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US mosque faces restrictions on daily prayers 03 Oct 2018 - 09:27 pm
REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE: Muslims perform tarawih prayers to mark the start of Ramadan at a mosque in Singapore, May 26, 2017. Reuters/Edgar Su
Desperate border crossings, as Venezuela runs short of HIV drugs 03 Oct 2018 - 05:34 pm
But like the rest of the country's public health system, its treatment programme has fallen apart amid an economic meltdown that has triggered the biggest exodus of people in modern Latin American history.Eric Gaillard/Reuters
Indian cities dump 'progressive' law to speed up land acquisitions 03 Oct 2018 - 05:34 pm
A man checking his mobile phone while sitting in the shade at Sassoon Dock, one of the oldest fishing docks, in Mumbai on November 9, 2017. AFP/ Indranil Mukherjee
China's drought losses predicted to soar as planet warms 03 Oct 2018 - 05:34 pm
Researchers put China’s economic losses from drought at US$17.7 billion per year, based on the average from 2006 to 2015. Photo: Reuters
New anonymous tipoff system could cut forced marriage in Britain 03 Oct 2018 - 05:34 pm
The proposed change could make it harder for would-be immigrants to enter Britain under the cover of marriage.
Adel Abdel Mahdi, Iraq PM-designate shouldering hopes home and abroad 03 Oct 2018 - 02:49 pm
Independent Shia candidate Adil Abdul-Mahdi (C) is seen after newly elected president Barham Salih (not seen) has given the task to form the government to Adil Abdul-Mahdi at the the Iraqi Parliament building in Baghdad, Iraq on October 2, 2018. Murtadha
Melania Trump tours former slavery outpost 03 Oct 2018 - 02:25 pm
A woman holds a child as U.S. first lady Melania Trump visits a hospital in Accra, Ghana, October 2, 2018. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
India to begin deportations of Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar 03 Oct 2018 - 01:56 pm
FILE PHOTO: Rohingya refugees are reflected in rainwater along an embankment next to paddy fields after fleeing from Myanmar into Palang Khali, near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh November 2, 2017. REUTERS/Hannah McKay
Iraqi PM designate gets challenge of forming government 03 Oct 2018 - 01:31 pm
Newly designated Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi (2nd L) walks out of the Parliament with newly-elected Iraqi President Barham Saleh (R). / AFP / AHMAD AL-RUBAYE
Melania Trump visits ex-slave holding facility in Ghana 03 Oct 2018 - 01:23 pm
U.S. first lady Melania Trump looks on as she visits a hospital in Accra, Ghana, October 2, 2018. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
Syria hopes to jumpstart rebuilding despite massive hurdles 03 Oct 2018 - 01:14 pm
A Syrian child walks past the rubble of destroyed buildings in an opposition-held neighbourhood of the southern city of Daraa on October 2, 2018. / AFP / Mohamad ABAZEED
Pope gives Chinese bishops 'warm welcome' 03 Oct 2018 - 12:33 pm
Pope Francis greets cardinals at the end of a mass for the opening of a synodal meeting in Saint Peter's square, at the Vatican, October 3, 2018. REUTERS/Tony Gentile
Wife of former Malaysian leader arrested in graft scandal 03 Oct 2018 - 12:17 pm
Rosmah Mansor, wife of former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak, arrives at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) in Putrajaya on October 3, 2018. / AFP / Sadiq ASYRAF
60 migrants feared drowned in Guinea-Bissau capsize 03 Oct 2018 - 10:25 am
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Three dead after falling into well during Hindu ritual 03 Oct 2018 - 10:12 am
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Helicopter jailbreak gangster arrested in France 03 Oct 2018 - 09:47 am
In this file photo taken on July 1, 2018 in Gonesse, north of Paris police patrol near a French helicopter Alouette II abandoned by French armed robber Redoine Faid after his escape from prison in Reau. / AFP / GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT
Volcano erupts on same indonesian island as earlier quake 03 Oct 2018 - 09:20 am
This handout picture taken and released on October 3, 2018 by Indonesia's National Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB) shows Soputan volcano erupting ash up to 4,000 metres above the crater, as seen from Pinabetengan in Southeast Minahasa, North Sulawes
Time running out for survivors as Indonesia toll nears 1,400 03 Oct 2018 - 07:54 am
A building stands amid the debris of a flattened fishing village in Lere subdistrict in Palu, Indonesia's Central Sulawesi on October 3, 2018, after an earthquake and tsunami hit the area on September 28. / AFP / ADEK BERRY