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130,000-year-old baby mammoth goes under scalpel
AFP, Published on 04/04/2025
» YAKUTSK — Making incisions and carefully taking samples, the scientists at a laboratory in Russia's far east looked like pathologists carrying out a post-mortem.
‘Raise your hands’: Israel raids Gaza hospital
AFP, Published on 15/11/2023
» GAZA CITY - Israeli forces, some wearing facemasks and firing guns into the air, early on Wednesday raided Gaza's biggest hospital which was packed with thousands of Palestinian patients and displaced people, in the army's battle against Hamas.
457 arrested, 441 security forces injured in France unrest
AFP, Published on 24/03/2023
» A total of 457 people were arrested and 441 security forces were injured on Thursday during nationwide protests against French President Emmanuel Macron's pensions reform, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said.
Denmark unmasks to 'live normally' again with Omicron
AFP, Published on 01/02/2022
» COPENHAGEN: Denmark waved goodbye to facemasks and health passes on Tuesday as it became the first European Union country to lift all of its domestic Covid curbs despite record numbers of cases of the milder Omicron variant.
Calling Omicron 'mild' a mistake, says WHO
AFP, Published on 07/01/2022
» GENEVA: The Omicron variant of Covid-19 is killing people across the globe and should not be dismissed as mild, the World Health Organization warned on Thursday.
'Flawed' scientific papers fueling Covid-19 misinformation
AFP, Published on 30/07/2021
» WASHINGTON: Scientific studies with poor methodology and inaccurate findings are exacerbating a Covid-19 misinformation crisis that is discouraging vaccination and putting lives at risk.
UK government accused of 'chumocracy' in handing out virus contracts
AFP, Published on 07/07/2021
» LONDON - Britain's government is facing growing criticism over how it awarded contracts for virus-related goods and services during the pandemic, its detractors alleging a "chumocracy" in which politically connected companies got priority.
London's V&A reopens with Alice in Wonderland exhibition
AFP, Published on 20/05/2021
» LONDON - After a year of the coronavirus pandemic's mind-bending assault on normal life, London's Victoria & Albert Museum reopens this week, taking visitors down another rabbit hole.
WHO's pandemic response: from criticism to Nobel?
AFP, Published on 11/03/2021
» GENEVA - In the year since the World Health Organization first described the Covid-19 outbreak as a pandemic, it has faced towering criticism, but has also been showered with praise.
Kim Jong Un's wife makes first public appearance in over a year
AFP, Published on 17/02/2021
» SEOUL - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's wife made her first public appearance in over a year, state media reported Wednesday, after speculation her absence could be coronavirus-related, or because of a potential pregnancy.