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Blue Origin pushes back first launch of giant New Glenn rocket 13 Jan 2025 - 12:37 pm
Blue Origin New Glenn rocket sits at Launch Complex 36 after its scheduled early morning launch was cancelled at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on January 13 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Photo by Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP
South Korea to adapt airport concrete barriers after plane crash 13 Jan 2025 - 12:22 pm
Firefighters take part in a search operation near 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 11, 2025. Photo by YONHAP / AFP
Video: Celebrity homes that burned in Los Angeles fires 12 Jan 2025 - 11:53 pm
Actress Gail Matthius Wirth and writer John Wirth, showrunner and executive producer for 'Dark Winds', see their burnt home for the first time, in Pacific Palisades, California, on Thursday. (Photo by Melina Mara/The Washington Post)
12 killed, over 100 injured in blast at Yemen natural gas facility 12 Jan 2025 - 11:11 pm
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Croatia's Milanovic re-elected in landslide, exit poll shows 12 Jan 2025 - 09:52 pm
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Thousands protest in Serbia against corruption 12 Jan 2025 - 09:13 pm
Demonstrators and students walk past Serbia's Constitutional Court building during a protest to demand accountability for the Novi Sad railway station tragedy, in Belgrade, on January 12, 2025. (Photo by OLIVER BUNIC / AFP)
Al Qaeda-linked militant group claims deadly Benin attack 12 Jan 2025 - 08:27 pm
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Video: 'Dangerous and strong' winds threaten to spread LA inferno 12 Jan 2025 - 08:11 pm
National Guard officers close a street enforcing a curfew in evacuation order zones and evacuation warning zones from 6pm to 6am as wildfires cause damage and loss through LA region on January 11, 2025 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Apu Gomes/Getty Images/AFP)
German far right emboldened by Austria 12 Jan 2025 - 06:10 pm
Alice Weidel, co-leader of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, addresses delegates during a party congress on January 11, 2025 in Riesa, eastern Germany. (Photo by JENS SCHLUETER / AFP)
GCC emphasizes support for Syria, comprehensive reforms in Lebanon 12 Jan 2025 - 05:58 pm
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One killed in attack on MSF ambulance in Sudan's Darfur: charity 12 Jan 2025 - 05:50 pm
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Government report: 60 percent of families in Gaza are homeless 12 Jan 2025 - 04:51 pm
A woman bakes bread in a clay oven by collapsed buildings in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on January 12, 2025 amid the ongoing war in the Palestinian territory. Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP.
Seoul confirms Ukraine captured two North Korean soldiers 12 Jan 2025 - 02:36 pm
A photograph obtained from the Telegram account of V_Zelenskiy_official shows an alledged soldier presented as North Korean detained by Ukrainian authorities at an undisclosed location in Ukraine, following their capture by the Ukrainian army. (Photo by Handout / Telegram/V_Zelenskiy_official / AFP)
Toll from French tram crash rises to 68 injured 12 Jan 2025 - 02:31 pm
Firefighters' and rescue vehicles are stationed outside the Strasbourg railway station following a collision of two trams, in Strasbourg, eastern France, on January 11, 2025. Photo by FREDERICK FLORIN / AFP
Video: Czech restaurant fire kills six people 12 Jan 2025 - 12:42 pm
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'Brutal' tram collision in France's Strasbourg injures dozens 12 Jan 2025 - 11:26 am
Firefighters tend to injured passengers at the Strasbourg railway station following a collision of two trams, in Strasbourg, eastern France, on January 11, 2025. (Photo by Frederick Florin / AFP)
Firefighters race to beat LA blazes as winds grow and death toll hits 16 12 Jan 2025 - 08:45 am
Firefighters monitor as the Palisades fire grows near the Mandeville Canyon neighborhood and Encino, California, on January 11, 2025. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP)
Sudan paramilitary leader says 'lost' Al-Jazira state capital 12 Jan 2025 - 12:20 am
Sudanese people lift their fists as they celebrate on a street in Meroe in the country's Northern State on January 11, 2025, after the army announced entering key Al-Jazira state capital Wad Madani, held by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). (Photo by AFP)