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Ukrainians beg for news of missing soldiers as prisoners return
AFP, Published on 13/06/2025
» IN UKRAINE - Amid the screaming sirens of ambulances bringing Ukrainian prisoners back from Russia on Thursday, Yana Nepotribna struggled to make her voice heard as she yelled out to her husband.
130,000-year-old baby mammoth goes under scalpel
AFP, Published on 04/04/2025
» YAKUTSK — Making incisions and carefully taking samples, the scientists at a laboratory in Russia's far east looked like pathologists carrying out a post-mortem.
Fire-hardened house offers lessons on rebuilding Los Angeles
AFP, Published on 29/01/2025
» PACIFIC PALISADES — The house that Michael Kovac built is the only one on his street still standing after a huge fire raced through his Los Angeles neighbourhood.
Ukrainians hone survival skills as Russia tensions mount
AFP, Published on 31/01/2022
» KYIV: In a forest on the outskirts of Kyiv, a group of Ukrainian civilians build shelters from snow and tree branches as part of a crash course in survival techniques.
'Torture chamber': Jailed Belarusians reveal prison abuse
AFP, Published on 14/08/2020
» MINSK - Emerging from a jail in Minsk with other Belarusians detained in a post-election crackdown, 27-year-old maths teacher Yana Bobrovskaya said she never expected to make it out alive.
Out of spotlight, Russian suspects in Baring Vostok case stay jailed
AFP, Published on 03/11/2019
» MOSCOW - Since his arrest in February Ivan Zyuzin, the investment director for Baring Vostok, has been in jail awaiting trial, barred from even seeing his wife and four children.