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'Jealous lover': Fury at Putin near Ukraine front
'Jealous lover': Fury at Putin near Ukraine front
by  AFP

The cracked kitchen clock still showed the moment the first Russian missile vaporised the courtyard of a Soviet-era high-rise facing Ukraine's southern front. The supporting wall of Tishevska's apartment tower had cracked and the facade of a smaller building on the opposite side of the courtyard had partially collapsed.

What to expect from Xi's next five years in power
What to expect from Xi's next five years in power
by  AFP

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has emerged from a five-year congress with even more power over the ruling Communist Party. The Communist Party for the first time enshrined its opposition to Taiwanese independence in its constitution at its just-ended congress which handed Xi a third term in power.

Heat, then floods ruin Pakistani farmers' livelihoods
Heat, then floods ruin Pakistani farmers' livelihoods
by  AFP

Generations of Rahim Buksh's ancestors have laboured in the rice paddies and wheat fields surrounding Pakistan's hottest city, no strangers to intense summers or monsoon rains. "We would move to the cities and take up manual labour work if somebody helped us to get out of here," said Buksh, whose mud-brick home was flooded, like much of the surrounding farmland.

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