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Stink bug eats into Lebanon's 'white gold' pine nut trade
AFP, Published on 04/06/2021
» QSAYBEH, Lebanon: The scenic region of Mount Lebanon has long produced pine seed, a regional delicacy, but harvests have collapsed amid an exotic insect infestation experts say is accelerated by climate change.
Tracking the plague in DR Congo
AFP, Published on 08/03/2021
» ARU (DR CONGO) - Already battling Covid-19 and a renewed Ebola outbreak, DR Congo is also home to one of the world's oldest sites of the plague -- and there are signs that the disease may have reared its head once more.
Donald Trump digs in on immigration, then does about-face
AFP, Published on 21/06/2018
» WASHINGTON - Faced with the disturbing images of migrant children separated from their parents at the US border with Mexico that have shocked America and the world, President Donald Trump did not flinch for a long time.
Trump heads to Congress, defiant on family separations
AFP, Published on 19/06/2018
» WASHINGTON - An intensifying battle over the splitting of immigrant families shifted Tuesday to Congress, where a defiant President Donald Trump will face Republican lawmakers deeply uncomfortable with the mushrooming crisis on America's southern border.