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Spanish tourist killed by elephant at Thai sanctuary 06 Jan 2025 - 02:55 pm
This aerial photo taken on June 15, 2024 shows tourist and fisher boats at Mae Head pier on Koh Tao island in the southern Thai province of Surat Thani. Photo by Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP
Palestinian National Council warns of consequences of Occupation's UNRWA ban 06 Jan 2025 - 02:47 pm
 A Palestinian boy walks amid the destruction following an Israeli strike that hit the home of the Ghoula family in the Shujaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip on January 4, 2025. Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP
Bangladesh issues second arrest warrant for exiled Hasina 06 Jan 2025 - 02:06 pm
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Sixth victim dies after German Christmas market attack: prosecutors 06 Jan 2025 - 12:57 pm
Employees begin to dismantle the closed Christmas market shops at the site of a car-ramming attack on a Christmas market in Magdeburg, eastern Germany, on December 27, 2024. Photo by JENS SCHLUETER / AFP
Japan says 2024 hottest on record 06 Jan 2025 - 12:57 pm
File picture: People wait to cross a street during hot weather in Tokyo on September 19, 2024. (Photo by Yuichi Yamazaki / AFP)
UK electricity cleanest on record in 2024 06 Jan 2025 - 11:06 am
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India confirms first HMPV case in 8-month old baby 06 Jan 2025 - 08:30 am
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AI, Musk and Trump add up to a turbulent 2025 for tech 05 Jan 2025 - 09:26 pm
Elon Musk speaks at a campaign rally for Donald Trump at New York's Madison Square Garden in October. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
Gaza genodice: Death toll surges to 45,805; injured at 109,064 05 Jan 2025 - 08:42 pm
People and first responders inspect the rubble of a collapsed residential building that was hit by Israeli bombardment in the Saraya area in al-Rimal,  central Gaza on January 4, 2025. (Photo by Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP)
Ljutic edges Holdener for World Cup slalom victory 05 Jan 2025 - 07:42 pm
Winner Croatia's Zrinka Ljutic celebrates during the podium ceremony after the Women's Slalom as part of the FIS Alpine ski world Cup 2024-2025 in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, on January 5, 2025. (Photo by Jure Makovec / AFP)
Roundup Indonesia cancels VAT hike on basic goods 05 Jan 2025 - 07:35 pm
Buildings are seen during sunset in Jakarta on January 5, 2025. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP)
Former Greek PM Costas Simitis passes away at 88 05 Jan 2025 - 07:27 pm
(FILES) Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis speaks during a press conference at the Foreign Press Association in Athens, 03 December 2003. (Photo by ARIS MESSINIS / AFP)
13 civilians martyred in Israeli occupation airstrikes across Gaza Strip 05 Jan 2025 - 07:21 pm
Smoke plumes billow during Israeli bombardment in the Saraya area in al-Rimal in central Gaza City on January 4, 2025. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
Dozens of marine mammals found dead after Russian oil tanker spill 05 Jan 2025 - 07:15 pm
In this grab taken from a handout footage released by the Russian Emergencies Ministry on December 17, 2024, rescuers respond to an oil spill along the coastline of the Black Sea, caused by the wreck of two oil tankers, with the one which broke apart, in a storm in the Kerch Strait between Crimea and southern Russia's Krasnodar region on December 15. (Photo by Handout / Russian Emergencies Ministry / AFP)
India press watchdog demands journalist murder probe 05 Jan 2025 - 06:52 pm
Mukesh Chandrakar. Pic by: @NDTV on X
Blinken wades into political crisis with stop in South Korea 05 Jan 2025 - 06:46 pm
Supporters of impeached South Korea president Yoon Suk Yeol hold US and South Korean flags as they take part in a rally near his residence as snow falls in Seoul on January 5, 2025. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP)
Israeli army kills Palestinian security officer in N. West Bank 05 Jan 2025 - 06:06 pm
File photo: Israeli bulldozers drive in a street during an army raid in Jenin in the occupied-West Bank on August 31, 2024. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP)
South Korea says fatal crash cockpit transcript nearly complete 05 Jan 2025 - 06:05 pm
Tarpaulin covers shroud the wreckage of the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 aircraft, which on December 29 crashed and burst into flames at Muan International Airport in Muan, some 288 kilometres southwest of Seoul, on January 5, 2025. Photo by YONHAP / AFP