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By Santi Sánchez Mihail Kogălniceanu Air Base, Romania, Sep 27 (EFE).- At 2 a.m. on Aug. 16, the words “alpha scramble” jolted two Spanish F-18 pilots from standby duty at Romania’s Mihail Kogălniceanu Air Base, on the Black Sea coast just a few kilometers from Ukraine. Unlike the daily drills...
Beijing, Sep 27 (EFE).- Giant pandas Ping Ping and Fu Shuang left China on Sunday for the United States, where they will begin a 10-year stay at Zoo Atlanta under a scientific cooperation agreement that continues Beijing’s long-running “panda diplomacy.” The pair, both born in 2020 at the Chengdu Research...
By Antonio Torres del Cerro Paris, Sep 25 (EFE).- From Boulevard Saint-Michel, just steps from Notre-Dame, 32-year-old Sarah gently cradles her three-month-old daughter. The Parisian was among the first to arrive along the final stretch of Pope Leo XIV’s route on Friday, hoping for one thing above all: a blessing...
By Edgar Gutiérrez Batoulatay, Lebanon, Sep 25 (EFE).- As children return to classrooms in southern Lebanon, the sound of school bells competes with Israeli artillery fire, while damaged schools, overcrowded classrooms and trauma from months of conflict threaten the future of thousands of students. The laughter of children returning to...
Rome, Sep 25 (EFE).- Italian tennis player Jannik Sinner, currently ranked number one in the world, announced Friday pulling out of the Beijing ATP 500 tournament, known as the China Open, which begins on Sep.30, as he has not yet recovered from his right knee injury. «I am very sorry...
By Rostyslav Averchuk Lviv (EFE).- The ongoing Ukrainian counter-offensive near Lyman is disrupting Russian plans to seize control of the entire Donetsk region and its key bastions, Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, while the Ukrainian situation on the front continues to improve. The village of Shandryholove, located north of Lyman, became the...
Kathmandu/Beijing, Sep 9 (EFE).- Two weeks after a surge of ice, water, and rocks swept through the Himalayas, Nepal is still searching for thousands of missing people, while neighboring Tibet has restored key infrastructure and begun returning evacuees home. The disaster has left sharply different recovery scenarios on either side...
By Guillermo Benavides Beijing, Sep 9 (EFE).- Seventy-five years after Chinese troops entered Lhasa, the battle over Tibet’s history has expanded beyond textbooks and monuments into artificial intelligence, with Chinese AI models largely reproducing Beijing’s official account while refusing or restricting responses to politically sensitive questions. On Sep. 9, 1951,...
New York City, US, Sep 9 (EFE).- Defending US Open champion Carlos Alcaraz was eliminated early Wednesday morning from the tournament by American Ben Shelton in a five-set quarterfinal thriller that lasted four hours and 28 minutes. The final score was 6-7(5), 6-1, 6-3, 1-6, 7-6(7) in an epic match...
By Indira Guerrero New Delhi/Kathmandu, Sep 7 (EFE).- Thirteen days after devastating floods buried Nepal’s north under mud, rocks and debris, Australian rescue expert Arnold Dix, known as “Tunnel Man,” is digging for signs of life underground, insisting there is a chance to defy the odds. “This is completely different...
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By Jaime León Tehran, Sep 7 (EFE).- Six months after becoming Iran’s supreme leader following the assassination of his father, Mojtaba Khamenei has yet to make a single public appearance, with authorities citing security concerns as analysts point to a more collective leadership structure in the Islamic Republic. When Mojtaba...
By Judith Mora Birmingham (EFE).- Amid growing allegations of irregular funding, Reform United Kingdom’s grassroots supporters remain steadfast in their backing of their leader, Nigel Farage. They accuse the political opposition, the authorities and the press of scheming to halt his rise. «The establishment is out to get him; they’re...
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