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'We will wait for each one': Ukrainians greet POWs with tears and cheers
AFP, Published on 18/03/2026
» UNDISCLOSED (UKRAINE) - Larysa Gladka was among hundreds of Ukrainians lining the road stretching towards the northern border, holding flags as they anxiously fixed their gaze at the horizon.
Japan PM opposes changing male-only imperial succession
AFP, Published on 27/02/2026
» TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told parliament on Friday that she opposes changing the imperial family's male succession rules.
Japanese “nude festival” leaves six men hospitalised
Published on 23/02/2026
» OKAYAMA — Six men were injured in a crush during this year’s Hadaka Matsuri at Saidaiji Kannon Temple in Okayama, Japanese authorities said.
German carnival revellers take swipes at Putin, Trump, Epstein
AFP, Published on 17/02/2026
» DüSSELDORF (GERMANY) - From Donald Trump to Vladimir Putin, no one is safe when Germans celebrate carnival with floats that satirise politicians. But the Russian president is not laughing.
Nepal 'addicted' to the trade in its own people
AFP, Published on 16/02/2026
» KATHMANDU - Rudra Bahadur Kami returned to Nepal through a back door of Kathmandu airport in a battered coffin after working for more than a decade in Saudi Arabia to feed his family back home.
Tough-talking right-winger elected Costa Rica president
AFP, Published on 02/02/2026
» SAN JOSÉ - Right-wing political scientist Laura Fernandez won Costa Rica's presidential election on Sunday by a landslide, after promising to crack down hard on rising violence linked to the cocaine trade.
Sumo diplomacy: Japan's heavyweight 'soft power' ambassadors
AFP, Published on 30/01/2026
» TOKYO - Two giants stare each other down before colliding with a dull thud. After years on the sidelines, sumo is back centrestage as part of Japan's soft power arsenal overseas.
'Hobbit houses' that might just save a Moldovan village
AFP, Published on 16/01/2026
» ROGOJENI — They call Rogojeni the "hobbit village", and its little half-buried houses, built to resist Moldova's cold winters and hot summers, do look like something from "The Lord of the Rings".
World begins to bid goodbye to 2025 with fireworks and icy plunges
Reuters, Published on 31/12/2025
» Dec 31 - 10...nine...eight...As Wednesday turned to Thursday, people around the world said goodbye to a sometimes challenging 2025 and expressed hopes for the new year to come.
Leo XIV celebrates first Christmas as pope
AFP, Published on 25/12/2025
» VATICAN CITY - Pope Leo XIV held the first Christmas mass of his pontificate on Wednesday, greeting thousands of faithful in St Peter's Square before the service in an usually informal style.