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French police probing death during Marseille riots
AFP, Published on 05/07/2023
» MARSEILLE - French authorities on Wednesday probed the death of a man who may have been hit by a police rubber bullet during riots in Marseille, as the country counted the cost of its most intense urban violence in nearly two decades.
Western allies drag Iran to UN court over downed jet
AFP, Published on 05/07/2023
» THE HAGUE - Canada, Britain, Sweden and Ukraine have taken Iran to the UN's top court to seek damages for families of passengers on a jetliner downed by Tehran in 2020, they said Wednesday.
'It's time': haute couture embraces men
AFP, Published on 05/07/2023
» PARIS - Long the preserve of women, haute couture has in recent years opened up to men who dare to ditch the black tuxedo for something with a few more feathers, sequins and embroidery.
Summer superstorm blasts Netherlands, Germany
AFP, Published on 05/07/2023
» THE HAGUE: A record-breaking summer storm hammered the Netherlands and Germany on Wednesday, killing two people and throwing international air and rail travel into chaos.
Devastation reigns one month after Ukraine dam flood
AFP, Published on 05/07/2023
» AFANASIYIVKA, Ukraine: Clothes, sofas and kitchen furniture still lie strewn around Nadiya Yefremova's garden a month after her home was flooded by the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine.
Migration 'only option' for many in Latin America
AFP, Published on 05/07/2023
» BRUSSELS: Many people in Latin America see migration as "the only option they have" after enduring successive crises of climate change, Covid and spiking food prices, the World Food Programme's head for the region told AFP.
UK probes special forces' actions in Afghanistan
AFP, Published on 05/07/2023
» LONDON: Britain's defence minister on Wednesday said that allegations of unlawful killings in Afghanistan being examined by an independent inquiry relate to UK special forces.
'Strongest summer storm' batters Netherlands
AFP, Published on 05/07/2023
» THE HAGUE: Hundreds of flights were cancelled at one of Europe's busiest air hubs and roads were blocked on Wednesday as the strongest summer storm on record slammed into the Netherlands.
German cabinet approves belt-tightening draft budget
AFP, Published on 05/07/2023
» BERLIN: Germany's coalition government approved a draft of next year's budget Wednesday after fractious negotiations, aiming to impose deep cuts after years of big spending while giving defence a boost.
Assaulted Russian reporter in 'difficult' condition
AFP, Published on 05/07/2023
» MOSCOW: Award-winning Russian investigative journalist Elena Milashina, who was badly beaten in the restive republic of Chechnya, is in a "difficult" condition in a Moscow hospital, her editor told AFP Wednesday.