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Zelensky in Lithuania pleads for new air defence aid 11 Apr 2024 - 01:56 pm
Lithuania's President Gitanas Nauseda (R) and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky have taken seat for talks at the Presidential Palace in Vilnius, Lithuania, on April 11, 2024.  (Photo by Petras Malukas / AFP)
Ukraine director revives 'lost' Mariupol theatre after imprisonment 11 Apr 2024 - 11:19 am
Theatre director Anatoliy Levchenko, 54-years-old, from war-torn Mariupol, speaks during an interview for AFP. (Photo by Genya Savilov / AFP)
Switzerland to host Ukraine peace conference, hopes Russia's attendance 10 Apr 2024 - 08:44 pm
A couple sits outside a cafe next to a military recruiting poster in Kyiv, on April 9, 2024, amid Russia's invasion on Ukraine. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky / AFP)
France's post office to scrap letters for food deliveries 10 Apr 2024 - 08:03 pm
This photograph taken on April 10, 2024 shows a pedestrian walking past a hotel in Bordeaux, southwestern France. Photo by Philippe LOPEZ / AFP
Germany plans measures to help companies rebuild Ukraine 10 Apr 2024 - 06:05 pm
People walk past a residential building that was recently damaged during Russian attacks on the city, in Kharkiv, on April 9, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Roman PILIPEY / AFP)
Bosnian Formula One fan brings speed dreams to the mountains 10 Apr 2024 - 04:35 pm
Himzo Beganovic drives his replica
Swiss govt rejects constitutional plan to ban foie gras, fur imports 10 Apr 2024 - 04:33 pm
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Russia cancels rocket launch for second day running 10 Apr 2024 - 02:09 pm
This handout picture released by the Russian Roscosmos space agency on April 10, 2024 shows a heavy-class Angara-A5 rocket at the launch pad of the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur region. (Photo by Handout / ROSCOSMOS / AFP)
Rescuers search for missing after Italy plant blast kills 3 10 Apr 2024 - 11:55 am
This photo taken and handout on April 10, 2024 by the Vigili del Fuoco, the Italian Corps. of Firefighters, shows firemen working on the site of an explosion at a hydroelectric power plant Enel Green Power on Lake Suviana in central Italy, near Bologna. (Photo by Handout / Vigili del Fuoco / AFP)
Landmark EU asylum reform goes to vote 10 Apr 2024 - 09:09 am
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UK's Cameron pleads for Ukraine aid as he meets Trump 09 Apr 2024 - 11:46 pm
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron speaks during a joint press conference with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the State Department in Washington, DC, on April 9, 2024. (Photo by Mandel Ngan / AFP)
Simon Harris becomes Ireland's youngest prime minister 09 Apr 2024 - 07:39 pm
A handout photograph taken on, and released by Ireland's Houses of the Oireachtas on April 9, 2024 shows Fine Gael leader and Ireland's incoming Prime Minster, Simon Harris (C) waving as he he leaves from Leinster House, the seat of the Irish Parliament, after being voted in as Ireland's new Prime Minister. Photo by MAXWELLS / HOUSES OF THE OIREACHTAS / AFP.
Several injured, missing in blast at Italy hydroelectric plant 09 Apr 2024 - 07:17 pm
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EU probes Chinese wind turbine suppliers over subsidies 09 Apr 2024 - 07:08 pm
Aerial photo taken on April 8, 2024 shows turbine blades at a factory in Yangzhou, in eastern China's Jiangsu province. Photo by AFP.
Kazakhstan and Russia battle huge floods 09 Apr 2024 - 06:19 pm
Taken on April 8, 2024 shows rescuers evacuating residents from the flooded part of the city of Orsk, Russia's Orenburg region, southeast of the southern tip of the Ural Mountains. Photo by Anatoliy ZHDANOV / Kommersant Photo / AFP.
Paris closure plans unveiled ahead of Olympics 09 Apr 2024 - 05:47 pm
Members of the French police's River Brigade (Brigade Fluviale) wait to meet Minister for Interior and Overseas during a visit dedicated to the security measures ahead of the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Paris on April 9, 2024. Photo by MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP.
Turkiye imposes trade restrictions on Israel over Gaza war 09 Apr 2024 - 12:52 pm
Palestinian women and children walk past the ruins of buildings destroyed by earlier Israeli bombardment in Gaza City on April 8, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
Hepatitis viruses kill 3,500 people a day: WHO 09 Apr 2024 - 12:33 pm
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