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Maersk says loses containers off U.S. East Coast 06 Mar 2018 - 12:41 pm
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Japan's navy appoints first woman to command warship squadron 06 Mar 2018 - 12:30 pm
Newly-appointed Commander of First Escort Division of Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) Ryoko Azuma (2nd L), who is the first female commander of a navy destroyer squadron in Japan, salutes to soldiers on JMSDF's helicopter carrier Izumo at a port
Nine civilians killed as Syria regime strikes shake Ghouta 06 Mar 2018 - 12:26 pm
A man walks on the rubble of damaged buildings at the besieged town of Douma, Eastern Ghouta, Damascus, Syria March 5, 2018. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh
Turkey to set up camps for 170,000 people near Syria's Idlib -sources 06 Mar 2018 - 12:19 pm
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Sudan's envoy returns to Cairo in a sign of improved ties 06 Mar 2018 - 12:07 pm
File photo of Sudan's Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour. Reuters
Red Cross: Violence halts aid delivery to Syria's Ghouta 06 Mar 2018 - 11:53 am
United Nations' aid convoy enters the Douma town of Eastern Ghouta after Assad Regime stopped the assaults in Damascus, Syria on March 05, 2018. (Mouneb Taim - Anadolu Agency)
Sri Lanka declares state of emergency after Buddhist-Muslim clash 06 Mar 2018 - 11:43 am
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Smell of coffee permeates streets of tea-obsessed Kabul 06 Mar 2018 - 09:56 am
File photo of Najibullah Sharyari waiting for customers at his coffee cart in Kabul, January 8, 2018.  / AFP / SHAH MARAI /
Afghan official: Sticky bomb kills 2 in eastern province 06 Mar 2018 - 09:50 am
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Former Russian double agent critically ill in Britain after exposure to unidentified substance 06 Mar 2018 - 09:14 am
Police officers stand guard beside a cordoned-off area, after former Russian military intelligence officer Sergei Skripal, who was convicted in 2006 of spying for Britain, became critically ill after exposure to an unidentified substance, in Salisbury, so
'Ethnic cleansing' of Myanmar's Rohingya continues: UN 06 Mar 2018 - 09:07 am
A Myanmar security personnel keeps watch along the Myanmar-Bangladesh border as Rohingya refugee sit outside their makeshifts shelters near Tombru, in the Bangladeshi district of Bandarban on March 1, 2018. AFP / MUNIR UZ ZAMAN
N.Korea leader wants to advance Korea ties, makes agreement with South -KCNA 06 Mar 2018 - 08:00 am
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shakes hands with Chung Eui-yong who is leading a special delegation of South Korea's President, in this photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on March 6, 2018. KCNA/via Reuters
Collapsed building in Poland may have been blown up 05 Mar 2018 - 08:04 pm
A general view of a collapsed building is seen in Poznan, Poland, March 4, 2018 in this picture obtained from social media. Courtesy of Instagram/ @PAWEL_ALTERNATYWNA /via Reuters
Italy's 5-Star rebels heading for a date with the establishment? 05 Mar 2018 - 07:58 pm
5-Star Movement leader Luigi Di Maio arrives to cast his vote at a polling station in Pomigliano d'Arco, near Naples, Italy March 4, 2018. Reuters/Ciro De Luca
Sri Lanka imposes curfew in Kandy after anti-Muslim riots 05 Mar 2018 - 07:51 pm
Mobs set fire to Muslim-owned businesses and attacked a mosque in the east of the country last week after a Muslim chef was accused of adding contraceptives to food sold to Sinhalese. (Reuters file photo)
Trump links tariff relief for Canada, Mexico to NAFTA talks 05 Mar 2018 - 04:40 pm
US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump walk off Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, on March 3, 2018. / AFP / JIM WATSON
Malaysia's Najib pushes to outlaw "fake news" before election 05 Mar 2018 - 02:18 pm
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Aid convoy headed to besieged rebel-held Damascus suburbs 05 Mar 2018 - 01:11 pm
Russian soldiers are seen securing Syrian Arab Red Crescent trucks carrying aid at a checkpoint near Wafideen camp in Damascus, Syria March 5, 2018. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki