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Six million children in SE Asia affected by Yagi disaster: UNICEF 18 Sep 2024 - 10:43 am
Flood-affected residents line up for food at a temporary camp set up at a monastery in Taungoo, Myanmar's Bago region on September 14, 2024. Photo by Sai Aung MAIN / AFP.
Japan to formally elect new prime minister on October 1 18 Sep 2024 - 10:37 am
Photo used for demonstration purposes. People walk in the pedestrian zone of Tokyo's Ginza district during the
Sri Lanka's plantation workers live on the margins. But politicians still want their votes 18 Sep 2024 - 10:26 am
In this photograph taken on September 2, 2024, tea pickers listen to Palani Shakthivel, national organiser of the Ceylon Workers Congress (CWC), at a village in Hatton. Photo by Ishara S. KODIKARA / AFP.
Pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria were made by a company in Budapest, Gold Apollo says 18 Sep 2024 - 10:10 am
Hsu Ching-kuang (L), head of Taiwanese company Gold Apollo, speaks to the media outside the company's office in New Taipei City on September 18, 2024. Photo by Yan ZHAO / AFP.
Tupperware Brands files for bankruptcy 18 Sep 2024 - 09:09 am
(Files) Tupperware products are offered for sale at a retail store on April 10, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Scott Olson / Getty Images North America / AFP)
This country is now the world’s first to have more EVs than gas-powered cars 18 Sep 2024 - 12:09 am
File: Electric cars are being charged on a street in the Norwegian capital Oslo on April 30, 2019. (Photo by Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP)
Lebanon caretaker govt holds Israeli occupation responsible for pager explosions; suspends universities, schools 17 Sep 2024 - 11:56 pm
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Zimbabwe defends elephant cull as easing drought pressure 17 Sep 2024 - 11:30 pm
File photo: A group of elephants are seen near a watering hole inside Hwange National Park, in Zimbabwe, October 23, 2019. (Reuters)
Gaza death toll rises to 41,252; wounded 95,497 17 Sep 2024 - 10:21 pm
Palestinian women mourn people killed in Israeli strikes on the Bureij refugee camp, after their bodies were taken to the al-Awda Hospital at the Nuseirat refugee Camp in the central Gaza Strip on September 17, 2024. (Photo by Eyad Baba / AFP)
12-year-old boy stabs and injures six children at a school in Portugal 17 Sep 2024 - 09:23 pm
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Saudi literature, Publishing and Translation Commission: Qatar's selection as Riyadh book fair guest of honor strengthens cultural ties 17 Sep 2024 - 06:05 pm
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Exploding Hezbollah pagers wound hundreds across Lebanon 17 Sep 2024 - 05:41 pm
Lebanese army soldiers stand guard as an ambulance rushes wounded people to a hospital in Beirut on September 17, 2024, after explosions hit locations in several Hezbollah strongholds around Lebanon amid ongoing cross-border tensions between Israeli entity and Hezbollah fighters. Photo by Anwar AMRO / AFP.
Bangladesh opposition party rallies to demand a new election 17 Sep 2024 - 04:56 pm
Demonstrators carry Bangladesh's national flag (front) during Martyr March, a rally organised by Students Against Discrimination to mark one month to the ousting of the country's former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in Dhaka on September 5, 2024.Photo by Munir UZ ZAMAN / AFP.
Portugal battles ferocious wildfires as toll rises to seven 17 Sep 2024 - 04:48 pm
People watch a Spanish Canadair during a wildfire at Pateira de Fermentelos, Agueda in Aveiro on September 17, 2024. Photo by Patricia DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP.
Election officials in America prepare for threats with panic buttons, bulletproof glass 17 Sep 2024 - 04:40 pm
Acting Director Ronald Rowe Jr. of the U.S. Secret Service, Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey B. Veltri of the FBI Miami Field Office, and Sheriff Ric Bradshaw of the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office during a press conference regarding an apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump on September 16, 2024 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Photo by JOE RAEDLE / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP.
Sea turtles make big comeback on sandy beaches at 2 British military bases in Cyprus 17 Sep 2024 - 04:38 pm
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Landslides in central Mexico kill 15 people 17 Sep 2024 - 04:36 pm
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EU, China must avoid EV trade war: German vice chancellor 17 Sep 2024 - 04:34 pm
Photo used for demonstration purposes. Tech Specialist Raisu Williams demonstrates the media bar of the Sony Honda Mobility AFEELA prototype electric vehicle powered by Amazon Web Services on September 13, 2024 in Seattle, Washington. Photo by STEPHEN BRASHEAR / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP.