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Mon, 10 Oct 2022 06:36:03 GMT
Taiwan leader vows 'no compromise' on democracy in National Day speech
Taiwan's leader warned Beijing on Monday that the island would never give up its democratic way of life in a National Day speech in which she drew parallels with Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 05:24:41 GMT
'Extraordinary moment': the 1970s abortion case that changed French law
Marie-Claire Chevalier was 16 when a boy the same age attacked her and made her pregnant. Her mother, an employee of the Paris public transport authority, helped her find a backstreet abortion. But her rapist informed on her and she was ordered to ...

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 05:24:36 GMT
Air France, Airbus face trial in Paris over fatal 2009 Rio-Paris crash
Air France and Airbus will face trial starting Monday in Paris, 13 years after the crash of an A330 shortly after takeoff from Rio de Janeiro that resulted in the deaths of 228 people. Civil parties hope to get answers from the two aviation gian...

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 05:11:20 GMT
Families seek truth as Air France, Airbus go on trial over 2009 Rio-Paris crash
Air France and Airbus go on trial Monday on charges of involuntary manslaughter over the fatal 2009 crash of a jet heading to Paris from Brazil, killing all 228 people aboard.

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 04:53:30 GMT
Live: Multiple blasts rock central Kyiv, several Ukrainian cities
Several loud blasts rocked central Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities early on Monday, local officials said, a day after an explosion on a bridge linking Russia to occupied Crimea sparked calls for reprisals in Moscow. The explosions came as the UN Ge...

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 04:46:40 GMT
Confusion, crane and now cost cap risk taking gloss off Verstappen feat
The 25-year-old Dutchman became the second youngest double world champion on Sunday, after Sebastian Vettel, when Ferrari's Charles Leclerc was given a time penalty relegating him to third place at Suzuka. The news emerged as Verstappen was giving ...

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 04:46:28 GMT
'Born to fly': Indian pilot blazes trail for women in aviation
Agarwal has enjoyed an illustrious career since gaining her wings in 2004, including her inauguration last year, with an all-woman crew, of the longest non-stop Indian commercial flight. After helming the 17-hour San Francisco to Bangalore route, A...

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 04:40:29 GMT
Climate refugees flee as Bangladesh villages washed away
The 70-year-old and his neighbours are among thousands in the country who will be rendered destitute this year as surging waters and eroding lands reshape the landscape -- a phenomenon made worse by climate change. One day in September, the waterwa...

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 04:40:14 GMT
Saudi women reject stigma to embrace pole dancing
Family and friends in the capital Riyadh told her the gruelling form of exercise –- a test of strength and coordination involving acrobatic movements on a vertical pole –- was "so wrong". Pole dancing as a form of exercise has been tainted by i...

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 04:28:22 GMT
Taiwan leader vows 'no compromise' on freedom, democracy
The self-ruled democracy's 23 million people live under the constant threat of invasion by China's Communist Party, and Moscow's war in Ukraine has deepened fears that Beijing might attempt something similar with the island. In her speech, Presiden...

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 04:20:23 GMT
Air France, Airbus trial to open over 2009 Rio-Paris crash
Victims' families and some aviation experts say the pilots were insufficiently trained to handle a loss of speed readings caused by crucial equipment freezing over in a storm. Flight AF 447 from Rio de Janeiro plunged into the Atlantic Ocean in the...

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 03:46:44 GMT
Heat-resilient Red Sea reefs offer last stand for corals
Most shallow water corals, battered and bleached white by repeated marine heatwaves, are "unlikely to last the century," the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said this year. That threatens a devastating loss for the hundreds of millions of...

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 03:45:05 GMT
At the gateway to the Arctic, a world in turmoil
"For all the devastation that we're doing to her, she's not going to sit still, our planet Mother Earth will punish us," Daley says. Daley's hometown of Churchill is an isolated settlement at the edge of the Hudson Bay where global warming unfolds ...

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 03:38:58 GMT
As oceans rise, are some nations doomed to vanish?
The prospect is no longer science fiction as global warming gathers pace, posing an unprecedented challenge to the international community, and threatening entire peoples with the loss of their land and identity. "This is the biggest tragedy that a...

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 03:14:09 GMT
76 people killed in Nigeria boat accident
An estimated 85 people were taking the overloaded boat on Friday when flooding of the Niger River caused it to tip over. "The boat reportedly carrying 85 persons capsized following rising floods in Ogbaru area of the state, with emergency services...



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