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King Charles III picks France, Germany for 1st state visits 03 Mar 2023 - 04:44 pm
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Brussels farmers protest in droves, disrupt traffic 03 Mar 2023 - 03:13 pm
File photo: Farmers protest with their tractors, under the name #Agractie, during a national protest at the Malieveld in The Hague on October 1, 2019. AFP/ANP/Sem van der Wal
French senators to start debating contested pension plan 03 Mar 2023 - 02:31 pm
In this file photo taken on January 31, 2023, protesters gather at Place d'Italie square for a rally on a second day of nationwide strikes and protests over the government's proposed pension reform, in Paris. - France braces for major transport blockages, with mass strikes and protests set to hit the country on March 7 in objection to the planned boost of the age of retirement from 62 to 64. (Photo by Alain JOCARD / AFP)
France pledges 100 mn euros to protect tropical forests 03 Mar 2023 - 02:05 pm
French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech during the One Forest Summit at the Presidential Palace in Libreville on March 2, 2023. (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP)
Victims of Greece train crash returned to families in closed caskets 03 Mar 2023 - 01:56 pm
Police and emergency crews search through the debris of a crushed wagon for second day after a train accident in the Tempi Valley near Larissa, Greece, March 2, 2023. (Photo by Sakis MITROLIDIS / AFP)
Macron says era of French interference in Africa is 'over' 03 Mar 2023 - 01:19 pm
Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape (2nd L) shakes hands with French President Emmanuel Macron during the One planet summit in Libreville, on March 2, 2023. (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP)
Police carry out search at Larissa station after Greek train crash 03 Mar 2023 - 11:41 am
This photograph taken on March 2, 2023, shows riot police forming a security cordon in front of the Hellenic Train headquarters in Athens, during a protest, following the deadly accident near the city of Larissa on February 28 which claimed 57 lives. Photo by Louisa GOULIAMAKI / AFP
Ukraine police exhume bodies of three civilians 02 Mar 2023 - 09:39 pm
Ukrainian rescuers work on the five-storey residential building destroyed after a missile strike in Zaporizhzhia on March 2, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Katerina Klochko / AFP)
Greece train crash death toll rises to 57 amid search 02 Mar 2023 - 08:45 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)
EU announces $865 million for ocean protection in 2023 02 Mar 2023 - 08:31 pm
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Belarus rights situation worsening 'dramatically': UN expert 02 Mar 2023 - 07:55 pm
Leader of the Belarusian democratic movement Svetlana Tikhanovskaya (centre) and Flemish Minister President Jan Jambon (R) attend the opening of the 'Mission of Democratic Belarus', diplomatic offices to serve the Belarusian opposition in Brussels, on March 1, 2023. (Photo by JAMES ARTHUR GEKIERE / Belga / AFP)
MI5 missed chance to prevent concert attack, UK inquiry says 02 Mar 2023 - 07:05 pm
In this file photo taken on May 22, 2017 A handout photo released by the Manchester Arena Inquiry in Manchester, northern England on September 8, 2020, shows suicide bomber Salman Abedi carrying a rucksack in the lift at Victoria Station in Manchester.  (Photo by Manchester Arena Inquiry / AFP)
Italy PM urges India to play key role in ending Ukraine war 02 Mar 2023 - 06:50 pm
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni upon her arrival for a meeting at the Hyderabad House in New Delhi on March 2, 2023. (AFP)
Hungary further delays vote on Sweden, Finland joining NATO 02 Mar 2023 - 06:22 pm
Finnish MPs attend a plenary session of the Finnish parliament on a vote on the country's entry to NATO in Helsinki, Finland on March 1, 2023. - (Photo by Heikki Saukkomaa / Lehtikuva / AFP)
Macron says era of French interference in Africa is 'over' 02 Mar 2023 - 06:06 pm
French President Emmanuel Macron delivers his speech to the French community at the residence of the French Ambassador in Libreveille on March 2, 2023. (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP)
German party rejects punishment for ex-leader's Russia links 02 Mar 2023 - 05:01 pm
Gerhard Schröder speaking in St Petersburg on September 29, 2017. File photo / AFP
Russian strike on Ukraine apartment block kills 3, injures 6 02 Mar 2023 - 12:25 pm
This handout picture taken and released by the Ukrainian Emergency Ministry press service on March 2, 2023, shows rescuers work on a residential building destroyed after a missile strike, in Zaporizhzhia, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Photo by Handout / UKRAINE EMERGENCY MINISTRY PRESS SERVICE / AFP
Toll rises to 42 in Greek train crash 02 Mar 2023 - 10:48 am
This aerial drone photograph taken on March 1, 2023, shows emergency crews searching wreckage after a train accident in the Tempi Valley near Larissa, Greece. Photo by Vasilis VERVERIDIS / Eurokinissi / AFP