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Tycoon Musk launches Starlink in Indonesia 19 May 2024 - 02:16 pm
Tech billionaire Elon Musk (L) speaks during a ceremony held to inaugurate satellite unit Starlink at a community health center in Denpasar on Indonesia's resort island of Bali on May 19, 2024. (Photo by Sonny Tumbelaka / AFP)
Flash floods due to unusually heavy seasonal rains kill at least 68 people in Afghanistan 18 May 2024 - 07:54 pm
Afghan men stand beside their belongings kept near a damaged house after flash floods following heavy rainfall in Firozkoh, Ghor province on May 18, 2024. Flash flooding has killed at least 50 people in western Afghanistan, provincial police said on May 18, a week after hundreds were washed away in the north of the country. (Photo by AFP)
Bodies of US, Nepali climbers recovered from Tibet mountain 18 May 2024 - 05:27 pm
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Parts of northern India scorched by extreme heat with New Delhi on high alert 18 May 2024 - 01:51 pm
A fruit juice vendor displays a drink to customers during a hot summer day in the old quarters of New Delhi on May 17, 2024. (Photo by Arun Sankar / AFP)
Flash floods kill 50 in western Afghanistan: police 18 May 2024 - 10:29 am
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Marcos says Philippines will 'vigorously defend what is ours' 18 May 2024 - 09:25 am
In this photo taken on May 16, 2024, Philippine fishermen aboard their wooden boat catch fish in South China Sea. (Photo by Ted Aljibe / AFP)
At Thailand dive expo, fears for coral's future 17 May 2024 - 02:31 pm
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Philippine civilian boat convoy turns back from sail to China-held reef 16 May 2024 - 04:43 pm
Philippine Coast Guard personnel aboard BRP Bagacay observe a China Coast Guard ship during the distribution of fuel and food to fishers by the civilian-led mission Atin Ito (This Is Ours) Coalition, in the disputed South China Sea on May 16, 2024. Photo by Ted ALJIBE / AFP
Seoul court dismisses doctors' bid to halt S Korea reforms 16 May 2024 - 03:50 pm
Medical workers walk across a pedestrian crossing outside a hospital in Seoul on March 11, 2024. Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP
Indonesia raises alert for Mount Ibu volcano to highest level 16 May 2024 - 02:24 pm
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Garuda Indonesia flight makes emergency landing after engine fire 15 May 2024 - 07:39 pm
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Indonesia seeds clouds to block rainfall after floods killed at least 59 people while 16 are missing 15 May 2024 - 04:54 pm
Rescue personnel search for the missing by a riverside amusement park following flash flooding along the Batang Anai River in Padang Pariaman, West Sumatra, on May 15, 2024. (Photo by REZAN SOLEH / AFP)
Japan billionaire sues Meta over celebrity investment scams 15 May 2024 - 04:20 pm
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Singapore's Lawrence Wong sworn in as new prime minister 15 May 2024 - 03:25 pm
Singapore's incoming Prime Minister Lawrence Wong (L) is sworn in next to President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon at the Istana in Singapore on May 15, 2024. (Photo by Edgar Su / Pool / AFP)
Mumbai police open probe as billboard collapse toll hits 14 14 May 2024 - 12:11 pm
Emergency vehicles are seen parked at the site a day after an advertisement billboard collapsed over a petrol station following a storm, in Mumbai on May 14, 2024. (Photo by Imtiyaz Shaikh / AFP)
Indonesian police raid drug lab in Bali villa 13 May 2024 - 10:18 pm
Wahyu Widada (2nd L, seated), head of Indonesia's criminal investigation agency, speaks as seized drugs from a police raid on a suspected drug lab are displayed during a press conference in Tibubeneng Village, Badung Regency on Indonesia's Bali island on May 13, 2024. (Photo by SONNY TUMBELAKA / AFP)
4 killed, 60 injured as billboard collapses after dust storm, rains hit India's Mumbai 13 May 2024 - 06:46 pm
National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel look for survivors during a rescue operation at the site where an advertisement hoarding collapsed on a fuel station after a dust storm in Mumbai on May 13, 2024. (Photo by Punit PARANJPE / AFP)
S. Korea to set up $7-billion aid package for chip industry 12 May 2024 - 03:24 pm
A man walks past the Samsung logo displayed on a glass door at the company's Seocho building in Seoul on April 5, 2024. Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP

Europe

Representational file photo 22 migrants die off Greece after six days at sea: survivors
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A tourist walks down a slag heap next to abandoned steel plants in Charleroi, southern Belgium, on March 11, 2026. (Photo by Nicolas Tucat / AFP) World's 'ugliest' city finds allure in decay

Africa

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Americas

A man walks past a Cuban flag hanged on the facade of a house in Havana on March 26, 2026. (Photo by Yamil Lage / AFP) Trump says 'Cuba is next', denies losing MAGA support
Lines are shorter as the morning continues at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on March 26, 2026 in Atlanta, Georgia. Photo by Megan Varner / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP US Senate moves to end airport chaos
US President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on March 26, 2026. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) Trump extends deadline to strike Iran energy sites
A child looks out at an Air Canada Express plane that collided Sunday night with a fire truck on the tarmac at LaGuardia Airport on March 25, 2026 in New York City. Photo by SPENCER PLATT / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP Canada corporate bosses should speak 'both official languages': FM

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