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We're full! Hotspots fight overtourism 14 Jan 2025 - 03:38 pm
Tourists visit Sensoji Temple in Asakusa, Tokyo on January 14, 2025. Photo by Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP
UK launches probe into dominance of Google search 14 Jan 2025 - 03:02 pm
This illustration picture shows the US multinational technology and Internet-related services company Google logo displayed on a tablet in Paris on February 18, 2019. Photo by Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP
German court halts sales of 'Dubai' chocolate made outside UAE 14 Jan 2025 - 02:06 pm
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Impeachment trial of South Korean President Yoon begins 14 Jan 2025 - 01:24 pm
(L to R) Constitutional Court Judges Chung Kye-sun, Kim Bok-hyeong, Jung Jung-mi, Lee Mi-son, acting head of the Constitutional Court Moon Hyung-bae, Kim Hyung-du, Cheong Hyung-sik and Cho Han-chang attend the first formal hearing of the impeachment trial of suspended South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol at the Constitutional Court in Seoul on January 14, 2025. Photo by KIM Min-Hee / POOL / AFP
Dozens rescued, bodies pulled from S. Africa mining pit 14 Jan 2025 - 12:29 pm
Rescuers and South African Police Service (SAPS) officers carry remains in blue body bags during a rescue operation to retrieve illegal miners from an abandoned gold shaft in Stilfontein on January 13, 2025.Photo by Christian Velcich / AFP
Japanese tourist magnet Kyoto to hike hotel taxes 14 Jan 2025 - 12:02 pm
Tourists visit Fushimi Inari Shrine in the city of Kyoto on January 13, 2025. Photo by PAUL MILLER / AFP
Philippines alarmed by Chinese ships moving closer to shore 14 Jan 2025 - 11:40 am
This handout aerial photo taken on January 13, 2025 and released by the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) on January 14 shows Chinese Coast Guard ship 5901 sailing in the South China Sea. Photo by Handout / Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) / AFP
Sydney closes nine beaches due to mystery balls 14 Jan 2025 - 08:12 am
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Embassy to reopen in Syria very soon: Kuwaiti FM 14 Jan 2025 - 12:35 am
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Biden says America 'stronger' on world stage in farewell speech 13 Jan 2025 - 11:48 pm
US President Joe Biden reacts to a standing ovation as he arrived to deliver a speech about his foreign policy achievements in the Ben Franklin Room at the State Department's Harry S Truman headquarters building in Washington, DC, on January 13, 2025.(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)
Melania Trump hints she will mostly live in White House 13 Jan 2025 - 11:34 pm
File: US President-elect Donald Trump and wife Melania leave St. John's Episcopal Church on January 20, 2017.  (Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP)
South Africa selects 65 tour operators to process visas for Chinese, Indian tourists 13 Jan 2025 - 11:12 pm
Free diver Zandile Ndlovu encourages a township youth to explore the marine world off Simonstown, near Cape Town, South Africa, August 22, 2021. Reuters/Mike Hutchings
Libya ready for military cooperation with Senegal: PM 13 Jan 2025 - 11:02 pm
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Peru president's new nose in prosecutors' crosshairs 13 Jan 2025 - 10:59 pm
File: Peru's President Dina Boluarte / AFP
'Defective' Paris Olympics medals to be replaced, says IOC 13 Jan 2025 - 10:09 pm
File photo for representational purposes only. The Rio 2016 Olympic medals are pictured at the Casa da Moeda do Brasil (Brazilian Mint) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 28, 2016. REUTERS/Sergio Moraes.
Olympic chiefs vow to replace US swim star medals lost in LA fires 13 Jan 2025 - 09:54 pm
The entranceway to a damaged home is seen as the Palisades Fire continues to spread in Los Angeles, California, on January 12, 2025. (Photo by David Swanson / AFP)
Gaza genodice: Death toll surges to 46,584; injured at 109,731 13 Jan 2025 - 09:11 pm
People search for their belongings amid the rubble of buildings destroyed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City on January 13, 2025. (Photo by Omar Al Qattaa / AFP)
Spain's Canary Islands 'abandoned' in migrant crisis: leader 13 Jan 2025 - 08:11 pm
Children run along the beach as people look over the sea into the haze created by a sand storm known locally as