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Trump slams Harvard as funding fight heads to court 24 Apr 2025 - 08:25 pm
Demonstrators stand around the John Harvard Statue in Harvard Yard following a rally against President Donald Trump痴 attacks on Harvard University at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on April 17, 2025. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso / AFP)
People in Japan stage rallies against sexual assaults by US servicemen 24 Apr 2025 - 07:50 pm
US miliary personnel join Japanese officials and residents for a one-off joint nighttime patrol on the streets of Okinawa City, Okinawa prefecture late on April 18, 2025, in the first such joint operation since 1973, following sexual assault cases involving US servicemen. (Photo by Hiroaki YAMASHIRO / AFP)
'Vladimir, STOP!': Trump turns on Putin after deadly Kyiv strike 24 Apr 2025 - 07:48 pm
(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on April 24, 2025 shows, L-R, Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking in Murmansk on March 27, 2025 and US President Donald Trump outside the White House in Washington, DC, on April 23, 2025. (Photo by Olga MALTSEVA and SAUL LOEB / AFP)
Trump should be 'free' to criticize the Fed, senior official says 24 Apr 2025 - 07:22 pm
(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on April 21, 2025 shows, L-R, US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell in Arlington, Virginia, on April 4, 2025 and US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 17, 2025. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)
China repatriates 900 from Myanmar scam centres 24 Apr 2025 - 07:01 pm
File photo: Members of the Karen Border Guard Force (BGF) carry out an inspection at a work place during a crackdown operation on illicit activity linked to scam centres in Shwe Kokko in Myanmar's eastern Myawaddy township on February 18, 2025. (Photo by AFP)
Germany expects zero GDP growth this year, blames Trump tariffs 24 Apr 2025 - 06:34 pm
(FILES) US President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order after delivering remarks on reciprocal tariffs during an event in the Rose Garden entitled
Student killed, three injured in school stabbing in western France 24 Apr 2025 - 06:08 pm
Students evacuate the high school Notre-Dame de Toutes-Aides before a Police Municipal officer surrounds the scene of crime with a Police tape after a knife attack, one student was killed and three other were wounded in Nantes, western France, on April 24, 2025. (Photo by Loic VENANCE / AFP)
Gaza rescuers say Israeli strikes kill 36 24 Apr 2025 - 06:00 pm
Palestinians inspect the damage after an Israeli strike on a school housing displaced Palestinians in Gaza City on April 23, 2025. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
GCC Secretary-General affirms Council's commitment to combating human trafficking, strengthening international cooperation 24 Apr 2025 - 05:42 pm
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Tunisia dismantles camps for undocumented migrants 24 Apr 2025 - 05:26 pm
Members of Tunisian security forces dispense disinfectants as they dismantle a makeshift camp for migrants from sub-Saharan Africa at Ben Farhat farm near the Tunisian city of Sfax on April 24, 2025. (Photo by Mohamed KHALIL / AFP)
Indonesia partners with Denmark's Vetas to develop wind energy project 24 Apr 2025 - 05:11 pm
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Three Chinese astronauts blast off for Tiangong space station 24 Apr 2025 - 03:10 pm
A Long March-2F carrier rocket, carrying the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft and a crew of three astronauts, lifts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi desert, in northwest China on April 24, 2025. (Photo by Pedro Pardo / AFP)
Pakistan closes border, airspace as ‘reciprocal measures’ against India 24 Apr 2025 - 02:47 pm
In this handout photograph taken and released by Pakistan's Prime Minister Office on April 24, 2025, Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif chairs a high level security meeting in Islamabad. (Photo by Pakistan's Prime Minister Office / AFP)
Moving heaven and earth to make bread in Gaza 24 Apr 2025 - 02:23 pm
A woman bakes pita bread loaves in an oven by a tent in Gaza City on April 21, 2025. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
Thousands evacuate as fire spreads in US state of New Jersey 24 Apr 2025 - 02:01 pm
Smoke from the Jones Road Fire covers a road near Lacey Township in Ocean County, New Jersey, on April 23, 2025. (Photo by Matthew Hatcher / AFP)
'Massive' Russian missile attack kills nine in Kyiv 24 Apr 2025 - 01:33 pm
Ukrainian rescuers operate at the site of a Russian missile attack in Kyiv early on April 24, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by STRINGER / AFP)
Saudi 'city of roses' offers fragrant reminder of desert's beauty 24 Apr 2025 - 07:51 am
A man displays freshly collected Damascenas (Damask) roses, used to produce rose water and oil, at a farm in Saudi Arabia's western city of Taif. (AFP)
Sri Lanka's poverty alarmingly high: World Bank 23 Apr 2025 - 11:51 pm
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