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Biden names former Covid aide as new White House chief of staff 27 Jan 2023 - 07:24 pm
In this file photo taken on April 13, 2021, White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Jeff Zients (left) and Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci brief reporters in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, DC. (Photo by CHIP SOMODEVILLA / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)
Barcelona bans grocery delivery companies' 'dark stores' 27 Jan 2023 - 04:24 pm
A Glovo delivery rider passes by a pedestrian area in Barcelona, Spain, January 24, 2023. REUTERS/Albert Gea/File Photo
Memphis braces for video of fatal police encounter with Black motorist 27 Jan 2023 - 02:52 pm
People attend a candlelight vigil in memory of Tyre Nichols at the Tobey Skate Park on January 26, 2023 in Memphis, Tennessee.
Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign faces trouble in crucial Iowa 26 Jan 2023 - 10:04 pm
Former US President Donald Trump, who announced a third run for the presidency in 2024, hosts a New Year's Eve party at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, US on December 31, 2022. File Photo / Reuters
US to 'deepen' ties with hotly courted Africa 26 Jan 2023 - 09:24 pm
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen shakes hands with South African Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago, at the Reserve Bank Offices in Pretoria, South Africa, January 26, 2023. (REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko)
Board of Brazil's Petrobras elects Lula ally as new president 26 Jan 2023 - 09:23 pm
Petrobras has in recent years focused on its main activity of pumping deepwater crude while selling off non-core assets. File Photo / Reuters
National Archives asks former US presidents, VPs to check for classified documents- CNN 26 Jan 2023 - 09:18 pm
The National Archives building is seen in Washington on March 4, 2012. File Photo / Reuters
Peru recalls ambassador to Honduras for 'unacceptable interference' as diplomatic spat deepens 26 Jan 2023 - 08:23 pm
This handout picture released by the Argentinian Presidency shows Argentine President Alberto Fernandez (right) shaking hands with Honduran President Xiomara Castro at the San Martin palace in Buenos Aires on January 25, 2023. (Photo by Maria Eugenia CERUTTI / Argentinian Presidency / AFP) 
US shuts down major global ransomware group Hive 26 Jan 2023 - 07:37 pm
An American flag waves outside the US Department of Justice Building in Washington, US, on December 15, 2020. File Photo / Reuters
Haiti's police cannot beat gangs without international force - UN 25 Jan 2023 - 11:02 pm
Haiti's ambassador to the UN Antonio Rodrigue attends a United Nations security council meeting on Haiti at UN Headquarters in New York City on Januray 24, 2023. (Photo by Ed JONES / AFP)
French-Canadian pleads guilty in US to ricin threat against Trump 25 Jan 2023 - 09:45 pm
Seeds of the castor oil plant (Ricinus communis)which can be used to make the deadly poison ricin. Bernd Thissen / dpa/AFP
Half of US mass attacks sparked by personal, workplace disputes: Report 25 Jan 2023 - 01:55 pm
A San Mateo County Sheriff officer puts up police tape at a crime scene after a shooting at the Spanish Town shops in Half Moon Bay, California, on January 24, 2023. Photo by Samantha Laurey / AFP
Grief grips Asian Americans after California mass shootings 25 Jan 2023 - 01:39 pm
People pay tribute to the victims of the mass shooting at a candlelight vigil in front of City Hall in Monterey Park, California, on January 24, 2023. Photo by Frederic J. Brown / AFP
Snow go: New York City's winter is missing the white stuff 25 Jan 2023 - 12:13 am
The rising sun illuminates downtown and the snow-covered Sierra Nevada mountains after a series of atmospheric river storms brought heavy snowfall to the mountain range on January 22, 2023 in Bishop, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images/AFP)
Classified documents found in ex-VP Pence's home 24 Jan 2023 - 11:53 pm
In this file photo taken on April 12, 2022 former US Vice President Mike Pence speaks at a campus lecture hosted by Young Americans for Freedom at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Photo by Ryan M Kelly / AFP)
US poised to approve sending Abrams tanks to Ukraine 24 Jan 2023 - 11:51 pm
US soldiers stand with Polish and US flags near M1/A2 Abrams tank outside a hall of 30th International Defence Industry Exhibition in Kielce, Poland on September 5, 2022. File Photo / Reuters
Panel in Chile starts final probe into what killed Pablo Neruda 24 Jan 2023 - 11:39 pm
In this file photo taken on October 21, 1971 Chilean writer, poet and diplomat Pablo Neruda, then ambassador in France, answers journalists' questions, next to his wife at the Chilean embassy in Paris after being awarded the 1971 Nobel Literature Prize. (AFP)
G7, partners vow to support Ukraine's energy sector, US says 24 Jan 2023 - 11:24 pm
In this file photo taken on November 29, 2022 (left-right) US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Sweden's Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom and Finland's Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto sit at their places prior to the start of a meeting of the North Atlantic Council (NAC) in the framework of a NATO Foreign Ministers session, with invitees from Finland and Sweden, in Bucharest, Romania. (Photo by Andrei PUNGOVSCHI / AFP)

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Vehicles drive along the King Fahad road, a principal transport arteries that links the city's southern and northern districts, in the Saudi capital Riyadh on March 3, 2026. Photo by Fayez Nureldine / AFP Saudi Arabia suspends 3 recruitment offices, revokes 11 licences over non-compliance
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Middle East

A Palestinian man reacts as he and others carry the body of a victim at the Nasser Hospital following an Israeli airstrike in the city of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip on April 21, 2026. (Photo by Bashar Taleb / AFP) Israeli attacks across Gaza injure several Palestinians
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This picture shows the destruction from Israeli strikes in the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh on April 20, 2026. (Photo by MAHMOUD ZAYYAT / AFP) Six injured in Israeli airstrike on southern Lebanon

Asia

File photo for representational purposes only. Singapore dengue cases fall nearly 30 percent in Q1
Houses are seen in a densely populated neighbourhood in Jakarta on April 21, 2026. (Photo by BAY ISMOYO / AFP) Indonesia allocates fund to boost irrigation against El Nino impact
Sukhwinder Kaur (R), a census enumerator and a school teacher, collects details of housing and amenities during a door-to-door survey in the first phase of the census at a residential area in New Delhi on April 20, 2026. (Photo by Arun Sankar / AFP) Counting a billion people: Inside India's mega census drive
People queue up along a road, to refuel their vehicles at a filling station in Dhaka on April 21, 2026. (Photo by MUNIR UZ ZAMAN / AFP) Bangladesh fuel crunch forces hours-long wait at the pump

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