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German defence minister Lambrecht quits in blow to Scholz 16 Jan 2023 - 06:43 pm
This file photo taken on January 9, 2022 shows German Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht talking to soldiers as she visited German armed forces in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq.  (Photo by SAFIN HAMED / AFP)
Uzbekistan president sacks officials over energy crisis 16 Jan 2023 - 06:37 pm
File Photo: Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev speaks during a news conference in Kremlin, Russia, April 5, 2017. Reuters / Pavel Golovkin
Putin slams growing Western arms deliveries to Ukraine 16 Jan 2023 - 06:30 pm
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a news conference after a meeting of the State Council on youth policy in Moscow, Russia, on December 22, 2022.  File Photo / Reuters
Search underway for 50 women abducted in Burkina Faso 16 Jan 2023 - 05:51 pm
Burkina Faso's military leader Ibrahim Traore is escorted by soldiers while he stands in an armoured vehicle in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on October 2, 2022. File Photo / Reuters
Senegal road crash kills 20, wounds 24 16 Jan 2023 - 05:44 pm
A general view of an accident scene near Sakal, northern Senegal, on January 16, 2023 where nineteen people were killed when a bus and a truck collided. (Photo by Ousseynou Diop / AFP)
Somalia says it has seized key port town from al Shabaab 16 Jan 2023 - 05:41 pm
File Photo: Somali military officers march in a parade during celebrations to mark the 62nd anniversary of the Somali National Armed Forces in Mogadishu, Somalia April 12, 2022. (REUTERS/Feisal Omar)
TikTok in talks with Jordan to lift month-long ban 16 Jan 2023 - 04:51 pm
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Pakistan's largest province to hold snap polls in win for former PM Khan 16 Jan 2023 - 04:18 pm
Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks during an interview with Reuters in Islamabad, Pakistan June 4, 2021. Reuters/Saiyna Bashir/File Photo
Indonesia stadium disaster negligence trial begins 16 Jan 2023 - 12:17 pm
Mobile brigade police personnel stand guard outside the Surabaya court ahead of the first trial over a soccer stampede in East Java that killed 135 people in October 2022, in Surabaya, East Java province, Indonesia, January 16, 2023, in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Antara Foto/Didik Suhartono/via REUTERS
Italian police arrest most wanted mafia boss Messina Denaro in Sicily 16 Jan 2023 - 11:59 am
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Toll from Dnipro strike in Ukraine rises to 35 16 Jan 2023 - 11:53 am
Emergency personnel work at the site where an apartment block was heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Dnipro, Ukraine January 15, 2023. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
Disgruntled guest smashes car through Chinese hotel lobby 16 Jan 2023 - 11:12 am
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Searchers find black boxes of aircraft in deadly Nepal crash 16 Jan 2023 - 10:40 am
Nepal observed a day of mourning on January 16 for the victims of the nation's deadliest aviation disaster in three decades, with 67 people confirmed killed in the plane crash. (Photo by PRAKASH MATHEMA / AFP)
British police arrest man over shooting near London church 16 Jan 2023 - 10:35 am
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Hopes of survivors in Nepal plane crash 'nil' 16 Jan 2023 - 10:11 am
A rescue team works to recover the body of a victim from the site of the plane crash of a Yeti Airlines operated aircraft, in Pokhara, Nepal January 16, 2023. Reuters/Rohit Giri
Former female Afghan MP shot dead in Kabul - police 16 Jan 2023 - 08:19 am
A woman looks at a picture of former Afghan lawmaker Mursal Nabizada on her mobile phone, who was shot dead by gunmen last night at her house in Kabul on January 15, 2023. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar / AFP)
China's Tencent fires more than 100 for fraud, embezzlement 16 Jan 2023 - 07:57 am
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Peru extends state of emergency in protest-hit cities 15 Jan 2023 - 11:30 pm
Vice-President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), Stuardo Ralon (second right), speaks during a press conference about violence on past demonstrations in Lima on January 13, 2023.  (Photo by ERNESTO BENAVIDES / AFP)