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In this file photo taken on April 24, 2019, Sudanese protesters sit in front of a recently painted mural during a demonstration near the army headquarters in the capital Khartoum. -AFP
Leave our graffiti on the walls, say Sudan protesters
KHARTOUM - The graffiti that symbolized Sudan's uprising are being painted over across the capital Khartoum, protest leaders complained Wednesday, urging the military authorities to stop their whitewashing.The Alliance for Freedom and Change that led the months-long protest movement that brought down longtime ruler Omar Al-Bashir said the "enemies of the revolution" had been systematically erasing murals."We see this as an ugly act and a pathetic attempt to suppress the beauty, the letter and the spirit of the revolution," it said a statement.In recent days some of the colorful murals and slogans that appeared on the walls of the capital during the early stages of the protest that ousted Omar Al-Bashir were painted over.Together with music, these murals had become a...
August 14, 2019

Leave our graffiti on the walls, say Sudan protesters

Madeleine Riffaud, 94, speaks about the liberation of Paris in 1944 during an interview with the AFP at her apartment in Paris, on July 26, 2019. -AFP
'I put two bullets in German officer's head' recalls French Resistance heroine
PARIS - One sunny summer Sunday in 1944 Madeleine Riffaud hopped off her bicycle and followed a German officer who was taking a stroll on one of the most picturesque bridges over the River Seine in Paris.He was taking in the view of Louvre and the Tuileries gardens when Riffaud, then just 19 and a trainee midwife, shooed a little boy away and took out her pistol."It happened all very quickly," she told AFP. "I didn't want to shoot him in the back... I wanted him to see me, so he would have time to get his weapon out."He turned and I put two bullets in his head. He dropped like a stone. He didn't suffer."It wasn't done with hate, if anything I was pained about having to do it," she said, her eyes closed as she remembered the moment.Riffaud, now 94,...
August 14, 2019

'I put two bullets in German officer's head' recalls French Resistance heroine

Ruins of Carthage at Baths of Antoninus, column and fragment of the wall. –Courtesy photo
Battle of Carthage: Tunisia demolishes homes to protect ancient site
CARTHAGE, TUNISIA - Saber Sessi was working the night shift at a municipality vehicle depot in Carthage, Tunisia, when he signed off on five bulldozers in the early hours of July 9.Unbeknownst to him, the intended target for those bulldozers was his home."I opened the gate, I handed (the keys) over and then I saw them drive around to my house," said Sessi, 50, who lived beside the depot in the working-class neighborhood of Mohamed Ali, in the northern suburbs of the Tunisian capital.Sessi's house and nine other buildings were razed to the ground that night in a government operation to clear illegal homes from the area that used to be a battleground for gladiators in the Roman Empire - the Circus of Carthage.Today, two-thirds of Carthage - about 430 square km - is...
August 14, 2019

Battle of Carthage: Tunisia demolishes homes to protect ancient site

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'Hobbs & Shaw' loses speed but still leads N.American box office
LOS ANGELES - "Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw" slowed a bit but still finished in first place at North American theaters this weekend, taking in $25.3 million, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations said Monday.That was a drop-off from the previous weekend's $60 million, but was enough to keep the Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Jason Statham action film from Universal Pictures ahead of new Lionsgate release "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.""Scary Stories," based on the children's horror books and produced by Guillermo del Toro, drew $20.9 million for the three-day weekend.It tells the story of small-town teenagers who are tormented by a book they removed from a haunted house in 1968.In third place, in its fourth week out, was...
August 13, 2019

'Hobbs & Shaw' loses speed but still leads N.American box office

Journalists at work at AFP in 1946, two years after it was reclaimed from the pro-Nazi regime during the uprising that liberated Paris from German occupation. -AFP
AFP established in tumult of 1944 Paris uprising
PARIS - Agence France-Presse was created in the tumult of World War II by a band of journalists who stormed a pro-Nazi newsroom and took over as Paris was in revolt.It was August 20, 1944, the day after Resistance leader Henri Rol-Tanguy had called Parisians into action against the Nazis who had occupied their city for four years.The group of eight met at 7:00 am outside a dilapidated building near the stock exchange on Place de la Bourse, in the heart of Paris, where the French Information Office (OFI) was installed.It had been the home of Havas, the world's first international news agency that was nationalized by the pro-Nazi regime in 1940 to set up the OFI."It had become an agency of German propaganda," one of the eight, Gilles Martinet, recalled in a radio interview in...
August 12, 2019

AFP established in tumult of 1944 Paris uprising

In this file photograph taken on August 25, 1944, Parisians welcome soldiers of the French 2nd Armored Division as they arrive in Paris,  after the battle for the Liberation of Paris during World War II. Part of the great history of France, the week of the liberation of Paris 75 years ago, marked by the uprising against the German occupiers, was also that of small smiling or tragic stories. -AFP
75 years ago, Paris freed from Nazi occupation
PARIS - In August 1944 ordinary Parisians rose up, led by resistance fighters supported by workers, women and even priests to throw off the Nazi yoke after four years.Following six days of street clashes, random attacks and armed barricades, they were joined by French and US soldiers and victory was confirmed."Paris outraged! Paris broken! Paris martyred!" General Charles de Gaulle declared outside the city hall on August 25."But Paris liberated! Liberated by itself. Liberated by its people."The landing of tens of thousands of American, British and Canadian troops on the beaches of Normandy on June 6 launched the final pushback against Adolf Hitler's forces.After being bogged down in Normandy for weeks, the Allies were finally able to advance eastwards, taking...
August 12, 2019

75 years ago, Paris freed from Nazi occupation

 Members of K-Pop band, BTS perform on ABC's 'Good Morning America' show in Central Park in New York on May 15. -Reuters
K-Pop's BTS goes on holiday, asks fans for privacy
SEOUL - South Korean boy band, BTS, will take their first long holiday in six years after a series of global hits, their managers said, asking fans to respect the band's privacy if they see them in "a chance encounter".The band, which has led a wave of Korean pop music, crowned their global reach with three No. 1 albums on the Billboard chart in less than a year, a 2019 Grammy nomination and concerts from Los Angeles to Paris.The seven members will take their first extended vacation since the band's debut in 2013, managers Big Hit Entertainment said on Sunday."This period of rest will be an opportunity for the members of BTS, who have relentless(ly) driven themselves toward their goal since their debut, to recharge and prepare to present themselves anew as musicians...
August 12, 2019

K-Pop's BTS goes on holiday, asks fans for privacy

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In three shaken US cities, Lady Gaga tries to channel 'fury into hope'
NEW YORK - In El Paso, Texas, there are books for third-grade students, many of whom have none at home. Disabled students in Dayton, Ohio, will get bouncy chairs to help calm them for learning. Science kits will go to fifth graders in Gilroy, California.Those are just three of a series of local classroom initiatives that Grammy-winning singer Lady Gaga has pledged to fund as students in those shaken communities, the latest U.S. cities to endure mass shootings, go back to school this week.Her aim is to bring a measure of hope to places devastated by an extraordinary week of mass shootings in a country numbed by a steady beat of news about gun violence."I want to channel my confusion, frustration, and fury into hope," Gaga said on Facebook, where she announced the donation from her...
August 12, 2019

In three shaken US cities, Lady Gaga tries to channel 'fury into hope'

 In this file photo taken on July 22, Martina Caruso,
Italy's top female chef mixes it up with flavors from a tiny island
SALINA, ITALY - Award-winning young Italian chef Martina Caruso's love of food is in her blood -- and she has the tattoos to prove it.At just 29, Caruso has become a hit in the world of haute cuisine by using the sunshine flavors of her tiny volcanic island of Salina and giving a modern twist to traditional recipes.Earlier this year, she was named Italy's female chef of 2019 -- just three years after she became the youngest Italian to win a Michelin star at the family-run Signum restaurant and hotel on Salina.The flavors from the idyllic island infuse Caruso's dishes and her favorite ingredients are even tattooed on her arm: garlic, oil, hot pepper, octopus and the sea.From a young age she watched her father Michele, who as Signum's chef was devoted to traditional...
August 10, 2019

Italy's top female chef mixes it up with flavors from a tiny island

Woodstock producer Michael Lang (L) and Woodstock photographer Henry Diltz pose during a photo exhibit that celebrates the 50th anniversary of Woodstock in New York, on Friday.  -Reuters
Woodstock producer 'pretty bummed' at missed bid to recreate 1969 activism
NEW YORK - The man behind the failed Woodstock 50 anniversary festival said on Friday he was "pretty bummed" at losing out on a chance to encourage people to take action on global warming.Michael Lang, who was also one of the producers of the 1969 Woodstock music festival, said he had hoped that the new event would recreate the activism of the late 1960s."The reason to do it really was to engage people in activism and the efforts to stop global warming, which I think is probably the greatest threat to humanity that we've seen in our lifetime," Lang told Reuters Television.Lang was visiting a 50th anniversary Woodstock photo exhibit at the Morrison Hotel Gallery in New York following the cancellation last month of a planned three-day event to mark the festival that...
August 10, 2019

Woodstock producer 'pretty bummed' at missed bid to recreate 1969 activism

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