#BREAKING About 200 whales perish on Australian beach: rescuers
#UPDATE About 200 pilot whales have perished after being stranded on an exposed, surf-swept beach on the rugged west coast of Tasmania, Australian rescuers say.
Just 35 of the approximately 230 whales discovered on the beach a day ago are still alive
Pilot whale strandings.
About 200 pilot whales have perished after becoming stranded on the rugged west coast of Tasmania.
Two years ago nearby Macquarie Harbour was the scene of the country's largest-ever mass stranding, involving almost 500 pilot whales. More than 300 died
About 200 pilot whales have perished after being stranded on a beach in Tasmania, Australia. Just 35 of the approximately 230 whales are still alive.
Locals have been fighting to keep them alive with blankets and buckets of water u.afp.com/i478
Whale sonar navigation.
#AFPGraphics looks at how pilot whales use echolocation to navigate underwater, and listing various theories about what could go wrong to lead to strandings.
Whale strandings -- Five questions answered: u.afp.com/i464
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#BREAKING Three security personnel among nine dead in Iran protests: official toll
#UPDATE Nine people, three of them security personnel, have been killed in growing protests over the death of a young woman in morality police custody, Iranian news agencies reported.
#BREAKING 17 dead in Iran protests: new state TV toll
#BREAKING Ukraine allies must 'hold our line' against Russia's 'blackmail': Macron
#UPDATE Ukraine's allies must stand firm against Russian President Vladimir Putin's "blackmail" of suggesting that nuclear weapons could be used in the war against Kyiv, French President Emmanuel Macron told BFM television
Map showing the situation in Ukraine, as of September 22 at 0800 GMT #AFPgraphics@AFP
#BREAKING Court upholds Khmer Rouge leader's genocide conviction, life sentence
#UPDATE Cambodia's UN-backed Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal upholds the genocide conviction and life sentence imposed on former head of state Khieu Samphan.
The court said the 91-year-old was also guilty of multiple crimes against humanity for his role in the genocidal regime
The "killing fields" of the Khmer Rouge
#AFPGraphics showing the extensive network of detention centres and "killing fields" established by Cambodia's Khmer Rouge in the 1970s