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Biden looks like a front-runner, until he doesn't 13 Sep 2019 - 09:11 pm
Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris pose before the start of the second US 2020 presidential election Democratic candidates debate in Miami, June 27, 2019. Reuters / Carlo Allegri
Twitter restores some blocked Cuban official accounts 13 Sep 2019 - 08:32 pm
Cuban officials have accused Twitter, a social media firm based in the United States, of mass censorship. Critics of the government say this is ironic, coming from a one-party state which itself practices censorship.
Snowden tells life story and why he leaked in new memoir 13 Sep 2019 - 08:32 pm
Edward Snowden speaks via video link during a news conference in New York City, U.S. September 14, 2016. Reuters/Brendan McDermid
Over 30 Indian worshippers drown during Hindu rituals 13 Sep 2019 - 08:32 pm
National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Emergency Response Force (SDERF) personnel conduct rescue and search operations for survivors at Lower Lake in Bhopal on September 13, 2019, after boats overturn as they carry people and an idol o
US sanctions North Korean hackers for damaging online attacks 13 Sep 2019 - 08:32 pm
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a wreath-laying ceremony at a WWII memorial in the far-eastern Russian port of Vladivostok on April 26, 2019. AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev
Hungary's Orban points to EU 'enlargement fatigue' 13 Sep 2019 - 08:32 pm
Viktor Orban
Mugabe will have private burial at national Heroes' Acre 13 Sep 2019 - 06:42 pm
A casket carrying the remains of former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe is carried to the military chopper after his body lied in state at the Rufaro stadium, in Mbare, Harare, Zimbabwe, September 13, 2019. Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko
India's Stalin admits to problems visiting Russia 13 Sep 2019 - 06:42 pm
DMK party working President MK Stalin talks to media at the home of party leader Karunanidhi in Chennai on December 21, 2017. AFP / Arun Sankar
Two more Rohingya shot dead over Bangladesh politician's murder 13 Sep 2019 - 02:39 pm
Rohingya children climb the slope of a hill at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia on Setember 13, 2019. AFP / Munir Uz Zaman
'Protecting rapists': Protesters accuse Japan of failing women 12 Sep 2019 - 09:17 pm
This file photo taken on June 11, 2019 shows a demonstrator holding a placard during a protest against the lack of substantial legal protection for sexual assault victims in Tokyo. AFP / Charly Triballeau
Exhausted Central Africans leave exile for unknowns at home 12 Sep 2019 - 09:17 pm
Central African refugees coming back after years in Congo-Brazzaville stand at the rear of a truck in Mongoumba, at the Congo-Brazzaville border, about 100 km south of Bangui on September 2, 2019. AFP / Camille Laffont
'They fooled us': Benin bulldozes district, leaving residents homeless 12 Sep 2019 - 09:17 pm
People walk among rubble of demolished houses in Xwlacodji, in the 5th arrondissement of Cotonou on September 3, 2019, after the passage of bulldozers. AFP / Yanick Folly
Pre-school panic in Sweden: child brings grenade to class 12 Sep 2019 - 08:55 pm
Representative image. Jugoslawische Handgranate M75 mit Transportbehälter
Media bus collides with Trudeau plane in Canada 12 Sep 2019 - 08:43 pm
The media bus drove under and scraped the wing of the plane, they said. Trudeau had already left the airport. Pictures on social media showed a gash underneath the wing.
Sting in the tale: naming of Sri Lankan geckos sparks uproar 12 Sep 2019 - 08:43 pm
Peninsula
Indian states resist government's steep hike in traffic fines 12 Sep 2019 - 03:19 pm
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At least 50 dead in Congo after train derails - minister 12 Sep 2019 - 02:13 pm
Peninsula
UK PM Johnson denies lying to Queen Elizabeth over the suspension of parliament 12 Sep 2019 - 01:35 pm
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits the NLV Pharos, a lighthouse tender moored on the river Thames to mark London International Shipping Week in London on September 12, 2019. / AFP / POOL / DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS