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AFP, Published on 30/09/2025
» RIEW (INDIA) - On a football field ringed by misty mountains, the air rang with fiery speeches as tribesmen protested a planned mega-dam -- India's latest move in its contest with China over Himalayan water.
AFP, Published on 04/06/2025
» GAZA CITY — Aid centres in hunger-wracked Gaza will temporarily close on Wednesday, a controversial US-backed agency said, with the Israeli army warning roads leading to distribution stations "are considered combat zones".
AFP, Published on 01/06/2025
» PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES - Gaza rescuers said Israeli gunfire killed at least 10 Palestinians near a US-backed aid distribution site on Sunday, shortly after Washington rejected a Hamas ceasefire proposal as "totally unacceptable".
AFP, Published on 24/05/2025
» PARIS - French-Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado, famed for his immense body of work depicting wildlife, landscapes and people around the world, died Friday aged 81, announced the French Academy of Fine Arts, of which he was a member.
AFP, Published on 23/04/2025
» ADDIS ABABA — Tilahun Wale not only lost his right foot to leprosy -- a disease that still affects thousands in Ethiopia -- he also lost his family.
AFP, Published on 29/03/2025
» MADRID - A Spanish appeals court overturned Friday former Brazil international footballer Dani Alves' rape conviction, citing insufficient evidence.
Reuters, Published on 05/02/2025
» MANILA - The Philippine lower house of Congress on Wednesday endorsed an impeachment complaint against Vice President Sara Duterte, the daughter of the country’s firebrand former president, paving the way for a rare trial in the Senate.
AFP, Published on 17/01/2025
» PACIFIC PALISADES — On one side of the street lie the ashes of ruined houses, lost to the huge blazes that defeated Los Angeles firefighters when hydrants ran dry.
Reuters, Published on 03/01/2025
» MANILA — Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte will no longer sit on the National Security Council after President Ferdinand Marcos Jr signed an order removing her office from the agency, following a bitter split between the two former allies last year.
AFP, Published on 19/12/2024
» MAMOUDZOU - The haggard faces in the wreckage-and-water-strewn corridors betrayed the nerves and exhaustion of those soldiering on at the main hospital on the French archipelago of Mayotte, ravaged by a deadly cyclone last weekend.