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Deadly blast hits mosque in Alawite area of Syria's Homs
AFP, Published on 27/12/2025
» HOMS (SYRIA) - An explosion killed at least eight worshippers at a mosque in a predominantly Alawite area of Syria's Homs on Friday, state media said, with an Islamist militant group claiming responsibility.
'Severely restricted': Russia's Saint Petersburg faces cultural crackdown
AFP, Published on 18/11/2025
» SAINT PETERSBURG - Russian bookseller Lyubov Belyatskaya sighed as she lamented the "climate of widespread anxiety" that has taken hold in her native Saint Petersburg amid the war in Ukraine.
Macron hails Notre-Dame restoration
Reuters, Published on 29/11/2024
» PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday praised the more than 1,000 artisans who helped rebuild Notre-Dame Cathedral in what he called “the project of the century”, five-and-a-half years after fire gutted the Gothic masterpiece.
Paris booksellers fight Olympic clearance plan
AFP, Published on 18/11/2023
» PARIS - Paris booksellers, who have operated from little dark green kiosks on the banks of the Seine for some 150 years, are incensed by plans to remove them for the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics.
Hong Kong places ‘bounties’ on activists abroad
AFP and Bloomberg, Published on 04/07/2023
» HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s leader has called on eight overseas activists to turn themselves in, a day after police put out bounties on them for violating the Chinese territory’s national security law.
Rotterdam says no decision on dismantling bridge for Bezos superyacht
AFP, Published on 04/02/2022
» THE HAGUE - The Dutch port city of Rotterdam has not received a request for a permit to temporarily dismantle an historic bridge to allow a superyacht built for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to pass, local media reported Thursday.
China forcibly returned nearly 10,000 in overseas crackdown: report
AFP, Published on 19/01/2022
» BEIJING: Beijing has forced nearly 10,000 Chinese overseas nationals to return since 2014 using coercive means outside the justice system, according to a new report.
New Caledonia rejects independence from France in third referendum
AFP, Published on 12/12/2021
» NOUMEA - Residents of the Pacific territory of New Caledonia voted overwhelmingly on Sunday to remain part of France in a third referendum that was boycotted by pro-independence groups, reports say.
Uncertain future for the booksellers of Kabul
AFP, Published on 28/10/2021
» KABUL - The problem with this publication, a bookseller in the Afghan capital Kabul explains, is not so much that it's by Michelle Obama, but that she's not wearing a hijab in the cover photo.
After conquering Earth, Bezos eyes new frontier in space
AFP, Published on 17/07/2021
» WASHINGTON - Jeff Bezos sets his sights on a new frontier in space in the coming days after building a gargantuan business empire which has in many ways conquered the Earth.