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Cypriot carob growers harvest their 'black gold'
Cypriot carob growers harvest their 'black gold'
by  AFP

Christos Charalambous might be 79 but he is several metres up a carob tree, harvesting a fruit known as "black gold" on the island of Cyprus as his grandson works below. "Carob has been known as the black gold of Cyprus because many farmers used to have carob... it was the main occupation of the villagers," said Stavros Glafkou Charalambous, from the Cooperative Carob Marketing Federation.

Ukraine is 'not Nazi', Holocaust survivors tell Putin
Ukraine is 'not Nazi', Holocaust survivors tell Putin
by  AFP

Roman Gerstein, an 83-year-old Ukrainian Holocaust survivor, has a blunt riposte for Kremlin justifications of its invasion: "There are no Nazis here." Another Holocaust survivor, 84-year-old Felix Mamut, recalled how before World War II his extended family included his great-grandmother, her 16 children, and a host of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

'You cannot survive': Inflation bites as Thai election looms
'You cannot survive': Inflation bites as Thai election looms
by  AFP

Sheltering from rain near Bangkok's Grand Palace, scores of unemployed Thais queue alongside homeless people waiting for free meals as 14-year-high inflation sends living costs soaring -- causing a headache for the government ahead of a looming general election.

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