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Pentagon chief irks Singaporeans with Lee-Trump comparison 31 May 2025 - 09:08 am
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (L) is greeted by his Singaporean counterpart Chan Chun Sing (R) at a ministerial roundtable during the Shangri-La Dialogue Summit in Singapore on May 31, 2025. (Photo by Mohd Rasfan / AFP)
Vienna calling: Strauss's 'The Blue Danube' to waltz into outer space 31 May 2025 - 09:01 am
A sheet of music of the waltz
Moroccan women embroider 'art with purpose' 31 May 2025 - 08:40 am
French Morocco artist Margaux Derhy (C) talks to participants during an embroidery workshop in Sidi Rbat on May 14, 2025. (Photo by Abdel Majid Bziouat / AFP)
Trump says Chinese students in US will 'be ok' 31 May 2025 - 08:36 am
US President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the US Steel-Irvin Works on May 30, 2025 in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania. Jeff Swensen/Getty Images/AFP
UK reports sunniest spring since 1910 31 May 2025 - 12:00 am
A pedestrian passes newly bloomed daffodils in St James's Park in London on March 6, 2025. (Photo by Henry Nicholls / AFP)
Archaeologists discover 2,800-year-old Mayan City in Guatemala 30 May 2025 - 11:27 pm
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Trump gives Elon Musk an Oval Office goodbye 30 May 2025 - 10:59 pm
US President Donald Trump gives to Elon Musk a
Death toll in central Nigeria flooding rises to 115 30 May 2025 - 10:52 pm
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Gaza ceasefire deal 'very close': US President Trump 30 May 2025 - 10:11 pm
US President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)
Storms in Pakistan kill 32, injure over 150 in a week 30 May 2025 - 08:17 pm
A man takes pictures of a damaged mosque, a day after flash floods in Balgran village near Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir on May 28, 2025. (Photo by Sajjad Qayyum / AFP)
Syria welcomes Japan's decision to lift sanctions on four banks 30 May 2025 - 08:05 pm
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UN declares Gaza the most food-insecure place in the world 30 May 2025 - 07:56 pm
People queue with pots to receive charity meals from a kitchen in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on April 24, 2025. (Photo by Bashar Taleb / AFP)
Trump signals fresh trade tensions with China 30 May 2025 - 04:31 pm
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Syrian government signs strategic MOU with consortium of international companies led by UCC Holding to develop large-scale Power Generation Projects 30 May 2025 - 11:28 am
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Iraq, Russia discuss counterterrorism cooperation 30 May 2025 - 12:37 am
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White House slams court decision blocking Trump tariffs 29 May 2025 - 11:19 pm
Counselor to the President for Trade and Manufacturing Peter Navarro speaks to the press outside the White House in Washington, DC, on May 29, 2025. (Photo by Jim Watson / AFP)
Sri Lanka ex-ministers jailed up to 25 years for corruption 29 May 2025 - 08:43 pm
Sri Lanka's former sports minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage (left) and former trade minister Anil Fernando are escorted by police outside a court in Colombo on May 29, 2029 (Photo by Ishara S. Kodikara/ AFP)
East Timor deports ex-Philippine lawmaker wanted in 2023 killings 29 May 2025 - 08:32 pm
Filipino national Arnolfo Teves (centre), a murder suspect, is escorted by East Timorese security personnel for deportation to his home country at Nicolau Lobato airport in Dili on May 29, 2025. (Photo by Valentino Dariell De Sousa / AFP)