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Independence Day

Published: 15 Aug 2015 - 12:37 am | Last Updated: 01 Nov 2021 - 05:05 pm
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President Mamnoon Hussain (second from left) and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (right) listen to the national anthem after hoisting the national flag during a ceremony to mark the country’s Independence Day in Islamabad, yesterday.

 

Europe

(FILES) New United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, South African judge Navanethem (Navi) Pillay poses in her office at the Palais Wilson, headquarters of the specialised UN agency as she takes up her post on Spetember 1, 2008 in Geneva. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) South Africa's Navi Pillay wins Nobel Peace Prize
French police officers clash with protesters during a demonstration of high-school students at Place de la Bastille, in Paris, on October 8, 2026, as part of a nationwide protest movement over learning conditions. Photo by Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP France pledges more teachers after school students vow no let-up
A security person wearing a face mask looks out from the door of an infectious diseases hospital in the town of Shelekhov, where an employee of the Irkutsk Antiplague Research Institute had died, in the Irkutsk region on October 7, 2026. (Photo by TATYANA MAKEYEVA / AFP) Russia says all clear after contact tracing in reported plague case
Copies of books by Canadian author Anne Carson are on display at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, after a press conference on October 8, 2026 to announce her as the winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. (Photo by Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP) Canada's Anne Carson wins Nobel literature prize

Africa

Ghana's Foreign Affairs Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa speaks to the media during the official visit of India's External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in Accra, on October 6, 2026. (Photo by Nipah Dennis / AFP) Ghana to apply to join BRICS, foreign minister says
Kenyan Cabinet Secretary of Health Aden Duale speaks at a press conference in Nairobi on October 6, 2026. Photo by SIMON MAINA / AFP Kenya reports first-ever Ebola death
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