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Fast-moving fires torch national parks in southeast Australia 28 Jan 2025 - 02:35 pm
A handout photo from VicEmergency/state control centre taken and released on January 27, 2025 shows a fire truck arriving to battle bushfires in Little Desert National Park in the Australian state of Victoria. (Photo by Handout / VicEmergency/state control centre / AFP)
Lab holding Ebola in DRC's Goma at risk amid fighting: Red Cross 28 Jan 2025 - 02:31 pm
Armed men travel in a pickup truck, devoid of any insignia or markings, as they drive through a street in Goma on January 28, 2025. (Photo by AFP)
Japanese truck driver stuck in sinkhole 28 Jan 2025 - 12:55 pm
Firefighters work to rescue a truck driver after his vehicle was swallowed up by a sinkhole at a prefectural road intersection, in the city of Yashio, Saitama Prefecture on January 28, 2025. Photo by JIJI Press / AFP
Macron to speak on Louvre future after memo about decay 28 Jan 2025 - 12:27 pm
French President Emmanuel Macron waits for the arrival of European Commission President before a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, on January 28, 2025. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP)
Nepal resumes rescue helicopter flights to Mount Everest 28 Jan 2025 - 11:55 am
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Trump warns of 'wake-up call' as low-cost Chinese AI jolts sector 28 Jan 2025 - 11:21 am
This photo illustration shows the DeepSeek and Nvidia logos on screens in Hangzhou, in China's eastern Zhejiang province on January 27, 2025. (Photo by AFP)
Trump pushes India's Modi on 'fair' trade 27 Jan 2025 - 11:51 pm
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump holds a bilateral meeting with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi alongside the ASEAN Summit in Manila, Philippines November 13, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
UN warns of 'worrying' humanitarian crisis in Congo's Goma 27 Jan 2025 - 11:42 pm
A member of the M23 armed group walk alongside residents through a street of the Keshero neighborhood in Goma, on January 27, 2025. (Photo by -STR / AFP)
Coca-Cola orders massive Europe recall over chlorate risk 27 Jan 2025 - 10:45 pm
This photograph taken on January 26, 2023 shows cans of Cola at the closing stage at the Coca Cola factory in Bierne, northern France. (Photo by Sameer Al Doumy / AFP)
Record January heat of almost 27C bakes Spain's Valencia 27 Jan 2025 - 10:23 pm
In this representational file photo, air conditioners are seen on the facade of a residential building in Malaga, southern Spain, on July 28, 2023. (Photo by JORGE GUERRERO / AFP)
UK confirms 'rare' human case of bird flu 27 Jan 2025 - 09:06 pm
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OIC expresses rejection of schemes to displace Palestinian people 27 Jan 2025 - 06:21 pm
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Iraq sees drop in unemployment, poverty rates 27 Jan 2025 - 06:18 pm
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India says agreed with China to resume direct flights after 5 years 27 Jan 2025 - 05:53 pm
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China urges US to stop politicisation of COVID-19 origins-tracing 27 Jan 2025 - 05:42 pm
File photo: People walk on a street in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province, on January 21, 2023. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP)
Africa loses 18 bln USD annually due to conflict: African Union 27 Jan 2025 - 05:35 pm
File: The African Union logo is seen outside the AU headquarters building in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on November 8, 2021.
Bird feathers and bloodstains found in Jeju jet engines: report 27 Jan 2025 - 04:22 pm
Firefighters and recovery teams work at the scene where a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 series aircraft crashed and burst into flames at Muan International Airport in Muan, some 288 kilometres southwest of Seoul on December 30, 2024. Photo by JUNG YEON-JE / AFP
Colombia caves on deportations after Trump threats 27 Jan 2025 - 04:12 pm
Colombian Foreign Relations Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo (C) speaks during a press conference at the San Carlos Palace in Bogota on January 26, 2025. (Photo by Andrea Ariza / AFP)