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AFP – River defences in Pakistan’s flood-hit south were bolstered Tuesday in a bid to save two towns from catastrophic flooding as the UN warned the world community must help the militant-hit nation recover.
Eight million …

AFP – Russia and injury-hit Slovakia, who shared a World Cup qualifying group, resume hostilities on the road to Euro 2012 on Tuesday.
Both teams started their qualifying campaigns with wins on Friday with Russia chalking …

AFP – The Palestinian Authority has arrested several Hamas members for organizing and carrying out two recent attacks on Israeli settlers, a senior official said on Tuesday.
The Palestinian security official, speaking to AFP on condition …

AFP – Chinese filmmaker Wang Bing on Monday shone a cold light on human suffering at a re-education camp in the windswept Gobi Desert in “The Ditch” at the Venice film festival.
Set in 1960, the …

AFP – Six women condemned to up to 29 years in prison for abortion will see their sentences reduced to eight years thanks to a reform in central Mexico, defense groups said Monday.
The reform, which …

AFP – Former world number one Ana Ivanovic slumped for two years before starting a comeback that has taken her to the fourth round of the US Open and a Sunday showdown with defending champion …

AP – Sergei Kislyak scored in the 86th minute as Belaurs stunned France by winning 1-0 at Stade de France in their opening qualifier for the 2012 European Championship.
With new coach Laurent Blanc taking over …

President Nicolas Sarkozy was elected on a campaign promise to clean up politics and put an end to the murky dealings that had tarnished the image of the French state under his predecessors, François Mitterrand …

AFP – In Pool A at the women?s field hockey World Cup here Friday, Germany added a 4-1 loss to India?s record of three losses, Australia suffered their first tournament defeat at the hands of …

AFP – Philippine President Benigno Aquino’s taking responsibility for a hostage crisis which left eight Hong Kong tourists dead will not absolve other officials if they are found culpable, a spokesman said Saturday.
Aquino said Friday …

AP – Sergei Kislyak scored in the 86th minute as Belaurs stunned France by winning 1-0 at Stade de France in their opening qualifier for the 2012 European Championship.
With new coach Laurent Blanc taking over …

Here is some of what art lovers can look forward to in Paris as 2010 draws to an end and 2011 begins.
22 September – 24 January: A Claude Monet retrospective at the Grand Palais assembles …

AFP – Continental Europe’s main economies took increasingly divergent paths towards recovery in August, with Germany and France indicating growth but Spain’s services sector tipping into contraction.
According to the purchasing managers’ index (PMI), a survey …

 
“Prison Valley” is this year’s worthy winner of the FRANCE24-RFI web documentary award, which will be presented during the Visa Pour l’Image festival in Perpignan.
Created by David Dufresne and Philippe Brault, the striking multimedia …

AFP – Three Pakistan cricketers accused of involvement in an illegal betting scam maintained their innocence Thursday after withdrawing from their team’s scandal-tainted tour of England.
Test captain Salman Butt and bowlers Mohammad Aamer and Mohammad …

AP – Darren Aronofsky sees his newest film “Black Swan” as the companion piece to “The Wrestler.”
“Black Swan” made its world premiere as the opening film at the Venice Film Festival’s 67th edition on Wednesday, …