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In tribute to rights leader King, Biden invokes 'battle for the soul of this nation' 15 Jan 2023 - 09:10 pm
US President Joe Biden stands next to Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA), a senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church, ahead of the holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr., in Atlanta, Georgia, US, on January 15, 2023. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
Latvia hit by worst flood in decades 15 Jan 2023 - 09:06 pm
Flooded houses are pictured in Jekabpils, Latvia, on January 15, 2023. (Photo by Gints Ivuskans / AFP)
Davos 2023: Climate activists protest over big oil hijacking debate 15 Jan 2023 - 08:53 pm
Climate activists display a banner during a protest ahead of the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2023 in the Alpine resort of Davos, Switzerland, January 15, 2023. (REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann)
Peru mourns people killed in protests amid state of emergency 15 Jan 2023 - 08:31 pm
(Left to right) Milagros Samillan, Edson Samillan, Ysabel Samillan and Juan Samillan, sisters and brothers of Marco Antonio Samillan Sanga, a biologist by profession and doctor in training who died during the protests in Juliaca, pose for a photo holding an image of Marco Antonio at his home in Juliaca in southern Peru on January 14, 2023. (Photo by Juan Carlos CISNEROS / AFP)
Republicans want Biden home visitor logs - but not Trump's 15 Jan 2023 - 08:17 pm
Secret Service personnel park vehicles in the driveway leading to U.S. President Joe Biden's house after classified documents were reported found there by the White House in Wilmington, Delaware, US, on January 14, 2023. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
Joint air force drills with Russia are defensive only: Belarus 15 Jan 2023 - 08:10 pm
A Russian Su-30SM jet fighter flies during joint military exercises with Belarusian Air Forces in Belarusian air space, in this still image taken from a handout video released February 14, 2022. (Reuters file photo)
Brazil riots may have strengthened Lula's hand: analysts 15 Jan 2023 - 08:06 pm
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attends a meeting with parliamentarians at Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil on January 11, 2023. REUTERS/Adriano Machado
More heavy weapons for Ukraine 'in the near future': NATO chief 15 Jan 2023 - 07:12 pm
File photo: NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg gives a news conference ahead of a meeting of NATO defence ministers in Brussels, Belgium February 15, 2022. REUTERS.
Iraq PM backs continued US troop presence 15 Jan 2023 - 06:50 pm
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani during a news conference at the Federal Chancellery in Berlin, Germany on January 13, 2023.  File Photo / Reuters
Santos to be removed from US Congress if he broke campaign finance laws -Comer 15 Jan 2023 - 06:30 pm
Newly elected freshman Rep. George Santos (R-NY), embroiled in a scandal over his resume and claims made on the campaign trail, sits alone in the House Chamber surrounded only by the children of other representatives, on the first day of the 118th Congress at the US Capitol in Washington, US, on January 3, 2023. File Photo / Reuters
China, Hong Kong resume high-speed rail link after 3 years of Covid curbs 15 Jan 2023 - 05:43 pm
Passengers arrive at West Kowloon High-Speed Train Station Terminus on the first day of the resumption of rail service to mainland China, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Hong Kong, China, January 15, 2023. (REUTERS/Tyrone Siu)
Tens of thousands of Spanish health workers protest for better future 15 Jan 2023 - 05:08 pm
Health workers and their supporters protest against the public health care policy of the Madrid regional government, which they say is destroying primary care, in Madrid, Spain, January 15, 2023. (REUTERS/Isabel Infantes)
Presumed jihadists abduct about 50 women in Burkina Faso: local sources 15 Jan 2023 - 05:08 pm
File photo of a village in northern Burkina Faso. (Michele Cattani/ AFP)
Repaired German Leopard tanks for Ukraine ready in 2024 at earliest, armsmaker says 15 Jan 2023 - 05:02 pm
Members of the military walk on a tank, as Germany delivers its first Leopard tanks to Slovakia as part of a deal after Slovakia donated fighting vehicles to Ukraine, in Bratislava, Slovakia, on December 19, 2022.  File Photo / Reuters
Catholic priest burned to death, another shot in north Nigeria 15 Jan 2023 - 04:49 pm
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari during a European Union - African Union summit, in Brussels, Belgium on February 18, 2022.  File Photo / Reuters
Romanian authorities seize $4m of assets in Andrew Tate case 15 Jan 2023 - 04:44 pm
Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan are escorted by police officers outside the headquarters of the Bucharest Court of Appeal, in Bucharest, Romania, on January 10, 2023. Inquam Photos/Octav Ganea via REUTERS
Bomb detonates in church in east DR Congo 15 Jan 2023 - 04:36 pm
A child sings inside the Mulamo Baptist Church in the Kyala neighbourhood of Butembo, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo, November 10, 2016.  (Eduardo Soteras, AFP)
UAE pledges to invest $30bn in South Korea -Yoon's office 15 Jan 2023 - 04:31 pm
This handout image provided by the UAE Presidential court shows Emirati President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan (R) meeting with South Korea's President Yoon Suk-yeol during a state visit at the royal palace in Abu Dhabi, on January 15, 2023. (Photo by Rashed AL-MANSOORI / UAE PRESIDENTIAL COURT / AFP)