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Man found guilty of trying to kill Salman Rushdie
AFP, Published on 22/02/2025
» NEW YORK - An American-Lebanese man was found guilty Friday of attempting to kill novelist Salman Rushdie when storming a stage and repeatedly plunging a knife into the "Satanic Verses" author.
The dangerous rise of 'medicalised' genital mutilation in Kenya
AFP, Published on 12/12/2023
» KISII (KENYA) - As Edinah Nyasuguta Omwenga fought for her life after developing complications during childbirth, she overheard doctors in the Kenyan hospital describe her condition as a textbook example of the damaging -- even deadly -- effects of genital mutilation.
The Afghan valley proud of its young suicide bombers
AFP, Published on 08/06/2023
» TANGI VALLEY (AFGHANISTAN): Taliban-trained suicide bomber Ismail Ashuqullah regrets missing the chance to blow himself up at the height of the Afghan war -- like many other young men from the lush green Tangi Valley.
Cairo's floating heritage risks being towed away by grand projects
AFP, Published on 30/06/2022
» CAIRO: Dozens of vibrantly coloured floating homes have for decades dotted the banks of the River Nile, rare havens of leafy seclusion in the Egyptian capital's hustle and bustle -- but maybe not for much longer.
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.
Xi touts China's huge economy as base of free trade in Apec speech
AFP, Published on 19/11/2020
» KUALA LUMPUR: President Xi Jinping pegged China as the pivot point for global free trade on Thursday, promising to keep his "super-sized" economy open and warning against protectionism in a global economy eviscerated by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Prince Andrew 'bewildered' by US investigators' claims
AFP, Published on 03/07/2020
» LONDON: Prince Andrew is "bewildered" by claims he is stonewalling a US investigation into the alleged sex trafficking of minors by British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell and the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, his legal team said Friday.
Joe Biden makes first public appearance since March 15
AFP, Published on 26/05/2020
» NEW CASTLE (UNITED STATES) - Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, emerged from more than two months seclusion Monday, wearing a black face mask during a visit to lay a wreath on the day the United States honors its war dead.
Pope to livestream Easter mass to locked down world
AFP, Published on 12/04/2020
» VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis will break with centuries of tradition and livestream Easter Sunday mass to allow the world's 1.3 billion Catholics celebrate their holiest holiday under a coronavirus lockdown.
Virus mars Easter holidays as death toll nears 100,000
AFP, Published on 10/04/2020
» ROME - Hundreds of millions of people around the world will spend the Easter holiday at home as lockdown measures intensify to combat the coronavirus, a pandemic with a global death toll rapidly approaching 100,000.