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Gul Mohammed, who works as a host in the Ariana Cinema, poses for a photograph in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021. After seizing power three months ago, the Taliban ordered cinemas to stop operating.(AP Photo/Bram Janssen) XBJ101 XBJ101

November 10, 2021 at 9:59 pm

Now silent under Taliban, a Kabul cinema awaits its fate VIEW

The gates of Kabul’s historic Ariana Cinema are closed, and the movie posters are stripped from its marquee.

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October 31, 2021 at 11:09 pm

In Afghan hospital, unpaid doctors and rigid Taliban clash VIEW

The Taliban-appointed supervisor of a small district hospital outside the Afghan capital has big plans — to the dismay of the doctors who work there.

July 21, 2021 at 5:25 am

Floods fuel climate debate in Germany’s election campaign VIEW

LUETZERATH, Germany (AP) — As Germany reels from the deadliest inland floods in living memory, one word has been on the lips of leading politicians:...

July 19, 2021 at 11:47 pm

In flood-hit German town, a priest struggles to give comfort VIEW

AHRWEILER, Germany (AP) — The Rev. Joerg Meyrer steels himself before making his way through the stinking piles of mud-caked debris that permeate this once-beautiful...

January 26, 2021 at 12:06 am

South African Muslim group safely buries its virus dead VIEW

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Not even the full protective gear can mask the respect with which the men wash the body of a newly deceased member...

December 21, 2020 at 11:59 pm

In South Africa, child homicides show violence ‘entrenched’ VIEW

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — At night, Amanda Zitho worries her little boy is shivering and cold in his coffin and yearns to take...

Sister Sylvia Simpwalo pays for HIV medication for her patients in downtown Johannesburg, South Africa, Thursday, July 30, 2020. Across Africa and around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the supply of antiretroviral drugs to many of the more than 24 million people who take them, endangering their lives. An estimated 7.7 million people in South Africa are HIV positive, the largest number in the world, and 62% of them take the antiretroviral drugs that suppress the virus and prevent transmission. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen) XBJ111 XBJ111

August 11, 2020 at 12:07 am

South Africa’s poor scramble for anti-HIV drugs amid virus VIEW

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — When her regular clinic ran out of her government-funded HIV medications amid South Africa’s COVID-19 lockdown, Sibongile Zulu panicked. A local pharmacy...

June 19, 2020 at 12:08 am

South African choir adapts to COVID-19 by making new music VIEW

MOUTSE VALLEY, South Africa (AP) — The dusty streets of rural South Africa are a far cry from the bright lights of “America's Got Talent,”...

May 2, 2020 at 9:16 am

Thousands of hungry people line up for food in South Africa VIEW

OLIEVENHOUTBOS, South Africa (AP) — Thousands of people stood in line for hours on Saturday in a South African township waiting for handouts of food....

April 29, 2020 at 2:07 am

Virus lockdown worsens suffering for Johannesburg beggars VIEW

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Inock Mukanhairi shows the small amount of food that he has for himself, his wife, Angeline, and five children — barely enough...