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Thousands flee Manitoba wildfires in Canada
AFP, Published on 29/05/2025
» OTTAWA - More than 17,000 people in the midwestern Canadian province of Manitoba were being evacuated on Wednesday as the region experienced its worst start to a wildfire season in years.
Car ramming leaves injured as Liverpool fans celebrate football triumph
AFP, Published on 27/05/2025
» LIVERPOOL - A car ploughed into football fans celebrating Liverpool's Premier League title victory on Monday injuring several people while police said a 53-year-old man had been detained.
Frozen library of ancient ice tells tales of climate's past
AFP, Published on 16/11/2023
» COPENHAGEN - How was the air breathed by Caesar, the Prophet Mohammed or Christopher Columbus? A giant freezer in Copenhagen holds the answers, storing blocks of ice with atmospheric tales thousands of years old.
French town pays tribute to those who chased off knife attacker
AFP, Published on 12/06/2023
» ANNECY (FRANCE) - Hundreds of residents of the French town of Annecy gathered Sunday to honour the people who rushed to stop a man accused of stabbing six people, including four toddlers, at a playground last week.
Macron visits young knife-attack victims
AFP, Published on 09/06/2023
» ANNECY, France: French President Emmanuel Macron was visiting preschool children badly wounded in a mass knife attack by a Syrian refugee, as police questioned the attacker Friday.
'Operation Exodus': Brazil miners flee Yanomami land
AFP, Published on 09/02/2023
» ALTO ALEGRE (BRAZIL) - Wearing broken flip-flops held together by a frayed cord, Joao Batista, an illegal gold miner in the Brazilian Amazon, has been walking for days to escape the jungle, fleeing a looming security-force crackdown.
Far-right writer in Swiss court claims facing LGBTQ 'harassment'
AFP, Published on 14/12/2022
» LAUSANNE - Far-right essayist Alain Soral, who appeared in court in Switzerland on Wednesday over homophobic remarks, told the hearing that he was himself the victim of "harassment" by the LGBTQ community.
China mourns Jiang as funeral planning begins
AFP and Bloomberg, Published on 01/12/2022
» BEIJING: Mobile apps and state media websites turned black-and-white, flags on some government buildings in Beijing were at half-mast, and flowers were laid on Thursday as China mourned the death of former leader Jiang Zemin.
Fear and propaganda: Russian tactics in captured lands
AFP, Published on 09/11/2022
» ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine: The first Ukrainian woman emerged from the evacuation bus shaking with sobs so violent she could barely speak.
Gunmen target Ukraine president aide in 'assassination attempt'
AFP, Published on 22/09/2021
» KIEV: Gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons on a car carrying a senior aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday, in what officials said was an attempted assassination in response to his crackdown on oligarchs.