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NASA launches ground-breaking climate change satellite 25 May 2024 - 05:33 pm
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket sits at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on May 5, 2024. Photo by Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo / Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo / AFP / AFP.
Migrants arriving in UK by sea top 10,000 this year 25 May 2024 - 04:08 pm
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Cicadas display Nature's artwork; discerning beholders find beauty in bugs 25 May 2024 - 04:00 pm
A cicada from brood XIX is seen on a tree in Angelville, Georgia on May 23, 2024. This year's event involves the 13-year Brood XIX, currently emerging in the Carolinas, followed by the 17-year Brood XIII in the Midwest. There could be a small area of overlap in central Illinois. Photo by Elijah Nouvelage / AFP.
Zelenskyy says Ukraine has taken back control in areas of the embattled Kharkiv region 25 May 2024 - 03:51 pm
This handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Presidential press service in Kharkiv on May 24, 2024, shows Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky visiting a printing house that was destroyed by Russian shelling the day before. Photo by Handout / UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE / AFP.
Spain demands Israeli entity comply with UN court ruling on Rafah 25 May 2024 - 03:44 pm
Displaced Palestinian children carry water in a makeshift camp in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on May 24, 2024. Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP.
First French tourists evacuated from New Caledonia 25 May 2024 - 12:24 pm
People man a roadblock barricade, with Kanak flags, controlling access to a district in Noumea, France's Pacific territory of New Caledonia, on May 24, 2024. (Photo by Theo Rouby / AFP)
Israel strikes Rafah after top UN court orders it to halt offensive 25 May 2024 - 12:20 pm
Palestinians search for survivors at the site of an Israeli strike on the Al-Daraj neighbourhood in Gaza City on May 24, 2024. (Photo by Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP)
Italy to resume funding for UN agency for Palestinian refugees 25 May 2024 - 10:24 am
Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (front) welcomes her Palestinian Authority counterpart Mohammed Mustafa prior to their meeting at Palazzo Chigi in Rome on May 25 2024. (Photo by Filippo Monteforte / AFP)
Emergency convoy takes provisions to survivors of devastating landslide in Papua New Guinea 25 May 2024 - 08:10 am
People gather at the site of a landslide in Maip Mulitaka in Papua New Guinea's Enga Province on May 24, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
Swiss return three confiscated artefacts to Iraq 25 May 2024 - 12:19 am
This handout photograph released on May 21, 2024, by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture shows a torso fragment from the monumental statue of a king discovered during excavations carried out in 1959 in Hatra and dated from the second - third centuries AD. (Photo by Handout / Swiss Federal Office of Culture / AFP) 
Death toll from Israeli aggression on Gaza rises to 35,800 24 May 2024 - 09:28 pm
A Palestinian woman cries after identifying victims at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah following Israeli bombardment overnight on May 23, 2024. (Photo by Bashar Taleb / AFP)
EU told to tackle food cost differences across the bloc 24 May 2024 - 09:14 pm
European Commission vice-president Margrethe Vestager addresses a press conference on an antitrust case at the EU headquarters in Brussels, on May 23, 2024. (Photo by Kenzo Tribouillard / AFP)
GCC welcomes ICj's decision to stop attack on Rafah 24 May 2024 - 08:26 pm
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Eiffel Tower ticket prices to rise by 20 percent 24 May 2024 - 07:57 pm
This photograph taken on December 5, 2023, shows a general view of the Eiffel tower along the Seine River in Paris. (Photo by MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP)
Passengers had seconds to react as turbulence hit Singapore flight 24 May 2024 - 05:46 pm
A general view shows the exterior of Samitivej Srinakarin Hospital, where some of the injured passengers were being treated two days after the turbulence-hit Singapore Airlines flight SQ321 from London to Singapore, in Bangkok on May 23, 2024. Photo by Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP
ICJ orders Israel to 'immediately halt' offensive in Rafah 24 May 2024 - 04:42 pm
Magistrates are seen at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as part of South Africa's request on a Gaza ceasefire in The Hague, on May 24, 2024. Photo by Nick Gammon / AFP
At least 100 killed in massive landslide in Papua New Guinea 24 May 2024 - 04:31 pm
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40,000 worshippers perform friday prayer at Al-Aqsa mosque 24 May 2024 - 04:23 pm
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