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Nearly 60,000 Palestinians perform Friday prayer in Al-Aqsa Mosque 17 Jan 2025 - 11:28 pm
Approximately 60,000 worshippers attended the Friday prayer in Al-Aqsa Mosque. (Photo by Hazem Bader / AFP)
Malawi launches 5-year cholera control plan 17 Jan 2025 - 10:26 pm
File: A clinician at Ndirande Health Centre demonstrates to clients how to take the cholera vaccine in response to the latest cholera outbreak in Blantyre, Malawi, November 16, 2022. (Eldson Chagara/Reuters)
Pakistan airline apologises for Eiffel Tower advert 17 Jan 2025 - 09:27 pm
A man looks at an advert of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane flying at the Eiffel Tower, on his mobile phone in Islamabad on January 17, 2025. (Photo by Farooq Naeem / AFP)
Gaza's destruction in numbers 17 Jan 2025 - 08:27 pm
A boy runs with a Palestinian flag atop a mound of rubble at a camp for people displaced by conflict in Bureij in the central Gaza Strip on January 17, 2025. (Photo by Eyad Baba / AFP)
G7 nations announce full support for Gaza ceasefire agreement 17 Jan 2025 - 08:00 pm
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Trump, Xi speak by phone, vow improved ties despite threats 17 Jan 2025 - 07:20 pm
This combination of pictures created on November 07, 2024 shows former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on November 4, 2024, and Chinese President Xi Jinping at a press conference in Belgrade, on May 8, 2024. (Photo by Charly Triballeau and Elvis Barukcic / AFP)
EU deepens probe into X after Musk outbursts 17 Jan 2025 - 04:07 pm
This illustration photograph shows Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter) account displayed on a smartphone in front a European Union flag in Brussels on January 7, 2025. Photo by Nicolas TUCAT / AFP
S. Korea plane crash investigators find feathers in engines: media 17 Jan 2025 - 03:01 pm
Investigators and emergency response personnel work at the site where a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 aircraft crashed and burst into flames at Muan International Airport in Muan, some 288 kilometres southwest of Seoul on January 4, 2025. Photo by YONHAP / AFP
South Korea investigators seek to extend President Yoon's detention 17 Jan 2025 - 02:55 pm
Supporters of impeached South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol chant slogans during a rally outside the government complex building housing the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) in Gwacheon on January 16, 2025. Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP
Nintendo shares down on detail-light Switch 2 teaser 17 Jan 2025 - 12:29 pm
A woman walk past an electronic board showing the numbers of Nintendo's stock price (top, R) on the Tokyo Stock Exchange along a street in central Tokyo on January 17, 2025. Photo by Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP
Japan marks 30th anniversary of deadly Kobe quake 17 Jan 2025 - 12:16 pm
People take part in an early morning ceremony to remember the victims on the 30th anniversary of the
'No money': gloom on Beijing streets as economic growth slows 17 Jan 2025 - 12:02 pm
A customer picks vegetables at a supermarket in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu province on January 17, 2025. Photo by AFP
Japan forest on fire after military explosives drill 17 Jan 2025 - 11:58 am
Peninsula
US blacklists Sudan army chief as Blinken regrets failure to end war 17 Jan 2025 - 12:11 am
Smoke billows from al-Jaili oil refinery north of Omdurman, the Sudanese capital's twin city, during battles between the Sudanese military forces and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), on January 15, 2025. (Photo by AFP)
Brazil's Bolsonaro denied passport for Trump inauguration 16 Jan 2025 - 11:52 pm
File: Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro speaks during a
Trump names trio of divisive stars as Hollywood 'ambassadors' 16 Jan 2025 - 11:40 pm
This combination of pictures created on January 16, 2025 shows US actor Jon Voight in Hollywood, California, August 20, 2024, US actor and filmmaker Mel Gibson in Los Angeles on September 24, 2024, and US actor Sylvester Stallone in New York City on November 9, 2022. (Photos by Valerie Macon and Timothy A Clary / AFP)
Maverick filmmaker David Lynch dies at 78: family statement 16 Jan 2025 - 09:53 pm
(FILES) US director David Lynch arrives on May 25, 2017 for the screening of the tv series 'Twin Peaks' at the 70th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. Lynch died at the of 78, according to a statement released by his family on January 16, 2025. (Photo by Valery HACHE / AFP)
What's driving American "TikTok refugees" to China's RedNote? 16 Jan 2025 - 09:08 pm
A photo illustration shows a woman holding her smartphone displaying the Chinese social networking and e-commerce app Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote, in Beijing on January 15, 2025. (Photo by ADEK BERRY / AFP)