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354 Overseas Filipinos in Qatar repatriated on fifth chartered flight 09 Aug 2020 - 05:23 pm
Photo credit: Doha PE photo
At least 43 killed in monsoon-triggered India landslide 09 Aug 2020 - 04:21 pm
Rescue workers look for survivors at the site of a landslide during heavy rains in Idukki.
Italy resort lifts alert on melting glacier threat 09 Aug 2020 - 03:21 pm
A security officer looks through binoculars at the Planpincieux glacier in Courmayeur village, Val Ferret, northwestern Italy on August 8, 2020. Several dozen people have been evacuated in northwestern Italy as a huge chunk of a glacier in the Mont Blanc
3 days of heavy monsoon rains kill 50 people across Pakistan 09 Aug 2020 - 01:59 pm
Commuters make their way along a flooded road after a monsoon rain in Pakistan's port city of Karachi on August 8, 2020. / AFP / Rizwan TABASSUM
Security tight as Belarus votes in tense poll 09 Aug 2020 - 01:52 pm
People queue outside the Belarusian embassy to cast their votes during the presidential election in Moscow, Russia August 9, 2020. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
Lebanon information minister resigns in wake of deadly blast 09 Aug 2020 - 01:47 pm
Lebanon's Information Minister Manal Abdel Samad. AFP
Pilot erred in India crash, aviation watchdog chief suggests 09 Aug 2020 - 12:16 pm
Officials inspect the site where a passenger plane crashed when it overshot the runway at the Calicut International Airport in Karipur, in the southern state of Kerala, India, August 8, 2020. REUTERS/Stringer
Beirut port blast crater 43 metres deep: security official 09 Aug 2020 - 10:05 am
A view of damaged site is seen as search and rescue with rubble removal operations continue after a fire at a warehouse with explosives at the Port of Beirut led to massive blasts on 4th August, in Beirut, Lebanon on August 08, 2020. Muhammet Fatih O?ra?
US response to the virus is met with incredulity abroad 09 Aug 2020 - 09:48 am
A worker with a face shield checks products on the shelf of a grocery store in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., August 7, 2020. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
Nagasaki marks 75 years since atomic bombing 09 Aug 2020 - 09:30 am
Doves fly during a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, at the Nagasaki Peace Park on August 9, 2020.  AFP
Polls open in Belarus presidential vote 09 Aug 2020 - 09:24 am
A woman wearing a protective face mask stands inside a voting booth at a polling station during the presidential election in Minsk, Belarus August 9, 2020. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko
Lebanon PM Diab to call for early polls after deadly blast 08 Aug 2020 - 09:49 pm
A demonstrator waves the Lebanese flag in front of riot police during a protest in Beirut, Lebanon, August 8, 2020. (Reuters/Goran Tomasevic)
Paris imposes face mask order for outdoor markets, River Seine strollers 08 Aug 2020 - 09:32 pm
Wearing a mask will be compulsory in parts of Paris and its wider region from August 10, 2020, to combat a rise in coronavirus infections in and around the French capital, the police said. (AFP / PHILIPPE LOPEZ / file photo)
Protesters take over Lebanon foreign ministry 08 Aug 2020 - 08:54 pm
Lebanese protesters enter the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beirut on August 8, 2020, after they stormed the ministry as anger exploded over a deadly blast that made hundreds of thousands homeless and shocked the world. As security forces focused their a
Floods drive over 650,000 Somalis from their homes 08 Aug 2020 - 03:01 pm
A Somalian drives an auto-rickshaw (Tuk-Tuk) to carry his belongings and to travel through the city in Mogadishu, Somalia on August 05, 2020.  Lokman ?lhan - Anadolu
Unknown gunman kills 2 Lebanese in Iranian capital 08 Aug 2020 - 01:52 pm
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At least 43 Syrians among people killed in Beirut blast: Al Mayadeen 08 Aug 2020 - 01:48 pm
A general view shows the damaged grain silo following Tuesday's blast in Beirut's port area, Lebanon August 8, 2020. REUTERS/Hannah McKay
At least seven dead in car bombing near Somalia stadium 08 Aug 2020 - 01:27 pm
An ambulance is seen near a blast site that rocked a military base in Mogadishu, Somalia August 8, 2020. REUTERS/Feisal Omar