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Besieged Gazans share shoes, wear same clothes for months 18 Aug 2024 - 11:29 am
Displaced Palestinian Nazek Abu Shmala washes clothes inside a flat in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip where she's temporarily sheltering with her family on August 15, 2024,amid the conflict between Israel and Hamas militants. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
Fire contained at historic London arts centre 18 Aug 2024 - 11:26 am
Smoke is seen rising into the sky from a fire located in the roof of Somerset House beside the River Thames in London on August 17, 2024. Photo by James RYBACKI / AFP
Turkey battles forest fires for third day 18 Aug 2024 - 10:51 am
This photograph shows a helicopter carrying water to fight a forest fire, with windmills in the background in Turkey's western province of Izmir on August 17, 2024. (Photo by Yasin AKGUL / AFP)
Australian champion race horse Black Caviar dies 18 Aug 2024 - 10:40 am
Strapper Donna Fisher parades Australian thoroughbred racehorse Black Caviar in the mounting yard for the last time during her farewell at Caulfield Racecourse in Melbourne on April 20, 2013. (Photo by PAUL CROCK / AFP)
Ferris wheel fire at German festival injures more than 20 18 Aug 2024 - 10:25 am
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Hurricane Ernesto downgraded to tropical storm as it exits Bermuda 18 Aug 2024 - 10:05 am
This satellite image obtained from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Ernesto at 14:50 Zulu on August 17, 2024. Photo by Handout / NOAA/GOES / AFP
Fire breaks out at London's Somerset House containing priceless works by Van Gogh, Cezanne 17 Aug 2024 - 11:33 pm
Firefighters direct water onto the roof of Somerset House after smoke from a fire was seen coming from the roof earlier in the afternoon, beside the River Thames in London on August 17, 2024. (Photo by James RYBACKI / AFP)
UK, France, Germany, Italy Foreign Ministers affirm support for Gaza mediation efforts 17 Aug 2024 - 11:07 pm
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Safety 'deteriorating' at Ukraine nuclear plant: UN watchdog 17 Aug 2024 - 10:14 pm
This video grab taken from a handout footage released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service on August 11, 2024, shows a fire at a cooling tower of the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Energodar, Southern Ukraine. (Photo by Handout / UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE / AFP)
Polio could double death toll from Israeli aggression: Gaza primary health care director general 17 Aug 2024 - 09:51 pm
Palestinians mourn their relatives, killed in an Israeli strike, at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on August 17, 2024. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)
Social media platform X to shutter local operations in Brazil 17 Aug 2024 - 09:47 pm
(FILES) X owner Elon Musk speaks at the 27th annual Milken Institute Global Conference at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles on May 6, 2024. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP)
Bolivia bus crash kills 14, leaves 18 injured 17 Aug 2024 - 09:19 pm
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Russia opens criminal probe into Italian journalists who entered Kursk 17 Aug 2024 - 08:36 pm
This photograph taken on August 16, 2024, during a media tour organised by Ukraine, shows a damaged gas measuring station
Twenty medical students kidnapped in Nigeria 17 Aug 2024 - 08:18 pm
Peninsula
Fear grips east DR Congo as displaced await mpox vaccine 17 Aug 2024 - 08:09 pm
Health workers walk between wards at the Mpox treatment centre at Nyiragongo General Referral Hospital, north of Goma on August 17, 2024. (Photo by GUERCHOM NDEBO / AFP)
Senegal's first satellite successfully launched 17 Aug 2024 - 07:44 pm
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Sudan's RSF kill 85 people in an attack on Sennar village: residents 17 Aug 2024 - 07:29 pm
Sudanese fleeing the southeastern town of Sennar after an attack by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on nearby Jebel Moyain, arrive on June 28, 2024. Photo by AFP.
Sudan health minister declares cholera epidemic 17 Aug 2024 - 07:15 pm
Sudanese already displaced by conflict, walk near tents at a makeshift campsite they were evacuated to following deadly floods in the eastern city of Kassala on August 12, 2024. (Photo by AFP)