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An island without fish? Cuba aims to tackle problem with law overhaul 27 Aug 2019 - 01:30 pm
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Far-right surge rattles guardians of Nazi era remembrance 26 Aug 2019 - 06:47 pm
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An African American mother and daughter journey to their family's past in Ghana 25 Aug 2019 - 05:11 pm
Tani Sanchez and her daughter Tani Sylvester are welcomed by a tour guide upon their arrival with other members of a heritage tour group at Ghana's Kotoka International Airport, Ghana August 6, 2019. Reuters/Francis Kokoroko
Nearly 900 Mexican performers set world record for folk dance 25 Aug 2019 - 09:00 am
Mariachi dancers pose with the Guinness World Record of largest Mexican folk dance in Guadalajara, Jalisco state, Mexico, on August 24, 2019. AFP / Ulises Ruiz
Israeli farmer remixes ancient scents near Dead Sea 24 Aug 2019 - 10:17 pm
Israeli farmer Guy Erlich shows ampules of scented oils that he extracted from plants and trees at a farm on a small hill near the settlement of Almog in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on May 28, 2019. AFP / Menahem Kahana
Cuba falls in love again with the beard - and it's not about Fidel 24 Aug 2019 - 08:06 pm
A barber cuts a client beard in a barbershop of Havana, on August 7, 2019.  AFP / Yamil Lage
Tel Aviv beaches fall foul in Israel's passion for plastic 24 Aug 2019 - 08:06 pm
An employee of the Herzliya town hall collects plastics and other waste left behind by beachgoers, on one of the beaches of the Israeli coastal city on June 21, 2019.  AFP / Jack Guez
'Nobody thought it would go so fast': Hungary ex-PM recalls fall of Iron Curtain 24 Aug 2019 - 06:40 pm
Former Hungarian Prime Minister Miklos Nemeth gestures as he speaks with a journalist during an AFP interview in his summer house close to Tihany at the Balaton Lake on July 30, 2019.  AFP / Attila Kisbenedek
Tiny Nevada town near secretive Area 51 braces for alien hunters 22 Aug 2019 - 04:12 pm
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Siberian postwoman on DIY monster truck gives lifeline to tiny village 22 Aug 2019 - 02:50 pm
Postwoman Galina Yermolova with her husband drive their homemade off-road vehicle in a forest outside the village of Pikhtovskiy on August 3, 2019. AFP / Alexei Malgavko
Blooms, beasts affected as Alaska records hottest month 18 Aug 2019 - 12:15 pm
The Spencer Glacier collapses, forming a big wave moments before it crashes into a kayaker, in Alaska, U.S., August 10, 2019, in this still image taken from a video obtained from social media. @steeringsouth/via REUTERS
'I put two bullets in German officer's head' recalls French Resistance heroine 14 Aug 2019 - 01:33 pm
Madeleine Riffaud, 94, speaks about the liberation of Paris on 1944 during an interview with the AFP at her appartment in Paris, on July 26, 2019.  / AFP / Natalie HANDEL
Tasmania's Aboriginal groups divided over new place naming policy 22 Jul 2019 - 09:52 pm
An Australian Aboriginal man blows into a shell during a welcoming ceremony at Government House in Sydney, Australia, June 28, 2017. Reuters/David Gray
Home on the range? Private buyers restore US grassland to cowboy consternation 22 Jul 2019 - 08:59 pm
K.C. Weingart fixes a barbed wire fence on his ranch in Petroleum, County in northeastern Montana, USA on June 13, 2019. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Gregory Scruggs
Endless kiddie tunes to spikes in doorways: eight ways cities shun the homeless 22 Jul 2019 - 08:58 pm
Two homeless men drink on the pavement in Paris on September 14, 2018. AFP/Joel Saget
Paris show gives the humble back its place in the limelight 21 Jul 2019 - 09:18 pm
A man looks at a dress by Moroccan fashion designer Martine Sitbon (C) displayed next to a large plaster cast by French sculptor Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929) at the off-site exhibition 'Back Side / Fashion from Behind' by the Palais Galliera held at the
Buried treasure poses Holocaust puzzle for Hungary museum 21 Jul 2019 - 09:18 pm
An archaeologist, Hungarian Ferenc Redo examines a metal coin of a Holocaust victim's collection in the Balatoni Museum in the town of Keszthely, 200 km west of Budapest on May 22, 2019. AFP/Attila Kisbenedek
Hebrew opera takes on Israeli-Palestinian conflict at French festival 21 Jul 2019 - 08:06 pm
The Sleeping Thousand, an opera by Israeli composer Adam Maor with the libretto by Yonatan Levy, was premiered at the prestigious Aix-en-Provence opera festival in southern France this month.(festival-aix.com)