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South Africa's unemployment reaches new highs 13 Aug 2024 - 02:18 pm
People chat as they gather in the street to watch a building that caught fire in Johannesburg on August 11, 2024. Photo by EMMANUEL CROSET / AFP.
UK govt vows to 'prioritise' mental health after damning report on fatal stabbings 13 Aug 2024 - 01:53 pm
Police officers stand on duty outside the entrace to a building housing the headquarters of the Reform UK political party in London on August 10, 2024. Photo by BENJAMIN CREMEL / AFP.
Death toll mounting from South Asia's devastating monsoon 13 Aug 2024 - 01:43 pm
This handout photograph taken on August 1, 2024 and released by Humane Society International, India, shows an aerial view of the tea plantations after landslides in Wayanad. Photo by Hemanth Byatroy / Humane Society International, India / AFP
Greece battles deadly wildfire for third day 13 Aug 2024 - 11:35 am
Volunteers attempt to extinguish a wildfire in Vrilissia, on the outskirts of Athens on August 12, 2024. Photo by Aris Oikonomou / AFP.
UK police charge man after girl stabbed at London landmark 13 Aug 2024 - 11:16 am
A photograph taken on August 12, 2024 shows a hat and other items in a cordoned off area in Leicester square, London. Photo by BENJAMIN CREMEL / AFP
4.9 magnitude earthquake hits Eastern Indonesia 13 Aug 2024 - 10:23 am
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US budget deficit rises to $244 billion in July 13 Aug 2024 - 12:11 am
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Five injured in stabbing at mosque in Turkiye 12 Aug 2024 - 11:54 pm
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US to convene Sudan talks, even without Khartoum 12 Aug 2024 - 11:33 pm
A Sudanese man sits amid the destruction in his village near the northern Sudanese town of Dongola on August 11, 2024 as floodwaters devastated the region disrupting transport, destroying houses and rendering thousands of people homeless. (Photo by AFP)
UN slams surge in violence in Myanmar 12 Aug 2024 - 10:07 pm
This photo taken on August 10, 2024 shows destroyed and damaged buildings in Lashio in Myanmar's northern Shan State, following fighting between Myanmar's military and Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) in the region. (Photo by AFP)
Greece on high alert as 'exceptionally dangerous' Athens wildfire is out of control 12 Aug 2024 - 09:57 pm
A local resident walks towards fire with a branch to use it to dominate the flames during a wildfire near Penteli, 12 August 2024. (Photo by Angelos TZORTZINIS / AFP)
Trump files $100 mn claim against Justice Dept over raid on his Florida home 12 Aug 2024 - 09:52 pm
Former president Donald Trump repeated several falsehoods during a recent interview with Maria Bartiromo of Fox Business Network. (Photo by Johnnie Izquierdo for The Washington Post)
Rural Colombians holding hostage dozens of soldiers 12 Aug 2024 - 09:34 pm
File photo for representational purposes only. Handout picture released by the Government of Choco press office showing the area of a landslide in the road between Quibdo and Medellin, Choco Department, Colombia, on January 12, 2024. (Photo by Handout / GOBERNACION DE CHOCO / AFP)
Putin orders army to 'dislodge' Ukraine as over 120,000 flee border 12 Aug 2024 - 09:25 pm
In this pool photograph distributed by Russian state owned agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting regarding the situation in the Kursk region, in his residence in Novo-Ogaryovo outside Moscow, on August 12, 2024. (Photo by Gavriil GRIGOROV / POOL / AFP)
Tropical storm Maria Disrupts air, travel in Northeastern Japan 12 Aug 2024 - 07:59 pm
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Radiation levels at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant normal, says IAEA 12 Aug 2024 - 07:12 pm
This video grab taken from a handout footage released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service on August 11, 2024, shows a fire at a cooling tower of the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Energodar, Southern Ukraine. (Photo by Handout / UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE / AFP)
Hunter Biden's lawyers say claims about foreign business dealing have no place in upcoming tax trial 12 Aug 2024 - 06:59 pm
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Bangladesh interim leader Yunus says resignations of officials close to the ousted Hasina are legal 12 Aug 2024 - 06:57 pm
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus (C) speaks during a press conference upon his arrival at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on August 8, 2024. 
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