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California police flatten UCLA protest camp
Reuters, Published on 02/05/2024
» LOS ANGELES - Hundreds of helmeted police swarmed the site of a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of California at Los Angeles early on Thursday, arresting defiant demonstrators and dismantling their encampment.
Police enter US university to remove protesters
Reuters and New York Times, Published on 01/05/2024
» NEW YORK - New York City police officers entered the grounds of Columbia University on Tuesday night to arrest and disperse pro-Palestinian protesters who took over a campus building nearly 24 hours earlier and have occupied a tent camp at the school for nearly two weeks.
Shock over Brazil police 'torture, executions' in drug raid
AFP, Published on 27/05/2022
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Bodies from a Rio de Janeiro police raid that left more than 20 alleged drug traffickers dead show signs of torture and summary execution, a senior lawyer said on Thursday, the latest incident of suspected police brutality to shock the South American nation.
Ukraine's farmers risk death in bomb-strewn fields
AFP, Published on 06/05/2022
» GRYGORIVKA, Ukraine: It's spring planting season in Ukraine, but this year farmers require more than fuel and fertiliser –- they also need flak jackets and detectors to destroy the unexploded bombs that have already killed or maimed others in their fields.
Morocco mourns 'little Rayan' after daring well rescue bid fails
AFP, Published on 06/02/2022
» IGHRANE (MAROC) - Morocco was in shock Sunday after emergency crews found a five-year-old boy dead at the bottom of a well in a tragic end to a five-day rescue operation that gripped the nation and the world.
Morocco well rescue in tense final stages
Published on 05/02/2022
» IGHRANE, Morocco: Rescuers were only metres away on Saturday in their increasingly urgent but cautiously moving effort to rescue Rayan, a five-year-old boy trapped underground whom they hope to find alive.
First all-civilian crew launched into Earth orbit aboard SpaceX Dragon
Reuters, Published on 16/09/2021
» CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: A SpaceX rocket ship blasted off from Florida on Wednesday carrying a billionaire e-commerce executive and three less-wealthy private citizens he chose to join him in the first all-civilian crew ever launched into Earth orbit.
Thailand joins China’s first multinational peacekeeping exercise
AFP, Published on 15/09/2021
» China wrapped up the country's first multinational peacekeeping exercise on Wednesday, demonstrating the extent of its military might on a huge training ground ringed by mountains.
Benin's rare swamp forest 'at risk of disappearing'
AFP, Published on 31/07/2021
» HLANZOUN FOREST (BéNIN) - In the freshwater swamp forest of Hlanzoun in southern Benin, majestic trees hum with chirping birds and playful monkeys.
Coronavirus pandemic poses big challenges for UN peacekeeping
AFP, Published on 09/04/2020
» UNITED NATIONS: With 110,000 peacekeepers deployed in more than a dozen countries around a world now ravaged by the coronavirus, the United Nations faces twin challenges: keeping those soldiers safe and, more importantly, persuading governments not to bring them home.