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Rooted in the earth, India's traditional mud wrestling thrives
AFP, Published on 30/05/2025
» KOLHāPUR (INDIA) - Crowds cheer as muscular men in tight loincloths slap sacred scented soil on their bulging thighs and arms for a mud wrestling bout in India.
‘Exploding pagers’ injure hundreds in Lebanon
Reuters, Published on 17/09/2024
» BEIRUT - More than 1,000 people, including Hezbollah fighters and medics, were wounded on Tuesday when the pagers they use to communicate exploded across Lebanon, security sources told Reuters.
Bangladesh building fire kills 45, injures dozens
Reuters, Published on 01/03/2024
» DHAKA - A massive fire in Bangladesh that raced through a six-storey building home to restaurants where many families with children were dining has killed at least 45 people and injured dozens, the health minister said on Friday.
From community to union: Jacques Delors, champion of Europe
AFP, Published on 28/12/2023
» PARIS - For both fans and foes of the European project, Jacques Delors was Brussels' driving force during the EU's greatest period of integration, the creation of the single market and the euro.
Threatened Ethiopian cabaret lives to dance another day
AFP, Published on 17/07/2023
» ADDIS ABABA - A beloved monument to Ethiopia's traditional cabaret culture, the historic nightclub Fendika is running on borrowed time, having just escaped demolition.
Small store a lifeline in Ukraine war zone
AFP, Published on 31/03/2023
» CHASIV YAR, Ukraine: With pink-painted walls, the small general store stocks a little bit of everything — from cheese to cigarettes to shampoo — providing a lifeline to local residents and soldiers.
Man cashed his dead mum's social security cheques for 26 yrs in US
New York Times, Published on 03/12/2022
» A Missouri man pleaded guilty this week to stealing his dead mother’s Social Security payments for more than a quarter century, accumulating nearly US$200,000 in the process, federal prosecutors said.
War-torn Yemen holds breath for truce
AFP, Published on 02/04/2022
» SANAA: Yemen's warring parties are set to lay down their weapons for the first nationwide truce since 2016 on Saturday with all eyes on whether the UN-brokered ceasefire will hold.
Covid lifts Dutch 'coffeeshop' trade to new highs
AFP, Published on 10/12/2021
» THE HAGUE: At the No Limit Coffeeshop the customers stream in and out endlessly, as the cannabis trade booms despite Covid restrictions.
Unmanned supermarkets to the rescue in Sweden's rural areas
AFP, Published on 23/05/2021
» ENKöPING (SWEDEN) - One after another, grocery stores are shutting down in rural Sweden, leaving villagers to travel miles to buy food. But a new type of shop has sprung up in their wake: unmanned supermarkets in mobile containers.