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Sweden hits record with 60 shot dead in 2022 19 Dec 2022 - 06:22 pm
Sweden's Moderate Party leader Ulf Kristersson walks, after being confirmed as new prime minister, in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 17, 2022. File Photo / Reuters
Netherlands PM Rutte apologises for role of Dutch state in slavery 19 Dec 2022 - 06:08 pm
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte apologizes as he responds to recommendations from a panel of experts to accept the role of the Netherlands in the history of slavery and its current consequences in The Hague, Netherlands, on  December 19, 2022. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw
COVID-19 still Spain's leading cause of deaths this year 19 Dec 2022 - 04:05 pm
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Quiet before Christmas in Seoul night-life district of deadly crowd crush 19 Dec 2022 - 04:02 pm
People read condolences messages attached to the wall of a narrow alley of Itaewon where the deadly Halloween crush that killed more than 150 in October happened, in Seoul, South Korea, December 18, 2022. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji
Five killed in Toronto shooting: police 19 Dec 2022 - 03:34 pm
A police officer looks out from the lobby after a fatal mass shooting at a condominium building in the Toronto suburb of Vaughan, Ontario, Canada December 19, 2022. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio
UK's Rwanda asylum seeker deportation plan is lawful, court rules 19 Dec 2022 - 03:12 pm
Protesters demonstrate outside the High Court over the legal challenge against the government's policy to deport illegal immigrants to Rwanda in London, Britain December 19, 2022. Reuters/Peter Nicholls
Dozens injured as turbulence hits Hawaiian Airlines flight 19 Dec 2022 - 03:04 pm
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Air quality plummets in Indian capital as temperature falls 19 Dec 2022 - 02:53 pm
Commuters’ cross railway tracks amid foggy conditions on a wintry morning near a railway station in Amritsar on December 19, 2022. (Photo by Narinder NANU / AFP)
France bans disposable packaging, utensils in fast-food restaurants 19 Dec 2022 - 02:45 pm
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China's cities battle first wave of COVID surge as wider spread looms 18 Dec 2022 - 01:41 pm
A health worker wearing protective equipment (PPE) stands at the entrance of a fever clinic of a hospital in Shanghai on December 18, 2022. (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL / AFP)
Philippines extends tariff cuts on imported rice, other food items to fight inflation 18 Dec 2022 - 12:40 pm
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Malaysia police questions campsite operator after landslide kills 24 18 Dec 2022 - 12:37 pm
A rescue crew member checks the landslide area during a rescue and evacuation operation following a landslide at a campsite in Batang Kali, Selangor, Malaysia, December 17, 2022. REUTERS/Hasnoor Hussain
Greek PM pledges 10-percent food subsidy for families 17 Dec 2022 - 11:53 pm
Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis arrives for a European Union leaders' summit in Brussels, Belgium, on December 15, 2022. REUTERS/Johanna Geron
Tunisians shun vote for powerless new parliament 17 Dec 2022 - 11:34 pm
A handout picture provided by the press service of Tunisian presidency shows President Kais Saied casting his ballot at a polling station in the Ennasr district near Tunis on December 17, 2022, during the parliamentary election. (Photo by Tunisian Presidency / AFP)
Fog-shrouded Kiev recovers after Russia strikes, power restored to 6 million 17 Dec 2022 - 11:20 pm
People walk past a Christmas tree during heavy fog at the Sofiyska square, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Kiev, Ukraine December 17, 2022. REUTERS/Vladyslav Musiienko TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
Polish police chief says exploding gift was grenade launcher 17 Dec 2022 - 07:38 pm
A general view of a building of the Polish Police Headquarters, where, according to Poland's interior ministry, top cop was injured by an exploding official gift, in Warsaw, Poland December 15, 2022. REUTERS/Kuba Stezycki
South Africa's Ramaphosa seeks re-election as ruling party boss 17 Dec 2022 - 07:34 pm
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa gives a speech to launch the 55th National Conference of the African National Congress (ANC) at the National Recreation Center (NASREC) in Johannesburg on December 16, 2022. (Photo by LUCA SOLA / AFP)
Russia denounces Moldova's ban of TV channels as 'political censorship' 17 Dec 2022 - 07:06 pm
Moldovan President Maia Sandu delivers a joint statement with French President Emmanuel Macron before a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France May 19, 2022. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes