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Azeri incumbent Aliyev to run for fourth term in Oct presidential election 01 Feb 2018 - 12:19 pm
File photo of Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev casts his vote during a referendum on extending presidential terms in Baku, Azerbaijan, September 26, 2016. REUTERS/AZERTAC/Vugar Amrullayev/Pool
WWII bomb defused in Hong Kong after thousands evacuated 01 Feb 2018 - 10:52 am
Members of the police bomb squad cordon off an area where a World War Two bomb was found at a construction site in Hong Kong, China January 31, 2018. REUTERS/Bobby Yip
France to finance exports to Iran to sidestep US sanctions 01 Feb 2018 - 10:38 am
File photo of General Manager of the Public Investment Bank (BPI) Nicolas Dufourcq as he delivers a speech at the Viva Technology conference in Paris, France, June 16, 2017. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/File Photo
Multiple blasts kill 4, injure 44 in northeast Nigeria 01 Feb 2018 - 10:26 am
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Petrol bomb thrown at Suu Kyi's lakeside villa 01 Feb 2018 - 10:19 am
Police officers patrol in front of the residence of Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon on February 1, 2018, after a petrol bomb was hurled into the compound. AFP / YE AUNG THU
Highlights: India's budget focuses on rural economy ahead of elections 01 Feb 2018 - 09:59 am
Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley (C) arrives at Parliament House to present the Union Budget in New Delhi on February 1, 2018. AFP / Money SHARMA
Modi seeks to woo farmers and rural Indians with federal budget 01 Feb 2018 - 09:55 am
An Indian farmer waits outside a sugar mill to sell sugarcane crop in Modinagar in Ghaziabad, some 45km east of New Delhi, on January 31, 2018. AFP / PRAKASH SINGH
Taboo North Korean flag raised in South for Olympics 01 Feb 2018 - 08:59 am
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US citizen mobilization, dreaming big against Trump 01 Feb 2018 - 08:35 am
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France's Macron pledges support on first Tunisia visit 01 Feb 2018 - 12:41 am
French President Emmanuel Macron (R) and his wife Brigitte Macron descend from an airplane (R) following their arrival at Tunis-Carthage International Airport in Tunis on January 31, 2018. AFP / Zoubeir Souissi
Israel, Lebanon clash over offshore energy, raising tensions 31 Jan 2018 - 07:38 pm
A herd of sheep graze near the Lebanese-Israeli border in Kfar Kila village, southern Lebanon August 24, 2015. Reuters/Aziz Taher
19 face trial over spectacular Brussels diamond heist 31 Jan 2018 - 07:30 pm
A man covers his face as he leaves the court during the first session of the 2013 Brussels Airport diamond heist case at the Brussels criminal court on January 31, 2018, in which sixteen men and three women are accused. AFP / Belga / Thierry Roge
German who bragged online of child murder sentenced to life 31 Jan 2018 - 06:56 pm
Defendant Marcel Hesse awaits the verdict in his trial at the court in Bochum, western Germany, on January 31, 2018.  AFP / DPA / Bernd Thissen
French railway loses discrimination appeal against Moroccan workers 31 Jan 2018 - 06:48 pm
People sit outside the Court of Appeal in Paris on January 31, 2018 after former workers won in a discrimination claim made by more than 800 railway workers (Chibanis) of Moroccan nationality or origin against France's national railway company SNCF.  AFP
Macron warns Turkey against 'invasion' of Syria 31 Jan 2018 - 01:58 pm
Military vehicles of Turkey are being dispatched with security measures to Turkey's Kilis to support the units deployed at the border as part of the
Decision on orange passport called off: MEA 31 Jan 2018 - 01:49 pm
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Turkish border town hit by rockets, one civilian killed 31 Jan 2018 - 12:57 pm
A photo taken from Turkey's Hatay province, on January 30, 2018 shows smoke rising as the PYD/PKK terror group targets on the opposite side of Reyhanli and Hassa districts being hit within the 'Operation Olive Branch' launched in Syria's Afrin.  Cem Genco
Thailand charges eight activists as public frustration at junta grows 31 Jan 2018 - 12:55 pm
File photo of Thai military. Reuters