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Japan divers capture rare footage of live giant squid 19 Jan 2023 - 11:55 am
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Hong Kong to remove mandatory quarantine for Covid infections 19 Jan 2023 - 11:41 am
Travellers take the first train to Hong Kong's Lok Ma Chau border checkpoint on the first day China reopens the border amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Hong Kong, China, January 8, 2023. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu/File Photo
New Zealand Prime Minister Ardern announces shock resignation 19 Jan 2023 - 08:02 am
This video frame grab from TVNZ via AFPTV taken on January 19, 2023 shows New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announcing she will resign from her post next month, in Wellington. AFP PHOTO / TVNZ via AFPTV
Iraq repatriates 142 families from Syria camp 18 Jan 2023 - 11:45 pm
Displaced Iraqis from the Yazidi community are pictured at a camp for internally displaced persons (IDP) in the Sharya area, some 15 kms from the northern city of Dohuk in the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region, on January 17, 2023. (Photo by SAFIN HAMED / AFP)
Trump presses Facebook to restore his account 18 Jan 2023 - 11:40 pm
In this file photo taken on January 17, 2023, a mobile billboard, deployed by Accountable Tech, is seen outside the Meta Headquarter in Menlo Park, California. (Photo by Kimberly White / Getty Images NA / AFP)
Philippine Nobel laureate Maria Ressa acquitted of tax evasion 18 Jan 2023 - 11:27 pm
Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa gestures after she was acquitted of the tax evasion cases against her at the Court of Tax Appeals in Quezon City, Metro Manila on January 18, 2023. (Photo by JAM STA ROSA / AFP)
Congo police scatter protesters denouncing slow M23 rebel pullback 18 Jan 2023 - 10:20 pm
Congolese police talk to demonstrators calling on authorities to enforce an agreed withdrawal of M23 rebels from occupied territory in the region, within Goma in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo on January 18, 2023. REUTERS/Djaffar Sabiti
Chile rejects $2.5 billion mine project on environmental risks in snub to business 18 Jan 2023 - 10:10 pm
Environmental activists shout slogans before Chile's committee of ministers denied permits for Andes Iron's Dominga copper and iron mining project, in Santiago, Chile, January 18, 2023. (REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado)
Philippines' Marcos says South China Sea 'keeps him up at night' 18 Jan 2023 - 10:09 pm
Philippine's President Ferdinand Marcos Jr speaks during a session at the Congress centre during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on January 18, 2023. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
Davos 2023: Saudi foreign minister sees progress to end Yemen conflict 18 Jan 2023 - 10:00 pm
Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud attends a news conference at the Arab Gulf Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on December 9, 2022. File Photo / Reuters
UN chief slams oil firms for 'big lie' on global warming 18 Jan 2023 - 09:44 pm
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses a session of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on January 18, 2023. (Photo by Fabrice Coffrini / AFP)
Tiger euthanised in South Africa after escaping from private home 18 Jan 2023 - 09:27 pm
Members of a local community policing forum search the nearby bushes for Sheba, an eight-year-old tiger that escaped from a nearby farm in the Walkerville area on the outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa on January 16, 2023 REUTERS/Ihsaan Haffejee
Denmark backs UAE leadership of COP28 climate talks 18 Jan 2023 - 08:46 pm
Denmark's Climate Minister Dan Jorgensen speaks to the media after a meeting at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, Britain, November 11, 2021. (REUTERS/Yves Herman)
Yellen eyes China trip after 'constructive' meeting with top Chinese official 18 Jan 2023 - 08:32 pm
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Chinese vice-premier Liu He and their respective delegations wait ahead of their meeting in Zurich, on January 18, 2023. (Photo by SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP)
Canada offers 200 armoured personnel carriers to Ukraine 18 Jan 2023 - 08:09 pm
Ukrainian servicemen ride an armoured fighting vehicle, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in a frontline in Mykolaiv region, Ukraine, November 4, 2022. (REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko)
Abducted Burkina women flee jihadist gunmen through bush 18 Jan 2023 - 07:59 pm
A woman pushes a barrel filled with water on the outskirts of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on January 30, 2022. File Photo / Reuters
Zelensky writes letter to invite Xi for 'dialogue' 18 Jan 2023 - 07:55 pm
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is displayed on a screen as he addresses students per video link at the Humboldt university in Berlin on January 17, 2023. (Photo by Tobias Schwarz / AFP)
Exhausted and struggling to pay bills, British nurses go on strike 18 Jan 2023 - 07:47 pm
People hold placards as they take part in a protest march organised by Doctors Association UK, NHS Workers Say No! and NHS Staff Voices, from University College London to Downing Street, in London on January 18, 2023, in support of the ongoing pay disputes.  (Photo by CARLOS JASSO / AFP)