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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.muenchenerpost.de/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.muenchenerpost.de/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.muenchenerpost.de/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.muenchenerpost.de/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.muenchenerpost.de/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.muenchenerpost.de/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.muenchenerpost.de/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.muenchenerpost.de/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.muenchenerpost.de/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.muenchenerpost.de/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.muenchenerpost.de/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.muenchenerpost.de/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...
![US charges 2nd man in Haitian president's murder](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/07/53/b8/US-charges-2nd-man-in-Haitian-presi-244647_small.jpg)
US charges 2nd man in Haitian president's murder
The US Justice Department charged a Haitian-Chilean man Thursday with conspiracy to commit murder for his role in the assassinatio...
![Probe finds ex-pope Benedict failed to act in German abuse cases](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/94/02/ab/Probe-finds-ex-pope-Benedict-failed-754477_small.jpg)
Probe finds ex-pope Benedict failed to act in Germ...
Former pope Benedict XVI knowingly failed to take action to stop four priests accused of child sex abuse in Munich in the 1980s, a...
![Release Breivik? Norway court hears closing arguments](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/c8/20/5e/Release-Breivik--Norway-court-hears-724576_small.jpg)
Release Breivik? Norway court hears closing argume...
Prosecution and defence lawyers presented their closing arguments on Thursday to a Norwegian court which will now decide whether t...
![No more politics for Hong Kong barristers, says new Bar chief](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/c4/f9/f9/No-more-politics-for-Hong-Kong-barr-444405_small.jpg)
No more politics for Hong Kong barristers, says ne...
The newly elected leader of Hong Kong barristers said Thursday that his profession should avoid politics and build closer ties to...
![Liberian stampede kills 29 people](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/bc/a1/35/Liberian-stampede-kills-29-people-737641_small.jpg)
Liberian stampede kills 29 people
At least 29 people, including 11 children and a pregnant woman, were killed when robbers triggered a stampede at a religious rally...
![Benedict XVI: 'Rottweiler' who resigned scandal-dogged papacy](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/94/21/72/Benedict-XVI---Rottweiler--who-resi-452476_small.jpg)
Benedict XVI: 'Rottweiler' who resigned scandal-do...
Benedict XVI, accused of failing to act in German sex abuse cases, was the first pope to resign since the Middle Ages after presid...
![Beijing Olympics organisers say app security flaws 'fixed'](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/f4/85/17/Beijing-Olympics-organisers-say-app-646716_small.jpg)
Beijing Olympics organisers say app security flaws...
An app that Winter Olympics attendees must use has been patched, a Chinese official told AFP Thursday, after cyber security resear...
![Afghan women activists go into hiding after Taliban crackdown](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/f0/e9/e2/Afghan-women-activists-go-into-hidi-506744_small.jpg)
Afghan women activists go into hiding after Taliba...
Several Afghan women's rights activists said Thursday they are going into hiding to escape a Taliban crackdown, just days after th...
![Texas synagogue hostage-taker 'prayed for two years' for attack: reports](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/ac/a2/ca/Texas-synagogue-hostage-taker--pray-421474_small.jpg)
Texas synagogue hostage-taker 'prayed for two year...
A British man who took hostages at a Texas synagogue told his family he had prayed for two years to carry out the attack, media re...
![First foreign aid flights reach Tonga](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/93/71/f4/First-foreign-aid-flights-reach-Ton-714545_small.jpg)
First foreign aid flights reach Tonga
The first humanitarian flights arrived in volcano and tsunami-stricken Tonga Thursday, five days after the dual disaster cut the P...
![Peril and promise: gas from 'killer lake' powers Rwanda](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/eb/b4/4a/Peril-and-promise--gas-from--killer-767121_small.jpg)
Peril and promise: gas from 'killer lake' powers R...
The engineers aboard the floating power station on Lake Kivu could only watch nervously as the volcano in the distance erupted vio...
![Thailand to restart quarantine-free travel from February 1](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/08/e9/3b/Thailand-to-restart-quarantine-free-245967_small.jpg)
Thailand to restart quarantine-free travel from Fe...
Thailand will resume its quarantine-free travel scheme from February 1, officials said Thursday, after the programme was suspended...
![Ex-pope Benedict under scrutiny in German child abuse probe](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/35/82/6e/Ex-pope-Benedict-under-scrutiny-in--752747_small.jpg)
Ex-pope Benedict under scrutiny in German child ab...
A potentially explosive report into the handling of child sex abuse in the Catholic Church will on Thursday be published in German...
![Police deploy in Rio to retake gang-controlled favelas](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/6a/f0/5c/Police-deploy-in-Rio-to-retake-gang-467244_small.jpg)
Police deploy in Rio to retake gang-controlled fav...
Some 1,200 heavily armed military police launched an operation Wednesday to wrench control of Rio de Janeiro's slums from drug gan...
![Justices seek to downplay Covid mask rift at US Supreme Court](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/4c/d0/a5/Justices-seek-to-downplay-Covid-mas-564111_small.jpg)
Justices seek to downplay Covid mask rift at US Su...
Three US Supreme Court justices on Wednesday dismissed a report of a rift over the wearing of Covid face masks during hearings bef...
![Israel police demolish Palestinian home in east Jerusalem eviction](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/c1/ae/e3/Israel-police-demolish-Palestinian--745461_small.jpg)
Israel police demolish Palestinian home in east Je...
Israeli police demolished a Palestinian family's home and arrested at least 18 people as they carried out a controversial eviction...
![Italy's top court upholds Robinho's nine-year rape conviction](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/e7/0b/36/Italy-s-top-court-upholds-Robinho-s-451755_small.jpg)
Italy's top court upholds Robinho's nine-year rape...
Italy's highest court has upheld former Brazil forward Robinho's nine-year sentence for the gang rape of a young woman, the victim...
![Flamboyant former Vogue creative director Andre Leon Talley dies at 73](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/0d/64/38/Flamboyant-former-Vogue-creative-di-644572_small.jpg)
Flamboyant former Vogue creative director Andre Le...
Influential fashion journalist Andre Leon Talley, the first Black creative director of Vogue, died Tuesday in New York at the age...
![Psychiatrist says Breivik still a danger, hitting parole chances](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/c8/20/5e/Psychiatrist-says-Breivik-still-a-d-024120_small.jpg)
Psychiatrist says Breivik still a danger, hitting...
A court-appointed psychiatrist on Wednesday said Anders Behring Breivik is as dangerous now as when he carried out Norway's deadli...
![Germany tries Syrian doctor for crimes against humanity](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/52/d0/fd/Germany-tries-Syrian-doctor-for-cri-675057_small.jpg)
Germany tries Syrian doctor for crimes against hum...
German prosecutors accused a Syrian doctor Wednesday of torturing detainees and killing one of them while working in military hosp...
![Breivik as dangerous now as a decade ago: psychiatrist](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/c8/20/5e/Breivik-as-dangerous-now-as-a-decad-230102_small.jpg)
Breivik as dangerous now as a decade ago: psychiat...
Anders Behring Breivik, who is seeking conditional release just 10 years after carrying out Norway's deadliest peacetime attack, p...
![Taliban arrest fighter who shot dead Hazara woman at checkpoint](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/81/cf/a9/Taliban-arrest-fighter-who-shot-dea-747655_small.jpg)
Taliban arrest fighter who shot dead Hazara woman...
A Taliban fighter has been arrested for shooting dead a Hazara woman at a checkpoint in the Afghan capital as she returned from a...
!['We are homeless': Victims of twin Afghan quakes await aid](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/12/5e/ef/-We-are-homeless---Victims-of-twin--754202_small.jpg)
'We are homeless': Victims of twin Afghan quakes a...
Survivors of twin earthquakes in Afghanistan were waiting Wednesday for aid to arrive after spending their second night exposed to...
![China forcibly returned nearly 10,000 in overseas crackdown: report](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/4d/11/86/China-forcibly-returned-nearly-10-0-126657_small.jpg)
China forcibly returned nearly 10,000 in overseas...
Beijing has forced nearly 10,000 Chinese overseas nationals to return since 2014 using coercive means outside the justice system,...
![Verdict due in Belgium trial over UK migrant truck deaths](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/83/b8/2a/Verdict-due-in-Belgium-trial-over-U-645146_small.jpg)
Verdict due in Belgium trial over UK migrant truck...
A Belgian court on Wednesday is to deliver its verdict in a trial of 23 people suspected of being involved with a gang that smuggl...
![42,000 rapid antigen tests snatched in Sydney heist](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/ca/e8/42/42-000-rapid-antigen-tests-snatched-142957_small.jpg)
42,000 rapid antigen tests snatched in Sydney heis...
A thief has made off with 42,000 much-sought rapid antigen tests from a freight depot in Sydney, authorities said Wednesday.