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IOC keeps Russia doping ban for Olympic closing ceremony
AFP, Published on 25/02/2018
» PYEONGCHANG (SOUTH KOREA) - Russian athletes will not be able to march behind their flag at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics closing ceremony later Sunday after the IOC voted unanimously to keep the country's ban for mass doping.
Merkel to appoint key party critic to cabinet: reports
AFP, Published on 25/02/2018
» BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel has decided to give a cabinet role to an outspoken critic within her conservative party, as she looks to quell surging discontent in the right wing of the group, local media reported.
Corporations key to rescuing nature, says WWF chief
AFP, Published on 25/02/2018
» PARIS - A generation ago, the idea of a veteran international banker leading a global organisation charged with saving the planet's dwindling and besieged wildlife would have seemed far-fetched.
IOC keeps Russia doping ban for Olympic closing ceremony
AFP, Published on 25/02/2018
» PYEONGCHANG (SOUTH KOREA) - Russian athletes will not be able to march behind their flag at the Pyeongchang Winter Games closing ceremony after the IOC voted unanimously to keep the country's ban for mass doping.
Wheels come off Gobee.bike hire service in France
AFP, Published on 25/02/2018
» PARIS - People wanting to get on their bikes in France have one option less to do so after the Gobee.bike hire service said Saturday it was closing following a welter of thefts and vandalism.
DR Congo ruling party supporters storm cathedral
AFP, Published on 25/02/2018
» KINSHASA - Tensions soared in Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday as hundreds of ruling party supporters stormed Kinshasa cathedral after authorities banned a planned Catholic church-backed rally against the rule of President Joseph Kabila.
More firms end ties with US rifle club as pressure mounts
Associated Press, Published on 24/02/2018
» NEW YORK: Three more companies said Friday they had ended discount programmes with the National Rifle Association, as US corporations take a closer look at investments, co-branding deals and other ties to the gun industry after the latest school massacre.
Wes Anderson, Norway teen massacre films lead Berlin fest race
AFP, Published on 24/02/2018
» BERLIN - Wes Anderson's "Isle of Dogs", an animated movie with political bite, and a controversial dramatisation of Norway's 2011 massacre of teenagers by a neo-Nazi gunman led the award favourites Saturday at the Berlin film festival.
'105 girls missing' in NE Nigeria after Boko Haram school attack
AFP, Published on 24/02/2018
» KANO (NIGERIA) - More than 100 girls are reported missing after a Boko Haram school attack in northeast Nigeria this week that President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday called a "national disaster".
Trump suggests armed deputy at Florida school was a 'coward'
AFP, Published on 23/02/2018
» WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump on Friday cast doubt on the character of an armed deputy who failed to intervene during last week's school shooting in Florida, saying he froze or was a "coward."