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Gaza 'hell on Earth' for one million children: UN 18 Oct 2024 - 05:12 pm
Palestinian children stand next to tents at a make-shift camp for the internally displaced in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on October 17, 2024. Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP.
'The killings continue': Sinwar death brings no respite for Gazans 18 Oct 2024 - 04:44 pm
A Palestinian boy looks at destroyed shelters at the site of an Israeli airstrike which hit tents for displaced people two days earlier in the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on October 16, 2024. Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP.
Hamas confirms death of leader Yahya Sinwar 18 Oct 2024 - 04:20 pm
Archive photo used for demonstration purposes. Yahya Sinwar (R), leader of the Palestinian Hamas movement, greets supporters during a rally in Gaza City on May 24, 2021. Photo by MAHMUD HAMS / AFP.
Bus accident in Turkiye injures 22 17 Oct 2024 - 06:46 pm
This handout photograph taken and released by the Demiroren News Agency (DHA) on October 17, 2024, shows an tour bus which was carrying Japanese tourists onboard after it overturned near Afyonkarahisar western Turkiye. Photo by Demiroren News AAgency / DHA (Demiroren News Agency
345,000 Gazans face 'catastrophic' hunger this winter: UN 17 Oct 2024 - 05:17 pm
Displaced Palestinians queue to receive food rations, offered by a charity, in Gaza's Al-Shati refugee camp on October 17, 2024. Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP
Beirut building housing Al Jazeera, embassies evacuated after threats: security source 17 Oct 2024 - 04:11 pm
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A Palestinian student was asleep when Israeli strike brought an inferno 17 Oct 2024 - 08:22 am
Injured Palestinian Ahmed al-Dalu, who survived an Israeli airstrike on tents for displaced people two days earlier which killed his wife and son Shaaban in the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, walks in front of the medical facility in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, on October 16, 2024. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)
16 killed, 52 injured in Israeli raid on southern Lebanon 16 Oct 2024 - 11:59 pm
Personal photograph prints and sneaker shoes are strewn through the rubble of a destroyed building in the aftermath of an overnight Israeli air strike on the village of Qana in southern Lebanon on October 16, 2024. (Photo by Bilal Kashmar / AFP)
Eastern Turkiye rattled by magnitude 5.9 quake 16 Oct 2024 - 02:00 pm
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Hezbollah deputy chief tells Israelis solution is ceasefire 15 Oct 2024 - 05:31 pm
An image grab taken from Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV shows the group's deputy chief Naim Qassem delivering a speech from an undisclosed location on October 15, 2024. Photo by AFP.
Nowhere is safe in Gaza Strip: Save the Children 15 Oct 2024 - 09:39 am
Children at a makeshift camp for Palestinians displaced from northern Gaza, at Gaza City's Yarmouk stadium on October 14, 2024. (Photo by Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP)
Death toll in Lebanon from Israeli attacks rises to 2,309 with 10,782 injured 14 Oct 2024 - 11:27 pm
Paramedics with the Lebanese Red Cross transport a body unearthed from the rubble at the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the northern Lebanese village of Aito on October 14, 2024. (Photo by Fathi Al-MasriI / AFP)
Turkiye's Erdogan blasts UN over Israeli attacks on peacekeepers 14 Oct 2024 - 09:40 pm
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. File photo.
Second round of polio vaccination begins in Gaza 14 Oct 2024 - 05:15 pm
Palestinian children receive drops as part of a polio vaccination campaign in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on October 14, 2024. Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP
Lebanon aid convoy driver wounded in Israeli strike 14 Oct 2024 - 03:10 pm
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In Photos: Israeli strike on hospital tent camp kills 4 and ignites a fire that burns dozens 14 Oct 2024 - 02:49 pm
Photo by United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) / AFP
Death toll from Israeli aggression on Gaza surges to 42,227 13 Oct 2024 - 10:10 pm
Palestinians pray over the bodies of relatives, killed in an Israeli strike on Al-Bureij refugee camp, during their funeral at the al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on October 13, 2024. (Photo by Eyad Baba / AFP)
Pentagon says will send THAAD missile defense system to Israel 13 Oct 2024 - 07:12 pm
File photo of the THAAD air defense system.

Asia

An Afghan vendor selling perfume and body sprays, uses his mobile phone as he sits at his shop in Kabul on October 1, 2025. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar / AFP) Mobile and internet restored across Afghanistan
File photo September was hottest on record in Japan's Okinawa: weather agency
personnel search for survivors at the Al Khoziny Islamic boarding school in Sidoarjo, East Java province on September 30, 2025. (Photo by Juni Kriswanto / AFP) Survivor pulled from Indonesia school collapse as parents await news
File photo US confirms rules on Korean firms' use of B-1 visa: Seoul

Europe

This handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service on October 1, 2025, shows Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky holding a flag insignia as a serviceman pays his respect during a ceremony marking Defenders' Day, a holiday honoring veterans and fallen members of the Ukrainian armed forces. (Photo by Handout / AFP) Zelensky says Russia poses 'global threat' after strikes cut power to Chernobyl
File: Jane Goodall, the world's foremost authority on chimpanzees, communicates with chimpanzee Nana, on June 6, 2004 at the zoo of Magdeburg in eastern Germany. (Photo by Jens Schlueter / DDP / AFP) Renowned British chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall dies at 91
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Rory McIlroy of Team Europe celebrates with the Ryder Cup after Team Europe's 15-13 win over Team United States on September 28, 2025 in Farmingdale, New York. Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images/AFP 'Are you watching Donald Trump?': Europe's Ryder Cup golfers taunt president

Africa

Members of the security forces detain a protester as others scuffle during a youth-led demonstration in Rabat on September 29, 2025, calling for reforms in the public health and education sectors. Dozens of youths were detained on September 29 in Morocco on the third day of protests calling for education and public health reforms, according to a local rights group and AFP reporters. (Photo by Abdel Majid Bziouat / AFP) Hundreds arrested and injured in Morocco protests
Former President of the Democratic Republic of Congo Joseph Kabila during a meeting with leaders of various religious groups at one of his residences in Goma on May 29, 2025. (Photo by Jospin Mwisha / AFP) DR Congo ex-president Kabila sentenced to death in absentia for 'treason'
Members of the Judiciary Police arrive at the Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile Hotel at Porte Maillot in Paris, after South Africa's ambassador to France was found dead at the foot of the hotel on September 30, 2025. Photo by Anna KURTH / AFP South African ambassador found dead outside Paris hotel
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