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Biden visits the Amazon, the jungle that nearly finished Roosevelt 17 Nov 2024 - 11:17 am
US President Joe Biden has his scarf adjusted prior to a family photo during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ Retreat summit in Lima, Peru, November 16, 2024. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)
Super Typhoon Man-yi pounds the Philippines 16 Nov 2024 - 11:00 pm
Large waves break along a seawall ahead of the expected landfall of Super Typhoon Man-yi, in Legaspi City, Albay province on November 16, 2024. (Photo by CHARISM SAYAT / AFP)
Rescuers search for survivors after Tanzania building collapse 16 Nov 2024 - 06:41 pm
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Man takes staff hostage at restaurant outside Paris 16 Nov 2024 - 05:38 pm
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Spain arrests 7 Britons after seizing over a tonne of hashish 16 Nov 2024 - 05:18 pm
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Super Typhoon Man-yi makes landfall in Philippines: govt forecaster 16 Nov 2024 - 05:16 pm
People (R) react as large waves break along a seawall ahead of the expected landfall of Super Typhoon Man-yi, in Legaspi City, Albay province on November 16, 2024. (Photo by CHARISM SAYAT / AFP)
Two paramedics killed, four others injured in Israeli offensive raids in Southern Lebanon 16 Nov 2024 - 04:52 pm
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Police probe into UK journalist's tweet sparks free-speech debate 16 Nov 2024 - 04:47 pm
Britain's main opposition Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch, arrives to give evidence to the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry in central London on November 11, 2024. Photo by Adrian Dennis / AFP.
US stocks end week with sharp decline on Federal Reserve fears 16 Nov 2024 - 04:30 pm
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German Greens' Robert Habeck to lead bruised party into elections 16 Nov 2024 - 04:23 pm
Felix Banaszak, MP of Germany's Greens and candidate for the party's leadership, gestures as he delivers a speech on the second day of the 50th Federal Delegates Conference of the Alliance 90/The Greens party (Buendnis 90 / Die Gruenen) in Wiesbaden, western Germany on November 16, 2024. The party congress takes place until November 17, 2024. Photo by Daniel ROLAND / AFP.
Japan reiterates desire to have stable ties with China 16 Nov 2024 - 04:17 pm
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N.Korea troops in Ukraine war 'extremely significant' for east Asia security: Japan minister 16 Nov 2024 - 04:15 pm
Japan's Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya (C) holds a cartridge sold by volunteers to raise money for the needs of Ukrainian army, as he visits the Saint Michael's Cathedral in Kyiv, on November 16, 2024. Photo by Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP.
Sales of South Korean companies decline in H1 of 2024 16 Nov 2024 - 04:03 pm
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Philippines warns of 'potentially catastrophic' Super Typhoon Man-yi 16 Nov 2024 - 03:44 pm
The sun sets past anchored barges ahead of the expected landfall of Super Typhoon Man-yi, in Manila Bay on November 16, 2024. A super typhoon sweeping towards the Philippines on November 16 was intensifying and could have a
Stirring 'haka' dance disrupts New Zealand's parliament 16 Nov 2024 - 03:10 pm
This frame grab taken from a New Zealand Parliament TV feed dated November 14, 2024 shows Maori lawmaker Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke (C) standing up during a first reading of the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill and performing a Haka dance. (Photo by New Zealand Parliament / AFPTV / AFP)
Zelensky says wants to end war by 'diplomatic means' next year 16 Nov 2024 - 03:04 pm
(Files) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gives a joint press conference with the German Chancellor at the Chancellery in Berlin on October 11, 2024. (Photo by Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)
Death toll from Israeli aggression on Gaza rises to 43,799 16 Nov 2024 - 02:34 pm
The full moon rises as a man sits atop a pile of rubble it the al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on November 15, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Hamas militant group. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)
World not listening to us, laments Kenyan climate scientist at COP29 16 Nov 2024 - 12:49 pm
Kenyan climate scientist Joyce Kimutai points at a photograph during the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku on November 15, 2024. (Photo by Nick Perry / AFP)