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![Pet owners go private to jet 'fur babies' out of Hong Kong](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/28/e2/0b/Pet-owners-go-private-to-jet--fur-b-456744_small.jpg)
Pet owners go private to jet 'fur babies' out of H...
Bags packed and ready to go, Hong Kong house cats Teddy and Newman were all set for leaving on a private jet plane -- an expensive...
![Japan parliament adopts resolution on China rights issues](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/f9/44/79/Japan-parliament-adopts-resolution--411396_small.jpg)
Japan parliament adopts resolution on China rights...
Japan's parliament on Tuesday passed a rare resolution expressing concern about rights issues in China, including the treatment of...
![New York Times buys 'Wordle'](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/f1/4c/69/New-York-Times-buys--Wordle--127353_small.jpg)
New York Times buys 'Wordle'
The New York Times announced Monday it had bought Wordle, a phenomenon played by millions just four months after the game burst on...
![Trials to resume for Nicaragua government opponents: prosecution](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/df/87/bb/Trials-to-resume-for-Nicaragua-gove-331461_small.jpg)
Trials to resume for Nicaragua government opponent...
Criminal trials will resume this week for 46 opponents of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's government, including seven preside...
![Rescuers dig desperately in mud for Brazil flood survivors](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/62/a3/dd/Rescuers-dig-desperately-in-mud-for-442366_small.jpg)
Rescuers dig desperately in mud for Brazil flood s...
Knee-deep in the mud left by a horrific landslide in southeastern Brazil, dozens of rescue workers and volunteers raced Monday to...
![Pakistan police call for PUBG game ban after family massacre](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/8c/51/a2/Pakistan-police-call-for-PUBG-game--814361_small.jpg)
Pakistan police call for PUBG game ban after famil...
Pakistani police called Monday for the wildly popular PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) game to be banned after a teenager conf...
![Cyprus court quashes UK woman's 'false gang rape' conviction](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/ff/22/21/Cyprus-court-quashes-UK-woman-s--fa-633661_small.jpg)
Cyprus court quashes UK woman's 'false gang rape'...
The Cyprus Supreme Court on Monday overturned the conviction of a young British woman who had been found guilty of lying about bei...
![Hong Kong sees first 'seditious publication' jailings since handover](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/7b/e0/6a/Hong-Kong-sees-first--seditious-pub-434144_small.jpg)
Hong Kong sees first 'seditious publication' jaili...
Hong Kong's courts jailed two people for publishing seditious content on Monday, the first time the colonial-era law has been used...
![Cyprus church to suspend unjabbed priests](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/fd/03/98/Cyprus-church-to-suspend-unjabbed-p-144414_small.jpg)
Cyprus church to suspend unjabbed priests
The leader of the Cyprus Orthodox Church has warned he would suspend a dozen unvaccinated priests from Tuesday if they continue to...
![Thai fishing crews fear five-year recovery after oil spill](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/ca/02/95/Thai-fishing-crews-fear-five-year-r-443556_small.jpg)
Thai fishing crews fear five-year recovery after o...
The nightly armada of bobbing green lights from squid boats has all but disappeared near the site of an oil spill in the Gulf of T...
![In food world, debate rages about recipe plagiarism](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/03/50/71/In-food-world--debate-rages-about-r-133746_small.jpg)
In food world, debate rages about recipe plagiaris...
Pastry chef Nick Malgieri was scrolling through a food blog when he came upon a recipe for panettone, a puffy sweet bread that the...
!['Mark of the Antichrist': Greek holy men sow vaccine mistrust](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/6b/bb/6e/-Mark-of-the-Antichrist---Greek-hol-126153_small.jpg)
'Mark of the Antichrist': Greek holy men sow vacci...
In a remote monastery in northern Greece, an Orthodox abbot delivers a blunt message to dozens of his maskless worshippers: Covid-...
![Despite Covid, it's home or bust for China holiday travellers](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/84/d9/35/Despite-Covid--it-s-home-or-bust-fo-224560_small.jpg)
Despite Covid, it's home or bust for China holiday...
The pandemic prevented Shanghai schoolteacher Chen Hainan from returning to her hometown to reunite with family for the past two L...
![Stray bullets kill bystanders as US shootings soar](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/6f/2a/6a/Stray-bullets-kill-bystanders-as-US-131011_small.jpg)
Stray bullets kill bystanders as US shootings soar
A baby in his car seat. A man in bed. A girl walking with her mother: Stray bullets killed each of them days apart as surging gun...
![Erdogan threatens to punish Turkish media over 'harmful content'](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/41/d3/53/Erdogan-threatens-to-punish-Turkish-224441_small.jpg)
Erdogan threatens to punish Turkish media over 'ha...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened Turkish media with legal action over content "incompatible with national and mor...
![Tropical Storm Ana leaves trail of destruction in Madagascar](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/8b/d0/24/Tropical-Storm-Ana-leaves-trail-of--004116_small.jpg)
Tropical Storm Ana leaves trail of destruction in...
Residents in an inundated neighbourhood of Madagascar's capital Antananarivo are returning with dread to see what remains of their...
![Erdogan sacks statistics chief after record inflation](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/41/d3/53/Erdogan-sacks-statistics-chief-afte-455116_small.jpg)
Erdogan sacks statistics chief after record inflat...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sacked the head of the state statistics agency, according to a decree published Saturda...
![DR Congo court set for verdict in murder of UN experts](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/7a/3d/99/DR-Congo-court-set-for-verdict-in-m-861314_small.jpg)
DR Congo court set for verdict in murder of UN exp...
A military court in Democratic Republic of Congo Saturday is set to pronounce a long-awaited verdict in a mass trial over the 2017...
![Joe Exotic loses appeal, gets new 21-year jail term](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/ae/f6/6d/Joe-Exotic-loses-appeal--gets-new-2-344332_small.jpg)
Joe Exotic loses appeal, gets new 21-year jail ter...
Joe Exotic, the jailed former private zoo owner who shot to fame as the star of the "Tiger King" series, on Friday failed to convi...
![Minister blames 'reckless' opening of stadium gate for deadly Cameroon crush](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/b7/6b/47/Minister-blames--reckless--opening--300633_small.jpg)
Minister blames 'reckless' opening of stadium gate...
A stampede that led to the deaths of eight people outside an Africa Cup of Nations stadium was caused by a "reckless" decision to...
!['Reckless' opening of stadium gate caused deadly Cameroon crush: minister](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/b7/6b/47/-Reckless--opening-of-stadium-gate--014774_small.jpg)
'Reckless' opening of stadium gate caused deadly C...
A stampede that led to the deaths of eight people outside an Africa Cup of Nations stadium was caused by a "reckless" decision to...
![Alabama executes man after green light from US Supreme Court](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/25/13/c9/Alabama-executes-man-after-green-li-813336_small.jpg)
Alabama executes man after green light from US Sup...
An Alabama man convicted of murder was put to death by lethal injection after the US Supreme Court ruled the execution could go ah...
![US Coast Guard searches waters off Puerto Rico after boat capsizes](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/a0/c2/20/US-Coast-Guard-searches-waters-off--094164_small.jpg)
US Coast Guard searches waters off Puerto Rico aft...
US Coast Guard authorities searched waters off Puerto Rico Friday after a boat carrying more than 20 people capsized in the second...
![Repsol executives barred from leaving Peru over oil spill](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/a8/5f/66/Repsol-executives-barred-from-leavi-388486_small.jpg)
Repsol executives barred from leaving Peru over oi...
A judge in Peru on Friday barred four executives of Spanish energy giant Repsol from leaving the country for 18 months as investig...
![Trial opens in spectacular German museum jewel heist](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/ed/2e/f2/Trial-opens-in-spectacular-German-m-433351_small.jpg)
Trial opens in spectacular German museum jewel hei...
German prosecutors on Friday accused six young members of a notorious criminal family of carrying out a "purposefully prepared" he...
![Gunman arrested in Japan as doctor taken hostage dies](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/cc/f4/20/Gunman-arrested-in-Japan-as-doctor--166313_small.jpg)
Gunman arrested in Japan as doctor taken hostage d...
A Japanese gunman was arrested after he allegedly took a doctor hostage and shot him, police said Friday, with local media reporti...
![Six stand trial for spectacular German museum jewel heist](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/ed/2e/f2/Six-stand-trial-for-spectacular-Ger-164634_small.jpg)
Six stand trial for spectacular German museum jewe...
Six members of a notorious criminal gang go on trial in Germany on Friday over a spectacular heist in which 18th-century jewels we...
![Biden promises to put Black woman on Supreme Court for first time](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/ef/1d/a0/Biden-promises-to-put-Black-woman-o-043644_small.jpg)
Biden promises to put Black woman on Supreme Court...
President Joe Biden said Thursday he will nominate a Black woman to the US Supreme Court for the first time in history, filling th...
![Indonesia jails poachers over killing of 5 Sumatran elephants](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/f1/b3/b0/Indonesia-jails-poachers-over-killi-814203_small.jpg)
Indonesia jails poachers over killing of 5 Sumatra...
Nearly a dozen poachers were jailed by an Indonesian court Thursday over the 2020 killing of five critically endangered Sumatran e...
![70 dead from Tropical Storm Ana in southern Africa](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/ae/a1/f6/70-dead-from-Tropical-Storm-Ana-in--281532_small.jpg)
70 dead from Tropical Storm Ana in southern Africa
The death toll from a storm that struck three southern African countries rose to 70 on Thursday as emergency teams battled to repa...
![Prince Andrew seeking jury trial in sex assault case in New York](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/3f/27/11/Prince-Andrew-seeking-jury-trial-in-221633_small.jpg)
Prince Andrew seeking jury trial in sex assault ca...
Britain's Prince Andrew is seeking a jury trial to clear his name in the sexual assault civil complaint he is fighting in New York...
![Workers in Peru race to reopen Machu Picchu after floods](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/94/a9/0d/Workers-in-Peru-race-to-reopen-Mach-264411_small.jpg)
Workers in Peru race to reopen Machu Picchu after...
Teams of workers raced Wednesday to clear mud and debris from the only transport access to the jewel of Peru's tourism sector, Mac...
![Liberal US Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer to retire](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/1e/fa/39/Liberal-US-Supreme-Court-justice-St-212240_small.jpg)
Liberal US Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer to...
Stephen Breyer, one of three liberal justices on the US Supreme Court, plans to retire, paving the way for President Joe Biden to...
![Stephen Breyer: pragmatic pillar of US Supreme Court](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/89/2b/dc/Stephen-Breyer--pragmatic-pillar-of-432622_small.jpg)
Stephen Breyer: pragmatic pillar of US Supreme Cou...
Stephen Breyer, the oldest justice on the US Supreme Court and the senior member of the bench's liberal-leaning wing, boasts a rec...
![US Coast Guard finds one body in search for dozens after boat capsizes](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/80/46/92/US-Coast-Guard-finds-one-body-in-se-424242_small.jpg)
US Coast Guard finds one body in search for dozens...
US Coast Guard crews searching for 39 people reported missing when a boat capsized off the coast of Florida have found one body so...
![Syria Kurds retake prison, ending six-day IS attack](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/b3/3d/91/Syria-Kurds-retake-prison--ending-s-340011_small.jpg)
Syria Kurds retake prison, ending six-day IS attac...
Kurdish forces on Wednesday retook full control of a prison in northeast Syria where Islamic State group jihadists had been holed...
![Kurds advance on jihadists in besieged Syria jail: monitor](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/b3/3d/91/Kurds-advance-on-jihadists-in-besie-534113_small.jpg)
Kurds advance on jihadists in besieged Syria jail:...
Kurdish forces slowly advanced Wednesday inside a Syria prison where jihadists have been holed up for six days, in violence that h...
![Covid-hit Australian warship delivers disaster aid to Tonga](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/0c/23/27/Covid-hit-Australian-warship-delive-377841_small.jpg)
Covid-hit Australian warship delivers disaster aid...
A coronavirus-hit Australian warship docked in Tonga on Wednesday, delivering desperately needed aid to the volcano-and-tsunami-st...
![Poland's pigeon fanciers eye moving up the pecking order](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/84/0f/21/Poland-s-pigeon-fanciers-eye-moving-960509_small.jpg)
Poland's pigeon fanciers eye moving up the pecking...
Opening one of his many cages, Michal Trojczak watches proudly as more than 70 dusty-blue pigeons take flight, soaring high above...