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US begins government shutdown as deadline passes 20 Jan 2018 - 08:54 am
The Ohio Clock strikes 12 o'clock midnight as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell tries to broker a deal with Democrats on the continuing resolution in the US Capitol in Washington, DC, USA, 19 January 2018. EPA/SHAWN THEW
13 people die in bus crash in central Turkey 20 Jan 2018 - 08:50 am
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Macron boosts Merkel ahead of key coalition vote 20 Jan 2018 - 08:45 am
French President Emmanuel Macron (R) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) leave the Elysee palace after their meeting in Paris, France, 19 January 2018. Merkel is in Paris for a one-day work visit. EPA/CHRISTOPHE PETIT TESSON
Venezuela's prescription for drug shortage: herbs 20 Jan 2018 - 08:38 am
(FILE PHOTO) A woman holds a sign during an anti-government demonstration protesting the shortage of medicines in Caracas, Venezuela on November 20, 2017. AFP
Five killed in arson attack on Seoul motel 20 Jan 2018 - 08:36 am
File photo: AFP/Joseph Jung
Haiti's killer cholera epidemic could end this year: UN 20 Jan 2018 - 08:34 am
A child at the health center in Grand Dessalines receives oral re-hydration salts being administered by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the French NGO Acted during the cholera outbreak in Haiti, Grand Dessalines, Haiti, 25 October 2010. Ma
Seven Niger troops killed in Boko Haram attack 20 Jan 2018 - 08:29 am
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Trump can travel to Davos even if gov't shuts down: official 20 Jan 2018 - 08:16 am
US President Donald J. Trump addresses March for Life Participants and Pro-Life Leaders via teleconference from the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 19 January 2018.  EPA/JIM LO SCALZO
UK could join reconfigured EU in future: minister 20 Jan 2018 - 08:14 am
 David Lidington
WHO airlifts 200 tonnes of health supplies to Yemen 20 Jan 2018 - 08:10 am
Yemenis walk through a market in the old city of Sana'a, Yemen, 19 January 2018. EPA/YAHYA ARHAB
Brasilia closes Latin America’s largest rubbish dump 20 Jan 2018 - 07:59 am
A man runs at 'Lixao da Estrutural', Latin America's largest rubbish dump, in Brasilia, Brazil, January 19, 2018. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino
1.3 million children displaced by Iraq’s war with IS: Unicef 20 Jan 2018 - 01:19 am
Iraqi soldiers control one of several checkpoints they set up along the main 50 kilometre road between the area of Karmat Ali on the northern outskirts of Basra and the town of Al Dayr.
Egypt’s Sisi announces intention to run for second term 19 Jan 2018 - 10:58 pm
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
Pentagon strategy drops climate change as a security threat 19 Jan 2018 - 08:25 pm
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he arrives for a meeting at the Pentagon, accompanied by U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Vice President Mike Pence in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., January 18, 2018. Reuters/Carlos Barria
10 Syrians die of cold trying to flee into Lebanon 19 Jan 2018 - 08:20 pm
A Syrian kid walks around through mud at a refugee camp where many Syrians lived in, following the heavy rains in Idlib, Syria on January 18, 2018. (Alaa Fatravi - Anadolu Agency)
UN warns of “lost generation” in South Sudan’s grinding conflict 19 Jan 2018 - 08:08 pm
A malnourished child sits on May 30, 2017 on a bed at the clinic run by Doctors Without Borders in Aweil, Northern Bahr al Ghazal, South Sudan. (AFP / Albert Gonzalez Farran)
Amazon's indigenous people 'never so threatened': pope 19 Jan 2018 - 08:01 pm
Pope Francis is greeted by members of an indigenous group from the Amazon region during a meeting at the Coliseo Regional Madre de Dios in Puerto Maldonado, Peru, January 19, 2018. Reuters/Alessandro Bianchi
Amid wet weather, Zimbabwe’s Mutare sees hike in malaria deaths 18 Jan 2018 - 09:09 pm
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