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'Very humiliating': Bangladesh's Yunus seethes over COP29 fight for climate money 14 Nov 2024 - 08:22 pm
Bangladesh's interim leader Muhammad Yunus gives a speech during the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku on November 13, 2024. (Photo by Alexander Nemenov / AFP)
Brazil looking for motive after attempted Supreme Court bombing 14 Nov 2024 - 05:09 pm
A Brazilian Federal Police stands on November 14, 2024 nearthe body of man carrying explosives who died in a blast as he attempted to attack Brazil's Supreme Court in Brasilia on November 13. (Photo by EVARISTO SA / AFP)
Thousands flee as Typhoon Usagi hits north Philippines 14 Nov 2024 - 02:16 pm
This handout photo taken on November 14, 2024, shows a rescuer carrying a young resident during a forced evacuation operation in Buguey town, Cagayan province, north of Manila. (Photo by Handout / Buguey Municipal Disaster Risk and Reduction Management Office via Cagayan Provincial Public Information Office / AFP)
Spain evacuates thousands in fresh flood alarm 13 Nov 2024 - 11:34 pm
Soldiers evacuate mud from a sewer in Paiporta, south of Valencia, eastern Spain, on November 13, 2024 in the aftermath of deadly flooding. (Photo by Jose Jordan / AFP)
Trump, Biden shake hands in White House, vow smooth transfer 13 Nov 2024 - 08:38 pm
US President Joe Biden shakes hands with US President-elect Donald Trump during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on November 13, 2024. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)
Breakaway Somaliland votes as quest for recognition gathers pace 13 Nov 2024 - 08:10 pm
A Somaliand police officer monitors the queues in front of a polling station during the 2024 Somaliland presidential election in Hargeisa on November 13, 2024. Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia, holds a presidential election on November 13, 2024 at a time of diplomatic tensions in the Horn of Africa. (Photo by LUIS TATO / AFP)
Bangladesh interim leader says elections will follow reforms 13 Nov 2024 - 07:37 pm
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'Vanishing act': UK Magic Circle seeks disappearing woman 13 Nov 2024 - 04:46 pm
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Toxic smog smothering India's capital smashes WHO limit 13 Nov 2024 - 04:35 pm
An aerial view shows cars along a road engulfed in smog in New Delhi on November 13, 2024. (Photo by Arun Sankar / AFP)
Heavy rains lash Spain after deadly floods 13 Nov 2024 - 04:03 pm
A picture taken on November 13, 2024 shows a view of the Palacio de Deportes Jose Maria Martin Carpena in Malaga closed due to heavy rain. (Photo by Jorge Guerrero / AFP)
Fossil fuel emissions to hit new record in 2024: researchers 13 Nov 2024 - 02:26 pm
Participants listen to speeches during the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku on November 13, 2024. (Photo by Alexander Nemenov / AFP)
Vietnam looks to restart nuclear power projects 13 Nov 2024 - 02:08 pm
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Indonesians drill for disaster before tsunami anniversary 13 Nov 2024 - 01:47 pm
People take part in an earthquake and tsunami drills ahead of the 20-year anniversary of the Boxing Day disaster in Banda Aceh on November 13, 2024. (Photo by CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN / AFP)
Fifth Greenland hearing for anti-whaling activist Watson 13 Nov 2024 - 12:17 pm
NGO Sea Shepherd Conservation Society founder, Paul Watson of Canada, poses on board of the
14 dead in Pakistan wedding bus crash, bride survives 13 Nov 2024 - 10:18 am
In this photograph taken and released by Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan Emergency Service (Rescue 1122) on November 13, 2024, mourners carry a deceased's body who died in a wedding bus accident in Gilgit. Photo by Gilgit Baltistan Emergency Service (Rescue 1122) / AFP
Airlines around Asia ground Bali flights after volcano erupts 13 Nov 2024 - 09:41 am
Passengers look at an electronic board displaying cancelled flights after the nearby Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki volcano catapulted an ash tower miles into the sky, at the Ngurah Rai International Airport in Tuban near Denpasar, on Indonesia's resort island of Bali on November 13, 2024. (Photo by SONNY TUMBELAKA / AFP)
Lebanon death toll rises to 3,287 amid relentless Israeli attacks 12 Nov 2024 - 11:19 pm
Rescue teams looks for survivors at the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a house where displaced people lived in the village of Baalshmay in the Lebanese mountains, east of Beirut, on November 12, 2024. (Photo by Fadel Itani / AFP)
Russian lawmakers pass law banning 'propaganda' of childless lifestyles 12 Nov 2024 - 11:11 pm
File: A Russian national flag flies atop the Russian State Duma, lower house of Russia's Parliament, as the State Emblem of the Soviet Union is seen on the Soviet era facade, in central Moscow on July 14, 2023.  (Photo by Natalia Kolesnikova / AFP)