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Philippines says US offered to escort supply ships in disputed sea 29 Aug 2024 - 02:00 pm
Philippines' Military Chief General Romeo Brawner (R) shakes hands with US Indo-Pacific Commander Admiral Samuel Paparo during a joint press conference after the Philippines-US Mutual Defence Board meeting at the Philippine Military Academy in Baguio on August 29, 2024. Photo by Ted ALJIBE / AFP
Kremlin warns France against 'political persecution' of Telegram founder 29 Aug 2024 - 01:53 pm
 Pavel Durov, CEO and co-founder of Telegram speaks onstage during day one of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015 at Pier 70 in San Francisco, California on September 21, 2015. (Photo by Steve Jennings / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP
A sinkhole swallows an SUV in South Korea, injuring 2 people 29 Aug 2024 - 01:21 pm
A man sits near parked cars along a road in Seoul on August 20, 2024. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP)
Court rules S. Korea climate goals 'unconstitutional' 29 Aug 2024 - 01:10 pm
Climate activists hold banners outside South Korea's Constitutional Court in Seoul on August 29, 2024. Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP
Powerful Typhoon Shanshan slams into southern Japan 29 Aug 2024 - 12:23 pm
Workers remove a fallen tree brought down by strong winds from Typhoon Shanshan in Usa, Oita prefecture on August 29, 2024. Photo by Yuichi YAMAZAKI / AFP
Indonesia, Australia sign 'historic' defence pact 29 Aug 2024 - 11:28 am
Indonesia's Defence Minister and president-elect Prabowo Subianto (R) and Australia's Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Richard Marles hold a press conference after signing the Australia-Indonesia Defence Cooperation Agreement (DCA) at the Military Academy in Magelang, Central Java, on August 29, 2024. Photo by DEVI RAHMAN / AFP
Floods submerge Vietnam's dragon fruit farms 29 Aug 2024 - 11:06 am
This aerial photo taken on August 28, 2024 shows a flooded dragon fruit field in Binh Thuan province. Photo by Thanh LONG / AFP
Swifties harness their power for Kamala Harris 29 Aug 2024 - 12:25 am
US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris takes photos with supporters upon arrival at Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport in Savannah, Georgia, August 28, 2024, as she travels for a 2-day campaign bus tour. (Photo by Saul Loeb / AFP)
Palestinian martyred, two others injured by Israeli Occupation Forces in Jenin, West Bank 28 Aug 2024 - 11:54 pm
People inspect a destroyed vehicle after an Israeli army raid along a road between Jenin and Tubas in the north of the occupied West Bank on August 28, 2024. (Photo by Zain JAAFAR / AFP)
France charges Telegram chief Durov: prosecutor 28 Aug 2024 - 11:26 pm
File: Telegram’s billionaire founder Pavel Durov. (Photo by Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg)
Wildfires push Canada into top four CO2 emitters 28 Aug 2024 - 10:26 pm
File photo: Firefighters battle wildfires in Canada
Palestinian foreign ministry contacts various international institutions to end Israeli onslaught 28 Aug 2024 - 02:36 pm
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India floods kill 15 after heavy rains 28 Aug 2024 - 02:33 pm
A man riding a motorbike moves through a flooded street after heavy rainfall during monsoon in Guwahati on August 20, 2024. Photo by Biju BORO / AFP.
Captain and two crew under investigation over Sicily yacht sinking 28 Aug 2024 - 02:26 pm
Prosecutor Raffaele Cammarano (L) and the chief of the public prosecutor's office of Termini Imerese Ambrogio Cartosio (R) give a press conference on August 24, 2024 in Termini Imerese, Sicily. Photo by Alessandro FUCARINI / AFP.
Mauritania and Spain pledge cooperation on migration 28 Aug 2024 - 02:06 pm
In this handout photograph taken and released by La Moncloa on August 27, 2024 Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Cheikh Ghazouani (C,R) and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez (C,L) attend the signing of agreement by Spain's Minister for Inclusion, Migration and Social Security Elma Saiz (L) and her Mauritanian couterpart in Nouakchott. Photo by Fernando CALVO / LA MONCLOA / AFP.
French prosecutors set to charge or release Telegram CEO Pavel Durov as his custody order expires 28 Aug 2024 - 12:38 pm
This handout photograph posted on the official Telegram channel of the Vice Speaker of the State Duma from the
Nine palestinians martyred in Israeli large-scale military operation in northern West Bank 28 Aug 2024 - 12:17 pm
Israeli military armoured vehicles including a bulldozer block a road during a raid in the al-Faraa camp for Palestinian refugees near Tubas city in the occupied West Bank on August 28, 2024. Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP.
Thousands told to evacuate as 'extremely strong' typhoon nears Japan 28 Aug 2024 - 12:09 pm
This photo shows rescue workers outside a house that was hit by a landslide in Gamagori, Aichi prefecture on August 28, 2024. Photo by JIJI Press / AFP