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Queen's death leaves Zimbabweans conflicted
Queen's death leaves Zimbabweans conflicted
Africa
by  AFP

On a chilly spring morning, a kilted piper playing the bagpipes led diplomats into Harare's stone-walled Anglican Cathedral for a thanksgiving service in honour of Queen Elizabeth II. But the turnout among the public was meagre -- numbering in the dozens -- and the flags that flew at half-mast were in honour not of Zimbabwe's former monarch but of an army brigadier who had died a week after her.

Ukraine says graves and 'torture centres' found in recaptured east
Ukraine says graves and 'torture centres' found in recaptured east
World
by  AFP

Ukraine said Friday it had counted some 450 graves at a site near Izyum after recapturing the strategic eastern city from the Russians, a discovery that Kyiv likened to atrocities seen in Bucha and Mariupol. Ukrainian officials said some 450 graves had been counted at a single site near Izyum.

Wave of Lebanon bank 'heists' to seize back frozen savings
Wave of Lebanon bank 'heists' to seize back frozen savings
Business and Economy
by  AFP

A man held up a Lebanese bank to withdraw his frozen savings Friday, the latest in a string of "depositor heists" in the crisis-hit country that have garnered wide public support. The raids are seen as mostly acts of desperation by Lebanese depositors who do not have criminal records and are trying to settle bills, drawing wide sympathy from the general public.