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Japan watchdog OKs new safety rules to extend reactor life 13 Feb 2023 - 07:11 pm
Kansai Electric's No. 1 and No. 2 reactors at the Takahama nuclear plant are seen in this picture at the town of Takahama in Fukui prefecture, some 350 kilometres (215 miles) west of Tokyo on June 20, 2016. (AFP / JIJI PRESS)
Judge to release parts of Georgia special grand jury report 13 Feb 2023 - 07:04 pm
Then-President Donald Trump and then-Vice President Mike Pence are pictured in 2020. File photo / AFP
Mass trial opens in Chad over ex-strongman's death 13 Feb 2023 - 06:46 pm
In this file photo taken on April 11, 2021 Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno greets a crowd of journalists and supporters as he arrives to casts his ballot at a polling station in N'djamena.(Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP)
Ukraine using more munitions than NATO producing: Stoltenberg 13 Feb 2023 - 05:46 pm
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg addresses a press conference ahead of a NATO Defence ministers' meeting at the NATO headquarters in Brussels on February 13, 2023. (Photo by Kenzo Tribouillard / AFP)
German conservatives hail state election win in Berlin 13 Feb 2023 - 05:14 pm
Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party's top candidate Kai Wegner (R) speaks during a joint press conference with leader of Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party Friedrich Merz in the Konrad-Adenauer-Haus, headquarters for the CDU, in Berlin on February 13, 2023, one day after the repeat Berlin state elections. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)
Moldova's President outlines Russian 'plan' to topple gov't 13 Feb 2023 - 05:01 pm
Moldovan President Maia Sandu speaks at a press conference on July 29, 2022.  File photo / AFP
Turkey’s earthquakes paralyze third of steel production capacity 13 Feb 2023 - 04:50 pm
This photograph shows a teddy bear on the rubble of a collapsed building on February 12, 2023 in Kahramanmaras, as rescue teams starts to wind down their work after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the border region of Turkey and Syria. (Photo by OZAN KOSE / AFP)
Russia is a threat for all of Europe, says Norway 13 Feb 2023 - 04:17 pm
Norway Defense Minister Bjørn Arild Gram visits the Sør-Varanger Garrison. Photo: Atle Staalesen
Philippines says China ship used laser against coast guard 13 Feb 2023 - 02:23 pm
This handout photo taken on February 6, 2023 and released by the Philippine Coast Guard on February 13 shows a Chinese Coast Guard vessel shining a
On the road with Ukraine's 'medical battalion' 13 Feb 2023 - 01:48 pm
Ukrainian Poet Olena Herasymyuk (L) and Anna Skolbushevska waits for patients outside the bus for medical evacuations of the volunteer medical battalion Hospitallers, which helps with medical evacuations of wounded Ukrainian servicemen in Donetsk region on February 11, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP
Independent radio station in Cambodia shut on order of PM 13 Feb 2023 - 12:24 pm
Ith Sothoeuth, media director of the Cambodian Centre for Independent Media (CCIM) which oversees VOD, speaks to media at his office in Phnom Penh on February 13, 2023, after Cambodian Prime Minister said VOD would have its operating licence revoked. - Cambodia's strongman leader late on February 12 ordered the shutdown of one of the country's few remaining local independent media outlets after taking issue with a news report about his son. (Photo by TANG CHHIN Sothy and TANG CHHIN SOTHY / AFP)
China says US balloons entered airspace 'more than 10 times' since 2022 13 Feb 2023 - 12:04 pm
In this photo taken on February 5 2023, and obtained from the US Navy, sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 recover a high-altitude surveillance balloon off the coast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Photo by Tyler Thompson / US NAVY / AFP
Saudi Arabia to send first female astronaut to space 13 Feb 2023 - 11:52 am
Rayyanah Barnawi. Source/@saudispace
As survival window closes, more rescued in quake in Turkey 13 Feb 2023 - 11:10 am
People stand on top of rubble of collapsed buildings during rescue operations in Hatay on February 12, 2023, after a 7,8 magnitude earthquake struck the border region of Turkey and Syria earlier in the week. (Photo by BULENT KILIC / AFP)
Single-letter license plate sells for $3.2 million in Hong Kong 13 Feb 2023 - 10:33 am
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Flights grounded, power cut as storm lashes N.Zealand 13 Feb 2023 - 10:22 am
A general view of a damaged road after a storm battered Titirangi, a suburb of New Zealand's West Auckland area, on February 13, 2023. Photo by Diego OPATOWSKI / AFP
Miracle rescues a week after Turkey-Syria quake 13 Feb 2023 - 08:12 am
Relatives sit on top of rubble of collapsed buildings, as rescue teams continue to search victims and survivors, in Kahramanmaras on February 12, 2023. (Photo by Ozan Kose / AFP)
'Unidentified object' downed over Lake Huron, 3rd this week 13 Feb 2023 - 01:05 am
File Photo: Sailors recover a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the coast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, US, on February 5, 2023. (US Navy / AP)