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Tuesday, February 19, 2019, 10:12
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AFP
Spirit mediums in headdresses and lurid make-up, their cheeks pierced by needles and tongues cut by knives, led a striking procession Tuesday through the Cambodian capital to mark the end of Chinese New Year.
Hundreds of people poured through an...
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Monday, February 18, 2019, 14:31
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AFP
A group of German friends claimed a world record Saturday for the highest number of smurfs, gathered in one place.
Fans of the blue elf-like creatures created in a Belgian comic strip in 1950s, managed to gather 2,762 people dressed and painted...
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Sunday, February 17, 2019, 14:25
The mystery of a Croatian student who disappeared 18 years ago might have been solved with the discovery of a body in a freezer, press reports said Sunday.
The freezer was in a home in Mala Subotica, northern Croatia, belonging to the sister of...
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Friday, February 15, 2019, 10:59
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AFP
A 59-year-old Thai woman with dementia who left home eight months ago to see her son nearby, only to apparently walk 640 kilometres into China, arrived back in the kingdom Friday.
Kaeomanee Arjaw, who is from the ethnic Akha hill-tribe, was...
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Thursday, February 14, 2019, 18:15
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AFP
Valentine's Day wasn't getting much love in the world's biggest Muslim majority nation Thursday as Indonesian authorities urged amorous couples to call it quits and carried out raids to quash any wayward gift-giving.
About 100 students in the...
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Thursday, February 14, 2019, 17:08
A Slovenian lawmaker resigned Thursday for stealing a sandwich from a supermarket because he was annoyed about being ignored by staff.
Darij Krajcic, a member of parliament for the Marjan Sarec List (LMS) party -- the senior partner in the ruling...
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Thursday, February 14, 2019, 15:34
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AFP
What's big, blue, furry and monstrous? For the Netherlands the answer is simple: Brexit.
While the British government has had trouble imagining what its exit from the European Union will actually look like, the Dutch government unveiled its vision...
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Thursday, February 14, 2019, 12:02
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AFP
A zoo in the war-battered Palestinian enclave of Gaza is promoting itself as offering the chance to play with a lion, who has been declawed but still has its teeth.
The 14-month lioness, called Falestine, is supposed to be placid enough to meet...
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Thursday, February 14, 2019, 07:01
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AFP
South Korea's basketball league has scrapped a controversial height limit that kept its tallest foreign players off the court, less than a year after it was introduced, officials said Wednesday.
The Korean Basketball League (KBL) was subject to...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2019, 17:30
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AFP
Pamela Hansford whooped and threw out a thumbs-up as she glided past on a surfboard, propped up by her elbows.
A year ago, a steep wave slammed the intrepid 75-year-old into the shore at a Cape Town beach, breaking her neck.
Now, a crowd of...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2019, 12:01
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AFP
For smartphone-wielding hordes of tourists, Hong Kong boasts a host of must-have Instagram locations - but crowds of snap-happy travellers are testing local patience and transforming once quaint pockets of the bustling metropolis.
Tony Hui recalls...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2019, 07:00
A groom who allegedly groped a teenage waitress and asked her for sexual favours at his own wedding has been granted bail.
Foreign media outlets reported that after saying “I do”, the groom, US citizen Matthew Ronald Aimers, 31, propositioned the...
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Tuesday, February 12, 2019, 10:19
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Martin Potgieter, Bronwyn Egan
For thousands of years people from all over the world have eaten insects. Today about 2.5 billion people – many of whom live in Africa – eat insects. To date, 470 African edible insects have been scientifically recorded, with grasshoppers and...
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Monday, February 11, 2019, 16:31
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AFP
As spring approaches in Japan, the country's weather forecasters face one of their biggest missions of the year: predicting exactly when the famed cherry blossoms will bloom.
Japan's sakura or cherry blossom season is feverishly anticipated by...
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Monday, February 11, 2019, 09:58
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AFP
Indonesian authorities on Monday launched an investigation after a police force chief admitted an officer wrapped a live snake around a terrified suspect in a bid to force a confession.
Shocking viral footage emerged online showing an alleged...
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Sunday, February 10, 2019, 12:52
Italian singer Mahmood won the Sanremo Music Festival on Saturday, but his country’s interior minister is clearly not among his fans.Matteo Salvini took to Twitter as the song contest ended to voice his preference for the second-placed finisher...
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Saturday, February 9, 2019, 19:59
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AFP
Not only will a 19-year-old Greek hooligan have to keep away from attending a match with his favourite team, but he'll also have to be in the local police precinct at the time of the contest.
A court in the northern Greek city of Volos ordered the...
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Saturday, February 9, 2019, 14:58
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AFP
Two South Koreans were arrested at Croatia's main airport as they tried to smuggle 252,000 live baby eels, an endangered species, out of the country, police said Thursday.
The two men, aged 38 and 57, were arrested on Wednesday after customs...
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Saturday, February 9, 2019, 09:58
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AFP
Five paintings attributed to Adolf Hitler will be auctioned off Saturday in the German city of Nuremberg, sparking anger that the Nazi memorabilia market is alive and well.
Nuremberg's mayor Ulrich Maly has condemned the upcoming sale as being "in...
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Saturday, February 9, 2019, 09:01
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AFP
With a grin spreading across his face, a man bends down to take a photo of a miniature rubbish bin and street sign at the foot of a building in the southern Swedish town of Malmo.
Lost items from a dollhouse? No, the Lilliputian objects are the...