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Netanyahu trial could be watershed in Israeli politics 02 Jan 2020 - 07:53 pm
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu climbs out after a visit inside the Rahav the fifth submarine in the fleet after it arrived in the Haifa port, January 12, 2016. Reuters / Baz Ratner
Lebanon receives Interpol arrest warrant for Ghosn 02 Jan 2020 - 06:27 pm
Journalists gather outside the house believed to belong to former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn in Beirut, Lebanon January 2, 2020. Reuters/Mohamed Azakir
Iraqi protester shot dead as anti-regime rallies continue 02 Jan 2020 - 06:13 pm
A picture shows the entrance leading to the US embassy in the capital Baghdad on January 2, 2020, which was damaged the day before by Hashed supporters. AFP / Ahmad Al-Rubaye
Turkey detains 7 in probe into Ghosn fleeing bail in Japan 02 Jan 2020 - 12:30 pm
Former Nissan Motor Chariman Carlos Ghosn leaves the Tokyo Detention House in Tokyo, Japan April 25, 2019. REUTERS/Issei Kato/
Earthquake hits Northeastern Iran 02 Jan 2020 - 09:55 am
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Pro-Iran protesters leave US embassy in Baghdad 01 Jan 2020 - 08:39 pm
An Apache military helicopter flies over the US embassy as supporters of Iraq's Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary force protest to condemn the US air strikes that killed Hashed fighters over the weekend, in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on January 1, 2020. AFP /
Hamas allows rival Fatah to mark anniversary in Gaza rally 01 Jan 2020 - 07:07 pm
A Palestinian woman gestures as others hold pictures of president Mahmoud Abbas and late leader Yasser Arafat during a rally marking the 55th anniversary of Fatah's founding, in Gaza City, January 1, 2020. Reuters/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
Displaced Syrians start new year in abandoned prison 01 Jan 2020 - 07:07 pm
Syrian children displaced from Maaret Al-Numan play in the yard of a former jail turned into a makeshift refugee shelter in the northwestern city of Idlib on December 31, 2019, during activities organised by a local aid association. AFP / Omar Haj Kadour
Iraqi militias start withdrawing from US embassy 01 Jan 2020 - 06:03 pm
Iraqi security forces and protesters stand outside the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, Iraq January 1, 2020. DoD/Lt. Col. Adrian Weale/Handout via Reuters
More than 20 dead, many displaced after violence in Sudan's West Darfur 01 Jan 2020 - 06:03 pm
File photo: Sudanese men ride camels as they gather to attend a speech by then Sudanese president during his visit to El Daein in Eastern Darfur on April 5, 2016. AFP / Ashraf Shazly
Shelling hit school killing 6 in rebel-held Syrian village 01 Jan 2020 - 04:13 pm
Members of the Syrian Civil Defence, also known as the White Helmets, search for survivors following an air-strike on the flashpoint town of Maaret al-Numan in Syria's southern Idlib governorate on December 30, 2019. / AFP / Abdulaziz KETAZ
US troops fire tear gas at protesters in Iraq 01 Jan 2020 - 01:49 pm
U.S. Embassy security men use stun grenades to disperse protesters and militia fighters during a protest to condemn airstrikes on bases belonging to Hashd al-Shaabi (paramilitary forces), outside the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq January 1, 2020. REUTERS/
Syria death toll for 2019 lowest in civil war: monitor 31 Dec 2019 - 07:58 pm
Syrian soldiers in a truck past people sitting in a field with harvested aubergines in the eastern countryside of the city of Qamishli in the northeastern Hasakah province on November 5, 2019. AFP / Delil Souleiman
US embassy in Baghdad evacuated as protesters denounce US air strikes 31 Dec 2019 - 01:10 pm
Protesters gather to condemn air strikes on bases belonging to Hashd al-Shaabi (paramilitary forces), outside the main gate of the US Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq on December 31, 2019. (REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani)
Turkish Airlines, Boeing reach 737 Max aircraft compensation deal 31 Dec 2019 - 09:18 am
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Iraq warns US ties at stake after deadly strikes 31 Dec 2019 - 12:03 am
Iraqis wave Hashed Al-shaabi armed network flags on December 30, 2019, during a demonstration to denounce the previous night's attacks by US planes on several bases belonging to the Hezbollah brigades near Al-Qaim, an Iraqi district bordering Syria. AFP
Lebanese protesters defy capital controls in sit-in 31 Dec 2019 - 12:03 am
A Lebanese anti-government demonstrator yells slogans as she takes part in a rally in front of the central bank building in the capital Beirut on December 30, 2019. AFP / Anwar Amro
Sudan sentences 29 intelligence agents to hang for teacher's killing 30 Dec 2019 - 06:26 pm
Sudanese protesters rally in front of a court in Omdurman near the capital Khartoum during the trial of intelligence agents for the death of teacher Ahmed Al-Khair. Sudan. December 30, 2019 / AFP / ASHRAF SHAZLY

Asia

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This handout picture taken and released by Customs Mumbai International Airport on October 30, 2025, shows a silvery gibbon as it was seized from a checked baggage of a passenger travelling from Malaysia via Thailand, at Mumbai International Airport. Photo by Handout / Customs Mumbai International Airport / AFP India seizes endangered primates found in checked bag
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Europe

Members of the French Brigade de Recherche et d'Intervention (BRI - Research and Intervention Brigade) police unit check the scene of a robbery at a gold refining laboratory in Lyon, central-eastern France, on October 30, 2025. Photo by OLIVIER CHASSIGNOLE / AFP French police arrest six over armed robbery at gold laboratory
This aerial photograph shows the low water level of the Mornos artificial lake following a drought, near the village of Lidoriki, about 240 km northwest of Athens, on September 1, 2024. Photo by Angelos TZORTZINIS / AFP Greece announces 2.5-bn-euro plan to tackle drought threat
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Africa

A displaced woman rests in Tawila, in the country's war-torn western Darfur region, on October 28, 2025, after fleeing El-Fasher following the city's fall to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). (Photo by AFP) UN warns of 'atrocities,' 'horror' in Sudan as RSF advances
France's President Emmanuel Macron welcomes Democratic Republic of the Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi before a meeting at The Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris on October 30, 2025, on the sidelines of the Paris Peace Forum. (Photo by Ludovic Marin / AFP) Congo's Goma airport to reopen, over $1.7bn in aid pledged: Macron
A Tanzanian police officer stops a man accused by electoral officials of attempting to taint the voting process at a polling station in Stone Town on October 29, 2025, during Tanzania presidential elections. Photo by Marco Longari / AFP Tanzania blackout after election chaos, deaths feared
File photo WHO expresses shock at killing of over 460 patients, companions at hospital in Sudan's El Fasher

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