Strawberry farms threaten Spanish wetlands
Standing in the middle of a stretch of land surrounded by dunes and pine forest, Juan Romero examines the cracked ground then stares at the dusty horizon.
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Vomit, fighter planes and donkeys: Cannes highs and lows
No clear frontrunner has emerged in the race for the Palme d'Or, to be announced on Saturday, but the Cannes Film Festival has certainly delivered some memorable scenes in its 75th year.
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'Fang-tastic': Dracula fans in UK set new world record
Author Bram Stoker only had one bloodthirsty creature of the undead in mind when a visit to the seaside Yorkshire town of Whitby inspired "Dracula".
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Asitha rips through Bangladesh as Sri Lanka win Test series
Asitha Fernando finished with a career-best 6-51 as Sri Lanka thrashed hosts Bangladesh by 10 wickets in the second Test on Friday to win the series 1-0.
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Russia pounds Ukraine's Kharkiv, presses Donbas assault
Ukraine's second city Kharkiv on Friday reeled from a deadly onslaught of Russian shelling as Moscow pressed its offensive to capture key points in the eastern Donbas region with more bombing of residential areas.
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'Finding food': Russia severs link to Ukraine's besieged east
A Ukrainian coal miner, completely starved of information, thought he might be able to reason with Russian forces blocking the last good road running out of his war-scarred city on the eastern front.
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'Princess of the Wall of Death': Indonesian daredevil defies gravity and stereotypes
Karmila Purba revs her motorbike under the lights of an Indonesian night carnival and rides up horizontally inside a wooden cylinder called Satan's Barrel, drawing gasps from spectators looking down into the drum.
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Military redeployment turns Chile's Mapuche areas into powder keg
With military troops once again patrolling their ancestral lands, members of the Mapuche indigenous community in Chile's south are angry.
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Asian markets track Wall St higher, tech fuels Hong Kong rally
Asian markets climbed Friday following a strong performance on Wall Street, with Hong Kong leading the way as forecast-beating earnings reports by tech titans Alibaba and Baidu sent their shares soaring.
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Shock over Brazil police 'torture, executions' in drug raid
Bodies from a Rio de Janeiro police raid that left more than 20 alleged drug traffickers dead show signs of torture and summary execution, a senior lawyer said on Thursday, the latest incident of suspected police brutality to shock the South American nation.
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