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Silent for 800 years, mediaeval organ sings in Jerusalem
AFP, Published on 11/09/2025
» JERUSALEM - The pipes of a mediaeval organ, buried for centuries and discovered near the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, are once more filling a Jerusalem monastery with ancient melodies.
Controversial regasification unit arrives in Italy
AFP, Published on 20/03/2023
» PIOMBINO (ITALY) - A new floating storage and regasification unit considered crucial to Italy's energy security arrived in Tuscany on Sunday, sparking local protests.
Xiomara Castro becomes first woman president of Honduras
AFP, Published on 28/01/2022
» TEGUCIGALPA - Leftist Xiomara Castro was sworn in Thursday as the first woman president of Honduras after seemingly resolving a rebellion in her own party that had challenged her authority.
Honduras braces for trouble in presidential election
AFP, Published on 28/11/2021
» TEGUCIGALPA - Honduras is bracing itself for potential violence as more than five million people vote on Sunday to replace President Juan Orlando Hernandez, a controversial figure accused of drug trafficking in the United States.
Vying with vultures: Widespread poverty has some Hondurans living off rubbish
AFP, Published on 27/11/2021
» TEGUCIGALPA - Marlon Escoto has been rummaging through rubbish since he was 14, trying to chase off vultures while picking out pieces of plastic and fragments of metal to sell.
Italy's left claims victory in battle with far-right for Tuscany
AFP, Published on 22/09/2020
» MILAN - The far-right looked set to lose a fierce battle for the left-wing bastion of Tuscany in Italy's regional elections Monday, in a ballot that had risked weakening an already fragile national government.
Handmade ties from southern Italy with a British twist
AFP, Published on 16/07/2020
» NAPLES (ITALY) - Film star Marcello Mastroianni, John F. Kennedy, even Prince Charles -- all have donned handmade ties from one shop in Naples so famed for its artisanal finery some devotees boast thousands.
Sahara dust cloud looms over Cuba, Caribbean and Florida
AFP, Published on 25/06/2020
» HAVANA - A massive cloud of Saharan dust darkened much of Cuba on Wednesday and began to affect air quality in Florida, sparking warnings to people with respiratory illnesses to stay home.
For cruise crew members stuck at sea, mental strain is huge
AFP, Published on 18/05/2020
» MIAMI - For the thousands of cruise ship crew members stuck at sea aboard their vessels as the coronavirus crisis unfolds, the situation is psychologically intense, to say the least.
Vatican opens archives on history's most controversial pope
AFP, Published on 01/03/2020
» VATICAN CITY: The Vatican unseals the archives of history's most contentious popes on Monday, potentially shedding light on why Pius XII stayed silent during the extermination of six million Jews in the Holocaust.