Dinosaur-themed birthday decorations still hang on the walls of Safitri Puspa Rani's Indonesian home, where the family celebrated their youngest son's birthday last year.. "I whispered in his ears: 'The medicine is coming, please hang in there a little bit more'," Rani said, crying in her home in West Java province as she recalled the final days of her son's life.
Night falls over Ynys Enlli.. "It's put Ynys Enlli on the map," says Caroline Jones, administrator for the Bardsey Island Trust, which manages the site.
Without firing a gun or shedding any blood, Odile de Vasselot, Odette Niles and Michele Agniel were among the thousands of women who took part in the resistance against the Nazi German occupation of France during World War II. Their acts -- which included ferrying messages across enemy lines, smuggling packages and helping Resistance fighters and Allied airmen escape -- carried the risk of imprisonment, torture and even death.. - Michele Agniel - Agniel was the 14-year-old daughter of a World War I veteran when the armistice was signed in the summer of 1940, beginning Germany's occupation of France.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Thursday for the G20 to bridge differences over Ukraine, telling the opening of a meeting in New Delhi that global governance has "failed".. "The experience of the last few years -– financial crisis, climate change, pandemic, terrorism and wars -- clearly shows that global governance has failed," Modi said in a recorded statement opening the meeting of G20 foreign ministers.
Vietnam's rubber stamp National Assembly voted in a new president on Thursday, who immediately pledged to crack down on corruption following the dramatic resignation of his predecessor in an anti-graft campaign.. Members of the National Assembly elected 52-year-old Thuong -- the sole candidate -- for a term running until 2026, following the dramatic resignation of Nguyen Xuan Phuc as part of an anti-corruption drive.
For decades after the end of World War II, the thousands of women who took part in France's resistance against Nazi German occupation in WWII rarely got a mention in the history books.. - Civilian resistance - Women accounted for between 12 and 25 percent of all Resistance members, according to Laurent Douzou, a history professor at Lumiere Lyon-11 university.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine was set to dominate Thursday's meeting of the world's top diplomats in New Delhi, with hosts India labouring to avoid the discord that ended its last G20 meeting.. India's longstanding security ties with Russia have put the host of Thursday's meeting in an awkward diplomatic position after refusing to condemn the invasion over the past year.
Internet privacy company Proton can spot attacks on democracy in a country before they hit the headlines, simply by watching demand for its services explode, its chief told AFP. When Russia blocked access to independent news sites following its invasion of Ukraine a year ago, the small company which provides virtual private networks (VPNs) saw "a 9,000 percent increase in sign-ups over just a period of a few days", company chief executive Andy Yen said in an interview last week.. The Proton chief, who grew up in Taiwan and says the Chinese threat hanging over the democratic island coloured his world view, acknowledged the company's mission had taken on added urgency since Russia's invasion of its neighbour.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un urged government officials to make sure the country meets its grain production goals "without fail", state media said Thursday, amid reports Pyongyang's food shortage is worsening.. Kim "ardently called for attaining this year's grain production goal without fail", on Wednesday, the last day of a key meeting by the ruling party, the country's official Korean Central News Agency reported.
A major power outage crippled several of Argentina's provinces on Wednesday, including parts of Buenos Aires, plunging millions of people into darkness for at least two hours as summer temperatures soared, officials said.. Argentina's undersecretary for energy Santiago Yanotti told the C5N network that power demand had soared due to the high temperatures.
