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Singapore to ban sugary drink ads in fight against diabetes: media 10 Oct 2019 - 08:44 am
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Apple removes Hong Kong map app after Chinese criticism 10 Oct 2019 - 08:27 am
The HKmap.live App is pictured on a phone screen in this photo illustration, in Hong Kong, China, October 10, 2019. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
Rescued from sex slavery, red tape traps Bangladeshi girls in India 09 Oct 2019 - 10:29 pm
A Bangladeshi trafficking survivor shows a drawing she has made of her house at a shelter in West Bengal, India, Sept 9, 2019. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Roli Srivastava
Even in death, Uighurs feel long reach of Chinese state 09 Oct 2019 - 07:25 pm
This photo taken on September 12, 2019 shows a traditional Uighur cemetery which was destroyed in Shayar in the region of Xinjiang. AFP / Hector Retamal
Air quality app back online in Vietnam after attacks over smog ranking 09 Oct 2019 - 01:14 pm
An AirVisual monitoring station produced by Swiss firm IQair is seen by the West Lake in Hanoi, Vietnam October 9, 2019. REUTERS/James Pearson
China plans to restrict visas for U.S. visitors with 'anti-China' links 09 Oct 2019 - 10:05 am
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Australian homes destroyed by spring fires in 'horrible' warning 09 Oct 2019 - 09:17 am
A local resident is seen near a bushfire burning next to Busbys Flat Road in Busbys Flat, northern NSW, Australia, October 9, 2019. AAP Image/Jason O'Brien/via REUTERS
Canadian father sues Japan firm for paternity leave harassment 09 Oct 2019 - 08:56 am
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Chinese media slams NBA's 'about face' on Hong Kong 09 Oct 2019 - 08:47 am
A boy waits to enter the NBA Playzone, an NBA-themed indoor playground, at a shopping mall in Beijing, China October 9, 2019. REUTERS/Jason Lee
India to allow tourists back into locked-down Kashmir 08 Oct 2019 - 06:30 pm
FILE PHOTO: An aerial view shows Dal Lake, one of Kashmir's main tourist attractions, in Srinagar, September 20, 2019. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas
Bangladeshi shaved wife's head after finding hair in food 08 Oct 2019 - 12:13 pm
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Thailand arrests man amid #royalmotorcade controversy 08 Oct 2019 - 08:56 am
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India on the frontline of the fight against tuberculosis 08 Oct 2019 - 08:52 am
In this photograph taken on September 26, 2019, a tuberculosis (TB) patient holds his daily dose of medicine at a DOTS (directly observed treatment, short-course) Centre in New Delhi. AFP / Money SHARMA
Dissidents under late Uzbek leader still out in the cold 07 Oct 2019 - 08:48 pm
Uzbek journalist and former prisoner Dilmurod Said holds photos of his wife and daughter, who died in a 2009 car crash en route to visit him in a jail, during an interview with AFP in Tashkent on July 26, 2019. AFP / Temur Ismailov
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena exits, with many promises unfulfilled 07 Oct 2019 - 07:42 pm
Maithripala Sirisena speaks during an interview with Reuters at his residence in Colombo, Sri Lanka May 4, 2019. Reuters/Dinuka Liyanawatte
North Korea's deadline on denuclearisation talks looms, but what does it mean? 07 Oct 2019 - 07:42 pm
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a wreath-laying ceremony at a WWII memorial in the far-eastern Russian port of Vladivostok on April 26, 2019. AFP / Kirill Kudryavtsev
Bangladesh student killing sparks university protests 07 Oct 2019 - 06:00 pm
A Bangladeshi student sits during a protest in Dhaka on October 7, 2019, next to a portrait of Abrar Fahad, who was allegedly beaten to death by ruling party activists. AFP / Munir Uz Zaman
North Korea warns US, Europeans against raising its missile tests at UN 07 Oct 2019 - 06:00 pm
Members of the North Korean delegation arrive to Arlanda airport north of Stockholm on October 3, 2019. AFP / Jonathan Nackstrand

Europe

French police officers clash with protesters during a demonstration of high-school students at Place de la Bastille, in Paris, on October 8, 2026, as part of a nationwide protest movement over learning conditions. Photo by Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP France pledges more teachers after school students vow no let-up
A security person wearing a face mask looks out from the door of an infectious diseases hospital in the town of Shelekhov, where an employee of the Irkutsk Antiplague Research Institute had died, in the Irkutsk region on October 7, 2026. (Photo by TATYANA MAKEYEVA / AFP) Russia says all clear after contact tracing in reported plague case
Copies of books by Canadian author Anne Carson are on display at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, after a press conference on October 8, 2026 to announce her as the winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. (Photo by Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP) Canada's Anne Carson wins Nobel literature prize
Police officers guard outside the scene of a knife attack at a vocational school in the town of Ostroleka, Poland. (Photo by Mladen ANTONOV / AFP) Teen knife attack kills one, injures two in Polish school

Africa

Ghana's Foreign Affairs Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa speaks to the media during the official visit of India's External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in Accra, on October 6, 2026. (Photo by Nipah Dennis / AFP) Ghana to apply to join BRICS, foreign minister says
Kenyan Cabinet Secretary of Health Aden Duale speaks at a press conference in Nairobi on October 6, 2026. Photo by SIMON MAINA / AFP Kenya reports first-ever Ebola death
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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk (L) receives the National Medal of Science from U.S. President Donald Trump during the Golden Age of American Innovation Summit at the Institute of Peace on October 08, 2026 in Washington, DC. Photo by WIN MCNAMEE / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP Trump gives 'national treasure' Musk top US medal after rift
This picture provided by NASA shows the SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom spacecraft as it lands with NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev aboard in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Los Angeles, California, on October 8, 2026. Photo by Keegan Barber / NASA / AFP VIDEO: Crew splashes down after 8-month mission on International Space Station
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