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OLOGA: A family rests at the entrance of their stilt home over the Maracaibo Lake in Ologa, Zulia state, Venezuela. - AFP n

Illiteracy haunts isolated Venezuelan village

OLOGA: A family rests at the entrance of their stilt home over the Maracaibo Lake in Ologa, Zulia state, Venezuela. - AFPOLOGA: Desks at the only school in the impoverished Venezuelan fishing village of Ologa are piled one on top of the other in a dark and dusty room. It has been four years since the classroom doors last opened at this remote school on the shores of Lake Maracaibo in the country's western Zulia state, and now the paint is...

EAGLE MOUNTAIN: An employee walks into a newly completed data center in Eagle Mountain, Utah. Facebook was shut down yesterday for more than seven hours reportedly due in part to a major disruption in communication between the company's data centers. - AFP n

Why did Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp shut down?

EAGLE MOUNTAIN: An employee walks into a newly completed data center in Eagle Mountain, Utah. Facebook was shut down yesterday for more than seven hours reportedly due in part to a major disruption in communication between the company's data centers. - AFPPARIS: Hundreds of millions of people were unable to access Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp for more than six hours on Monday, underscoring the world's reliance on platforms owned by the...

TAOYUAN: Taiwan's deputy foreign minister Harry Tseng (right) greets French Senator Alain Richard (2nd right) leading a delegation arriving at the Taoyuan international airport in Taoyuan yesterday. -AFP n

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TAOYUAN: Taiwan's deputy foreign minister Harry Tseng (right) greets French Senator Alain Richard (2nd right) leading a delegation arriving at the Taoyuan international airport in Taoyuan yesterday. -AFPTAIPEI: Military tensions between China and Taiwan are at their highest in four decades, the island's defense minister warned yesterday, adding Beijing would be in a position to launch a full-scale invasion in 2025. Taiwan lives under the...

AGADEZ, Niger: A woman is seen walking in the old city of Agadez. Air Info and Sahara.fm represents today the main source of information on the Nigerien Sahara. - AFP n

Air Info, the outlet breaking news in Niger's Sahara

AGADEZ, Niger: A woman is seen walking in the old city of Agadez. Air Info and Sahara.fm represents today the main source of information on the Nigerien Sahara. - AFPAGADEZ: From the outside, it doesn't look like much: a two-storey building with a logo in the dusty streets of Agadez in northern Niger. But there has been plenty happening inside the building at Air Info-an ambitious media outlet that has been breaking exclusives in the Sahara...

BAGHDAD: Iraqi supporters of political movement Fatah alliance attend an election rally in Baghdad. - AFP n

In Iraq vote, big blocs lurk behind 'independents'

BAGHDAD: Iraqi supporters of political movement Fatah alliance attend an election rally in Baghdad. - AFPBAGHDAD: When Iraqis go to the polls Sunday, they will vote for individual candidates rather than parties for the first time under a new electoral law meant to appease a youth-led protest movement fed up with the country's old-style politics. In theory, the changes will strengthen local voices as candidates can now run at the district level...

KABUL: Taleban fighters sit outside the passport office after Taleban announced the reopening for passport applications yesterday. - AFP n

From insurgency to city beat: Taleban's police learn the ropes

KABUL: Taleban fighters sit outside the passport office after Taleban announced the reopening for passport applications yesterday. - AFPKABUL: After spending 13 years as a Taleban fighter waging an insurgency, Rahimullah is now slowly adjusting to the relatively ordinary role of a policeman in Afghanistan's capital. Like the rest of the Taleban, he is grappling with an awkward transition from rebel fighter to civilian patrolman, as the...

Models present creations by Louis Vuitton during the Women's Spring-Summer 2022 Ready-to-Wear collection fashion show as part of Paris Fashion Week at the Louvre in Paris yesterday. - AFP photosn

Climate demonstrators invade Luis Vuitton catwalk show

Models present creations by Louis Vuitton during the Women's Spring-Summer 2022 Ready-to-Wear collection fashion show as part of Paris Fashion Week at the Louvre in Paris yesterday. - AFP photosExtinction Rebellion climate activists burst onto the catwalk at Louis Vuitton's Tuesday Paris Fashion Week show to blast the industry's impact on the environment. "Overconsumption = extinction", a banner brandished by one demonstrator from the...

Laborers take a break as they work at a private jute mill in Jagatdal. From the boutiques of Christian Dior to royal wedding favors, jute is growing in popularity worldwide as demand for alternatives to plastic soars, with experts predicting the bag industry alone will be worth more than 3 billion USD by 2024. - AFP photosn

Rice sacks to runway: India's battle to rebrand jute

Laborers take a break as they work at a private jute mill in Jagatdal. From the boutiques of Christian Dior to royal wedding favors, jute is growing in popularity worldwide as demand for alternatives to plastic soars, with experts predicting the bag industry alone will be worth more than 3 billion USD by 2024. - AFP photosFrom the boutiques of Christian Dior to royal wedding favors, jute is growing in popularity worldwide as demand for...

A handout photograph released by the Gallipoli Historical Side Presidency Press service shows a diver visiting wreckage of a warship was sunk in the World War I Gallipoli Campaign off the coast of Canakkale. - AFP photosn

Diving into history: Gallipoli shipwrecks open to public

A handout photograph released by the Gallipoli Historical Side Presidency Press service shows a diver visiting wreckage of a warship sunk in the World War I Gallipoli Campaign off the coast of Canakkale. - AFP photosHulking hulls of mighty warships greet divers off Turkey's western shore, testament to a World War I battle that gave birth to nations and is now an underwater museum. The British Royal Navy's "HMS Majestic" is just one of 14...

Workers extract caviar from a sterlet at the Aquatir sturgeon complex in the town of Tiraspol, the capital of Transnistria - Moldova's pro-Russian breakaway region on the eastern border with Ukraine. - AFP photosn

Separatist Transnistria to sell rare $20,000-a-kilo white caviar

Workers extract caviar from a sterlet at the Aquatir sturgeon complex in the town of Tiraspol, the capital of Transnistria - Moldova's pro-Russian breakaway region on the eastern border with Ukraine. - AFP photosAt a sprawling complex on the site of a former Soviet collective farm in Moldova's breakaway region of Transnistria, workers are harvesting caviar - and striking it rich. Shooting out from behemoth beluga fish are glistening obsidian...

In this file photo, Jules Theobald speaks during an interview after he was officially named the oldest man in France in Fort-de-France. - AFPnn

Oldest Frenchman Theobald dies at 112

In this file photo, Jules Theobald speaks during an interview after he was officially named the oldest man in France in Fort-de-France. - AFPFORT-DE-FRANCE: France's oldest man Jules Theobald has died at the age of 112, his family told AFP Tuesday. Theobald, who hailed from the Caribbean island of Martinique, a French overseas department, died at his home in the island's main city Fort-de-France. Born on April 17, 1909 - though family legend had...

Photo shows a worktable inside Bjoerkborn Manor, where Alfred Nobel lived during the summer periods of the last years of his life, in Karlskoga, Sweden. Alfred Nobel's last laboratory still exists, a stone's throw from a big explosives plant. In Sweden and around the world, the industrial legacy of the Nobel Prize founder is still making sparks fly. - AFP n

Nobel Literature Prize yet to deliver its diversity promise

Photo shows a worktable inside Bjoerkborn Manor, where Alfred Nobel lived during the summer periods of the last years of his life, in Karlskoga, Sweden. Alfred Nobel's last laboratory still exists, a stone's throw from a big explosives plant. In Sweden and around the world, the industrial legacy of the Nobel Prize founder is still making sparks fly. - AFPAfter almost a decade of exclusively Western authors, will the Nobel Literature Prize...

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