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More than 300 dead in Afghanistan flash floods: WFP 11 May 2024 - 06:41 pm
Afghan relatives attend a burial ceremony of victims who lost their lives following flash floods after heavy rainfall at a village in Baghlan-e-Markazi district of Baghlan province on May 11, 2024. (Photo by Atif Aryan / AFP)
Number of Palestinians detained since October 7 climbs to 8,680 11 May 2024 - 05:58 pm
Palestinians check the rubble of a residential building destroyed in an Israeli strike in Al-Zawayda in the central Gaza Strip on May 11, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
Tunisia dissolves swimming federation in dispute over flag 11 May 2024 - 05:13 pm
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'Miracle' survivor found 5 days after S.Africa building collapse 11 May 2024 - 04:01 pm
(Files) Rescue workers are seen at the scene of a collapsed building in George on May 7, 2024. (Photo by Willie van Tonder / AFP)
Israel strikes Gaza as more Rafah evacuations ordered 11 May 2024 - 02:23 pm
Smoke rises above buildings during an early morning Israeli strike on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 11, 2023. (Photo by AFP)
More than 200 dead in Afghanistan flash floods: UN 11 May 2024 - 12:56 pm
Afghan people gather along a road before a floaded area between Samangan and Mazar-i-Sharif following a flash flood after a heavy rainfall in Feroz Nakhchir district of Samangan Province on May 11, 2024. (Photo by Atif Aryan / AFP)
Macron 'counting on Real Madrid' to let Mbappe play at Olympics 11 May 2024 - 12:40 pm
(Files) French President Emmanuel Macron (R) gestures as he speaks with Paris Saint-Germain's French forward Kylian Mbappe (L) at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, outside Paris on July 24, 2020. (Photo by Franck Fife / AFP)
Released opposition leader urges Indians to battle 'dictatorship' 11 May 2024 - 11:47 am
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and chief minister of Delhi Arvind Kejriwal gestures as he speaks during a press conference at the party headquarters in New Delhi on May 11, 2024. (Photo by Arun Sankar / AFP)
Flooding forecast to worsen in Brazil's south, where often only the poor remain 11 May 2024 - 10:45 am
Aerial view after the floods caused by heavy rains in Mucum, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, taken on May 10, 2024. (Photo by Gustavo Ghisleni / AFP)
French art group uses brainwaves and AI to recreate landscapes 11 May 2024 - 08:58 am
Obvious Artists collective members (from L) Hugo Caselles-Dupre, Gauthier Vernier, and Pierre Fautrel pose in Paris on April 29, 2024, in front of the first print from their
US slams Israel's use of American weapons in Gaza 11 May 2024 - 08:29 am
Smoke rises above building at sunrise, in the aftermath of Israeli bombardment in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 10, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
Flash floods kill 50 in one day in north Afghanistan 10 May 2024 - 10:28 pm
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South Africa's top court hears critical Zuma election case 10 May 2024 - 10:16 pm
Former South African President and leader of the newly-formed uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Party, Jacob Zuma (C) calls with his smartphone after the Constitutional Court hearing over his eligibility to stand for parliament, in Johannesburg on May 10, 2024. (Photo by Phill Magakoe / AFP)
Spain, Ireland, Slovenia to back Palestinian state on May 21: Borrell 10 May 2024 - 08:01 pm
European Commission vice-president in charge for High-Representative of the Union for Foreign Policy and Security Policy Josep Borrell speaks during a press conference at the end of an Informal Foreign Affairs Council (Development Ministers) in Brussels, on February 12, 2023. (Photo by Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP)
Any Israeli ground attack on Rafah will lead to humanitarian catastrophe, warns UN Secretary-General 10 May 2024 - 07:10 pm
Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres. File photo.
Chad: Interim President Deby wins presidential vote 10 May 2024 - 06:22 pm
(FILES) Chad's transitional president and presidential election candidate Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno (C) casts his ballot at a polling station in N'Djamena on May 6, 2024 during Chad's presidential election. (Photo by Issouf SANOGO / AFP)
France health chief visits Mayotte day after cholera death 10 May 2024 - 06:05 pm
(FILES) A woman walks on a muddy pathway along shelter tents in a makeshift camp where migrants live at the Cavani stadium in Mamoudzou on the French island of Mayotte, on February 15, 2024. (Photo by JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP)
'World coming to an end': Kenyan town copes with life underwater 10 May 2024 - 05:31 pm
This aerial view shows the damages of a main road and houses submerged in water following heavy floods in Garissa, on May 8, 2024. (Photo by LUIS TATO / AFP)