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Philippines says resupply mission reaches remote South China Sea outpost 22 Aug 2023 - 11:47 am
Footage of a Chinese Coast Guard ship using a water cannon against a Filipino resupply vessel is shown during a press conference at the Department of Foreign Affairs in Manila on August 7, 2023. Photo by Ezra Acayan / POOL / AFP
Mountaineers urged to delay Mont Blanc climbs amid Alps heatwave 22 Aug 2023 - 11:42 am
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Japan to release water from stricken Fukushima nuclear plant 22 Aug 2023 - 11:16 am
This photo taken on November 7, 2022 shows treated water tanks lined up on the site of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO)'s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture. Photo by JIJI Press / AFP
Six children among 8 people trapped in Pakistan cable car 22 Aug 2023 - 11:08 am
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Arab League welcomes Libya's central bank reunification 21 Aug 2023 - 10:59 pm
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Libya repatriates 161 Nigerian migrants 21 Aug 2023 - 10:34 pm
Nigerian migrants who voluntarily chose to return to their home country board a bus before flying out of Libya, during an operation organised by the the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in Tripoli on August 21, 2023. (Photo by Mahmud Turkia / AFP)
Saudi physicians use robot to implant chips in brain 21 Aug 2023 - 10:23 pm
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Socialist, surprise right-wing candidate head to Ecuador runoff 21 Aug 2023 - 08:43 pm
This combination of pictures created on August 21, 2023 shows Ecuadorian presidential candidates Luisa Gonzalez (L) for the Movimiento Revolucion Ciudadana party and Daniel Noboa, for the National Democratic Action party, during a presidential debate in Quito, on August 13, 2023. (Photo by Rodrigo BUENDIA / AFP)
Nigeria's president inaugurates cabinet to tackle economic, security woes 21 Aug 2023 - 08:04 pm
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Russia's space agency head vows to continue Moon race 21 Aug 2023 - 07:22 pm
In this grab from a handout footage taken and released by the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos on August 11, 2023, a Soyuz 2.1b rocket with the Luna-25 lander blasts off from the launch pad at the Vostochny cosmodrome, some 180 km north of Blagoveschensk, in the Amur region. (Photo by Handout / Russian Space Agency Roscosmos / AFP) 
Ukraine's Zelensky in Greece to meet EU, Balkan leaders 21 Aug 2023 - 07:10 pm
Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (right) meets with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky at Maximou mansion in Athens, on August 21, 2023. (Photo by Angelos Tzortzinis / AFP)
Ecuador votes to stop oil drilling in Amazon reserve 21 Aug 2023 - 06:51 pm
An Indigenous woman casts her vote at a polling station in Tarqui, canton of Cuenca, Azuay Province, during the Ecuadorean presidential election and referendum on mining and petroleum, on August 20, 2023. (Photo by Cristina Vega Rhor / AFP)
West Africa bloc rejects Niger's three-year transition plan 21 Aug 2023 - 06:35 pm
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Philippine central bank expects economic growth to miss target 21 Aug 2023 - 05:30 pm
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France sizzles in late summer 'heat dome' 21 Aug 2023 - 05:06 pm
Children cool off as they run through a public fountain in Colmar, eastern France, on August 21, 2023, as France experiences a late summer heatwave. (Photo by Sebastien Bozon / AFP)
Somalia's government says it intends to shut down access to TikTok, Telegram over content concerns 21 Aug 2023 - 05:04 pm
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British child-killer nurse given whole-life prison sentence 21 Aug 2023 - 03:49 pm
An undated handout image released by Cheshire Constabulary police force in Manchester on August 17, 2023, shows a hand-written note alongside the 2016 Diary of nurse Lucy Letby. (Photo by Cheshire Constabulary / AFP)
Biden heads to Hawaii to view damage, meet survivors 21 Aug 2023 - 02:25 pm
US President Joe Biden waves as he departs from Our Lady of Tahoe Catholic Church in Zephyr Cove, Nevada on August 19, 2023. Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP