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Global Covid cases up 80% as new subvariant rises 11 Aug 2023 - 02:46 pm
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India proposes sweeping overhaul of British-era criminal laws 11 Aug 2023 - 02:44 pm
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Indonesia says capital pollution spike due to weather, vehicles 11 Aug 2023 - 01:53 pm
Skyscrapers (background) look faded due to poor air quality in Jakarta on August 11, 2023. Photo by BAY ISMOYO / AFP
Norway's record-breaking climber defends feat after sherpa death 11 Aug 2023 - 01:37 pm
In this handout picture taken on April 26, 2023 by courtesy of Field Productions shows Norwegian climber Kristin Harila with her country flag at Shishapangma, 14th-highest mountain in the world, located in China. Photo by Handout / AFP
Burkina junta suspends radio station over Niger criticism 11 Aug 2023 - 12:53 pm
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China rains death toll rises to 78 as new storm approaches 11 Aug 2023 - 12:05 pm
Rescue team personnel wade in a flooded road as they evacuate residents following heavy rains in Zhuozhou, in northern China痴 Hebei province on August 2, 2023. Photo by Jade Gao / AFP
UK economy grows in second quarter 11 Aug 2023 - 11:05 am
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Driverless taxis gain ground in San Francisco 11 Aug 2023 - 11:00 am
Members of SafeStreetRebel, a group of anonymous anti-car activists, place a cone on a self-driving robotaxi to disable it in San Francisco, California on July 11, 2023. Photo by Josh Edelson / AFP
Egypt dig unearths 41mn-year-old Whale in desert 11 Aug 2023 - 10:41 am
This handout picture provided by the American University in Cairo (AUC) on August 10, 2023 shows Egyptian paleontologist Hesham Sallam (R), professor of vertebrate paleontology at the American University in Cairo (AUC) and founder of Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center (MUVP), along with Egyptian paleontologists Abdullah Gohar (L) and Mohamed Sameh (C) standing before holotype fossils of their discovery of a new species of extinct basilosaurid whale, Tutcetus rayanensis, that inhabited the ancient sea covering present-day Egypt around 41 million years ago, at Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Centre. (Photo by American University in Cairo (AUC) / AFP)
Hawaii fire death toll hits 53, expected to rise 11 Aug 2023 - 10:17 am
An aerial image taken on August 10, 2023 shows a person walking down Front Street past destroyed buildings burned to the ground in Lahaina in the aftermath of wildfires in western Maui, Hawaii. Photos by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP
South Africa's ex-president Zuma sent to jail, immediately released 11 Aug 2023 - 10:08 am
Former South African President Jacob Zuma sits in the High Court in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, on January 31, 2022  (Photo by Jerome Delay / POOL / AFP)
Romanian hostage freed from Burkina Faso after 8 years in captivity, Romania's foreign ministry says 10 Aug 2023 - 06:12 pm
(FILES) This video grab made on July 2, 2017 from a video provided by the SITE Intelligence Group shows Romanian Iulian Ghergut, one of the six hostages held by Al-Qaeda's Mali branch. Romanian national Iulian Ghergut kidnapped by an Al-Qaeda affiliate in 2015 in Burkina Faso, has been released after eight years in captivity, the Romanian government announced on August 9, 2023. (Photo by SITE INTELLIGENCE GROUP / AFP)
Prisoner uses sheets to escape from 5th floor of NYC hospital and hail taxi; he's still at large 10 Aug 2023 - 05:26 pm
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Pakistan's imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan is allowed a brief visit by his wife 10 Aug 2023 - 05:22 pm
File photo: Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan with his wife Bushra Bibi arrive to appear at a high court in Lahore on May 15, 2023. (Photo by Arif Ali / AFP)
US sending FBI to Ecuador to help probe presidential candidate’s killing 10 Aug 2023 - 04:44 pm
People gather outside the building where Ecuadorian presidential cadidate Fernando Villavicencio held a rally after shots were fired in Quito, on August 9, 2023. (Photo by AFP)
West Africa bloc says talks with Niger coup leaders 'bedrock of our approach' 10 Aug 2023 - 04:44 pm
President of Economic Community of West African States Commission, Omar Touray (L), Burundi's President Evariste Ndayishme (C) and Nigeria's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Adamu Ibrahim Lamuwa (R), pose for a photograph at the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Head of States and Government extraordinary session in Abuja, on August 10, 2023
Despite scorching July, 1.5C Paris climate limit not yet reached 10 Aug 2023 - 03:49 pm
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Several arrested in disorder on London's premier shopping street 10 Aug 2023 - 03:38 pm
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