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Hunter Biden's lawyers say claims about foreign business dealing have no place in upcoming tax trial 12 Aug 2024 - 06:59 pm
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Bangladesh interim leader Yunus says resignations of officials close to the ousted Hasina are legal 12 Aug 2024 - 06:57 pm
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus (C) speaks during a press conference upon his arrival at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on August 8, 2024. 
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Spain's Catalonia swears in new governtment ending separatist rule 12 Aug 2024 - 06:39 pm
Newly elected Catalonia's regional government head Salvador Illa (C) and regional government members pose on August 12, 2024 at the Palau de la Generalitat in Barcelona, as the new Government of Catalonia take office. (Photo by MANAURE QUINTERO / AFP)
Sudan at 'cataclysmic breaking point', says UN agency 12 Aug 2024 - 06:10 pm
People already displaced by conflict, rest by tents at a makeshift campsite they were evacuated to following deadly floods in the eastern city of Kassala on August 11, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
France says sending 180 firefighters to Greece 12 Aug 2024 - 06:05 pm
Firefighters and local volunteers try to extinguish a wildfire in Grammatikos region in Attica on August 12, 2024. (Photo by Aris Oikonomou / AFP)
French authorities investigate British man who climbed Eiffel Tower before Olympics closing show 12 Aug 2024 - 05:55 pm
Athletes run past Eiffel Tower, as they compete in the women's marathon of the athletics event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris on August 11, 2024. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)
Turkiye is committed to its responsibilities toward NATO: Turkish Defense Minister 12 Aug 2024 - 05:35 pm
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Irishman shot by Malta police after allegedly stabbing ex 12 Aug 2024 - 05:28 pm
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Police in London say a man is arrested after a child and adult were stabbed in a busy square 12 Aug 2024 - 04:19 pm
A photograph taken on August 12, 2024 shows police officers standing by a cordoned off area in Leicester square, London. Photo by BENJAMIN CREMEL / AFP.
Bangladesh is experiencing a 'student-led revolution': Yunus 12 Aug 2024 - 04:08 pm
Police vehicles that were burned during anti-government demonstrations are seen inside the compound of a police station as students volunteering to maintain law and order are in control of the Jatrabari Police Station in Dhaka on August 11, 2024. Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus and his newly named interim government set out on August 9 to restore
UK govt welcomes 'de-escalation' of riots, remains on 'high alert' 12 Aug 2024 - 03:54 pm
People hold anti-racist placards as they take part in a
Search called off for Briton missing in Pyrenees 12 Aug 2024 - 01:19 pm
A missing person sign for British hiker Tom Doherty is seen attached to a metal post near Ustou, in the French Pyrenees between Col d'Escots and Cirque de Gerac on August 11, 2024. (Photo by Ed JONES / AFP)
Singapore Airlines plane brake glitch forces runway closure in Japan 12 Aug 2024 - 12:38 pm
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Storm dumps intense rainfall on northern Japan, sending some people to shelters 12 Aug 2024 - 12:31 pm
A man walks past a flooded road in the wake of
Their job was saving lives. They lost their own in Brazil’s horrifying plane crash 12 Aug 2024 - 11:15 am
This photo shows an aerial view of the wreckage of an airplane that crashed with 61 people on board in Vinhedo, Sao Paulo State, Brazil, on August 10, 2024. (Photo by Nelson ALMEIDA / AFP)
Pacific Northwest tribes are battered by climate change but fight to get money meant to help them 12 Aug 2024 - 11:06 am
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Residents flee as Greece wildfires rage despite 'superhuman' efforts 12 Aug 2024 - 10:01 am
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Russian army concedes Ukraine advances in Kursk offensive 12 Aug 2024 - 12:14 am
A local resident clears debris in a residential house, heavily damaged following a Russian missile strike on August 11, 2024, in a village in the Brovary district, Kyiv region, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Genya Savilov / AFP)