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![China restricts activists' social media ahead of Olympics](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/af/e0/fc/China-restricts-activists--social-m-774741_small.jpg)
China restricts activists' social media ahead of O...
Human rights activists and some academics in China have had their WeChat messaging app accounts restricted in recent weeks, multip...
![New Mexico City airport nears take-off, with few flights](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/f3/92/77/New-Mexico-City-airport-nears-take--532228_small.jpg)
New Mexico City airport nears take-off, with few f...
Two months before it is due to open with just a handful of confirmed flights, workers are racing to finish a new international air...
![Second NY cop dies after gun battle in Harlem](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/30/74/4a/Second-NY-cop-dies-after-gun-battle-324604_small.jpg)
Second NY cop dies after gun battle in Harlem
A New York policeman wounded in an exchange of gunfire last week died Tuesday, raising the toll in the tragedy to two, officials s...
![Microsoft sees strong earnings on cloud computing](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/49/be/9f/Microsoft-sees-strong-earnings-on-c-118645_small.jpg)
Microsoft sees strong earnings on cloud computing
Microsoft beat market expectations Tuesday with strong quarterly performance in cloud computing and software, still benefitting fr...
![Dozens of people missing after boat capsizes off Florida: US Coast Guard](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/80/46/92/Dozens-of-people-missing-after-boat-187834_small.jpg)
Dozens of people missing after boat capsizes off F...
The US Coast Guard launched a search for 39 people reported missing when a boat capsized off the coast of Florida in a "suspected...
![African football boss blames closed gate for Cup of Nations tragedy](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/b7/6b/47/African-football-boss-blames-closed-415060_small.jpg)
African football boss blames closed gate for Cup o...
African football supremo Patrice Motsepe says an "inexplicable" decision to keep an entry gate closed was responsible for the dead...
![US judge upholds conviction of drug lord 'El Chapo' Guzman](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/4f/13/1f/US-judge-upholds-conviction-of-drug-171213_small.jpg)
US judge upholds conviction of drug lord 'El Chapo...
A US appeals court on Tuesday upheld the conviction of Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, rejecting his request for a ne...
![US sues to block Lockheed Martin-Aerojet deal](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/f4/d6/0d/US-sues-to-block-Lockheed-Martin-Ae-111233_small.jpg)
US sues to block Lockheed Martin-Aerojet deal
US authorities announced Tuesday they are suing to block Lockheed Martin's $4.4 billion takeover of Aerojet Rocketdyne, asserting...
![Iran jails French 'tourist' for eight years for spying](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/4a/d2/df/Iran-jails-French--tourist--for-eig-430131_small.jpg)
Iran jails French 'tourist' for eight years for sp...
An Iranian court has sentenced a French man to eight years in prison on spying charges, his family and Paris-based lawyer said Tue...
![Burkina Faso: from popular uprising to military coup](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/13/b3/78/Burkina-Faso--from-popular-uprising-224611_small.jpg)
Burkina Faso: from popular uprising to military co...
As Burkina Faso's junta consolidates its position after seizing power in a coup, we look at the recent history of the troubled Wes...
![Norway says putting 'tangible demands' to Taliban at aid talks](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/5e/bc/34/Norway-says-putting--tangible-deman-346031_small.jpg)
Norway says putting 'tangible demands' to Taliban...
Norway said it would press the Taliban with "tangible demands" during talks in Oslo on Tuesday, the last day of the hardline Islam...
![Norway says will put 'tangible demands' on Taliban](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/5e/bc/34/Norway-says-will-put--tangible-dema-113411_small.jpg)
Norway says will put 'tangible demands' on Taliban
Norway said it will put "tangible demands" on the Taliban during talks in Oslo on Tuesday, the last day of the hardline Islamists'...
![Major football stadium tragedies](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/81/2b/70/Major-football-stadium-tragedies-811655_small.jpg)
Major football stadium tragedies
The crush that killed eight people and left dozens injured prior to Monday's Africa Cup of Nations last 16 match between hosts Cam...
![Istanbul permits first flight after snow pummels Mediterranean](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/4c/1a/d3/Istanbul-permits-first-flight-after-411166_small.jpg)
Istanbul permits first flight after snow pummels M...
Europe's busiest airport in Istanbul welcomed its first flight in 24 hours on Tuesday and Greece declared a public holiday as the...
![Scandal-plagued Credit Suisse warns profits to take hit](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/d3/7e/36/Scandal-plagued-Credit-Suisse-warns-326120_small.jpg)
Scandal-plagued Credit Suisse warns profits to tak...
Credit Suisse warned Tuesday that litigation would hit fourth-quarter profits while its investment bank faces a loss, in the lates...
![Lab monkeys escape after US road crash, one on the loose](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/c1/a8/2d/Lab-monkeys-escape-after-US-road-cr-196736_small.jpg)
Lab monkeys escape after US road crash, one on the...
The crash in Pennsylvania of a truck transporting 100 monkeys to a laboratory allowed four of them to escape, triggering a search...
![Thousands mourn Buddhist monk who brought mindfulness to the West](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/2f/a1/5e/Thousands-mourn-Buddhist-monk-who-b-481986_small.jpg)
Thousands mourn Buddhist monk who brought mindfuln...
Thousands of mourners packed a temple in Vietnam's Buddhist heartland early Sunday to pay tribute to the late Vietnamese monk and...
![Natalie Portman, French firm bring home the faux bacon](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/0c/bb/5f/Natalie-Portman--French-firm-bring--206142_small.jpg)
Natalie Portman, French firm bring home the faux b...
Vegan bacon sizzles on a pan in the office of a French startup whose quest to produce the "holy grail" of the growing plant-based...
![New Zealand outbreak forces PM Ardern to scrap wedding plans](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/77/45/56/New-Zealand-outbreak-forces-PM-Arde-998691_small.jpg)
New Zealand outbreak forces PM Ardern to scrap wed...
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was Sunday forced to call off her own wedding as she tightened Covid-19 restrictions in...
![Coalition denies Yemen prison air strike that killed 70](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/d1/77/6b/Coalition-denies-Yemen-prison-air-s-662264_small.jpg)
Coalition denies Yemen prison air strike that kill...
The Saudi-led coalition on Saturday denied carrying out an air strike on a prison in Yemen's rebel-held north that aid groups said...
![New arrests, but even more unanswered questions over Haitian president's slaying](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/e1/50/a9/New-arrests--but-even-more-unanswer-414498_small.jpg)
New arrests, but even more unanswered questions ov...
More than six months after Haitian President Jovenel Moise was assassinated by a hit squad of mercenaries, there have been a flurr...
!['Proud' Tongans determined to rebuild battered homeland after eruption](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/50/99/d7/-Proud--Tongans-determined-to-rebui-262143_small.jpg)
'Proud' Tongans determined to rebuild battered hom...
Tongans said they were determined to rebuild their battered homeland in the wake of last week's devastating eruption and tsunami a...
![Pakistan proud of pig-to-human heart transplant pioneer](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/g0/40/88/Pakistan-proud-of-pig-to-human-hear-226142_small.jpg)
Pakistan proud of pig-to-human heart transplant pi...
Friends and former classmates of the Pakistan-born surgeon behind the world's first pig-to-human heart transplant say they earmark...
![Rains cause flood damage in Peru's Machu Picchu](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/d7/03/a6/Rains-cause-flood-damage-in-Peru-s--740392_small.jpg)
Rains cause flood damage in Peru's Machu Picchu
Strong rains in the town of Machu Picchu, next to the Inca citadel with the same name that is a major tourist draw, washed away ra...
![Anti-abortion activists look to Supreme Court at annual march](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/4b/52/32/Anti-abortion-activists-look-to-Sup-727492_small.jpg)
Anti-abortion activists look to Supreme Court at a...
Thousands of people attended an annual anti-abortion rally Friday with their hopes raised this year that the conservative-majority...
![Air strike on Yemen prison leaves more than 200 dead or wounded](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/10/35/90/Air-strike-on-Yemen-prison-leaves-a-343002_small.jpg)
Air strike on Yemen prison leaves more than 200 de...
More than 200 people were killed or wounded in an air strike on a prison and at least three children died in a separate bombardmen...
![Paris outdoor booksellers eager to turn page on Covid](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/83/51/ba/Paris-outdoor-booksellers-eager-to--614766_small.jpg)
Paris outdoor booksellers eager to turn page on Co...
The open-air booksellers of Paris, a fixture along the banks of the Seine for centuries, are seeing their numbers dwindle after tw...
![Afghan NGO women 'threatened with shooting' for not wearing burqa](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/c0/cd/4a/Afghan-NGO-women--threatened-with-s-555511_small.jpg)
Afghan NGO women 'threatened with shooting' for no...
The Taliban's religious police have threatened to shoot women NGO workers in a northwestern province of Afghanistan if they do not...
![Ghana probes massive blast after 13 killed](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/a1/3b/42/Ghana-probes-massive-blast-after-13-027922_small.jpg)
Ghana probes massive blast after 13 killed
Ghana's government on Friday said it was investigating a massive blast involving a truck transporting mining explosives that kill...
![Total, Chevron to exit Myanmar amid rights abuses](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/ca/ca/3a/Total--Chevron-to-exit-Myanmar-amid-176646_small.jpg)
Total, Chevron to exit Myanmar amid rights abuses
Energy giants TotalEnergies and Chevron said Friday they would leave Myanmar following pressure from human rights groups to cut fi...
![China incensed by French parliament's genocide declaration](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/56/4d/09/China-incensed-by-French-parliament-571742_small.jpg)
China incensed by French parliament's genocide dec...
China condemned a French parliament resolution on Friday that accuses Beijing of carrying out a genocide against its Uyghur Muslim...
![Taiwan woman faces execution over fire that killed 46](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/d8/a8/6e/Taiwan-woman-faces-execution-over-f-617744_small.jpg)
Taiwan woman faces execution over fire that killed...
A Taiwanese woman faces the death penalty for allegedly starting the island's deadliest fire in decades in an attempt to get back...
![UN says Philippine typhoon destruction 'badly underestimated'](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/0b/ce/f3/UN-says-Philippine-typhoon-destruct-274265_small.jpg)
UN says Philippine typhoon destruction 'badly unde...
The United Nations said destruction caused by Typhoon Rai in the Philippines had been "badly underestimated" in initial assessment...
![Burning bright: Vietnam's gold-plated new year tiger](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/b5/27/7b/Burning-bright--Vietnam-s-gold-plat-746777_small.jpg)
Burning bright: Vietnam's gold-plated new year tig...
Vietnamese are paying hundreds of dollars for gold plated tiger models as gifts as Lunar New Year draws near, bucking a major econ...
![17 killed, 59 injured by explosion in western Ghana](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/e2/f7/b9/17-killed--59-injured-by-explosion--767765_small.jpg)
17 killed, 59 injured by explosion in western Ghan...
At least 17 people were killed and 59 injured Thursday in a devastating explosion in a western Ghana town after a truck carrying e...
![Bottles clinking, Turkish party train blazes through night](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/43/e0/1c/Bottles-clinking--Turkish-party-tra-942771_small.jpg)
Bottles clinking, Turkish party train blazes throu...
Festive garlands, white tablecloths and enticing bottles appear the moment passengers board the Eastern Express for an epic journe...
![US charges Belarus officials with air piracy over Ryanair flight diversion](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/6b/c8/e9/US-charges-Belarus-officials-with-a-645654_small.jpg)
US charges Belarus officials with air piracy over...
The US Justice department charged four Belarus officials with air piracy Thursday for last year's forced diversion of a Ryanair fl...
![Mexico sees drop in murders in 2021](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/3d/fa/1a/Mexico-sees-drop-in-murders-in-2021-072615_small.jpg)
Mexico sees drop in murders in 2021
Mexico recorded 33,308 murders last year, marking a 3.6 percent decrease compared with 2020, in a country long plagued by drug car...
![South Korean plant poacher jailed in US](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/19/19/af/South-Korean-plant-poacher-jailed-i-671422_small.jpg)
South Korean plant poacher jailed in US
A South Korean man who traveled around the world stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of plants to smuggle to Asia was...