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Vietnam rescuers try to raise concrete pillar with trapped boy 03 Jan 2023 - 01:49 pm
Rescuers look down into the site of where a 10-year-old boy is thought to be trapped in a 35-metre deep shaft at a bridge construction area in Vietnam's Dong Thap province on January 2, 2023. Photo by AFP
Elderly patients fill hospitals in Shanghai Covid surge 03 Jan 2023 - 01:29 pm
Patients lie on beds next to closed counters at the emergency department of Zhongshan Hospital, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Shanghai, China January 3, 2023. REUTERS/Staff
French PM says Covid tests for travellers from China 'will continue' 03 Jan 2023 - 12:08 pm
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French PM says raising retirement age to 65 not set in stone 03 Jan 2023 - 11:53 am
Reuters file photo of French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne
Why China's Covid wave is stirring fear 03 Jan 2023 - 10:30 am
Patients lie on beds at the emergency department of Zhongshan Hospital, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Shanghai, China January 3, 2023. Reuters/Staff
Brazil's Lula to attend Pele wake on Tuesday 02 Jan 2023 - 11:34 pm
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva holds hands with Colombian President Gustavo Petro during a bilateral meeting at the Itamaraty Palace in Brasilia, Brazil January 2, 2023. REUTERS/Adriano Machado
DR Congo rebels have not retreated from key town, say locals 02 Jan 2023 - 11:23 pm
Congolese M23 rebels are seen as they withdraw from the 3 antennes location in Kibumba, near Goma, North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, December 23, 2022. REUTERS/Arlette Bashizi
Death toll from Mexican prison attack rises to 19 02 Jan 2023 - 11:17 pm
A woman hugs a woman from the Penitentiary Security Police at the Cereso number 3 state prison after unknown assailants entered the prison and freed several inmates, resulting in injuries and deaths, according to local media, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico January 1, 2023. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez
Mexico elects first female Supreme Court president 02 Jan 2023 - 11:08 pm
A screen shows the ceremony in which Norma Lucia Pina prepares to take the oath as president of the Supreme Court of Justice, in the press room of the Supreme Court building in Mexico City, Mexico, January 2, 2023. (REUTERS/Henry Romero)
UK medical bodies say winter crisis costing lives 02 Jan 2023 - 10:54 pm
An aerial view of London, Britain, December 12, 2022 as the capital struggled with the aftermath of a heavy snowfall overnight. (REUTERS/Yann Tessier)
Tunisia transport workers strike amid economic woes 02 Jan 2023 - 10:41 pm
Tunisians are pictured next to a tram station in the capital Tunis' Ariana district, on January 2, 2023, after a strike by the public transport employees was announced the night before. (Photo by FETHI BELAID / AFP)
Belgium to test wastewater on airliners from COVID-hit China 02 Jan 2023 - 09:31 pm
Chairman of the scientific committee on Covid-19, Steven Van Gucht attends a press conference after a meeting of the Risk Management Group concerning visitors from China and the risk of Covid-19 spreading, in Brussels, on January 2, 2023. (Photo by James Arthur Gekiere / Belga / AFP) 
France fails to end culling of male chicks 02 Jan 2023 - 09:25 pm
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French mayor under fire for fighting Mont Blanc hikers 02 Jan 2023 - 09:06 pm
This aerial view of Mont Blanc (back left) and the dome du Gouter (centre) in France in 2019. (Photo by Eric Feferberg / AFP)
Arab Parliament condemns Israeli settlement escalation in West Bank, Jerusalem 02 Jan 2023 - 09:02 pm
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Egypt recovers 2,700-year-old sarcophagus lid from US 02 Jan 2023 - 08:16 pm
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry (center right) and the head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Mostafa Waziri (center left) are surrounded by journalists as they inspect an ancient Egyptian wooden sarcophagus being handed over and which was formerly displayed at Houston Museum of Natural Sciences after having been looted and smuggled years prior, at the foreign ministry headquarters in the capital Cairo on January 2, 2023. (Photo by AFP)
Tesla in pole position in Norway's race to EV goal 02 Jan 2023 - 08:00 pm
People look at a Tesla Polestar 3 electric SUV in a showroom in central Oslo, Norway, on November 18, 2022. File Photo / Reuters
Tens of thousands view body of former Pope Benedict 02 Jan 2023 - 06:54 pm
People wait in line to pay respect at the body of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI laying in state in the St. Peter's basilica in the Vatican, on January 2, 2023. (Photo by Andreas Solaro / AFP)