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Egypt to continue mediation along with Qatar, US for Gaza ceasefire 18 Aug 2025 - 05:18 pm
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US halts visitor visas for Gazans, including humanitarian medical visas 18 Aug 2025 - 03:09 pm
A Palestinian girl searches for things to rescue at a garbage waste dump in Gaza City on August 18, 2025. (Photo by Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP)
Spain wildfires burn record territory this year: monitor 18 Aug 2025 - 03:06 pm
People fight a wildfire in the village of Vilarino, in Carballeda de Avia municipality, northwestern Spain, on August 17, 2025. Photo by MIGUEL RIOPA / AFP
Rain halts rescue operation after Pakistan floods kill hundreds 18 Aug 2025 - 02:59 pm
Villagers (center, L) stand near a building as floodwater levels rise in the Buner district of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on August 18, 2025. Photo by Abdul MAJEED / AFP
Video: Dubai police retrieve stolen diamond worth $25 million 18 Aug 2025 - 02:31 pm
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Greta Thunberg, activists block Norway oil refinery 18 Aug 2025 - 01:11 pm
Swedish climate and political activist Greta Thunberg (C) and activists from the climate protest group Extinction Rebellion take part in a protest at Equinor's oil refinery in Mongstad, north of Bergen, Norway on August 18, 2025. Photo by Paul S. Amundsen / NTB / AFP
Rooms of their own: women-only communities thrive in China 18 Aug 2025 - 12:42 pm
The photo taken on July 15, 2025 shows Chen Yani (C), also known as
Swatch pulls 'slanted eye' ad after Chinese social media uproar 18 Aug 2025 - 11:26 am
Swiss-made Swatch watches on display in their store on August 05, 2025 in Miami Beach, Florida. Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP
Amnesty says Israel deliberately starving Gaza's Palestinians 18 Aug 2025 - 10:54 am
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Hurricane Erin restrengthens as it lashes Caribbean with rain 18 Aug 2025 - 09:04 am
A truck drives through a flooded road as category 3 Hurricane Erin leaves the region in Naguabo, Puerto Rico on August 16, 2025. (Photo by Ricardo Arduengo / AFP)
Australian court fines Qantas US$59 million for illegal layoffs 18 Aug 2025 - 07:51 am
A Qantas Airways Boeing 737 aircraft takes off from Sydney International Airport in Sydney on August 18, 2025. (Photo by David Gray / AFP)
Egyptian, Palestinian prime ministers discuss developments in Gaza Strip 17 Aug 2025 - 11:53 pm
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European leaders to join Zelensky in Trump meeting 17 Aug 2025 - 10:51 pm
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen leave at the end of a joint press conference in Brussels, on August 17, 2025. (Photo by Simon Wohlfahrt / AFP)
Women bear brunt of Afghanistan's water scarcity 17 Aug 2025 - 10:18 pm
An Afghan woman with children takes a break as they haul water cans on wheelbarrows along a deserted street in the drought-ridden village of Bolak at Chahar Bolak district, Balkh province on July 10, 2025.  (Photo by Atif Aryan / AFP)
Air Canada cancels more flights as strike continues: statement 17 Aug 2025 - 10:00 pm
A person looks at a flight board with many cancellations for Air Canada flights at Pierre-Elliott Trudeau Airport in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on August 17, 2025. (Photo by ANDREJ IVANOV / AFP)
'Planting food, not hate': Brazil's Lula razzes Trump over tariff-hit grapes 17 Aug 2025 - 09:29 pm
File: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva / AFP
QRCS launches new health project for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh 17 Aug 2025 - 07:40 pm
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Air Canada to resume flights after govt directive ends strike 17 Aug 2025 - 02:48 pm
Air Canada airplanes stand on the tarmac at Pearson International Airport in Toronto on August 16, 2025. (Photo by Peter Power / AFP)