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Disabled former British marine 'smashes solo Atlantic rowing record' 11 Mar 2019 - 10:30 am
Lee Spencer, a 49-year-old former British marine, known as 'The Rowing Marine', row as he arrives in Cayenne, French Guiana, early on March 11, 2019, after smashing solo Atlantic rowing record from mainland Europe to South America. AFP / Jody Amiet
Japan marks tsunami, nuclear tragedy eight years on 11 Mar 2019 - 10:25 am
A woman pays her respects at a cemetery in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture on March 11, 2019 on the eighth anniversary of the 2011 tsunami disaster. Japan OUT / AFP / JIJI PRESS / JIJI PRESS
Malaysia frees Indonesian suspect in Kim Jong Nam murder case 11 Mar 2019 - 10:18 am
Indonesian Siti Aisyah, who is on trial for the killing of Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korea's leader, arrives at the Shah Alam High Court on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia March 11, 2019. REUTERS/Lai Seng Sin
Indonesia offers to assist in Ethiopia crash investigation 11 Mar 2019 - 09:59 am
Ethiopian Federal policemen stand at the scene of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET 302 plane crash, near the town of Bishoftu, southeast of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia March 11, 2019. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri
Iran's Rouhani hails 'special' ties with Iraq ahead of visit 11 Mar 2019 - 09:45 am
File photo of Iran's President Hassan Rouhani listens during a news conference on the sidelines of the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 26, 2018. REUTERS/Brendan Mcdermid/File Photo
US says religious freedom in China could boost trust in Taiwan 11 Mar 2019 - 09:08 am
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Biggest election on Earth: who to watch in India's rough-and-tumble April-May event and its giant numbers 10 Mar 2019 - 09:45 pm
India's Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora speaks during a press conference in New Delhi on March 10, 2019. AFP
New Assad statue triggers protest in cradle of Syrian revolt 10 Mar 2019 - 09:44 pm
A picture of President Bashar al-Assad is seen in Ramouseh, a government controlled area of Aleppo,  Syria, December 8, 2016. Reuters/Omar Sanadiki
Electric power returns to part, but not all, of Venezuela 10 Mar 2019 - 06:05 pm
Car lights are seen on one of the main roads of the city during the second day of a blackout in Caracas, Venezuela March 9, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso
Bouteflika’s plane to take off in few minutes to return to Algeria 10 Mar 2019 - 05:42 pm
An Algerian government Gulfstream plane, registration 7T-VPM, is pictured at Cointrin airport in Geneva, where Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is in hospital, Switzerland, March 10, 2019. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
Protesters in Syria's Daraa rally against Hafez Assad statue 10 Mar 2019 - 05:13 pm
Peninsula
UK studying how to get children of Islamic State followers out of Syria 10 Mar 2019 - 04:41 pm
Fighters with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) sits on a motorcycle at a makeshift camp for Islamic State (IS) group members and their families in the town of Baghouz, in the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor, on March 9, 2019. / AFP / Dylan COLLINS
India announces general election for April-May 10 Mar 2019 - 03:47 pm
Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi
No survivors on crashed Ethiopian Airlines flight: state TV 10 Mar 2019 - 02:16 pm
An Ethiopian Airports Enterprise fire engine drives to the scene of the Flight ET 302 plane crash, near the town of Bishoftu, southeast of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia March 10, 2019. (REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri)
Melania Trump 'mistook former female Australia FM for partner' 10 Mar 2019 - 12:55 pm
FILE PHOTO: Australia's former Foreign Minister Julie Bishop. Reuters
Bouteflika to return to Algeria on Sunday - source 10 Mar 2019 - 11:53 am
Peninsula
Boeing 737 from Addis to Nairobi crashes with 157 aboard: Ethiopian Airlines 10 Mar 2019 - 11:40 am
FILE PHOTO: Workers service an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-800 plane at the Bole International Airport in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, January 26, 2017. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh/File Photo
First time in Baghdad: Iran's president to visit Iraq 10 Mar 2019 - 11:39 am
File photo of Iranian president Hassan Rouhani. AFP