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Trump sides with Musk in right-wing row over worker visas 29 Dec 2024 - 09:10 am
US President-elect Donald Trump is driven from the Trump International Golf Club in a convoy of vehicles on December 28, 2024 in Palm Beach, Florida. Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images/AFP
Shark kills man fishing in Australia's Great Barrier Reef 29 Dec 2024 - 08:11 am
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Death toll rises to 85 in South Korea Jeju Air plane crash: fire agency 29 Dec 2024 - 07:56 am
Fire and smoke rise from the tail section of a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 series aircraft after the plane crashed and burst into flames at Muan International Airport in South Jeolla Province, some 288 kilometres southwest of Seoul on December 29, 2024. (Photo by YONHAP / AFP)
Plane with 181 on board crashes in South Korea, killing 62 29 Dec 2024 - 06:48 am
Smoke rises from the tail section of a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 series aircraft after the plane crashed and burst into flames at Muan International Airport in South Jeolla Province, some 288 kilometres southwest of Seoul on December 29, 2024. (Photo by YONHAP / AFP)
Togo delays Senate elections to February 15 28 Dec 2024 - 11:20 pm
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Prolonged conflict deepens Sudan's humanitarian crisis in 2024 28 Dec 2024 - 08:49 pm
Sudanese people fleeing the Jazirah district arrive at a camp for the displaced in the eastern city of Gedaref on October 31, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
Pan-African Parliament calls for restraint, dialogue in Mozambique 28 Dec 2024 - 08:30 pm
Motorists join long queues at a gas station in Maputo on December 27, 2024. (Photo by Amilton Neves / AFP)
Carlsen quits chess championship after jeans row 28 Dec 2024 - 08:14 pm
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Thousands flee Mozambique post-vote violence to Malawi 28 Dec 2024 - 07:47 pm
Motorists join long queues at a gas station in Maputo on December 27, 2024. (Photo by Amilton Neves / AFP)
Gaza's Kamal Adwan hospital 'now empty': WHO 28 Dec 2024 - 07:13 pm
A man who was injured in a reported strike on a Palestinian civilian vehicle by Israeli forces, sits in an ambulance in Gaza City on December 22, 2024. Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP.
Thousand people march against air pollution in Skopje 28 Dec 2024 - 06:35 pm
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Libyan official says discussed energy, migration with new Syria leader 28 Dec 2024 - 06:26 pm
Protocol chief in Syria's new ministry of foreign affairs, Qutaiba Qadish (R), meets with minister of state for communication and political affairs Walid Ellafi from Libya's UN-recognised government in Damascus on December 28, 2024. Photo by OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP.
Putin apologizes to Azerbaijan for plane crash 28 Dec 2024 - 05:40 pm
In this handout picture released by Kazakhstan's emergency situations ministry, emergency specialists work at the crash site of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet near the western Kazakh city of Aktau on December 25, 2024. Photo by Handout / Kazakhstan's emergency situations ministry / AFP).
Police officer shot dead in Norway 28 Dec 2024 - 05:18 pm
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Putin tells Azerbaijan leader Russian air defence active at time of plane landing: Kremlin 28 Dec 2024 - 05:05 pm
Photo used for representational purposes. Photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin on December 26, 2024. Photo by Alexei Danichev / POOL / AFP.
Thousands in Georgia human chain as pro-EU protests enter 2nd month 28 Dec 2024 - 04:39 pm
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Magnitude 5.6 quake hits off Philippine's Surigao del Norte 28 Dec 2024 - 04:31 pm
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Tax cuts, debt reined in as Italy adopts 2025 budget 28 Dec 2024 - 04:25 pm
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