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Peru protests continue as mourners prepare to bury dead 12 Jan 2023 - 11:07 pm
Aerial view of relatives and friends of the victims of clashes with the Peruvian police puting their coffins in the main plaza of the Andean city of Juliaca, southern Peru, on January 11, 2023. (Photo by Juan Carlos Cisneros / AFP)
Portugal approves new vetting system after string of hiring scandals 12 Jan 2023 - 11:04 pm
 Portugal's Prime Minister Antonio Costa speaks as he attends the European Union leaders' summit in Brussels, Belgium on October 20, 2022.  File Photo / Reuters
Brasilia rioters likely had inside help: Lula 12 Jan 2023 - 10:58 pm
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attends a breakfast with journalists at Planalto Palace in Brasilia, January 12, 2023. (REUTERS/Adriano Machado)
No reconciliation without justice: French, German FMs tell Ethiopia 12 Jan 2023 - 10:34 pm
Ethiopia Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed receives German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, Annalena Baerbock (left) and French Foreign and European Affairs Minister, Catherine Colonna (third right) and their delegations at the Prime Minister office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on January 12, 2023. (Photo by Amanuel Sileshi / AFP)
New York nurses end strike after reaching deals on hospital staffing 12 Jan 2023 - 10:17 pm
A hospital worker raises a fist as NYSNA nurses walk off the job, to go on strike at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, US, January 9, 2023. (REUTERS/Andrew Kelly)
Aid chief to ask Taliban's Kandahar leaders to scrap female worker ban 12 Jan 2023 - 10:02 pm
A member of Taliban security force stands guard on a blocked road after a suicide blast near Afghanistan's foreign ministry at the Zanbaq Square in Kabul on January 11, 2023.  (Photo by Wakil KOHSAR / AFP)
Somali leader urges people to flush out Al-Shabaab 'bedbugs' 12 Jan 2023 - 09:52 pm
Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (centre) gestures as he attends a rally against the Al-Shabaab jihadist group in Mogadishu on January 12, 2023. (Photo by Hassan Ali Elmi / AFP)
US judge orders museum not to move Van Gogh painting caught in row 12 Jan 2023 - 09:09 pm
In this file photo taken on June 17, 2005, a man walks past Vincent Van Gogh's
CIA chief in Libya after Lockerbie suspect handover 12 Jan 2023 - 08:55 pm
This combination of pictures created on January 12, 2023 shows (left to right) Libya's Tripoli-based Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah speaking in Tunisia's capital Tunis on November 30, 2022; and CIA director William Burns speaking before introducing the US President during a visit to the agency headquarters on the 75th anniversary of its founding in Langley, Virginia, on July 8, 2022. (Photo by FETHI BELAID and Samuel Corum / AFP)
Embattled George Santos defies New York Republicans' call to step down 12 Jan 2023 - 08:39 pm
Rep. George Santos leaves the US Capitol on January 12, 2023 in Washington, DC. The Nassau County party chairman, Joseph G. Cairo Jr. and other New York Republican officials called on Santos to resign as investigations grow into his finances, campaign spending and false statements on the campaign trail. Santos announced in a tweet that he would not resign. Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP
Improved Syria-Turkey ties should seek end to 'occupation': Assad 12 Jan 2023 - 08:08 pm
A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency shows Syria's President Bashar al-Assad (left) receiving Russia's Special Envoy for Syria Alexander Lavrentiev and his accompanying delegation in the capital Damascus on January 12, 2023. (Photo by SANA / AFP)
French first lady backs controversial school uniform 12 Jan 2023 - 07:31 pm
French President's wife Brigitte Macron (centre) and Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi (right) attend the opening of the 2023 edition of the
Second set of classified papers found at Biden's home, White House says 12 Jan 2023 - 07:15 pm
US President Joe Biden walks before boarding the Marine One helicopter to travel to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for the first lady Jill Biden to undergo Mohs surgery for skin cancer, from the White House in Washington, US, on January 11, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
Art collector says Van Gogh on display in Detroit museum was stolen from him 12 Jan 2023 - 07:02 pm
Vincent van Gogh, Un liseuse de romans, 1888. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
UK paper group bids to throw out Prince Harry and others' privacy lawsuits 12 Jan 2023 - 07:00 pm
Reuters file photo
Hungary blasts EU over blocked education grants 12 Jan 2023 - 06:49 pm
European Union flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium June 17, 2022. (REUTERS/Yves Herman)
Nine killed in mosque attack in Burkina Faso 12 Jan 2023 - 06:47 pm
A displaced boy, who fled with others from his village in northern Burkina Faso following attacks by assailants, poses at a school on the outskirts of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on June 15, 2019.  File Photo / Reuters
Violinists play last tunes before German coal village demolition 12 Jan 2023 - 06:30 pm
Musicians Thomas Gerlinger, 54, and Luppe, over 50, play violin and viola in an abandoned house in protest against demolishing Luetzerath village to expand the Garzweiler open-cast lignite mine of Germany's utility RWE, in Luetzerath, Germany, on January 12, 2023.