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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)
Sudan's Red Sea State appeals for international aid as displaced population surges 12 Nov 2024 - 10:43 pm
A truck, part of a humanitarian aid convoy, is seen in Port Sudan, Red Sea State, eastern Sudan, on Nov. 6, 2024. (Photo by Fayez Ezaki/Xinhua)
Crisis-hit Germany headed for February 23 snap election 12 Nov 2024 - 10:14 pm
Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz takes his seat prior a SPD parliamentary group meeting at the Bundestag, Germany's lower house of parliament in Berlin, on November 12, 2024. (Photo by John MacDougall / AFP)
Fifth storm in under a month bears down on Philippines 12 Nov 2024 - 08:32 pm
An aerial photo shows a swollen river inundating farm fields and houses at a village in Ilagan town, Isabela province on November 12, 2024, a day after Typhoon Toraji hit the province. (Photo by Villamor Visaya / AFP)
Britain's Queen Camilla returns to public duties after chest infection 12 Nov 2024 - 06:30 pm
AFP File photo. Photo by Tolga Akmen / POOL/AFP/File
India will allow Musk's Starlink to operate if passes security checks 12 Nov 2024 - 06:11 pm
Commuters wait in a traffic jam during rush hour along a street in Bengaluru on November 12, 2024. (Photo by Idrees MOHAMMED / AFP)