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Detained Iranian-American, 85, leaves Iran for major surgery 05 Oct 2022 - 09:51 pm
Baquer Namazi, 85, an Iranian American who was jailed in Iran on spying charges, that the United States called baseless, shakes hands with an Omani official upon his arrival in Muscat on October 5, 2022. Oman News Agency/Handout via REUTERS
Bank to provide $2.5 billion to flood-ravaged Pakistan 05 Oct 2022 - 09:37 pm
A view shows a submerged building amid flood water, following rains and floods during the monsoon season in Talti town in Sehwan, Pakistan September 15, 2022. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro
23 hostages from Nigeria passenger train reported freed 05 Oct 2022 - 09:29 pm
File Photo: A woman is seen with a poster of Nigeria's president Muhammadu Buhari, as relatives of the Kaduna train kidnapped victims protest, following the threat from bandits to kill the victims if ransom demand is not paid, at the ministry of transport in Abuja, Nigeria, July 25, 2022. (REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde)
Indonesia's president says locked doors, steep stairs key factors in deadly stampede 05 Oct 2022 - 09:22 pm
Indonesian President Joko Widodo (left) and Chairman of the Indonesian Football Association Mochamad Iriawan visited Kanjuruhan Stadium in Malang, East Java province, Indonesia, on October 5, 2022. (Indonesia's Presidential Palace/Handout via REUTERS) 
Germany, Spain stick to plan to build new gas pipeline as leaders meet 05 Oct 2022 - 08:56 pm
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz during a news conference at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, on October 4, 2022. (REUTERS/Lisi Niesner)
France taps strategic fuel reserves as refinery strike grinds on 05 Oct 2022 - 08:56 pm
Workers on strike gather in front of the ExxonMobil oil refinery in Port-Jerome-sur-Seine, France, on October 5, 2022. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
Serbia's police prevent 200 migrants from entering Hungary, seize money, weapons 05 Oct 2022 - 08:38 pm
Migrants are seen at a camp in Obrenovac, near Belgrade, Serbia, on August 31, 2021. File Photo / Reuters
Russian TV protester confirms she has gone on the run 05 Oct 2022 - 08:19 pm
Former Russian state TV employee Marina Ovsyannikova, who staged an anti-war protest on live state television and was later charged with public activity aimed at discrediting the Russian army amid Ukraine-Russia conflict, attends a court hearing in Moscow, Russia, on July 28, 2022. File Photo / Reuters
Ghana raises cocoa farmgate price by 21% for 2022/23 season 05 Oct 2022 - 08:11 pm
Cocoa beans are pictured next to a warehouse at the village of Atroni, near Sunyani, Ghana, on April 11, 2019. File Photo / Reuters
Iranian police deploy at universities as unrest over Mahsa Amini's death churns on 05 Oct 2022 - 06:23 pm
Female protesters react and chant towards a man standing at a podium in Shiraz, Fars province, Iran, on October 4, 2022 in this still image from a video obtained by REUTER
Congo rejects US request to pull oil blocks from auction 05 Oct 2022 - 06:17 pm
Congo's Minister of Hydrocarbons Bruno Jean-Richard Itoua gestures at the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) headquarters in Vienna, Austria, on October 5, 2022. REUTERS/Lisa Leutner
Blast hits Kabul mosque in vicinity of interior ministry, kills 2 05 Oct 2022 - 04:40 pm
A medic checks an X-ray film of a man who was wounded after a suicide bomber detonated explosives near the entrance of the Russian embassy, inside a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, on September 5, 2022. File Photo / Reuters
Nobel prize goes to pioneers of molecule-building "click chemistry" 05 Oct 2022 - 02:06 pm
Screens show winners Carolyn R. Bertozzi (US), Morten Meldal (Denmark) and K Barry Sharpless (US) of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry during a news conference at The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, October 5, 2022. TT News Agency/Christine Olsson via Reuters
Shaken by heatwaves, US clinics get tips on staying cool 05 Oct 2022 - 11:59 am
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Putin signs annexation of Ukrainian regions as losses mount 05 Oct 2022 - 11:55 am
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Roadside bomb kills three UN peacekeepers in Central African Republic 05 Oct 2022 - 11:36 am
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Japan reopens embassy in Ukraine after 7-month closure 05 Oct 2022 - 11:19 am
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Ethiopia, Tigray head invited to peace talks in South Africa 05 Oct 2022 - 10:59 am
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