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Thousands of academics sign petition backing Serbian students 21 Mar 2025 - 02:40 pm
Thousands of protesters hold up their mobile phones to light up the night sky in memory of those who died in the Novi Sad roof disaster, as they take part in one of the largest anti-corruption demonstrations, in Belgrade on March 15, 2025. Photo by Andrej ISAKOVIC / AFP
Flights cancelled, thousands evacuated after Indonesia volcano eruption 21 Mar 2025 - 02:34 pm
Passengers look at an electronic board displaying cancelled flights at the Ngurah Rai International Airport in Tuban near Denpasar on Indonesia's resort island of Bali on March 21, 2025, after Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki volcano in the archipelago nation's east erupted, shooting dark ash eight kilometres into the sky. (Photo by SONNY TUMBELAKA / AFP)
Emotions run high as power outage shuts London's Heathrow 21 Mar 2025 - 02:28 pm
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Robots to retrieve radioactive sandbags at Fukushima plant 21 Mar 2025 - 02:18 pm
This aerial picture shows storage tanks (bottom) used for storing treated water at TEPCO's crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture on August 24, 2023. (Photo by JIJI PRESS / AFP)
Philippine rescuers find German, British hikers, 4 still missing 21 Mar 2025 - 01:36 pm
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Video: London's Heathrow airport closed after fire causes major power cut 21 Mar 2025 - 09:30 am
This frame grab taken from a UGC video shot and posted on X on March 21, 2025 by @fire_at_Vill shows a fire burning at a neighborhood electrical substation supplying power to Heathrow Airport in Hayes, west London. Photo by Handout / Courtesy of X user @fire_at_Vill / AFP
One dead, two missing in Ecuador bridge collapse 20 Mar 2025 - 10:06 pm
In this aerial view rescuers search for missing persons after a suspension bridge collapsed in Duale, Guayas province, Ecuador on March 20, 2025. The collapse in Ecuador of a busy 200-metre-long suspension bridge carrying several vehicles left at least one dead, five injured and two missing, authorities said in a new assessment on Thursday. (Photo by MARCOS PIN / AFP)
Ukrainian, US technical teams to meet in Saudi Arabia 20 Mar 2025 - 09:51 pm
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gestures as he addresses a press conference with the Norwegian Prime Minister in the government's representative building in Oslo, Norway on March 20, 2025. (Photo by Ole Berg-Rusten / NTB / AFP) / Norway OUT
Jordan underscores need to immediately consolidate Gaza ceasefire deal 20 Mar 2025 - 09:37 pm
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Amid war's roar, Sudanese musicians drum for peace 20 Mar 2025 - 09:12 pm
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Three generations of Chinese and Gambian doctors perform surgery together 20 Mar 2025 - 08:22 pm
Cai Guiyang, the leader of the 22nd batch of the Chinese medical team, prepares to perform a surgery on a patient at an operating room of Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital in Banjul, capital of Gambia, on March 12, 2025. (Xinhua/Si Yuan)
Russia announces talks with US on Ukraine in Riyadh next Monday 20 Mar 2025 - 08:15 pm
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Several leaders of Al Shabaab group killed in aerial operation in Central Somalia 20 Mar 2025 - 08:06 pm
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Israel deliberately uses excessive force in densely populated areas of Gaza: UNICEF 20 Mar 2025 - 05:37 pm
People walk past a building destroyed during Israeli strikes at the Nusseirat refugee camp, on March 20, 2025. Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP
Europe games industry on edge as 'Assassin's Creed' hits shelves 20 Mar 2025 - 04:51 pm
Campaign posters of the video game
New 'Assassin's Creed' game criticised in Japan parliament 20 Mar 2025 - 04:45 pm
Visitors wait in line to play the
Oxygen detected in most distant galaxy: 'astonished' astronomers 20 Mar 2025 - 04:20 pm
This handout image obtained on May 30, 2024 courtesy of NASA/ESA/CSA STScI shows an infrared image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (also called Webb or JWST) taken by the NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) for the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey, or JADES, program. Photo by HANDOUT / ESA, NASA, CSA, STScI / AFP
Sri Lanka govt faces popularity test with local polls 20 Mar 2025 - 01:15 pm
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