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With no immunity, Sri Lanka's Rajapaksa faces legal troubles 03 Sep 2022 - 06:47 pm
Sri Lanka's ousted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's party members welcome him and his wife Ioma Rajapaksa at the Bandaranaike International Airport as he returns to the country after he had fled during the July economic unrest and protestors stormed in the president's house in Katunayake, Sri Lanka, on September 2, 2022. PR Media Unit/Handout via Reuters
Indian anti-money laundering agency searches Paytm, Razorpay 03 Sep 2022 - 05:54 pm
Advertisements of Paytm, a digital wallet company, are seen placed at stalls of roadside vegetable vendors in Mumbai, India, on November 19, 2016. REUTERS/Shailesh Andrade
Pakistan flood toll rises with 25 children among 57 more deaths 03 Sep 2022 - 01:16 pm
A flood victim family take refuge with their animals in an abandoned building amid flood water, following rains and floods in Dera Allah Yar, District Jafferabad, Pakistan September 2, 2022. Reuters/Amer Hussain
Super Typhoon prompts evacuation orders, canceled Japan flights 03 Sep 2022 - 12:22 pm
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Indonesia hikes fuel prices to rein in ballooning subsidies 03 Sep 2022 - 12:13 pm
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Sri Lanka's ousted President Rajapaksa gets govt residence, security on return: officials 03 Sep 2022 - 11:36 am
File photo of Sri Lanka's then president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Andy Buchanan/Pool via Reuters/File Photo
Afghanistan floods, quakes kill over 1,500 people in two months 03 Sep 2022 - 09:56 am
An Afghan man cleans up his damaged home after the heavy flood in the Khushi district of Logar, Afghanistan, August 21, 2022. REUTERS/Stringer
India commissions first home-built aircraft carrier in defence push 03 Sep 2022 - 09:24 am
Indian Navy officers stand on the flight deck of India's first home-built aircraft carrier INS Vikrant after its commissioning ceremony at a state-run shipyard in Kochi, India, September 2, 2022. Reuters/Sivaram V
Sri Lanka's ousted President Rajapaksa returns home 02 Sep 2022 - 09:52 pm
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Aid pours into Pakistan; deaths from floods cross 1,200 mark 02 Sep 2022 - 09:21 pm
A general view of the submerged houses, following rains and floods during the monsoon season in Dera Allah Yar, District Jafferabad, Pakistan, September 1, 2022. (REUTERS)
Pakistan's armed forces rescue 2,000 marooned by catastrophic floods 02 Sep 2022 - 12:27 pm
People walk amid rising flood waters on the Indus highway, following rains and floods during the monsoon season in Mehar, Pakistan August 31, 2022. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro
Worst-ever storm threatens catastrophic damage in South Korea 02 Sep 2022 - 10:12 am
Worst-ever storm threatens catastrophic damage in South Korea
China's Shenzhen extends COVID curbs but stops short of full lockdown 02 Sep 2022 - 09:58 am
Residents of a compound line up for nucleic acid testing amid a citywide mass testing following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China September 1, 2022. cnsphoto via REUTERS
South Pakistan braces for yet more flooding as waters flow down from north 01 Sep 2022 - 09:43 pm
A general view of the submerged houses, following rains and floods during the monsoon season in Dera Allah Yar, District Jafferabad, Pakistan, September 1, 2022. (REUTERS)
To China’s fury, UN accuses Beijing of Uyghur rights abuses 01 Sep 2022 - 08:59 pm
Activists take part in a protest against China's treatment towards the ethnic Uyghur people and calling for a boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, at a park Jakarta, Indonesia, January 4, 2022. (REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan)
Indian troops join Russian military exercise despite US concerns 01 Sep 2022 - 08:22 pm
Indian Army soldiers participate in a war exercise during a two-day
India's monsoon seen above-average in Sept; distribution remains a concern 01 Sep 2022 - 06:26 pm
A man wades through a flooded street with his bike amidst heavy rainfall in Mumbai, India, July 5, 2022. (REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas)
Ex-Malaysian first lady ordered to serve 10 years for graft 01 Sep 2022 - 06:09 pm
Rosmah Mansor, wife of former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, leaves the Kuala Lumpur Courts Complex as she is on bail after a Malaysian court found her guilty of seeking and receiving bribes in exchange for government contracts, in Kuala Lumpur, on September 1, 2022. REUTERS/Hasnoor Hussain

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This photograph shows a fire in construction waste at a recycling company near the port of Rotterdam, in Rotterdam on August 7, 2026. (Photo by Jeffrey Groeneweg / ANP / AFP) Fire crews tame Rotterdam waste plant blaze
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Traditional groups play traditional instruments next to Djidji Ayokwe, also known as the talking drum, that was taken by French Colonial troups from Ivory Coast in 1916, during an official presentation to the local population in Adjamé village in Abidjan on August 7, 2026 after the repatriation of the Talking Drun fron France in March 13, 2026. (Photo by Issouf SANOGO / AFP) Ivorians set eyes on talking drum for first time
File photo strictly for representational purposes only. Freepik. Ethiopia posts record 5.7-bln-USD annual mining export revenue
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File photo WHO calls for additional support to combat Ebola outbreak in DR Congo

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Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche swears-in before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on his nomination to be Attorney General, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on July 15, 2026. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP) US Senate confirms Todd Blanche as Attorney General
(FILES) Acting US Attorney General todd blanche testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on his nomination to be Attorney General, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on July 15, 2026. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP) US senate confirms Todd Blanche for attorney general
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This aerial view shows a backhoe loader removing accumulated sargassum seaweed from the shoreline as a municipal worker walks along a beach in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo State, Mexico, on August 6, 2026. (Photo by Alfredo ESTRELLA / AFP) Empty beaches and 'unbearable stench': Mexico wages war on sargassum weeds

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