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Earthquakes at 2 Alaska volcanoes could signal eruption 10 Mar 2023 - 12:42 pm
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Miami police arrest 5 after officer wounded in shooting 10 Mar 2023 - 11:38 am
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China's Xi set to be handed third term as president 10 Mar 2023 - 12:20 am
In this file photo taken on March 06, 2023 China's President Xi Jinping (bottom) arrives for the second plenary session of the National People's Congress (NPC) with other Chinese leaders at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.  (Photo by Greg Baker / AFP)
UN signs deal to salvage stranded oil from tanker off Yemen 10 Mar 2023 - 12:02 am
A satellite image from 2020 by Maxar Technologies shows the FSO Safer oil abandoned off the coast of Yemen. Handout / Satellite image ©2020 Maxar Technologies/AFP/File
Mexico won't let US troops fight cartels, president says 09 Mar 2023 - 10:58 pm
In this file photo taken on March 07, 2023 National Guard and military vehicles take part in an operation to transfer two of the four US citizens kidnapped in Mexico's crime-ridden northeast, back to Brownsville in the US, after the other two were found dead, in Matamoros, Tamaulipas State, Mexico.  (Photo by AFP)
Zambia’s auditor general Sichembe arrested on graft charges 09 Mar 2023 - 10:03 pm
Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema.
Visa pauses decision to track purchases at gun shops 09 Mar 2023 - 09:58 pm
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Russia, UN set for Ukraine grain deal renewal talks 09 Mar 2023 - 09:38 pm
This handout picture taken and released by the Ukrainian Presidential press service on March 8, 2023, shows Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (right) welcoming Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres prior to their meeting in Kyiv. (Photo by Ukrainian Presidential Press Service / AFP) 
Australia to buy nuclear-powered submarines made in the US 09 Mar 2023 - 09:35 pm
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Spain confirms three dead in mine collapse 09 Mar 2023 - 08:57 pm
A fire helicopter flies over the potassium mine where three people were trapped after a collapse, in Suria, 75 km from Barcelona, on March 9, 2023.  (Photo by LLUIS GENE / AFP)
Former Trump lawyer censured for falsehoods about election 09 Mar 2023 - 08:38 pm
Lawyer Jenna Ellis, right, listens to Melissa Carone, who was working for Dominion Voting Services, as she speaks in front of the Michigan House Oversight Committee in Lansing, Mich., on December 2, 2020.Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images
US blacklists Chinese firms supplying drone parts to Iran 09 Mar 2023 - 07:28 pm
The US Defense Department used components found at the scene to identify the drone used in a November 2022 attack on a tanker as an Iranian Shahed-136 as shown in this handout photo from the department. DVIDS/AFP
Australian PM kicks off India visit with cricket event 09 Mar 2023 - 06:20 pm
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese wave to spectators from atop a float at the Narendra Modi stadium in Ahmedabad on March 9, 2023, before the start of the fourth and final Test cricket match between India and Australia. (Photo by Punit PARANJPE / AFP)
Nepal elects new president amid political uncertainty 09 Mar 2023 - 06:04 pm
Ram Chandra Poudel, a former parliament speaker and senior leader of the opposition Nepali Congress party, was declared winner after five hours of voting.
North Korea fires ballistic missile toward sea, Seoul says 09 Mar 2023 - 05:51 pm
A man walks past a television showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on March 9, 2023. - North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile on March 9, Seoul's military said, Pyongyang's latest show of force just days before South Korea and the United States kick off major joint military exercises. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP)
At least 36 people killed by extremists in eastern Congo 09 Mar 2023 - 05:46 pm
In this file photo taken on December 07, 2022 flags of the Democratic Republic of Congo are surrounded by candles in Beni during a prayer vigil in remembrance of the victims of the ungoing unrest in the East of the country. (Photo by Sébastien KITSA MUSAYI / AFP)
Rights group says Lebanon electricity crisis deepens poverty 09 Mar 2023 - 05:12 pm
Lebanese demonstrators block a road with burning tyres in front of the Electricite Du Liban company building in the southern city of Sidon, as the country struggles with a deep economic crisis. File photo / AFP
Qataris first to avail UK's new electronic border scheme 09 Mar 2023 - 05:02 pm
AFP file photo