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VIDEO: Residents evacuated as Guatemalan volcano spews lava, rocks 10 Mar 2025 - 06:24 pm
Fuego volcano erupts as seen from Alotenango, Sacatepequez department, some 65 kilometres southwest Guatemala City on March 10, 2025. Photo by JOHAN ORDONEZ / AFP
North Sea tanker and cargo ship collision injures 32 10 Mar 2025 - 06:08 pm
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Five years ago, WHO's pandemic call shook world into action 10 Mar 2025 - 06:01 pm
(Files) The logo of the World Health Organization (WHO) is pictured on the facade of the WHO headquarters on October 24, 2017 in Geneva. (Photo by Fabrice Coffrini / AFP)
Northern Mozambique hit by third cyclone in four months 10 Mar 2025 - 05:39 pm
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Vingroup aims to start $9 bln tourism project near mangrove forest 10 Mar 2025 - 05:04 pm
This photo taken on April 21, 2022 shows oyster farmers riding their boat past a mangrove forest at a coastal area in Ho Chi Minh City's Can Gio district. Photo by Nhac NGUYEN / AFP
'Too soon' to discuss Pope's return home, says Vatican source 10 Mar 2025 - 04:56 pm
A general view shows the Gemelli University Hospital where Pope Francis is hospitalized with pneumonia, in Rome on March 10, 2025 (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP)
Coolant leak at Europe's biggest nuclear reactor: operator 10 Mar 2025 - 04:26 pm
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US President Donald Trump 'unpredictable': Greenland PM 10 Mar 2025 - 01:07 pm
An audience member (C-L) asks a question to the Prime Minister of Greenland and Inuit Ataqatigii (IA) party candidate Mute Bourup Egede and other candidates during a televised all party political debate at the high school, in the capital Nuuk on March 8, 2025. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)
Strike action grounds thousands of flights in Germany 10 Mar 2025 - 01:00 pm
A passenger sleeps at the empty Berlin-Brandenburg Airport's Terminal during a strike of German union Verdi at the Berlin-Brandenburg Airport (BER) in Schoenefeld, southeast of Berlin, on March 10, 2025. (Photo by Ralf Hirschberger / AFP)
Australian police say caravan explosives plot a hoax 10 Mar 2025 - 12:03 pm
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Canada's next PM Mark Carney vows to 'win' US trade war 10 Mar 2025 - 11:05 am
Canada's Liberal Leader and Prime Minister-elect Mark Carney speaks after being elected as the new Liberal Party leader, in Ottawa on March 9, 2025. (Photo by Dave Chan / AFP)
Argentina flooding death toll rises to 16, two girls missing 10 Mar 2025 - 12:56 am
People is transported on a police boat through flooded waters the day after a heavy storm in Bahia Blanca, 600 km south of Buenos Aires on March 8, 2025. At least ten people died and more than 1,000 were evacuated in the Argentine port city of Bahia Blanca as torrential rains flooded homes and hospitals, destroyed roads and forced authorities to cut the power. (Photo by PABLO PRESTI / AFP)
Israel announces complete power cut to Gaza Strip 09 Mar 2025 - 08:26 pm
Palestinians decorated their war-devastated neighbourhood to welcome Ramadan. Photo by AFP
Peace monitors call for swift probe into violence in South Sudan 09 Mar 2025 - 06:42 pm
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Much of the US will soon have temperatures higher than 70 degrees. See where 09 Mar 2025 - 06:36 pm
Snow dusted mountains stand on the skyline behind a view of the Hollywood sign following rain storms, as seen from the Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area, in Los Angeles, California on March 7, 2025. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP)
Thousands gather to welcome Nepal's former king 09 Mar 2025 - 06:32 pm
Nepal's former King Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev waves as he arrives at Tribhuwan International Airport in Kathmandu on March 9, 2025. (Photo by Prakash Mathema / AFP)
China to expand mental health services nationwide: official 09 Mar 2025 - 06:16 pm
People look at the skyline next to the Jialing river in Yuzhong District in Chongqing in southwestern China on March 6, 2025. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP)
Phone bans sweep US schools despite skepticism 09 Mar 2025 - 06:12 pm
Eighth-grader Ja’ Nae Dorsey (R) unlocks her cell phone pouch after school followed by her twin sister La’ Mae Dorsey (L) and 7th-grader Hayden Jones (C) at Mark Twain Middle School in Alexandria, Virginia, on March 6, 2025. Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP