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Bangladesh ex-Premier Hasina calls for probe into killings during unrest that led to her ouster 13 Aug 2024 - 07:37 pm
Sheikh Hasina speaks as she is sworn in for her fourth spell as Bangladesh's prime minister at the Presidential Palace in Dhaka on January 7, 2019. / AFP / Munir UZ ZAMAN
X suffered cyberattack to hinder conversation with Trump: Musk 13 Aug 2024 - 07:06 pm
(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on August 12, 2024 shows, L-R, South African businessman Elon Musk arriving at the Tenth Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, California, on April 13, 2024 and former US President and 2024 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaking at the National Association of Black Journalists annual convention in Chicago, Illinois, on July 31, 2024. (Photo by ETIENNE LAURENT and KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI / AFP)
Turkiye says Ethiopia and Somalia made 'notable progress' in dispute settlement talks 13 Aug 2024 - 06:49 pm
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North Korea reports 'fierce' heat as peninsula bakes 13 Aug 2024 - 06:19 pm
A woman uses an umbrella as she walks along the Mirae Scientists Street in Pyongyang during high temperatures on August 13, 2024. (Photo by KIM Won Jin / AFP)
Burglary reported at Trump campaign office in Virginia 13 Aug 2024 - 05:50 pm
Donald Trump. File photo.
Filipino gymnast with 2 Olympic golds in Paris gets hero's welcome, free buffets for life 13 Aug 2024 - 05:34 pm
Philippines' Carlos Yulo (L), Paris 2024 Olympic Games double gold medalist in gymnastics shakes hands with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. upon his arrival at the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila on August 13, 2024. (Photo by Basilio H SEPE / POOL / AFP)
Pilot crashed helicopter into Australian hotel after farewell party 13 Aug 2024 - 03:05 pm
This frame grab taken from video footage provided by Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) on August 12, 2024, via AFPTV shows a piece of the helicopter lying on a roadside after a helicopter crashed into the roof of a Hilton hotel in Cairns on August 12, 2024, killing the pilot and igniting a blaze on the building's roof. (Photo by Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) / AFP)
South Korean sniffer dog searches for post-Olympic bedbugs 13 Aug 2024 - 02:27 pm
This photo taken on August 8, 2024 shows a sniffer dog from hygiene services company CESCO taking part in a demonstration of bed bug detection in passengers' luggage at Incheon International Airport's Terminal 2 in Incheon. (Photo by YONHAP / AFP)
Thousands cancel trips in Japan after megaquake alert 13 Aug 2024 - 02:19 pm
Pedestrians cross an intersection in the Shinjuku area of central Tokyo on August 13, 2024. (Photo by Richard A. Brooks / AFP)
South Africa's unemployment reaches new highs 13 Aug 2024 - 02:18 pm
People chat as they gather in the street to watch a building that caught fire in Johannesburg on August 11, 2024. Photo by EMMANUEL CROSET / AFP.
UK govt vows to 'prioritise' mental health after damning report on fatal stabbings 13 Aug 2024 - 01:53 pm
Police officers stand on duty outside the entrace to a building housing the headquarters of the Reform UK political party in London on August 10, 2024. Photo by BENJAMIN CREMEL / AFP.
Death toll mounting from South Asia's devastating monsoon 13 Aug 2024 - 01:43 pm
This handout photograph taken on August 1, 2024 and released by Humane Society International, India, shows an aerial view of the tea plantations after landslides in Wayanad. Photo by Hemanth Byatroy / Humane Society International, India / AFP
Greece battles deadly wildfire for third day 13 Aug 2024 - 11:35 am
Volunteers attempt to extinguish a wildfire in Vrilissia, on the outskirts of Athens on August 12, 2024. Photo by Aris Oikonomou / AFP.
UK police charge man after girl stabbed at London landmark 13 Aug 2024 - 11:16 am
A photograph taken on August 12, 2024 shows a hat and other items in a cordoned off area in Leicester square, London. Photo by BENJAMIN CREMEL / AFP
4.9 magnitude earthquake hits Eastern Indonesia 13 Aug 2024 - 10:23 am
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US budget deficit rises to $244 billion in July 13 Aug 2024 - 12:11 am
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Five injured in stabbing at mosque in Turkiye 12 Aug 2024 - 11:54 pm
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US to convene Sudan talks, even without Khartoum 12 Aug 2024 - 11:33 pm
A Sudanese man sits amid the destruction in his village near the northern Sudanese town of Dongola on August 11, 2024 as floodwaters devastated the region disrupting transport, destroying houses and rendering thousands of people homeless. (Photo by AFP)