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Ukraine folk artists harness music to fight Russian 'assimilation' 25 Jan 2025 - 02:40 pm
Iryna Kovalenko (L) and Nina Garenetska from the Ukrainian folk music quartet DakhaBrakha perform in Paris on January 22, 2025. (Photo by Sébastien Dupuy / AFP)
Angry Slovaks ratchet up protests against PM Fico's pro-Russia drive 25 Jan 2025 - 02:33 pm
Hundreds of people hold up lights as they take part in an anti-government protest organized by political activists affiliated with the
Gaza development put back 60 years by war: UNDP chief 25 Jan 2025 - 01:44 pm
People camp in a heavily damaged UN school surrounded by destruction, as displaced Palestinians return to the northern areas of the Gaza Strip, in Jabalia, on January 23, 2025. (Photo by Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP)
Pandas, like Trump, are back in Washington 25 Jan 2025 - 01:30 pm
Giant panda Bao Li eats bamboo during the public debut at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, DC, on January 24, 2025. (Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP)
US begins mass deportation flights for undocumented migrants 25 Jan 2025 - 12:28 pm
This image released by the Department of Defense shows undocumented migrants awaiting takeoff for a removal flight at the Tucson International Airport, Arizona, January 23, 2025. (Photo by Devlin Bishop / DVIDS / AFP)
Casualties, destruction as Israeli aggression continues in Jenin and its refugee camp 25 Jan 2025 - 12:16 pm
People gather around a car in which two Palestinians killed a day earlier iduring an Israeli military raid on Qabatiya in the occupied-West Bank Jenin governorate, on January 25, 2025. (Photo by Jaafar Ashtiyeh / AFP)
India probes mystery illness after 17 die: reports 25 Jan 2025 - 11:23 am
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Rubbish roads: Nepal explores paving with plastic 25 Jan 2025 - 11:08 am
This photograph taken on December 26, 2024 shows vehicles riding over a road built using recycled plastic waste in Pokhara. (Photo by Prakash Mathema / AFP)
LIVE UPDATES: Hamas-Israeli authorities exchange detainees and prisoners 25 Jan 2025 - 10:47 am
Displaced Palestinians arrive with their belongings northwest of Nuseirat in the central part of the strip on January 24, 2025. (Photo by Bashar Taleb / AFP)
US migrant deportation flights arrive in Latin America 25 Jan 2025 - 09:04 am
Handout picture released by Guatemalan Migration Institute shows Guatemalan migrants descending from an US military plane after being deported from US on January 24, 2025. (Photo by Handout / Guatemalan Migration Institute / AFP)
German man sets world record living for 120 days underwater 25 Jan 2025 - 07:57 am
German aerospace engineer Rudiger Koch, 59, jumps into the water to celebrate breaking the Guinness world record on January 24, 2025. (Photo by MARTIN BERNETTI / AFP)
DR Congo battles intensify, Western nations ask citizens to leave Goma 25 Jan 2025 - 07:47 am
A woman sits by a lamp at her stall in Goma on January 24, 2025, as the rest of the market is plunged into obscurity following a powerline damage . (Photo by Jospin Mwisha / AFP)
US Senate confirms former Fox News co-host as Pentagon chief 25 Jan 2025 - 07:40 am
Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth and his family arrive at the US Capitol on January 24, 2025 in Washington, DC. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images/AFP
Colonial monument toppled ahead of Australia's national holiday 25 Jan 2025 - 07:37 am
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Philippines stops research survey after Chinese 'harassment' in disputed sea 25 Jan 2025 - 07:35 am
In this handout photo taken on January 24, 2025, China Coast Guard officers check an incident with Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) during a marine scientific survey near Thitu Island. (Photo by Handout / Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) / AFP)
Russia announces downing of 23 Ukrainian drones 24 Jan 2025 - 11:52 pm
This handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Emergency Service on January 23, 2025, shows a rescuer working with a water hose to extinguish a fire at the site of a missile strike in Zaporizhzhia. (Photo by Handout / Ukrainian Emergency Service  / AFP)
Sudan army breaks paramilitary siege on Khartoum HQ, reclaims oil refinery 24 Jan 2025 - 11:09 pm
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2,200-year-old mosaic, 1800-year-old monument found in Turkiye 24 Jan 2025 - 10:39 pm
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