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Vast network of lost ancient cities discovered in the Amazon

A team of French researchers used laser mapping to uncover 20 settlements that were connected by roads

January 12, 2024| AFP
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Sharks killed at alarming rates despite regulations

Laws meant to curb finning have inadvertently cost even more sharks their lives, a new study has found

January 12, 2024| AFP
Jan Latham-Koenig. Photo: Wikipedia

World-renowned UK conductor charged with child sex crimes

Latham-Koenig was the first British-born conductor to become artistic director of a Russian opera company

January 12, 2024| AFP
Matteo Salvini is the head of the far-right League party and a partner in current Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's coalition. File photo: AFP

Salvini says he 'defended' Italy as he testifies in migrant trial

Former PM faces a maximum of 15 years in prison if convicted

January 12, 2024| AFP
A special pool where the remains of the 'Zambratija boat' - of a 3,000-year old hand-sewn boat, the oldest found in the Meditterranean Sea - are kept desalinating after being discovered in the waters of Zambratija Bay. Photo: AFP

Oldest hand-sewn boat in the Med has been saved from oblivion in Croatia

The 3,000-year-old boat was found in Zambratija

January 12, 2024| AFP
Queen Margrethe arrives to hold a New Year's cure for officers from the Armed Forces and the Emergency Management Agency, I., II. and III. rank on January 4. Photo: AFP

Will Danish abdication prompt King Charles to step down early?

Margrethe, 83, handed over the crown to her son Frederik after 52 years on the throne

January 12, 2024| AFP
Images broadcast by the Huthi's Al-Masirah television show explosions and smoke plumes at unidentified locations in Yemen. Photo: AFP

US, UK air strikes pound Yemen as Mideast conflict spreads

Huthis carried out attacks on what they deem to be Israel-linked shipping in Red Sea

January 12, 2024| AFP
Polish President Andrzej Duda is to pardon two populist ex-lawmakers.

Polish president to pardon jailed ex-lawmakers

The two were arrested at the presidential residence

January 11, 2024| AFP
Ukrainian servicemen of the 42nd Mechanized Brigade attend a training on mine safety and explosives handling during a field military exercise in the Donetsk region.

Ukrainian lawmakers rebuff mobilisation bill 

The military wanted to mobilise up to half a million people

January 11, 2024| AFP
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Netflix pulls Indian culinary drama after religious backlash

'Annapoorani: The Goddess of Food' was the second-most watched Netflix feature in India

January 11, 2024| AFP
People raise flags and placards as they gather around a statue of late South African president Nelson Mandela to celebrate a landmark "genocide" case filed by South Africa against Israel at the International Court of Justice. Photo: AFP

South Africa accuses Israel of breaching Genocide Convention

Israel describes the case as 'preposterous'

January 11, 2024| AFP
Sven-Goran Eriksson has been diagnosed with cancer. Photo: AFP

Ex-England manager Eriksson says has cancer, 'a year' to live

Led England at the 2002 and 2006 World Cups

January 11, 2024| AFP
AFP file photo taken on January 8 showing rescuers and a policeman carrying the body of a victim of Russian strikes in the Kharkiv region.

13 wounded in Russian strike on hotel in Ukraine

Turkish journalists are among the victims

January 11, 2024| AFP
AFP file photo of EDF's Sizewell B nuclear power station in Sizewell, eastern England.

UK unveils plans for 'biggest nuclear power expansion in 70 years'

Measure forms part of plan to quadruple UK nuclear power by 2050

January 11, 2024| AFP
A UN helicopter operating in Africa. AFP file photo.

UN helicopter crash lands in Somalia, passengers taken hostage

The incident occurred in territory believed to be under the control of the Al-Shabaab group

January 10, 2024| AFP
Both Russia and Ukraine have been evacuating children. Photos shows Ukrainian children being evacuated from Kherson, on October 30, 2023. AFP

'Nowhere is safe': Russian city evacuates hundreds of children

Some 300 people have already been evacuated from Belgorod

January 10, 2024| AFP
Breivik at a court hearing. The convicted terrorist says his conditions in prison are inhumane. Photo: AFP

A gym, budgies and an Xbox: how Norway terrorist Anders Breivik is held

Breivik, who killed dozens in 2011, says authorities are trying to 'push me to suicide'

January 10, 2024| AFP
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UK to compensate hundreds of wrongfully convicted Post Office managers

Decades-long glitch in IT software led to branch managers being convicted of theft

January 10, 2024| AFP
Bandar Alkhorayef, Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources in Saudi Arabia, announced the doubled valuation. Photo: AFP

Saudi says value of its mineral resources has nearly doubled to $2.5 trillion

Riyadh profits on country's deposits of rare earth elements

January 10, 2024| AFP
AFP file photo of map of migrants deadly shipwrecks during a demonstration in support to the victims of the deadly migrant shipwreck, off greek southern Peloponeese peninsula last year.

At least two dead after migrant boat sinks off Greek island, 16 missing

Last year a boat sank off Pylos in the Peloponnese, drowning 82 people

January 10, 2024| AFP
An image, supplied by the UK MoD, of the Royal Navy responding to the Houthi attack. Photograph: Owen Cooban/Ministry of Defence

UK, US forces repel 'largest attack' yet by Huthis in Red Sea

More than 20 drones and missiles were launched by Yemen's Huthis

January 10, 2024| AFP
Highspeed ICE trains stand still in front of frankfurt's skyline at Frankfurt main station, western Germany, on January 10, 2024, as German train drivers start a nationwide three-day strike from after wage talks broke down. Photo: AFP

Train strikes, farmer blockades bring Germany to a standstill

Commuters who hoped to beat the train strike by taking their cars ran into angry farmers

January 10, 2024| AFP
Screengrab from live footage showing armed men wearing balaclavas bursting into the studio of public television station TC in Ecuador's drug violence-torn port city of Guayaquil, taking hostage several journalists and staff members. Photo: AFP

Watch: The moment armed men broke into a public TV station in Ecuador

New president Daniel Noboa declared a 60-day countrywide state of emergency Monday

January 10, 2024| AFP
A Palestinian man mourns over the body of a child killed in Israeli strike at the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis on the southern Gaza Strip. Photo: AFP

Blinken to meet Palestinian president, warns Israel civilian toll 'too high'

Israel's ground invasion of Gaza has killed at least 23,210 people, mostly women and children

January 10, 2024| AFP
A billboard displays a temperature of 118 degrees Fahrenheit (48 degrees Celcius) during a record heat wave in Phoenix, Arizona on July 18, 2023.

2023 hottest recorded year as Earth nears key limit

Climate change intensified heatwaves, droughts and wildfires across the planet

January 9, 2024| AFP
Former U.S. President Donald Trump departs the Waldorf Astoria where he held a press conference following his appearance in court.

Trump warns of 'bedlam,' appeals court sceptical of his immunity claim 

Trump is scheduled to go on trial on March 4 on charges of conspiring to overturn the 2020 election

January 9, 2024| AFP
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny seen during a court hearing.

Navalny put in solitary confinement in Arctic prison

Navalny galvanised huge nationwide protests in Russia before he was jailed in 2021

January 9, 2024| AFP
Gabriel Attal (l) has been appointed as the youngest French prime minister by France's President Emmanuel Macron (r)

Gabriel Attal picked as France's youngest PM

The 34-year-old is the most popular figure in government, according to opinion polls

January 9, 2024| AFP
A plastic sheet covers an area of the fuselage of the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft after a door was lost in flight.

Ryanair boss demands 'significant' Boeing improvement

Ryanair has no MAX 9 aircraft in service or on order

January 9, 2024| AFP
AFP photo taken on the Champ de Mars in Paris on January 9, 2024, shows the large public greenspace covered by snow and the Eiffel Tower. The cold is getting colder on January 9, 2024 in northeastern France and the Massif Central.

France closes motorways as cold wave hits

400 vehicles blocked on icy roads in the Paris region

January 9, 2024| AFP