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Explosions, fires rock Kyiv in deadly Russian barrage
AFP, Published on 10/07/2025
» KYIV — Kyiv was shrouded in dark smoke early Thursday after Russia hammered Ukraine's capital with its second large-scale drone and missile barrage in as many nights.
Seven dead after Sydney mall stabbing spree
News Agencies, Published on 13/04/2024
» SYDNEY - A man who fatally knifed six people in a Sydney mall was shot dead by a policewoman in the beachside suburb of Bondi on Saturday, Australian authorities said, as hundreds fled the scene.
Celine Berthon made France's first woman spy agency chief
AFP, Published on 21/12/2023
» PARIS - France appointed its first woman domestic intelligence chief Wednesday, with top police officer Celine Berthon stepping up to head the General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI).
French ‘getaway king’ won’t appeal conviction
AFP, Published on 07/11/2023
» PARIS - A career criminal and self-described "freedom addict" who escaped a French jail in a hijacked helicopter will not appeal his 14-year sentence for the escape, prosecutors told AFP Tuesday.
French 'getaway king' on trial for helicopter jailbreak
AFP, Published on 05/09/2023
» PARIS - A convicted burglar who escaped prison in 2018 aboard a hijacked helicopter in a jailbreak that astonished France went on trial in Paris on Tuesday, facing life in prison over his brazen getaway.
'Cool drink' is code for cash in graft-ridden S.Africa
AFP, Published on 22/05/2023
» JOHANNESBURG - Casually leaning into the side-window of a car stopped at a routine checkpoint on a congested Johannesburg road, a South African policeman tells the driver he needs "a cool drink".
Fear persists 10 years after Delhi gang rape and murder
AFP, Published on 14/12/2022
» NEW DELHI: Ten years ago the brutal gang rape and murder of a young woman on a Delhi bus horrified the world and shone a spotlight on high rates of sexual violence in India.
UK's remote Pitcairn islanders see no Brexit bounty
AFP, Published on 18/11/2022
» ADAMSTOWN, Pitcairn Islands: The Pitcairn Islands, a volcanic outcrop halfway between South America and New Zealand, is the UK's only overseas territory in the Pacific Ocean and home to only 46 people.
New Iran protests over woman's death after 'morality police' arrest
AFP, Published on 20/09/2022
» TEHRAN - Fresh protests broke out Monday in Iran over the death of a young woman who had been arrested by the "morality police" that enforces a strict dress code, local media reported.
30 sentenced to death over anti-police clashes in DR Congo
AFP, Published on 16/05/2021
» KINSHASA - Thirty people were sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday for their role in anti-police violence marking the end of Ramadan in the capital Kinshasa.