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Kenya's Treetops hotel reopens after Covid shutdown 05 Aug 2024 - 02:23 pm
Wooden debris show remainings of the original location of the former tree house where Britain's Queen Elizabeth II of England stayed the night her father, the King, died and became Queen in 1952 at Treetops Lodge in Aberdare Narional Park in Nyeri, Kenya, on April 10, 2021. Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP
TikTok, bowing to EU, withdraws rewards programme 05 Aug 2024 - 02:11 pm
This file photo taken on March 16, 2023 shows the TikTok logo displayed outside the social media app's company offices in Culver City, California. Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP
PM Sheikh Hasina resigns and leaves Bangladesh amid widening unrest 05 Aug 2024 - 12:54 pm
Anti-government protestors display Bangladesh's national flag as they storm Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's palace in Dhaka on August 5, 2024. Photo by K M ASAD / AFP
Bangladesh protesters storm prime minister's palace 05 Aug 2024 - 12:31 pm
Anti-government protestors march towards Bangladesh prime minister's residence in Dhaka on August 5, 2024. Photo by Munir UZ ZAMAN / AFP
Bangladesh PM flees her palace as protesters roam streets 05 Aug 2024 - 12:25 pm
Protesters block the Shahbagh intersection during a protest in Dhaka on August 4, 2024. Photo by Munir UZ ZAMAN / AFP.
Torrential rains have claimed more than 150 lives in China in the past 2 months 05 Aug 2024 - 11:45 am
A partially buried building is pictured a day after a landslide in Kangding, in China痴 southwest Sichuan province on August 4, 2024. (Photo by CNS / CNS / AFP)
Turkish inflation falls to 61.78% in July 05 Aug 2024 - 11:17 am
Peninsula
Anti-government protesters in Bangladesh plan to march to capital after a weekend of deadly clashes 05 Aug 2024 - 10:06 am
Protesters block the Shahbagh intersection during a protest in Dhaka in August 4, 2024, to demand justice for the victims arrested and killed in the recent nationwide violence during anti-quota protests.  (Photo by Munir UZ ZAMAN / AFP)
Indian army teams scour landslide site for remaining dead 05 Aug 2024 - 09:11 am
In this handout photograph taken on August 2, 2024 and released by India's National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), relief personnel conduct a search and rescue operation after the landslides in Wayanad. Photo by National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) / AFP
Belgium withdraws from mixed relay triathlon after athlete who swam in Seine falls ill 04 Aug 2024 - 11:12 pm
File: Athletes compete in the swimming race in the Seine during the women's individual triathlon at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in central Paris on July 31, 2024. (Photo by Martin Bureau / POOL / AFP)
UK PM Starmer vows far-right rioters will 'regret' worst disorder in years 04 Aug 2024 - 10:56 pm
Protesters, including one wearing a mask of Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer, hold placards during a 'Enough is Enough' demonstration called by far-right activists near a hotel housing asylum seekers in Aldershot on August 4, 2024.  (Photo by Justin Tallis / AFP)
M23 rebels take DR Congo-Uganda border town 04 Aug 2024 - 10:01 pm
Peninsula
Sicily's Catania airport back in service after Etna activity 04 Aug 2024 - 09:08 pm
Lava, steam and ashes spew from a crater of the Mount Etna volcano early on August 4, 2024 in Sicily. (Photo by Giuseppe Distefano / Etna Walk / AFP)
Zelensky says Ukraine has received first F-16 jets 04 Aug 2024 - 09:00 pm
In this handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service on August 4, 2024, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (center) watches a pair of F16 jets flying during Ukraine's Air Force Day celebrations at an undisclosed location. (Photo by Handout / UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE / AFP) 
Gaza death toll rises to 39,583; wounded 91,398 04 Aug 2024 - 08:22 pm
A woman carrying a child weeps following a reported overnight Israeli strike that hit tents used as temporary shelters by displaced Palestinians in the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, on August 4, 2024. (Photo by Eyad Baba / AFP)
New poll shows Harris strengthening against Trump 04 Aug 2024 - 08:00 pm
(COMBO) This combination of file pictures created on August 3, 2024 shows US Vice President and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaking on March 26, 2024, in Raleigh, North Carolina; and former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaking in the first presidential debate with US President Joe Biden in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 27, 2024. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski and ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)
UK grapples with worst riots in 13 years 04 Aug 2024 - 06:01 pm
A protester holding a piece of concrete walks towards riot police as clashes erupt in Bristol on August 3, 2024 during the 'Enough is Enough' demonstration held in reaction to the fatal stabbings in Southport on July 29. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)
Bangladesh anti-government protest death toll rises to 50: police, doctors 04 Aug 2024 - 04:22 pm
Buses are seen on fire at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University premises after a clash between students and government supporters during a protest in Dhaka on August 4, 2024. (Photo by Abdul GONI / AFP)