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Sri Lanka probes tourist deaths from pest fumigation 08 Feb 2025 - 07:51 am
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Trump revokes Biden's security clearance, escalates foreign aid crackdown 08 Feb 2025 - 07:47 am
(Files) US President Joe Biden shakes hands with US President-elect Donald Trump during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on November 13, 2024. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)
Hamas announces names of three Israeli prisoners to be released tomorrow, Feb 8 07 Feb 2025 - 11:43 pm
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UK govt bans 'bird gatherings' as avian flu outbreak worsens 07 Feb 2025 - 11:30 pm
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Venezuela brands Rubio a 'thief' over US jet seizure 07 Feb 2025 - 07:31 pm
A “seized” sign is placed on a Venezuelan government airplane during a press conference where US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (R) announced its seizure at La Isabela International Airport in Santo Domingo, on February 6, 2025. Photo by Mark Schiefelbein / POOL / AFP.
India PM Modi to meet Trump in US visit next week 07 Feb 2025 - 04:39 pm
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (C) waves as he leaves after taking a holy dip in the sacred waters of Sangam, the confluence of Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers during Maha Kumbh Mela festival, in Prayagraj on February 5, 2025. Photo by Niharika KULKARNI / AFP.
Flight carrying 10 reported missing in Alaska 07 Feb 2025 - 04:21 pm
Photo used for representational purposes. A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 airplane taxis past American Airlines and Alaska Airlines airplanes at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in Los Angeles, California on January 31, 2025. Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP.
A stream turns blood red in Argentina, residents blame pollution 07 Feb 2025 - 02:58 pm
This aerial view shows an unusual reddish color of the Sarandi Canal seeping into the Rio de la Plata River in Sarandi, Avellaneda in the outskirts of Buenos Aires on February 6, 2025. (Photo by Juan MABROMATA / AFP)
Nearly all USAID staff to be laid off: US media 07 Feb 2025 - 02:55 pm
View of the logo of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) at its office in Tegucigalpa taken on February 6, 2025. Photo by Orlando SIERRA / AFP
Thousands in nationwide Greece protests over rail tragedy 07 Feb 2025 - 02:35 pm
Search operations are underway after a head-on collision of a freight train with a passenger train carrying over 350 people killed dozens of people on February 28, the country's worst-ever rail disaster, in the Tempi Valley near Larissa on March 2, 2023. (Photo by Sakis MITROLIDIS / AFP)
AI starts to help India's struggling farms 07 Feb 2025 - 02:28 pm
This photograph taken on February 3, 2025 shows workers at agritech startup Niqo Robotics, riding a tractor with AI-powered spot sprayer at a testing facility on the outskirts of Bengaluru. Photo by AFP
World Food Programme calls on international community to support Gaza's reconstruction 07 Feb 2025 - 12:55 pm
Displaced Palestinian families take refuge in tents installed near their damaged homes in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on February 6, 2025. Photo by Bashar TALEB / AFP
Sweden to limit access to semi-automatic weapons after mass shooting: govt 07 Feb 2025 - 12:49 pm
Mourners leave flowers and candles at the memorial site outside the adult education center Campus Risbergska school in Orebro, Sweden, on February 6, 2025 two days after a shooting there left eleven people dead. Photo by Christine Olsson/TT / TT NEWS AGENCY / AFP
One killed as drug-linked shootings spike in Brussels 07 Feb 2025 - 12:46 pm
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Flight carrying 10 reported missing in Alaska: police 07 Feb 2025 - 09:54 am
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Impeached Duterte won't rule out Philippine presidential run 07 Feb 2025 - 09:51 am
Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte gives a statement on impeachment complaints filed against her at her office in Mandaluyong, Metro Manila on February 7, 2025. Photo by JAM STA ROSA / AFP
Mexico cuts key interest rate amid US tariff tensions 06 Feb 2025 - 11:52 pm
Mexico's National Guard officers, part of the Operation Frontera Norte, stand guard next to the Mexico-US border wall in Playas de Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico on February 5, 2025. (Photo by Guillermo Arias / AFP)
Fentanyl fatality rate higher in Canada than US: security minister 06 Feb 2025 - 11:45 pm
A mural in an alley in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, on December 21, 2016, painted by a man mourning the fentanyl overdose death of his wife, with names of other victims of the crisis that killed 128 people in British Columbia in November. AFP / Deborah