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India's former PM Manmohan Singh dies aged 92 26 Dec 2024 - 08:30 pm
(FILES) Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reviews the honour guards shortly after his arrival at Vnukovo II airport outside Moscow on December 6, 2009. (Photo by Natalia KOLESNIKOVA / AFP)
Azerbaijan believes Russian missile caused plane crash: reports 26 Dec 2024 - 08:16 pm
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 Issa Tazhenbayev / AFP)
Oil leak in Peru tourist zone triggers 'environmental emergency' 26 Dec 2024 - 08:14 pm
Handout picture released by NGO Coast 2 Coast Movement showing an aerial view of workers cleaning up Las Capullanas beach, after an oil spill in the Lobitos district in Piura, northern Peru on December 22, 2024. Photo by Nicolas LANDA TAMI / Coast to Coast Movement / AFP
Three dead, four injured in Norway bus accident 26 Dec 2024 - 08:02 pm
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EV giant BYD contractor denies 'slavery-like conditions' in Brazil 26 Dec 2024 - 07:50 pm
This handout picture released by Brazil’s Workers Public Ministry (MPT) shows an operation that rescued 163 workers from “slave-like conditions
Record number of migrants lost at sea bound for Spain in 2024: NGO 26 Dec 2024 - 07:38 pm
(FILES) This photograph taken on October 14, 2023 shows a mass grave at the Mogan cemetery, where dozens of migrants from Africa have been buried, on the Canary island of Gran Canaria. (Photo by DESIREE MARTIN / AFP)
Mozambique post-election violence kills 125 in three days: NGO 26 Dec 2024 - 07:30 pm
Mozambican security forces are seen next to a burning barricade in Maputo on December 24, 2024. (Photo by Amilton Neves / AFP)
GCC Ministerial Council reiterates support for Syria, Lebanon, backing ceasefire in Gaza 26 Dec 2024 - 06:40 pm
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Membership of UK's anti-immigration Reform party overtakes Conservatives 26 Dec 2024 - 06:32 pm
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The new season of ‘Squid Game’ undermines the triumphs of the first 26 Dec 2024 - 06:06 pm
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Angolan president pardons predecessor's son jailed for graft 26 Dec 2024 - 06:02 pm
(FILES) Jose Filomeno dos Santos (L), the son of former Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, appears in the high court on corruption charges in Luanda, on December 9, 2019. (Photo by Joao da Fatima / AFP)
Gaza hospital says three babies die of 'severe temperature drop' 26 Dec 2024 - 05:24 pm
Civilians check the site of an Israeli strike in a residential area in the Tuffah neighbourhood, east of Gaza City, on December 26, 2024. Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP
S. Korea's opposition moves to impeach acting president 26 Dec 2024 - 04:10 pm
South Korea Prime Minister and acting President Han Duck-soo speaks in his address to the nation at the Government Complex in Seoul on December 26, 2024. Photo by YONHAP / AFP
Tears, prayers as Asia mourns tsunami dead 20 years on 26 Dec 2024 - 02:58 pm
People walk along the beach nearby the Ban Nam Khem Tsunami Memorial Park in southern Thai province of Phang Nga on December 26, 2024. Photo by Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP
Second Fukushima nuclear sample removal eyed for spring 26 Dec 2024 - 01:44 pm
This aerial picture shows storage tanks (bottom) used for storing treated water at TEPCO's crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture on August 24, 2023. (Photo by JIJI PRESS / AFP)
QRCS gives a helping hand to blockaded families in north Gaza 26 Dec 2024 - 09:14 am
QRCS volunteers distributing meals to families in north Gaza
Azerbaijan mourns 38 killed in plane crash in Kazakhstan 26 Dec 2024 - 08:18 am
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)
Japan Airlines reports cyberattack 26 Dec 2024 - 08:10 am
People walk past a check-in counter for Japan Airlines at the departures hall of Haneda Airport in Tokyo on December 26, 2024. (Photo by Yuichi YAMAZAKI / AFP)