Colombian Amazon: casualty of peace
by David SALAZAR Agence France-Presse San José del Guaviare, Colombia (AFP) - In just a few minutes, an enormous century-year-old…
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Arts and Culture
Russia’s cosmos town, an isolated relic of Soviet glory
by Nikolay KORZHOV Agence France-Presse BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AFP) - Malik Mutaliyev walks by an abandoned amusement park in wintry Baikonur,…
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Thai Supreme Court jails tycoon over wildlife poaching
BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) - A Thai tycoon accused of poaching wildlife in a national park lost his final appeal Wednesday,…
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Sealand: the ‘micronation’ defying the UK and Covid
by Anna MALPAS Agence France-Presse SEALAND (AFP) - It's a hulking metal-and-concrete platform in the North Sea that has been…
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Russia closes notorious ‘whale jail’
MOSCOW, Russsia (AFP) - Russia has dismantled a notorious facility dubbed the "whale jail" that kept dozens of the mammals…
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Albanian bunkers ravaged by rising tides as erosion takes toll
by Briseida MEMA Agence France-Presse SEMAN, Albania (AFP) - Albania's communist-era bunkers were meant to withstand a nuclear strike, but…
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Austerity, far right, feminism: Merkel’s ambivalent legacy
by Hui Min NEO Agence France-Presse BERLIN, Germany (AFP) - Crises have a knack for felling leaders. Not Chancellor Angela…
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Legendary Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim dies aged 91
Legendary Broadway songwriter Stephen Sondheim, widely credited with revolutionizing American musical theater, died Friday at the age of 91.…
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Bird watching for peace in Colombia
by Hervé BAR Agence France-Presse PLANADAS, Colombia (AFP) - As a bird perches on a telegraph pole, two young girls…
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34,000 protest in Greece on anti-junta revolt anniversary
ATHENS, Greece (AFP) - Tens of thousands of people joined protests in Greece's two largest cities on Wednesday, marking the…
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