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Myanmar scam cities booming despite crackdown -- using Musk's Starlink
AFP, Published on 14/10/2025
» BEIJING - They said they had smashed them. But fraud factories in Myanmar blamed for scamming Chinese and American victims out of billions of dollars are still in business and bigger than ever, an AFP investigation can reveal.
Bitter pill: Cuba runs low on life-saving medicines
AFP, Published on 09/07/2025
» HAVANA - Cuban Jessica Rodriguez never knows if she will find the medicines that keep her four-year-old son alive in a country that has all but run out of essential drugs.
Scientists detect shape-shifting along Earth’s solid inner core
Kenneth Chang of The New York Times, Published on 11/02/2025
» NEW YORK - The inner core at the centre of the Earth, a ball of iron and nickel about 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometres) wide, may not be perfectly solid. A new study finds evidence that the inner core’s outer boundary has noticeably changed shape over the past few decades.
Mafia waste victims in Italy’s ‘Land of Fires’ seek justice
AFP, Published on 30/01/2025
» CASERTA, Italy- After years of feeling “invisible” as she managed her daughter’s cancer, Antonietta Moccia said she hopes a European court on Thursday will recognise the Italian government’s failures to protect her from toxic waste.
David Lynch: the dark side of the American dream
AFP, Published on 17/01/2025
» PARIS - For seven years, US director David Lynch drank the same chocolate milkshake each day at the same time from the same place in Los Angeles because he believed it helped his creativity.
'Mulholland Drive' and 'Twin Peaks' director David Lynch dies at 78
AFP, Published on 17/01/2025
» LOS ANGELES (UNITED STATES) - David Lynch -- the groundbreaking director behind "Mulholland Drive" and television's "Twin Peaks," who gained a cult following for his unsettling portraits of American life -- has died. He was 78 years old.
Japan releases water from Fukushima nuclear plant, China furious
AFP, Published on 24/08/2023
» NAMIE (JAPAN) - Japan began releasing wastewater from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, prompting a furious China to ban all seafood imports from its neighbour.
Final preparations begin for Fukushima water release
AFP, Published on 23/08/2023
» TOKYO: Final preparations to discharge waste water from the crippled Fukushima power plant in Japan were under way on Wednesday, its operator said, a day before the scheduled release into the Pacific Ocean.
The Vietnamese octogenarian fighting for Agent Orange victims
AFP, Published on 12/06/2023
» HANOI: As a young woman, Tran To Nga was a war correspondent, a prisoner and an activist. Now, at 81, she is waging a court battle against US chemical firms to win justice for the Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange.
Messi on brink as Argentina look to salvage World Cup
AFP, Published on 25/11/2022
» DOHA - It was not supposed to be this way. Before the World Cup started, hopes were high in Argentina that Lionel Messi was set for a glorious swansong.