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Longest cross-sea bridge in China's Guangxi opens to traffic 29 Dec 2024 - 05:11 pm
An aerial drone photo taken on Dec. 24, 2024 shows Longmen Bridge in Qinzhou, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Zhang Ailin)
Azerbaijan accuses Russia of trying to hide causes of plane crash 29 Dec 2024 - 04:19 pm
(FILES) In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin meets with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) member states leaders' summit in Astana on July 3, 2024. (Photo by Sergei SAVOSTYANOV / POOL / AFP)
Both Jeju Air black boxes found: officials 29 Dec 2024 - 04:03 pm
Firefighters and rescue personnel work near the scene where a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 series aircraft crashed and burst into flames at Muan International Airport in South Jeolla Province, some 288 kilometers southwest of Seoul on December 29, 2024. (Photo by YONHAP / AFP)
IOF murders over 45,514 Palestinians since beginning of Israel's genocide on Gaza 29 Dec 2024 - 03:52 pm
A Palestinian man mourns a relative, killed in an Israeli strike, at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on December 28, 2024. (Photo by BASHAR TALEB / AFP)
Shock, grief at South Korea Jeju Air crash site 29 Dec 2024 - 02:31 pm
People and relatives of passengers of the crashed Jeju Air Boeing react at Muan International Airport in South Jeolla Province on December 29, 2024. (Photo by Jung Yeon-Je / AFP)
Egypt tests new extension of the Suez Canal 29 Dec 2024 - 02:10 pm
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Cameroon islands offer safe home for orphaned chimps 29 Dec 2024 - 12:38 pm
Fabrice Moudoungue (R) prepares to give food to a chimpanzee in the Douala-Edea Natural Park in Marienberg on December 14, 2024. (Photo by Daniel Beloumou Olomo / AFP)
Georgia's new president sworn in amid political showdown 29 Dec 2024 - 12:30 pm
Mikheil Kavelashvili, elected by lawmakers as Georgia's new President, takes the oath during his swearing-in ceremony at the parliament in Tbilisi, on December 29, 2024. (Photo by Irakli Gedenidze / Pool / AFP)
Celestial V70 wins overall honours in Sydney to Hobart yacht race 29 Dec 2024 - 12:27 pm
This handout image taken on December 26, 2024 and received from Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race on December 29, shows the yacht Celestial competing at the start of the annual 2024 Sydney to Hobart yacht race. (Photo by Carlo Borlenghi / ROLEX / AFP)
What we know about Jeju Air plane crash in South Korea 29 Dec 2024 - 11:51 am
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South Korea Jeju Air plane crash death toll jumps to 120, with only 2 survivors so far: fire department 29 Dec 2024 - 10:02 am
South Korean soldiers search for missing passengers near the wreckage of a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 series aircraft after the plane crashed and burst into flames at Muan International Airport in South Jeolla Province on December 29, 2024. (Photo by Jung Yeon-Je / AFP)
Croatia elects president as incumbent looks favourite 29 Dec 2024 - 09:41 am
A car drives past an election poster of Presidential candidate of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party, Dragan Primorac that reads
Trump sides with Musk in right-wing row over worker visas 29 Dec 2024 - 09:10 am
US President-elect Donald Trump is driven from the Trump International Golf Club in a convoy of vehicles on December 28, 2024 in Palm Beach, Florida. Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images/AFP
Shark kills man fishing in Australia's Great Barrier Reef 29 Dec 2024 - 08:11 am
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Death toll rises to 85 in South Korea Jeju Air plane crash: fire agency 29 Dec 2024 - 07:56 am
Fire and smoke rise from the tail section of a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 series aircraft after the plane crashed and burst into flames at Muan International Airport in South Jeolla Province, some 288 kilometres southwest of Seoul on December 29, 2024. (Photo by YONHAP / AFP)
Plane with 181 on board crashes in South Korea, killing 62 29 Dec 2024 - 06:48 am
Smoke rises from the tail section of a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 series aircraft after the plane crashed and burst into flames at Muan International Airport in South Jeolla Province, some 288 kilometres southwest of Seoul on December 29, 2024. (Photo by YONHAP / AFP)
Togo delays Senate elections to February 15 28 Dec 2024 - 11:20 pm
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Prolonged conflict deepens Sudan's humanitarian crisis in 2024 28 Dec 2024 - 08:49 pm
Sudanese people fleeing the Jazirah district arrive at a camp for the displaced in the eastern city of Gedaref on October 31, 2024. (Photo by AFP)