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Deadly attacks in Sudan's Darfur 'shocking': WHO chief 12 Dec 2024 - 11:59 am
File photo for representational purposes only showing people walking among scattered objects in the market of El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur on April 29, 2023. (AFP)
UN General Assembly to vote on 'unconditional' ceasefire in Gaza 11 Dec 2024 - 11:03 pm
File: A man takes cover behind a column as an explosion propagates smoke and dust during an Israeli strike which reportedly targeted a school in the Zeitoun district on the outskirts of Gaza City, on September 1, 2024. (Photo by Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP)
Damascus airport to reopen 'in next few days': director 11 Dec 2024 - 08:26 pm
An aerial view shows passenger planes of Syria's private airline company Cham Wings on the tarmac of the closed international airport of Damascus on December 11, 2024.  (Photo by Omar Haj Kadour / AFP)
UN appeals for $4 billion in Gaza, West Bank aid in 2025 11 Dec 2024 - 08:20 pm
This view shows the tents of displaced Palestinians erected by a collapsed building in Gaza City on December 11, 2024. (Photo by Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP)
US offers $10 mn reward for wanted Chinese hacker 11 Dec 2024 - 05:59 pm
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Kazakhstan mulls new time zone change 11 Dec 2024 - 03:55 pm
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German e-commerce giant Zalando snaps up local rival 11 Dec 2024 - 03:31 pm
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South Korea police say security guards blocking raid on presidential office 11 Dec 2024 - 11:46 am
South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo attends a plenary session, where a question-and-answer session was held relating to the martial law declaration, at the National Assembly in Seoul on December 11, 2024. South Korean police raided President Yoon Suk Yeol's office on December 11 as the investigation into his declaration of martial law gathered pace. (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE / AFP)
Trump says solving Ukraine crisis his top priority 11 Dec 2024 - 11:31 am
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Students, employees told to stay home due to air pollution in Iran 11 Dec 2024 - 11:10 am
Smog covers Tehran on December 7, 2024 amid severe air pollution. Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP.
Trump defends choice of Kushner for France envoy 11 Dec 2024 - 10:59 am
French President Emmanuel Macron (R) and US President-elect Donald Trump (C) speak ahead of a ceremony to mark the re-opening of the landmark Notre-Dame Cathedral, in central Paris, on December 7, 2024. (Photo by Ludovic Marin / Pool / AFP)
Turkiye opens additional border crossing with Syria to speed up refugees' return 11 Dec 2024 - 12:09 am
Syrian who lives in Turkey wait in a queue at Cilvegozu crossborder gate before entering in Syria at Reyhanli district in Hatay, on December 9, 2024. (Photo by Ozan Kose / AFP)
Macron aims to pick new French PM 'within 48 hours' 10 Dec 2024 - 09:36 pm
France's President Emmanuel Macron greets Guinea-Bissau's president before a meeting at the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris on December 9, 2024. (Photo by Stephane De Sakutin / AFP)
US disburses $20 billion Ukraine loan backed by profits from Russian assets 10 Dec 2024 - 09:24 pm
A Ukrainian soldier drives a vehicle on a road leading to the town of Chasiv Yar, in Kostyantynivka, eastern Donetsk region, on December 10, 2024. (Photo by Roman Pilipey / AFP)
NY gunman had manifesto railing against health insurance: police 10 Dec 2024 - 08:52 pm
Customers use the drive-thru at the Altoona McDonald's on East Plank Road where murder suspect Luigi Mangione was identified and later arrested on December 9, 2024 in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Photo by JEFF SWENSEN / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP
Eight dead in Cairo building collapse: health ministry 10 Dec 2024 - 08:34 pm
An excavator is stationed outside a collapsed building in the Waili district of central Cairo on December 10, 2024. Photo by AFP
Transitional govt brings 'new hope' for Syria: WHO chief 10 Dec 2024 - 08:06 pm
People cheer as they gather a the Karama square to welcome the arrival of rebel fighters from Aleppo and Daraa governorates in the southern Syrian city of Sweida on December 10, 2024.
Photo by SHADI AL DUBAISI / AFP.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Hidankyo calls for a world without nukes 10 Dec 2024 - 07:35 pm
The representatives of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize winner Japan's atomic bomb survivors' group Nihon Hidankyo, Terumi Tanaka, Shigemitsu Tanaka and Toshiyuki Mimaki applaud during the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony at the Oslo City Hall in Oslo, Norway on December 10, 2024. Photo by Javad Parsa / NTB / AFP