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'People will die': Trump aid cuts threaten refugees’ survival
New York Times, Published on 15/03/2025
» COX'S BAZAR — More than 1 million people in the world's largest refugee camp could soon be left with too little food for survival.
Macau weaves an identity as integration with China looms
AFP, Published on 19/12/2024
» MACAU - Seated in the audience at Macau's Dom Pedro V Theatre in the 1970s, 16-year-old Miguel de Senna Fernandes understood not a word of the "strange language" spoken on stage -- but right away he was mesmerised.
Red airwave: America's conservative talk radio saturation
AFP, Published on 06/10/2023
» ASHLAND, US: With Pixie the Chihuahua curled nearby and studio walls covered in mementos, Jeff Katz leans into the radio microphone and delivers a rather less cozy message to his conservative audience: Joe Biden and Democrats are corrupt villains destroying America.
Indigenous film bringing cross-border Amazon tribes together
AFP, Published on 10/11/2022
» SAN MARTIN DE AMACAYACU (COLOMBIA) - In Colombia's Amazon jungle, indigenous people of different nations, ethnicities and languages have come together to find a single voice in cinema to tell their own stories, rather than let outsiders do it.
With republicans at the gates, Charles III meets realm envoys
AFP, Published on 11/09/2022
» LONDON - King Charles III hosted his first reception Sunday for representatives of the Commonwealth realms, the 14 former colonies over which he reigns in addition to Britain -- at least for now.
Bolsonaro fetes Emperor Pedro I's heart
AFP, Published on 24/08/2022
» BRASíLIA - With full regalia, military honors and a skywriting squad, President Jair Bolsonaro presided over a lavish gala Tuesday for the embalmed heart of Emperor Pedro I, who declared Brazil's independence from Portugal 200 years ago.
Emperor Pedro I's heart returns to Brazil for 'state visit'
AFP, Published on 23/08/2022
» BRASíLIA - Nearly two centuries after it was cut from his corpse and stashed in formaldehyde, the heart of Emperor Pedro I, who declared Brazil's independence from Portugal, returned Monday for politically charged commemorations of the South American nation's 200th birthday.
In Amazon region hit by double murder, poverty fuels violence
AFP, Published on 23/06/2022
» ATALAIA DO NORTE (BRAZIL) - A short walk from the spot where British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira set out for their final journey, people sit in the blistering sun breaking rocks into pieces with hammers.
Phillips and Pereira: killed trying to save the Amazon
AFP, Published on 20/06/2022
» ATALAIA DO NORTE (BRAZIL) - Four years after they first went on an expedition deep into the jungle of Brazil's Javari Valley, Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira teamed up again, each working on a big new project to save the Amazon. It cost them their lives.
Police say British journalist and Brazilian guide shot in Amazon killings
AFP, Published on 19/06/2022
» ATALAIA DO NORTE, Brazil: British journalist Dom Phillips and his Brazilian guide, whose disappearance in the Amazon some two weeks ago sparked an international outcry, were killed by gunfire, Brazilian police said Saturday.