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Death toll from 4 days of rains rises to 63 in Pakistan with more rain on the forecast 17 Apr 2024 - 01:58 pm
A displaced family carry their belongings to tents at a makeshift camp after fleeing from their flood hit homes following heavy rains in Charsadda district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on April 17, 2024. (Photo by Abdul MAJEED / AFP)
Apple CEO says company will 'look at' manufacturing in Indonesia 17 Apr 2024 - 01:19 pm
A man checks an Apple product at an Apple reseller store iBox in Jakarta on April 17, 2024. Photo by Adek BERRY / AFP
Over 10,000 women martyred in Gaza since start of Israeli aggression: UN 16 Apr 2024 - 11:58 pm
Palestinians mourn the death of loved ones following Israeli bombardment in Maghazi in the central Gaza Strip, on April 16, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
NASA confirms space station debris hit Florida man's home 16 Apr 2024 - 07:54 pm
This handout from NASA shows recovered stanchion from the NASA flight support equipment used to mount International Space Station batteries on a cargo pallet that survived re-entry through Earth's atmosphere on March 8, 2024, and impacted a home in Naples, Florida. NASA said on April 15, 2024 it was analyzing an object that crashed from the sky into a Florida man's home -- which could well be a piece of debris jettisoned from the International Space Station. (Photo by Handout / NASA / AFP)
Heavy floods hit Dubai, airport as Oman toll rises to 18 16 Apr 2024 - 07:00 pm
Vehicles drive on a flooded road during torrential rain in the Gulf Emirate of Dubai on April 16, 2024. Photo by Giuseppe CACACE / AFP
Inferno devastates historic Copenhagen landmark 16 Apr 2024 - 05:35 pm
Plumes of smoke billow from the historic Boersen stock exchange building which is on fire in central Copenhagen, Denmark on April 16, 2024. Photo by Emil Nicolai Helms / Ritzau Scanpix / AFP
8 killed, others injured in Israeli bombing on Al-Tuffah neighborhood, central Gaza 16 Apr 2024 - 05:09 pm
Smoke billows as a man walks amid the rubble of buildings destroyed during Israeli bombardment in Khan Yunis, on the southern Gaza Strip on April 16, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
UN agency finds unexploded 1,000-pound bombs in Gaza schools 16 Apr 2024 - 02:36 pm
A UN team inspects an unexploded 1,000-pound bomb lying on a main road in Khan Younis. Pic: UNOCHA/Themba Linden
Woman, 5 children dead after boat capsizes in Indian Kashmir 16 Apr 2024 - 02:21 pm
National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) conduct a rescue and search operation after a boat ferrying people across the Jhelum river capsized in Srinagar on April 16, 2024. (Photo by TAUSEEF MUSTAFA / AFP)
Paris 2024 Games flame lit in ancient Olympia 16 Apr 2024 - 01:02 pm
First torch bearer, rowing Olympic gold medalist on 2020, Stephanos Ntouskos, runs with the Olympic torch during the lighting ceremony for the Paris 2024 Olympics Games at the Ancient Olympia archeological site, birthplace of the ancient Olympics in southern Greece, on April 16, 2024. (Photo by Angelos Tzortzinis / AFP)
Scores martyred, injured in ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza 16 Apr 2024 - 11:58 am
A woman reacts as she stands amidst rubble before a collapsed building in the eastern side of the Maghazi camp for Palestinian refugees in the central gaza Strip on April 15, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
UK parliament to debate law phasing out smoking 16 Apr 2024 - 11:43 am
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Iceland volcano still spewing lava, one month on 16 Apr 2024 - 11:27 am
Picture taken with a drone on April 13, 2024 at Svartsengi near Grindavik, Iceland, shows an aerial view of a volcanic eruption at Sundhnukagigar in southwest Iceland, ongoing for a month. (Photo by Jeremie Richard / AFP)
Fire rages through 17th-century old Stock Exchange in Copenhagen, spire collapses 16 Apr 2024 - 11:17 am
Plumes of smoke billow from the historic Boersen stock exchange building which is on fire in central Copenhagen, Denmark on April 16, 2024. (Photo by Emil Helms / Ritzau Scanpix / AFP)
Philippines' Marcos says 'not one person died' as police make huge drug bust, in dig at predecessor 16 Apr 2024 - 10:53 am
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos (C, in white shirt) and Interior Secretary Benhur Abalos (2nd R) inspect seized methamphetamine drugs in Alitatag town in Batangas province on April 16, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
World donors pledge $2.1 billion in aid for war-stricken Sudan to ward off famine 15 Apr 2024 - 08:20 pm
Delegates attend the international conference on Sudan, in Paris on April 15, 2024, exactly a year after war broke out between Sudan's army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in the northeast African country, leading to a humanitarian and political crisis. (Photo by Bertrand Guay / AFP)
'The country failed': S. Korea ferry victims' families 10 years on 15 Apr 2024 - 08:12 pm
Yellow ribbon dedications are displayed on the main gates at a port in Mokpo, South Jeolla Province, near to where the salvaged Sewol ferry stands, late on April 15, 2024, on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the country's worst-ever maritime disaster on April 16, 2014, when the overloaded Sewol ferry capsized off South Korea's southern coast. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP)
Mass graves discovered at Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital and in Beit Lahiya 15 Apr 2024 - 07:57 pm
File: Palestinians inspect the damage at Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital after the Israeli military withdrew from the complex housing the hospital on April 1, 2024. (Photo by AFP)