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BRICS to admit six new members next year 24 Aug 2023 - 11:54 am
(From L to R) President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, President of China Xi Jinping, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attend the 2023 BRICS Summit at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg on August 24, 2023. (Photo by Phill Magakoe / AFP)
China halts all Japanese seafood imports over 'selfish' Fukushima release 24 Aug 2023 - 10:47 am
A vendor collects seafood at a wholesale fish market in Beijing on August 24, 2023. (Photo by Greg Baker / AFP)
North Korea says spy satellite launch ends in failure, again 24 Aug 2023 - 10:11 am
A man walks past a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on August 24, 2023. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP)
Japan begins release of water from Fukushima nuclear plant 24 Aug 2023 - 08:14 am
A shoreline is pictured from Futaba-machi, Fukushima Prefecture, around 5 km away from the crippled Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant on August 24, 2023, the day on which Japan's government plan to begin releasing wastewater from the stricken plant into the Pacific Ocean. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP)
North Korea conducts rocket launch in likely 2nd attempt to put spy satellite into orbit 23 Aug 2023 - 11:24 pm
File photo: People watch a television showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on March 19, 2023. (Photo by Anthony Wallace / AFP)
22 killed in Indian railway bridge collapse 23 Aug 2023 - 05:36 pm
Rescue workers conduct a search operation at the site of an accident where an under-construction railway bridge collapsed in Sairang town of the Aizwal district in India's eastern state of Mizoram on August 23, 2023. (Photo by AFP)
India becomes first nation to land spacecraft near Moon's south pole 23 Aug 2023 - 04:06 pm
This handout screen grab taken and received from the live feed of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) website on August 23, 2023, shows the successful lunar landing of Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on the south pole of the Moon. (Photo by ISRO / AFP)
BRICS leaders to debate expanding membership at summit 23 Aug 2023 - 02:32 pm
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers his remarks at the plenary session during the 2023 BRICS Summit at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg on August 23, 2023. (Photo by Gianluigi Guercia / Pool / AFP)
China's sushi fans flounder over Fukushima water release 23 Aug 2023 - 01:36 pm
Fish from Japan is seen in a Japanese supermarket in Hong Kong on August 23, 2023. Photo by Peter PARKS / AFP
Teenager rescued from a broken cable car over Pakistan gorge says it was miracle 23 Aug 2023 - 01:05 pm
This handout photograph taken on August 22, 2023 and released by the Pakistan's Inter Service Public Relation (ISPR) shows an army soldier (top) rescuing a student survivor, who was trapped in a cable car following an incident, in Pashto village, northwestern Pakistan. (Photo by Handout / ISPR / AFP)
S. Korea conducts first civil defence drills in 6 years 23 Aug 2023 - 12:50 pm
A police officer controls traffic on an empty street during a civil defence drill against possible artillery attacks by North Korea in Seoul on August 23, 2023. Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP
India's historic cut-price Moon mission set for touchdown 23 Aug 2023 - 11:27 am
Students with painted faces surround a replica of the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft in Chennai on August 22, 2023. (Photo by R.Satish Babu / AFP)
Around 100,000 people evacuated due to floods in Pakistan 23 Aug 2023 - 11:24 am
People with their belongings wade through the flood affected area of Chanda Singh Wala village in Kasur district on August 22, 2023. (Photo by Arif ALI / AFP)
At least 17 killed in Indian railway bridge collapse: official 23 Aug 2023 - 10:41 am
Photo credit: Mizoram chief minister Zoramthanga on platform X
Rescuers save 8 people trapped in cable car dangling above canyon in Pakistan 22 Aug 2023 - 09:08 pm
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Thailand's ex-PM Thaksin jailed on return from exile 22 Aug 2023 - 07:38 pm
Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra greets his supporters after landing at Bangkok's Don Mueang airport on August 22, 2023. (Photo by Manan Vatsyayana / AFP)
North Korea's Kim lambasts premier over flooding 22 Aug 2023 - 07:07 pm
This picture taken on August 21, 2023 and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on August 22, 2023 shows North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un (centre) in waste-deep water as he visits the restoration site of reclaimed land which suffered flood damage due to the levee breaking in the western port city of Nampo. (Photo by KCNA VIA KNS / AFP)
First children rescued from cable car dangling over Pakistan ravine 22 Aug 2023 - 05:27 pm
People watch as an army soldier slings down from a helicopter during a rescue mission to recover students stuck in a chairlift in Pashto village of mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, on August 22, 2023. (Photo by AFP) 

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US Vice President JD Vance speaks during a joint press conference with the Hungarian Prime Minister (unseen) in Budapest, Hungary, April 7, 2026. (Photo by Attila Kisbenedek / AFP) JD Vance says US has 'tools in our toolkit that we so far haven't decided to use' on Iran
This handout picture released by the Panama Firefighting Department press office shows Panamanian firefighters tackling a blaze caused by the explosion of a fuel tanker under the Bridge of the Americas, at the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal, in Panama City on April 6, 2026. (Photo by Handout / Panama Firefighting Department / AFP) Bridge explosion near Panama Canal kills one, injures two
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