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Rachel Fournier has a brain tumor and has just had her request for medical assistance to help her die granted

Controversial legislation

Canadians are choosing when to die, often with a smile

The new barbed wire border fence on the closed border between Finland and Russia

'Hybdrid warfare'

Economy not Russia is big fear on Finland's closed frontier

The Alexandria tramway network began operating in 1863 and is one of only a few tram systems in the world that use double-deck cars

Inaugurated in 1863

Alexandria bids farewell to historic tram in latest urban upheaval

Iran's security chief Ali Larijani said progress has been made on talks with the United States

Ideological loyalty with pragmatic statecraft

The veteran 'insider' shaping Iran's nuclear policy

Seagulls are omnipresent in Istanbul

Unfortunate flight

Nearly an own gull! CPR performed on bird at Turkey football match

Andrew is being investigated by police

Widening Epstein scandal

UK govt says will release files on 'rude' ex-prince Andrew

A Light-Up C-3PO Head from the 1980 movie 'Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back' is one of the top lots that will go under the hammer

'Jaws' harpoon gun and 'Star Wars' treasures lead LA film and TV auction

In one of the worst hit areas of Juiz de Fora, the suburb of Parque Burnier, 12 homes were "swept away" in a "massive landslide", Major Demetrius Goulart of the fire brigade told AFP

Rescuers search for missing after deluge kills 30 in Brazil

Tennis Australia CEO Craig Tiley is leaving to run the US Tennis Association

'Transformative' leader

Australian Open chief Tiley steps down to take top US job

Bodo/Glimt players celebrate after their stunning Champions League win against Inter Milan at San Siro

Remarkable upset

Bodo/Glimt knock Inter out of Champions League as Newcastle, Atletico reach last 16

El Tunco beach has become the symbol of a tourism revival in El Salvador, which has shed its gangland image by dint of mass arrests of suspected gang members

Thronged with tourists

Crime capital no more: El Salvador tourism boosted by Bukele

US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr is one of the defendants named in the lawsuit

Contrary to science?

15 states sue Trump administration over child vaccine policy

Paramount Skydance's sweetened offer for Warner Bros. Discovery was the latest instalment of a bidding war set to reshape Hollywood and US media

Warner Bros. opens door to Paramount as bidding war heats up

The UN General Assembly passed a resolution saying it was committed to 'the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of Ukraine'

General Assembly

US abstains in UN vote voicing support for Ukraine

Puerto Vallarta had previously remained almost immune to the daily violence in other parts of Jalisco state

Puerto Vallarta: the Mexican paradise in flames over the killing of 'El Mencho'

Laurence des Cars has been under mounting pressure

String of scandals

Louvre president hands in resignation to Macron: Elysee

More than two feet of snow blanketed much of the region

Widespread chaos

Northeast US faces power cuts and school closures after snowstorm

Many Lebanese towns and have already been damaged in recent Israeli strikes targeting the Hezbollah militia, and Beirut fear more to come in the event of US strikes against Iran

Following attacks on Hezbollah

Lebanon fears Israeli strikes if Iran situation escalates

England captain Harry Brook changes his shoe on his way to a sparkling century against Pakistan

'Proper cricketing'

World-class Brook played 'the best innings of his life' - Afridi

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is among the groups arguing against Israel's order to cease their operations in Gaza and the West Bank

Catastrophic consequences

Aid groups petition Israel's top court to halt ban on Gaza, West Bank ops

The WTO had ruled in China's favour last month

US appeals WTO ruling in dispute by China over clean energy subsidies

Guadalajara is looking ahead nervously to the World Cup this summer, in which it will host four games

Co-hosting with US and Canada

Guadalajara: World Cup host city rocked by narco violence

England captain Harry Brook celebrates his century against Pakistan

Briiliant Brook 100 puts England into T20 World Cup semi-finals

The US Supreme Court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump lacks authority to impose levies under a 1977 law

Following Supreme Court decision

US told EU it 'stands' by tariff deal: trade chief

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (C), is flanked by EU chiefs Antonio Costa and Ursula von der Leyen during a Kyiv news conference

No immediate end in sight

Zelensky says Ukraine unbroken after 4 years, but Russia vows to fight on

One of the satellite images released by Maxar Technologies on in 2022 which helped rebut Russian assertions that dead bodies in civilian clothing found in Bucha had appeared there after Russian forces retreated from the devastated Ukrainian town

Supporting on-the-ground reporting

How AFP has used data analysis to cover the Ukraine war

Abnormal levels of groundwater and soil pollution were detected near a 3M site in Zwijndrecht, outside the port city of Antwerp, in 2021

Residents demand $35 million in damages

Post-it maker 3M on trial in Belgium over 'forever' chemicals

The organisations say that they collectively support or implement more than half of all food assistance in Gaza

Cultural remains

Gazans salvage ancient books in mosque library damaged by war

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