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Australian PM kicks off India visit with cricket event 09 Mar 2023 - 06:20 pm
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese wave to spectators from atop a float at the Narendra Modi stadium in Ahmedabad on March 9, 2023, before the start of the fourth and final Test cricket match between India and Australia. (Photo by Punit PARANJPE / AFP)
Nepal elects new president amid political uncertainty 09 Mar 2023 - 06:04 pm
Ram Chandra Poudel, a former parliament speaker and senior leader of the opposition Nepali Congress party, was declared winner after five hours of voting.
North Korea fires ballistic missile toward sea, Seoul says 09 Mar 2023 - 05:51 pm
A man walks past a television showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on March 9, 2023. - North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile on March 9, Seoul's military said, Pyongyang's latest show of force just days before South Korea and the United States kick off major joint military exercises. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP)
At least 36 people killed by extremists in eastern Congo 09 Mar 2023 - 05:46 pm
In this file photo taken on December 07, 2022 flags of the Democratic Republic of Congo are surrounded by candles in Beni during a prayer vigil in remembrance of the victims of the ungoing unrest in the East of the country. (Photo by Sébastien KITSA MUSAYI / AFP)
Rights group says Lebanon electricity crisis deepens poverty 09 Mar 2023 - 05:12 pm
Lebanese demonstrators block a road with burning tyres in front of the Electricite Du Liban company building in the southern city of Sidon, as the country struggles with a deep economic crisis. File photo / AFP
Qataris first to avail UK's new electronic border scheme 09 Mar 2023 - 05:02 pm
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All GCC residents can now obtain Saudi Arabia tourist visa regardless of profession 09 Mar 2023 - 04:23 pm
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Tunisia's Saied scraps post-revolution city councils 09 Mar 2023 - 04:01 pm
File Photo: Kaid Saied.
Several bodies found after Swiss house explosion 09 Mar 2023 - 03:32 pm
Smoke billows from the roof of a residential house that caught fire after a large explosion in Yverdon-les-Bains, western Switzerland, where
Malaysia ex-premier Muhyiddin arrested by anti-graft body 09 Mar 2023 - 03:16 pm
prime minister of Malaysia and Perikatan Nasional (PN) chairman Muhyiddin Yassin (C) arrives at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) headquarters to give a statement over allegations that his party misused public funds meant to fight Covid-19 in Putrajaya on March 9, 2023. (Photo by Arif Kartono / AFP)
Wreckage of missing Philippine plane found, all six on board dead 09 Mar 2023 - 01:45 pm
Peninsula
Standard Bank makes $81 million provision for Ghana bond losses 09 Mar 2023 - 12:00 pm
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Indonesia landslide death toll rises to 30 09 Mar 2023 - 11:55 am
This handout picture taken on March 8, 2023 and released on March 9, 2023 by ministry of communication and information shows rescue team evacuate the body of a victim that was found buried by a landslide at Pangkalan village, in Natuna Islands. (Photo by Handout / Natuna ministry of communication / AFP)
Georgia withdraws foreign agent bill after days of protests 09 Mar 2023 - 10:35 am
Protesters clash with police in Tbilisi late on March 8, 2023. (Photo by Zurab Tsertsvadze / AFP)
US urges Tbilisi to allow protests, 'standing with Georgian people' 08 Mar 2023 - 11:56 pm
A protesters wave the Georgian, Ukrainian and European flags during a demonstration called by Georgian opposition and civil society groups outside Georgia's Parliament in Tbilisi on March 8, 2023.  (Photo by Vano SHLAMOV / AFP)
NATO chief warns Bakhmut may fall 'in coming days' 08 Mar 2023 - 11:33 pm
Ukrainian servicemen fire with a 105mm howitzer towards Russian positions near the city of Bakhmut, on March 8, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Aris Messinis / AFP)
Attempted $32 million airport heist leaves two dead in Chile 08 Mar 2023 - 11:25 pm
A passenger walks at Arturo Merino Benitez International Airport in Santiago on March 8, 2023, after an attempted robbery of more than 32 million US dollars from an armoured van which had just picked the money from a Latam Airline plane arriving from Miami.   (Photo by Karin POZO / AFP)
Nigeria court rejects initial opposition election demand 08 Mar 2023 - 10:19 pm
A woman lies beside campaign posters of Lagos gubernatorial candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Babajide Sanwo-Olu and runningmate Obafemi Hamzat displayed at a bus station in Lagos, on March 7, 2023 ahead of March 11 gubernatorial elections.  (Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP)