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US sending longer-range precision rockets to Ukraine 04 Feb 2023 - 12:19 am
In this file photo taken on June 21, 2022, a US M142 High Mobility Artillery rocket System (HIMARS) fires salvoes during the 'African Lion' military exercise in the Grier Labouihi region of southeastern Morocco. (Photo by FADEL SENNA / AFP)
Iranian director Jafar Panahi released after hunger strike 04 Feb 2023 - 12:08 am
Film director Jafar Panahi and his wife, pose in Tehran, Iran in this undated picture obtained from social media on February 3, 2023. (@taherehsaidii/via REUTERS)
Blinken scraps rare China trip over alleged spy balloon 03 Feb 2023 - 11:53 pm
In this file photo taken on July 8, 2022, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken attends a meeting with China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Nusa Dua on the Indonesian resort island of Bali. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds / POOL / AFP)
'Possible' to start Ukraine EU entry talks this year: Kyiv 03 Feb 2023 - 10:42 pm
This handout picture taken and released by the Ukrainian Presidential press-service on February 3, 2023, shows the European Council President Charles Michel (L) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (R) standing during an EU-Ukraine summit in Kyiv. (Photo by Handout / Ukrainian presidential press-service / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT
Ethiopian prime minister holds first meeting with Tigray leaders since peace deal 03 Feb 2023 - 09:38 pm
In this file photo taken on February 05, 2022 Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed speaks during the 35th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. - Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and other government officials on February 3, 2023 held their first meeting with Tigrayan leaders since a November peace deal, state media reported.
Leaders from East Africa to hold talks on DR Congo unrest 03 Feb 2023 - 09:37 pm
A member (C) of Pope Francis' delegation makes his way to the plane for departure from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), at the N'djili International Airport in Kinshasa, DRC, on February 3, 2023.
Taliban detain Afghan educator who protested women's school ban 03 Feb 2023 - 09:27 pm
Veteran journalism lecturer Ismail Mashal. (Image: social media)
French envoy criticises Lebanon over 'slow' reforms needed for IMF loan 03 Feb 2023 - 09:03 pm
A handout picture provided by the Lebanese photo agency Dalati and Nohra shows Lebanon's caretaker Energy Minister Walid Fayad (right) meeting with French Envoy in charge of coordinating the international aid to Lebanon Pierre Duquesne in the capital Beirut on February 3, 2023. (Photo by DALATI AND NOHRA / AFP)
Cash and fuel crisis cranks up Nigeria election tensions 03 Feb 2023 - 08:19 pm
A man sits at a bus stop decorated with electoral campaign posters of All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, with his running mate Kashim Shettima, ahead of Nigeria's Presidential election, in Lagos, Nigeria January 31, 2023. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja
India arrests 2,000 people in child marriage crackdown 03 Feb 2023 - 08:17 pm
Reuters file photo
Spain court rules against Amazon over freelance drivers 03 Feb 2023 - 07:14 pm
FILE PHOTO: A worker installs a new Amazon locker inside a public parking in Ronda, Spain, June 7, 2022. REUTERS/Jon Nazca
India to convert local vodafone unit’s past dues into equity 03 Feb 2023 - 06:53 pm
A man speaks on his mobile phone next to a Vodafone advertisement in Kolkata, India, September 26, 2016. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri
Zelensky says Ukraine will fight 'as long as we can' for Bakhmut 03 Feb 2023 - 06:44 pm
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (C), President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen (R) and European Council President Charles Michel (L) speak at the end of a joint press conference during an EU-Ukraine summit in Kyiv on February 3, 2023
Ex-French PM says hair loss condition no barrier to ambition 03 Feb 2023 - 06:43 pm
This combination of file pictures created on February 3, 2023 shows then French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe (left) posing at the French TV channel TF1 studios in Boulogne-Billancourt, on January 7, 2019 and former French prime minister Edouard Philippe (right) posing while visiting the 'Village de Saint-Malo' in Saint-Malo, western France on November 3, 2022. (Eric Feferberg and Loic Venance / AFP)
China 'regrets' US air intrusion as Blinken visit in balance 03 Feb 2023 - 06:32 pm
A balloon flies in the sky over Billings, Montana, US, February 1, 2023 in this picture obtained from social media. (Chase Doak/via REUTERS)
S. African president shoots down plan to sponsor Tottenham 03 Feb 2023 - 06:27 pm
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa responds to questions in parliament surrounding cash allegedly kept on his private farm, and on frequent power outages, as South Africa's struggling power utility Eskom implements regular power cuts, in Cape Town, South Africa, September 29, 2022. REUTERS/Esa Alexander
US payrolls surge, jobless rate hits 53-year low 03 Feb 2023 - 06:19 pm
In this file photo taken on July 8, 2022, A man walks past a
Slain Lebanon activist family calls for UN probe into port blast 03 Feb 2023 - 05:43 pm
FILE PHOTO: Lokman Slim, an activist and publisher who ran a research centre, speaks during an interview, in a still image taken from Reuters TV footage shot on February 2, 2009, in Beirut, Lebanon. Reuters TV/via REUTERS