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China halts all Japanese seafood imports over 'selfish' Fukushima release 24 Aug 2023 - 10:47 am
A vendor collects seafood at a wholesale fish market in Beijing on August 24, 2023. (Photo by Greg Baker / AFP)
North Korea says spy satellite launch ends in failure, again 24 Aug 2023 - 10:11 am
A man walks past a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on August 24, 2023. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP)
Japan begins release of water from Fukushima nuclear plant 24 Aug 2023 - 08:14 am
A shoreline is pictured from Futaba-machi, Fukushima Prefecture, around 5 km away from the crippled Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant on August 24, 2023, the day on which Japan's government plan to begin releasing wastewater from the stricken plant into the Pacific Ocean. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP)
Mercenary leader Prighozin aboard plane that crashed, no survivors: Russian agency 23 Aug 2023 - 11:49 pm
A handout photograph taken and released by Russian Investigative Committee on August 23, 2023, shows rescuers working at the site of a plane crash near the village of Kuzhenkino, Tver region. A private plane crashed in Moscow's Tver region and Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the list of passengers, Russian agencies said on August 23, 2023. (Photo by Handout / Russian Investigative Committee / AFP) 
North Korea conducts rocket launch in likely 2nd attempt to put spy satellite into orbit 23 Aug 2023 - 11:24 pm
File photo: People watch a television showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on March 19, 2023. (Photo by Anthony Wallace / AFP)
US approves new $500 million arms sale to Taiwan as aggression from China intensifies 23 Aug 2023 - 10:39 pm
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen speaks to the relatives of fallen soldiers during a lunch at a military base to mark the 65th anniversary of the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis in Kinmen on August 23, 2023. (Photo by Sam Yeh / AFP)
Giuliani turns himself in on Georgia 2020 election charges after bond is set at $150,000 23 Aug 2023 - 10:33 pm
John Esposito (R) and Brian Tevis (L), lawyers of Rudy Giuliani, former attorney to former US President Donald Trump, leave the District Attorney's Office at the Fulton County Government Center in Atlanta, Georgia, on August 23, 2023. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP)
Zimbabwean opposition leader alleges rigging in high stakes vote 23 Aug 2023 - 09:52 pm
Voters queue to cast their ballots at a polling station in Bulawayo on August 23, 2023. (Photo by Zinyange Auntony / AFP)
Wagner chief Prigozhin on passenger list of deadly Russian jet crash 23 Aug 2023 - 08:32 pm
This frame grab taken from a video on the Telegram account of razgruzka_vagnera on August 22, 2023, shows the leader of Russia's Wagner mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin as he addresses the camera at an undisclosed location. (Photo by HANDOUT / TELEGRAM / @ razgruzka_vagnera / AFP)
22 killed in Indian railway bridge collapse 23 Aug 2023 - 05:36 pm
Rescue workers conduct a search operation at the site of an accident where an under-construction railway bridge collapsed in Sairang town of the Aizwal district in India's eastern state of Mizoram on August 23, 2023. (Photo by AFP)
Brazil's Bolsonaro hospitalized for 'routine exams' 23 Aug 2023 - 05:15 pm
(FILES) Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro gestures during a press conference at the Vila Nova Star Hospital after he was discharged, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on January 5, 2022. (Photo by NELSON ALMEIDA / AFP)
Sudan paramilitaries press assault on key army base 23 Aug 2023 - 04:26 pm
A grab from a UGC video posted on the X platform (formerly Twitter) on August 22, 2023 reportedly shows members of the Sudanese army firing at Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters in what they say is the al-Shajara military base in Khartoum. (Photo by UGC / AFP)
India becomes first nation to land spacecraft near Moon's south pole 23 Aug 2023 - 04:06 pm
This handout screen grab taken and received from the live feed of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) website on August 23, 2023, shows the successful lunar landing of Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on the south pole of the Moon. (Photo by ISRO / AFP)
Norway opens world's biggest floating wind park 23 Aug 2023 - 03:56 pm
A view out of an aircraft shows offshore wind engines during a flight of Norway's Crown Prince and Norway's Prime Minister to attend the inauguration of the Hywind Tampen floating offshore wind farm, situated between energy company Equinor's oil and gas fields Snorre and Gullfaks in the Norwegian North Sea off the coast of Bergen on August 23, 2023. Photo by Ole Berg-Rusten / NTB / AFP
Attempt to embrace Geneva fountain lands man in hospital 23 Aug 2023 - 03:42 pm
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Greek firefighters battle major blazes on multiple fronts 23 Aug 2023 - 03:33 pm
A Greek firefighter battles a forest fire spreading in Dikella near Alexandroupoli, northern Greece, on August 23, 2023. Photo by Sakis MITROLIDIS / AFP
BRICS leaders to debate expanding membership at summit 23 Aug 2023 - 02:32 pm
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers his remarks at the plenary session during the 2023 BRICS Summit at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg on August 23, 2023. (Photo by Gianluigi Guercia / Pool / AFP)
Saudi storm brings lightning, fierce winds to Makkah 23 Aug 2023 - 02:10 pm
A picture taken on August 22, 2023 shows lightning over Makkah's clock tower in Saudi Arabia. Photos by Hammad Al-Huthali / AFP