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A volcano may keep residents out of an evacuated Iceland town for months 19 Nov 2023 - 11:09 am
This photo taken on November 13, 2023 shows a member of the emergency services walking near a crack cutting across the main road in Grindavik, southwestern Iceland following earthquakes. Photos by Kjartan TORBJOERNSSON / AFP
Hungary's Orbán says Ukraine is 'light years away' from joining the EU 18 Nov 2023 - 09:09 pm
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban gives his speech in Hungexpo Fair and Exhibition Centre of Budapest on November 18, 2023, after he was re-elected leader at the congress of the governing right-wing Fidesz party. (Photo by Attila KISBENEDEK / AFP)
Thousands protest Spain's Catalan separatist amnesty law 18 Nov 2023 - 06:53 pm
Tens of thousands of people demonstrate during a protest called by Foro Libertad y Alternativa (Freedom & Alternative forum) against an amnesty bill for people involved with Catalonia's failed 2017 independence bid, in Madrid on November 18, 2023. (Photo by JAVIER SORIANO / AFP)
Iceland town volcano evacuees told 'months' before return is safe 18 Nov 2023 - 05:15 pm
File photo for representational purposes only. People gather at the volcanic site on the Reykjanes Peninsula following Friday's eruption in Iceland, March 21, 2021. REUTERS/Cat Gundry-Beck
Kyiv reports increase in Russian overnight drone attacks 18 Nov 2023 - 03:32 pm
A man mourns at an open air memorial exhibition devoted to Maidan Revolution on Independence Square in Kyiv on November 17, 2023. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky / AFP)
Moldova's first dog nips Austrian president on the hand during official visit 18 Nov 2023 - 02:46 pm
Austrian President Alexander van der Bellen with Moldovan President Maia Sandu and Slovenian President Natasa Pirc Musar Pic: X/ @vanderbellen
Paris booksellers flay call to remove them for Olympics 18 Nov 2023 - 11:50 am
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Protests mark 50th anniversary of Greek anti-junta student revolt 17 Nov 2023 - 06:07 pm
Demonstrators and students symbolically carry a blood-stained Greek flag with red flowers, during a march towards the US embassy in Athens on November 17, 2023, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1973 students' uprising against a US-backed junta. (Photo by Theophile Bloudanis / AFP)
EU halts advertising on X over 'hate speech' 17 Nov 2023 - 04:52 pm
A photo taken on November 17, 2023 shows the logo of X - formerly Twitter - on a smartphone screen in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany. (Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP)
Meta, TikTok challenge incoming EU digital market law 17 Nov 2023 - 03:29 pm
A photo taken on November 17, 2023 shows the logo of US online social media and social networking service Facebook on a smartphone screen in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany. Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP
Finland to close border crossings with Russia over migrant influx 16 Nov 2023 - 03:59 pm
Border guards place asylum seekers that had crossed over from Russia into a van to be transported to a reception centre from the Nuijamaa border station between Russia and Finland in Lappeenranta, south eastern Finland early morning on November 16, 2023. (Photo by Vesa Moilanen / Lehtikuva / AFP)
Sanchez gets new term as Spanish PM despite amnesty row 16 Nov 2023 - 03:41 pm
Spain's acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez (L) celebrates after winning a parliamentary vote to elect Spain's next premier, at the Congress of Deputies in Madrid on November 16, 2023. (Photo by Javier Soriano / AFP)
EU agrees data-sharing scheme for Airbnb-style rentals 16 Nov 2023 - 02:33 pm
The Airbnb logo is displayed on the Nasdaq digital billboard in Times Square in New York on December 10, 2020. Photo by Kena Betancur / AFP
German train drivers' strike causes disruption 16 Nov 2023 - 02:18 pm
A near empty platform is pictured at the main station of Frankfurt am Main, western Germany on November 16, 2023, as German train drivers' union GDL called for a 20-hour strike after failing to reach agreement on pay increases. Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP
EU opens probe into Amazon's consumer protection measures 15 Nov 2023 - 03:27 pm
In this file photo taken on April 16, 2020, a picture shows the Amazon logo at the entrance area of the Amazon logistics centre in Lauwin-Planque, northern France, on April 16, 2020. (Photo by DENIS CHARLET / AFP)
UK Supreme Court rejects govt's contentious Rwanda migrant policy 15 Nov 2023 - 02:25 pm
(Files) Migrants travel in an inflatable boat across the English Channel, bound for Dover on the south coast of England. (Photo by Ben Stansall / AFP)
Belgium-bound horse makes mid-air escape 15 Nov 2023 - 11:02 am
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Russia pardons ex-policeman convicted of journalist's murder 14 Nov 2023 - 06:22 pm
(FILES) Suspected Ibragim Makhmudov (L) and Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, former special police unit officer, wait for the beginning of the Moscow Military Court session in Moscow on August 7, 2009. (Photo by ANDREI SMIRNOV / AFP)

Africa

AFP file photo of Senegal football player Sadio Mane Senegal PM to visit Morocco after football unrest
File photo Africa no longer facing mpox emergency: Regional health chief
Peninsula Over 8 million children in Sudan deprived of education due to war: UK child rights organisation
Image used for representation only. Botswana warns diamond oversupply to hit growth

Americas

Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodriguez waves during a presidential address to Parliament at the National Assembly in Caracas on January 15, 2026 (Photo by Federico PARRA / AFP) Venezuela frees at least 80 political prisoners: NGO
Vehicles are seen on the interstate as snowy weather arrives on January 24, 2026 in Louisville, Kentucky. Jon Cherry/Getty Images/AFP Massive winter storm sweeps across US bringing ice, frigid temps
Peninsula Deadly fire in New York Apartment tower kills one, injures 15
Federal agents stand near police tape as demonstators gather near the site of where state and local authorities say a man was shot by federal agents earlier in the morning in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 24, 2026. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP) Man shot dead by federal agents in US city Minneapolis

Gulf

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