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Brazil withdraws its ambassador to Israel 29 May 2024 - 08:29 pm
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
North Korea launches waste-filled balloons to taunt the South 29 May 2024 - 08:15 pm
This handout photo taken by the South Korean Defence Ministry between the night of May 28 and 29, 2024 and released on May 29 shows unidentified objects believed to be North Korean propaganda material attached to balloons on a street in Chungnam Province. (Photo by Handout / South Korean Defence Ministry / AFP) 
New volcanic eruption on Iceland's Reykjanes peninsula: weather office 29 May 2024 - 05:55 pm
Picture taken with a drone on April 13, 2024 at Svartsengi near Grindavik, Iceland, shows an aerial view of a volcanic eruption at Sundhnukagigar in southwest Iceland, ongoing for a month. Photo by Jeremie RICHARD / AFP
Panda diplomacy is back: China sending two bears to Washington 29 May 2024 - 05:46 pm
Peninsula
Junior doctors in England to strike days before election 29 May 2024 - 04:01 pm
Peninsula
Delhi temperature hits highest ever in India: weather bureau 29 May 2024 - 03:50 pm
Men cover their head with cloth on a hot summer afternoon in New Delhi on May 29, 2024, amid ongoing heatwave. (Photo by Arun Sankar / AFP)
New mega-refinery helps Kuwait to record capacity: Minister 29 May 2024 - 03:36 pm
Kuwait Amir HH Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (C) turns a symbolic equipment during the opening of the Al-Zour oil Refinery on May 29, 2024, in al-Zour, south of Kuwait City. (Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat / AFP)
Pakistan bus crash kills at least 29 people: hospital 29 May 2024 - 03:09 pm
Peninsula
Turkey's Erdogan says 'spirit of United Nations dead in Gaza' 29 May 2024 - 12:52 pm
Peninsula
WHO delivers aid to north of Gaza for 1st time in 2 weeks, says Tedros 29 May 2024 - 12:19 pm
WHO Surgeon Dr Athanasios Gargavanis speaking of the mission that delivered fuel, hospital beds, medicines and other medical supplies to the Al-Ahli hospital.
LIVE UPDATES: UN Security Council meets over deadly strike as Israel expands Gaza offensive 29 May 2024 - 12:18 pm
Palestinians fleeing unsafe areas in Rafah arrive with their belongings on a donkey-cart in Khan Yunis. (Photo by Bashar Taleb / AFP)
World's first wooden satellite built by Japan researchers 29 May 2024 - 09:13 am
The world's first wooden satellite made from wood and named LignoSat, developed by scientists at Kyoto University and logging company Sumitomo Forestry, is shown during a press conference at Kyoto University in Kyoto on May 28, 2024. (Photo by JIJI Press / AFP)
Blinken and Sudan army chief discuss need to end war 29 May 2024 - 12:18 am
A fighter loyal to Sudan's army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan holds up a weapon backdropped by the minaret of a mosque, during a graduation ceremony in the southeastern Gedaref state on May 27, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
World must not tire of Ukraine war, says Zelensky 28 May 2024 - 11:50 pm
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky gets off his plane upon his arrival at Figo Maduro military airport in Lisbon on May 28, 2024. (Photo by Patricia De Melo Moreira / AFP)
21 displaced Palestinians killed in new Rafah massacre 28 May 2024 - 10:58 pm
Palestinians gather at the site of an Israeli strike on a camp for internally displaced people in Rafah on May 27, 2024. (Photo by Eyad Baba / AFP)
India temperature surpasses 122°F (50°C) as brutal heat waves grip nation 28 May 2024 - 09:39 pm
A boy plays with water during a hot summer day in Chennai on May 28, 2024. (Photo by R.Satish Babu / AFP)
France 'HR killer' has life sentence upheld 28 May 2024 - 09:37 pm
This court sketch made on June 13, 2023 shows Gabriel Fortin (C) during his trial in the courtroom in Valence, southeastern France, on June 13, 2023. Photo by Benoit PEYRUCQ / AFP
Israel's Rafah incursion taking dire health toll: WHO 28 May 2024 - 09:22 pm
Palestinian boys stand near a damaged structure at the site of an Israeli strike a day earlier on a camp for internally displaced people in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 28, 2024.(Photo by Eyad Baba / AFP)