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Frida Kahlo painting sells for $54.7 mn in record for female artist
AFP, Published on 22/11/2025
» NEW YORK - A self-portrait by celebrated Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold for $54.66 million in New York on Thursday, setting a record for the price of a painting by a woman, the auction house Sotheby's said.
New search in Madeleine McCann case finished: Portuguese police
AFP, Published on 06/06/2025
» LAGOS (PORTUGAL) - A new search launched this week into the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann ended Thursday, said police in Portugal, where she went missing 18 years ago.
Vietnam’s presidential nominee is anti-graft crusader
Bloomberg, Published on 19/05/2024
» Vietnam nominated the enforcer of Communist Party’s anti-corruption drive as the next president and proposed a new head of parliament, in appointments that could ease months of political turmoil and allow policymakers to refocus on a struggling economy.
Global cannabis-linked Ponzi scheme busted
News Agencies, Published on 13/04/2024
» An international police operation has arrested a gang that defrauded 645 million euros ($685 million) from victims in 35 countries in a scam centred around growing medicinal cannabis.
Dutch dope trial: what's the deal?
AFP, Published on 13/12/2023
» THE HAGUE - On December 15, cannabis will for the first time be grown, sold, and consumed legally in the Netherlands as part of a four-year trial across the country.
Hong Kong 'patriots only' elections see lowest-ever turnout
AFP, Published on 11/12/2023
» HONG KONG - Hong Kong's first "patriots only" district council elections saw a turnout of 27.5 percent, the government said Monday, a record-low number for a race that had shut out all opposition candidates.
A rush for firearms in wartime Israel
AFP, Published on 23/11/2023
» JERUSALEM - Declaring her preference for "something light and comfortable", an Israeli mother-of-four browsed through a collection of pistols in a Jerusalem gun store, which appeared to be experiencing a business boom in wartime.
Dutch 'coffee shops' savour legal pot trial
AFP, Published on 11/10/2023
» BREDA (NETHERLANDS) - In the back room of "The Baron", a Dutch marijuana-selling "coffee shop", owner Rick Brand excitedly browsed through the cannabis products he will soon be able to offer.
Researchers question the effectiveness of China's game time restrictions for minors in reducing heavy play
South China Morning Post, Published on 14/08/2023
» Children in mainland China are subject to some of the world's strictest restrictions on online gaming time, but a new study published in Nature found no evidence that those government-imposed rules had reduced heavy gaming.
Coe defends Budapest as worlds venue and hails doping case
AFP, Published on 01/08/2023
» PARIS - World Athletics president Sebastian Coe has defended the choice of Hungary's capital Budapest to host this month's world championships and also said the sport's latest doping case was actually a reason to celebrate.