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India Space Agency launches its heaviest satellite 24 Dec 2025 - 10:34 am
This handout photograph taken and released on December 24, 2025 by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) shows ISRO's launch vehicle LVM3-M6 carrying the United States’ next-generation BlueBird Block-2 communication satellite of AST SpaceMobile lifting off from the launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota in India's Andhra Pradesh state. (Photo by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) / AFP)
Egypt high-speed rail to connect Red Sea, Mediterranean 24 Dec 2025 - 10:16 am
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Pakistani firm wins auction for state airline PIA 24 Dec 2025 - 10:15 am
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Thailand-Cambodia border meeting in doubt over venue row 24 Dec 2025 - 10:13 am
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Houthis, Yemen govt agree to swap nearly 3,000 prisoners 24 Dec 2025 - 10:11 am
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Major California storm brings heavy rain, snow, evacuations 24 Dec 2025 - 10:03 am
Los Angeles County workers load sandbags for a resident, near the Eaton Fire burn zone, in preparation for a strong atmospheric river storm arriving today to the region on December 23, 2025 in Altadena, California. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images/AFP
Explosion injures mother and three young children in France 24 Dec 2025 - 09:52 am
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Trump unveils a new class of Navy battleship named after himself 24 Dec 2025 - 09:49 am
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Two dead, others missing in US nursing home blast: governor 24 Dec 2025 - 08:26 am
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Libyan army chief killed in plane crash near Turkiye’s capital Ankara 23 Dec 2025 - 10:43 pm
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GCC Secretary-General welcomes Muscat agreement on prisoner exchange in Yemen 23 Dec 2025 - 09:42 pm
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Jackson strikes twice as Senegal cruise to AFCON victory 23 Dec 2025 - 09:35 pm
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Head of Trade Unions in Gaza says war led to 77% unemployment 23 Dec 2025 - 06:39 pm
Palestinian municipality workers repair a road damaged during the war in the Nuseirat camp for the displaced in the central Gaza Strip on December 22, 2025. (Photo by Eyad Baba / AFP)
Sudanese transitional PM unveils peace initiative 23 Dec 2025 - 06:14 pm
Kamil Idris, a former UN official who was appointed in May as prime minister by Sudan's de facto leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, addresses people and local fighters supporting the Sudanese army who came to cheer him on, during a visit in Omdurman on July 19, 2025. (Photo by Ebrahim Hamid / AFP)
Japan signals readiness to intervene as yen slides 23 Dec 2025 - 06:07 pm
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Mahrez eyes strong AFCON showing from Algeria 23 Dec 2025 - 05:39 pm
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EU protests UK-Norway deal allowing mackerel overfishing 23 Dec 2025 - 05:00 pm
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Greta Thunberg arrested at pro-Palestinian protest in London 23 Dec 2025 - 04:16 pm
A handout photograph taken on and released by Prisoners for Palestine in London on December 23, 2025 shows Swedish activist Greta Thunberg before her arrest at Plantation Place on Fenchurch Street. (Photo by Prisoners for Palestine / AFP)