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Storks give up migrating to live on landfill in Spain
At a sprawling landfill near Madrid, hundreds of white storks dodge garbage trucks as they look for scraps of food among the mountains of multicoloured garbage bags. - Garbage 'buffet' - Soriano estimates that "about 70 percent of storks no longer migrate" to Africa, mainly because of the easily available food they can find in Spain in landfills.
Millions hungry but drought overlooked as Kenya prepares to vote
In the dust bowl of Kenya's drought-stricken north, the people of Purapul are edging closer to starvation, surviving on nothing but wild berries as their children waste away from hunger. At least 18 million people across the Horn of Africa are facing severe hunger as the worst drought in 40 years devastates the region.
Pope to visit Canada on 'penitential pilgrimage'
Pope Francis departs Sunday for a historic six-day visit to Canada where he is expected to ask forgiveness of Indigenous survivors of abuse committed at residential schools run by the Catholic Church.
Sri Lanka troops demolish main protest camp
Sri Lankan security forces demolished the main anti-government protest camp in the capital, evicting activists in a nighttime assault that raised international concern. In a statement, police said: "Police and security forces acted to clear protesters occupying the Presidential Secretariat, the main gate and the surroundings.
Five months on, anger and despair prevail in Donbas
Fatigue, despair and anger are prevalent in eastern Ukraine after five months of what volunteer humanitarian aid worker Oleksiy Yukov calls "a war without mercy that has gone crazy". A woman in Bakhmut on the frontline points at journalists, her face tense with anger, calling them "harbingers of misfortune" in the ruins of her pharmacy, destroyed by a missile she thinks was Ukrainian.
'Work to be done': aviation still overwhelmingly male
Rebecca Lutte regularly takes to the skies behind the controls of her RV-10 kit plane. Lutte, who is often joined in the air by her husband in the passenger seat, says that on several occasions air traffic controllers asked if her spouse was there in case of problems.
Asian markets mostly rise after Wall St rally, euro dips
Asian markets rose Friday following a third straight rally on Wall Street, as below-par US data eased expectations for a sharper pace of interest rate hikes. Still, Asian markets were on course to end the week on a positive note.
'Life after is more important': A child of Japan's baby hatch
Inside Koichi Miyatsu's blue, child-sized backpack are neatly folded cartoon-print sweatshirts and a pair of white sneakers -- all he has from before he was left at Japan's only "baby hatch". He was only a toddler when he was placed in the hatch at a hospital in southern Japan's Kumamoto, where children can be left anonymously by desperate family.
Japan plans September 27 state funeral for Abe
Japan will hold a state funeral for assassinated former prime minister Shinzo Abe on September 27, the government announced Friday, with foreign leaders expected to attend. Government spokesman Hirokazu Matsuno said Abe's record as Japan's longest-serving prime minister, his "truly praiseworthy" achievements, and his ties with foreign leaders made a state funeral appropriate.
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