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Gambia's journalists, free from dictator, work to win trust 31 Dec 2018 - 02:32 pm
FILE PHOTO: Former President Yahya Jammeh. Reuters
Macron faces new embarrassment from ex-bodyguard 31 Dec 2018 - 02:28 pm
FILE PHOTO: French President Emmanuel Macron and his then senior security officer Alexandre Benalla arrive at an elementary school to attend a one-hour interview with French news channel TF1, in Berd'huis, France, April 12, 2018. Picture taken April 12, 2
4 dead, dozens missing after gas explosion hits Russia high-rise 31 Dec 2018 - 02:11 pm
Emergency officers as they gather after a gas explosion rocked a residential building in Russia's Urals city of Magnitogorsk. AFP PHOTO
Senator: Trump slowing down troop pullout from Syria 31 Dec 2018 - 02:02 pm
FILE PHOTO: US Senator Lindsey Graham AFP / JIM WATSON
US citizen arrested in Russian on spying charges 31 Dec 2018 - 01:50 pm
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Bangladesh election chief rejects call for new vote 31 Dec 2018 - 01:46 pm
Bangladeshi people read newspapers carrying headlines of the general election results in Dhaka on December 31, 2018.  AFP / Indranil MUKHERJEE
Guatemala village mourns 2nd child to die in US custody 31 Dec 2018 - 01:41 pm
A girl from Salvador, part of the Central American migrants hoping to reach the United States, looks through the US-Mexico border fence in Playas de Tijuana, Baja California State, Mexico, on December 29, 2018.  AFP / GUILLERMO ARIAS
2 dead, nearly 30 wounded in bomb blast at Philippine mall 31 Dec 2018 - 01:36 pm
Police officers investigate at the site of an explosion outside a shopping mall in Cotabato City on the southern island of Mindanao on December 31, 2018. AFP
Most internet connections down in Congo capital after election - residents 31 Dec 2018 - 01:36 pm
An Electoral Agent closes a voting station ahead of counting the ballots after the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Presidential elections on December 30, 2018 in Kinshasa.  AFP / JOHN WESSELS
Trudeau’s carbon tax set to take effect in industrial heartland 31 Dec 2018 - 01:28 pm
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High rise building collapses in Russia, at least two dead - reports 31 Dec 2018 - 09:16 am
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Former Afghanistan commander warns of plans to cut troops 31 Dec 2018 - 09:13 am
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Bangladesh ruling coalition declared winner of disputed vote 31 Dec 2018 - 08:18 am
Bangladeshi people read a newspaper carrying headlines of the general election results in Dhaka on December 31, 2018. AFP / Indranil MUKHERJEE
Bolsonaro's moment of truth arrives for Brazil 30 Dec 2018 - 10:22 pm
AFP / Mauro PIMENTEL
Bangladesh opposition leader rejects election as 'farcical' 30 Dec 2018 - 08:04 pm
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina gestures after casting her vote in the morning during the general election in Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 30, 2018. REUTERS
Congo voters barred over Ebola vote anyway, by the thousands 30 Dec 2018 - 04:40 pm
Hospital beds are stored outside ransacked tents by demonstrators by the Ebola transit centre in Beni, following a demonstration against the postponement of elections in the territory of the Beni and the city of Butembo on December 27, 2018. AFP / ALEXIS
Trump puts blame for child deaths at border on Democrats 30 Dec 2018 - 04:36 pm
 Pedestrians, coming from Mexico, exit the San Ysidro Port of Entry along the US/Mexico border on Saturday, December 29, 2018 in San Ysidro, California. President Donald Trump has threatened to shut down the border if he doesn't get over 5 Billion in fund
Turkish army reinforcements on Syrian Border 30 Dec 2018 - 04:28 pm
Turkish military vehicles are dispatched to Turkey's Mardin province to support the units at the Syrian border in Sanliurfa, Turkey on December 29, 2018. Halil Fidan - Anadolu