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Europe’s surging inflation bets undercut Lagarde’s rate campaign 05 Mar 2023 - 11:52 am
European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde attends a news conference following the ECB's monetary policy meeting in Frankfurt, Germany, December 15, 2022. (REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay)
Zambia asks UN’s Guterres for assistance in debt restructuring talks 05 Mar 2023 - 11:31 am
File photo: Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema.
Jon Jones returns to win UFC heavyweight title in 1st round 05 Mar 2023 - 11:20 am
US mixed martial arts fighter Jon Jones stands on a scale during the weigh-in before his UFC 285 heavyweight title bout against French mixed martial arts fighter Ciryl Gane at the MGM Garden Arena, in Las Vegas, Nevada on March 3, 2023. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP)
Thailand spent $13 billion in three years to fight pandemic 05 Mar 2023 - 10:28 am
People wearing face masks visit Benjakitti Park amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Bangkok, Thailand, January 15, 2022. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
Station master in Greece train crash delays court appearance 05 Mar 2023 - 12:01 am
Technical crews remove a train carriage from the scene of February 28's train accident in the valley of Tempi, near Larissa, on March 3, 2023. (Photo by STRINGER / AFP)
Senegal activists and MP arrested at Tunisia embassy 04 Mar 2023 - 11:51 pm
Demonstrators lift placards during an antigovernmental demonstration called for by the powerful trades union federation UGTT in Tunis, on March 4, 2023. (Photo by FETHI BELAID / AFP)
Self-help author Marianne Williamson announces White House challenge to Biden 04 Mar 2023 - 11:46 pm
In this file photo taken on August 23, 2019, US Democratic Presidential hopeful Marianne Williamson speaks during the Democratic National Committee's summer meeting in San Francisco, California.  (Photo by JOSH EDELSON / AFP)
US military commander in Syria briefed on anti-IS operations 04 Mar 2023 - 11:39 pm
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley speaks during a media conference after a meeting of NATO defense ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels, on October 12, 2022.
Biden expected to tighten rules on US investment in China 04 Mar 2023 - 11:26 pm
US President Joe Biden steps off Air Force One upon arrival at Delaware National Air Guard Base in New Castle, Delaware, on March 3, 2023. - Biden is scheduled to spend the weekend at his Wilmington residence. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP)
More Iranian schoolgirls sickened in suspected poisoning wave 04 Mar 2023 - 09:49 pm
Representative image. Iran has been seeing a series of poisoning attacks. Photograph:( AFP )
UN nuclear chief says Iran visit could produce 'important agreements' 04 Mar 2023 - 09:34 pm
A handout picture provided by the Iranian presidency shows Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi welcoming International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi ahead of their meeting in Tehran on March 4, 2023. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / Iranian Presidency / AFP)
Mediterranean countries push for EU solidarity on migration 04 Mar 2023 - 09:23 pm
Peninsula
Macron lauds DR Congo ceasefire as EU sets up air bridge 04 Mar 2023 - 09:11 pm
France's President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech during a visit at the National Biomedical Research Institute (NBRI) in Kinshasa on March 4, 2023. - The French President is in Kinshasa on the fourth and last leg of an African tour. (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP)
Bus with 40 children crashes in French Alps; 21 injured 04 Mar 2023 - 07:17 pm
An aerial picture shows the Mont-Blanc, in the French Alps. File photo / AFP
Friends, family remember Thai football boy rescued from cave 04 Mar 2023 - 06:48 pm
Peninsula
Cameroon charges tycoon in reporter killing case: lawyer 04 Mar 2023 - 06:38 pm
Mourners place candles in a room of Radio Amplitude FM where a portrait of journalist Martinez Zogo has been placed to pay tribute to him, in the Elig Essono district in Yaounde on January 23, 2023. File photo / AFP
Oxygen plant blast kills five in Bangladesh 04 Mar 2023 - 05:41 pm
Peninsula
Indonesians search charred homes after fuel depot fire kills 18 04 Mar 2023 - 05:15 pm
A boy stands in the remains of a burnt house in a residential area in Plumpang, north Jakarta on March 4, 2023, after a fire at a nearby state-run fuel storage depot run by energy firm Pertamina. (Photo by ADITYA AJI / AFP)