabi
AFP, Published on 05/02/2026
» ABU DHABI - Ukraine, Russia and the United States were preparing for a second day of talks in Abu Dhabi on Thursday, seeking to end Moscow’s nearly four-year invasion.