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Thu, August 6, 2020 | 20:01

Yellow vest demonstrators, police clash in Paris

Yellow vest demonstrators, police clash in Paris

Clashes broke out between dozens of demonstrators and police in Paris on the 23rd Saturday of yellow-vest protests after authorities warned that rioters could return to the French capital to spark a new wave of violence. Dozens of black-hooded demonstrators threw rocks at police and some set fire to scooters and trash cans in the centre of the French capital, according to Reu...

2019-04-21 09:26

Jesus standing in Notre Dame cathedral fire? [PHOTOS]

Jesus standing in Notre Dame cathedral fire? [PHOTOS]

Photos of what some say is the silhouette of a standing Jesus Christ in the fire engulfing Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral have gone viral.

Park Si-soo | 2019-04-18 14:46

$In Notre Dame fire, embers of unity for a fractured France$

In Notre Dame fire, embers of unity for a fractured France

In Paris' heart, a charred and gaping hole. But also a rallying cry. The disfigurement of Notre Dame, the splendid cathedral that has watched over the French capital for centuries and is now a blackened wreck mourned around the globe, felt to Parisians like a body blow, as impossible to stomach as the eternal loss to New York of its Twin Towers, as unfathomable as the idea of...

2019-04-17 09:52

Shock, prayers around the world for Notre Dame Cathedral

Shock, prayers around the world for Notre Dame Cathedral

The world reacted with shock, horror and prayers to the massive fire Monday at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, united in grief and in solidarity with the people of France. As the flames tore through the 12th-century cathedral, Spain's prime minister offered France the help of his country in the recovery. The fire is a “catastrophe for France, for Spain and for Europe,” Spa...

2019-04-16 09:34

Kiss for peace: Pope kneels to kiss feet of South Sudan's leaders to encourage peace [PHOTOS]

Kiss for peace: Pope kneels to kiss feet of South Sudan's leaders to encourage peace [PHOTOS]

Pope Francis knelt and kissed the feet of South Sudan's rival leaders Thursday, in an unprecedented act of humbleness to encourage them to strengthen the African country's faltering peace process. At the close a two-day retreat in the Vatican for the African leaders, the pope asked South Sudan's president and opposition leader to proceed with the peace agreement despite growi...

2019-04-14 16:55

Final Israeli election results boost Netanyahu's lead

Final Israeli election results boost Netanyahu's lead

A final count of election ballots on Thursday granted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party an additional seat in parliament, making it the largest faction in the Knesset and punctuating the Israeli leader's victory. The results released by Israel's central election commission showed Likud capturing a total of 36 seats in the 120-seat Knesset, compared to 35 seats f...

2019-04-12 15:49

Exit polls show Netanyahu edging ahead of his main competitor in a tight race

Exit polls show Netanyahu edging ahead of his main competitor in a tight race

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to be headed toward re-election early Wednesday, as exit polls and partial results showed him surging ahead of his main competitor in a tight race that was seen as a referendum on the long-serving leader. Both Netanyahu and former military chief Benny Gantz, leader of the rival Blue and White party, declared victory in speech...

2019-04-10 11:20

Africa's richest man withdrew $10 million just to look at it

Africa's richest man withdrew $10 million just to look at it

Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote, known as Africa's richest man, told a forum in Ivory Coast on Saturday how he once took $10 million in cash out of the bank just to look at it and get it into his head that this was real money, not just figures on paper. "When you're young your first million is important, but after, the numbers don't mean much," Dangote, a manufacturing tyc...

2019-04-07 09:23

Berlin housing activists lead campaign to fight rising rents

Berlin housing activists lead campaign to fight rising rents

Low-cost housing advocates are launching a grassroots campaign to force Berlin's state government into taking over nearly 250,000 apartments worth billions from corporate owners to fight rising rents in one of Germany's hottest real estate markets. The fight pits two philosophies against one another: free-market companies that see real estate as a means to profit, and housing...

2019-04-06 18:39

Rising number of businesses cut ties with Brunei over gay sex death penalty

Rising number of businesses cut ties with Brunei over gay sex death penalty

Travel agents, London's transport network and finance houses were among a rising number of companies that cut ties with businesses owned by Brunei, Friday, to protest the Sultanate's introduction of the death penalty for gay sex and adultery. The small Muslim-majority former British protectorate rolled out Islamic Sharia laws, April 3, which punish sodomy, adultery and rape w...

2019-04-06 15:13

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