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Hungry and exhausted, journalists document Gaza war
AFP, Published on 23/07/2025
» GAZA CITY (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) - Agence France-Presse (AFP) journalists in the Gaza Strip said Tuesday that chronic food shortages are affecting their ability to cover Israel's conflict with Hamas militants.
Russia, US swap prisoners in push for closer ties
AFP, Published on 11/04/2025
» WASHINGTON — A Los Angeles-based ballet dancer released by Russia as part of a prisoner swap landed safely in the United States Thursday night, the second swap under President Donald Trump as Moscow and Washington push to rebuild ties.
Race to name creatures of the deep as mining interest grows
AFP, Published on 17/03/2025
» PARIS - In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners -- and huge numbers of strange and rare animals almost entirely unknown to science.
'Dying every two hours': Afghan women risk life to give birth
AFP, Published on 21/12/2023
» KHOST (AFGHANISTAN) - Zubaida travelled from the rural outskirts of Khost in eastern Afghanistan to give birth at a maternity hospital specialising in complicated cases, fearing a fate all too common among pregnant Afghan women -- her death or her child's.
Deep ocean targeted for mining is rich in unknown life
AFP, Published on 25/07/2023
» PARIS - A vast area at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean earmarked for controversial deep sea mineral mining is home to thousands of species unknown to science and more complex than previously understood, according to several new studies.
Stranded Beluga whale is now stationary in Seine: NGO
AFP, Published on 08/08/2022
» RENNES (FRANCE) - A malnourished beluga whale that has swum up France's River Seine is no longer progressing but is still alive, environmental group Sea Shepherd said Monday.
'Little hope' of saving beluga whale stranded in France's Seine river
AFP, Published on 07/08/2022
» SAINT-PIERRE-LA-GARENNE (FRANCE) - Hopes of saving a malnourished beluga whale that has swum up the Seine river were receding on Sunday, as rescuers said they were in a race against the clock to find a solution.
Philippine bakeries shrink 'poor man's bread' as inflation bites
AFP, Published on 24/07/2022
» As the war in Ukraine pushes up wheat prices and a weaker peso raises the cost of imported edible oil, many Philippine bakers are shrinking the size of a popular breakfast roll to cope with higher inflation.
Fact Check: Pediatricians say homemade baby formula unsafe
AFP, Published on 19/05/2022
» WASHINGTON - Social media posts are urging parents who face baby formula shortages to make it themselves. But pediatricians told AFP they do not advise patients to use homemade formula, warning it may lack vitamins and nutrients key to helping infants grow and thrive.
Treating Covid patients in secret Myanmar clinics
AFP, Published on 27/12/2021
» A handful of Myanmar nurses hiding from the junta have been running makeshift clinics to treat Covid patients and resistance fighters with medicine smuggled past military checkpoints.