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20 Jahre Tsunami Disaster: How a Woman Regained Hope

By AFP (Glomex) 26 December 2024 260 Views

Source: AFP (Glomex)

The Frenchwoman Elisabeth Zana lost her only child - and her will to live - in the devastating tsunami 20 years ago. To overcome her grief, she founded a foundation that helps children affected by the flood disaster in Thailand.

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Thousands line Suriname streets in homage to late dictator Bouterse

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Thousands of admirers line the streets of Suriname's capital Paramaribo as a hearse passes carrying the late dictator Desi Bouterse, who led the country both as a coup leader and elected president before dying as a fugitive from justice. IMAGES

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Japanese atomic bomb survivor group Nihon Hidankyo wins Nobel Peace Prize

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The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the Japanese anti-nuclear group Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha. The group receives the honour "for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons," says Jorgen Watne Frydnes, the chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo. SOUNDBITE

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David Baker, Demis Hassabis, John Jumper announced as chemistry Nobel laureates

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Americans David Baker and John Jumper and Briton Demis Hassabis are announced as the 2024 chemistry Nobel laureates. Baker was given half the award "for computational protein design", while Hassabis and Jumper shared the other half "for protein structure prediction," says Hans Ellegren in Stockholm, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. SOUNDBITE

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