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UK PM splashes cold water on prospects of quick trade deal 18 Feb 2023 - 07:37 pm
Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak gives a tv interview on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Munich, southern Germany, on February 18, 2023. (Photo by Ben Stansall / POOL / AFP)
Bulgaria detains 7 over deaths of 18 migrants found in truck 18 Feb 2023 - 07:26 pm
This handout photograph released by the Bulgarian Prosecutor's Office on February 18, 2023, shows the abandoned truck, in which eighteen migrants have been found dead inside the day before, near the village of Lokorsko, some 20 kilometres (12 miles) north-east of Sofia. (Photo by HANDOUT BULGARIAN PROSECUTORS OFFICE / AFP
Finland could join NATO ahead of Sweden: Defence minister 18 Feb 2023 - 05:38 pm
Finland's President Sauli Niinisto (left) shakes hands with Former Prime Minister of Sweden Carl Bildt at the Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Munich, southern Germany, on February 18, 2023. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)
It's time to double down on support for Ukraine, says Sunak 18 Feb 2023 - 04:43 pm
Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak attends a Q&A after his speech at the Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Munich, southern Germany, on February 18, 2023. (Photo by Ben Stansall / POOL / AFP)
US accuses Russia of 'crimes against humanity' in Ukraine 18 Feb 2023 - 04:37 pm
US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Munich, southern Germany, on February 18, 2023. - The Munich Security Conference running from February 17 to 19, 2023 brings world leaders together ahead of the first anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine as Kyiv steps up pleas for more weapons. (Photo by Thomas KIENZLE / AFP)
China blasts US over 'hysterical' balloon claim 18 Feb 2023 - 03:58 pm
China's Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission Wang Yi delivers a speech at the Munich Security Conference (MSC), on February 18, 2023. (Photo by Odd Andersen / AFP)
UK's Sunak set to say security guarantees need for Ukraine 18 Feb 2023 - 03:52 pm
Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak gets off his plane after his arrival on February 18, 2023 at the airport in Munich, southern Germany, where he will attend the Munich Security Conference (MSC). (Photo by Ben Stansall / POOL / AFP)
UN says AI poses 'serious risk' for human rights 18 Feb 2023 - 03:47 pm
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18 bodies found in abandoned truck in Bulgaria 17 Feb 2023 - 07:11 pm
A security official gestures as an ambulance moves on the outskirts of the village of Lokorsko, some 20 kilometres (12 miles) north-east of Sofia, after the discovery of eighteen dead migrants in the rear of an abandoned truck. (Photo by NIKOLAY DOYCHINOV / AFP)
Russia, Belarus discuss closer military, economic ties 17 Feb 2023 - 06:41 pm
Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) meets with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence, outside Moscow, on February 17, 2023. (Photo by Vladimir Astapkovich / Sputnik / AFP)
Ukraine accuses French retailer Auchan of being Russia's 'weapon' 17 Feb 2023 - 06:14 pm
In this file photo taken on August 03, 2020, the logo of French supermarket Auchan is pictured on the wall of a shopping mall in Moscow on August 3, 2020.  (Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP)
Allies who can send Ukraine tanks must 'do so now': Scholz 17 Feb 2023 - 04:58 pm
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz delivers a speech at the Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Munich, southern Germany, on February 17, 2023. (Photo by Thomas Kienzle / AFP)
France raids consultants' homes in Macron campaign probe 17 Feb 2023 - 04:39 pm
(FILES) This file photo taken on April 12, 2022 in Toulouse shows screens displaying the logo of US-based McKinsey & Company management consulting firm. - Four judicial searches perquisitions were caried out at the end of January at the home of managers and former managers of McKinsey in connection with an investigation over suspected illegal fundings in the presidential campaigns of Emmanuel Macron, according to sources close to the case on February 17, 2023. (Photo by Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP)
Blast at Slovenia fireworks company kills 1, injures 2 17 Feb 2023 - 03:35 pm
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British embassy guard jailed for 13 years for spying for Moscow 17 Feb 2023 - 02:44 pm
An handout image released by the Metropolitan Police Service on February 17, 2023, shows a still from a covert camera during Russian spy David Smith's meeting with
Trains, ferries canceled because of storm over Nordics 17 Feb 2023 - 02:41 pm
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Thousands of flights canceled as German airport staff strike 17 Feb 2023 - 12:53 pm
A schedule board displays cancelled and delayed flights during a strike at Frankfurt Airport in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on February 17, 2023. Photo by ANDRE PAIN / AFP
Under fire TikTok pledges to follow EU rules 17 Feb 2023 - 12:05 pm
TikTok app is seen on a smartphone in this illustration taken, July 13, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

Africa

A general view of the Presidential Palace in Bissau on November 26, 2025. (Photo by Patrick MEINHARDT / AFP) Guinea-Bissau rocked by coup, president's arrest
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Representational file photo. Death toll from Ethiopia's Marburg outbreak rises to 5

Americas

President Donald Trump participates in a call with U.S. service members from his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida on Thanksgiving Day on November 27, 2025 in Palm Beach, Florida. Pete Marovich/Getty Images/AFP Trump says to 'permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries'
Secret Service uniformed division officers patrol in Lafayette Square across from the White House, in Washington, DC on November 27, 2025. Two National Guard troops were shot November 26 in a FBI launches terror probe after Washington shooting
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Neymar Santos SR, father of Brazilian forward Neymar Jr and owner of NR Sports, gestures to the media at the announcement of the acquisition of late Brazilian football legend Pele brand at the Pele Museum, in Santos, Sao Paulo, Brazil on November 25, 2025. (Photo by Miguel SCHINCARIOL / AFP) Pele's brand acquired by family business of Neymar Jr.

Gulf

Representational file photo. Omani oil prices rise to $64.1 a barrel
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Shaikha Al Mazrou, Contingent Object, 2025. Manar Abu Dhabi 2025. Image courtesy of Department of Culture and Tourism Abu Dhabi & Public Art Abu Dhabi Finding direction: The lights of Manar Abu Dhabi
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Minister of State for Foreign Trade Affairs H E Dr. Ahmed bin Mohammed Al-Sayed and Minister of Trade and Foreign Economic Relations of Turkmenistan H E Nazar Agahanov during the meeting.

Qatar-Turkmenistan Joint Committee holds third session in Doha