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EU offers China free vaccines as COVID-19 infections surge 03 Jan 2023 - 04:47 pm
People wearing protective masks walk in a shopping district as China returns to work despite continuing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreaks in Shanghai, China, January 3, 2023. (REUTERS/Aly Song)
Hungary's Orban pays respects to Benedict as thousands more bid farewell 03 Jan 2023 - 04:47 pm
This handout picture taken and released on January 3, 2023 shows Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (second left) and his wife Aniko Levai paying their respect to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI as his body lays in state at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican.  (Photo by Handout / VATICAN MEDIA / AFP)
France urges energy firms to do more to help bakers cope with soaring bills 03 Jan 2023 - 03:27 pm
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Ukraine's young circus artists wow Budapest after training in bomb shelters at home 03 Jan 2023 - 03:26 pm
Ukrainian Mariia Kravchenko, a participant of the Yaskrava Arena Dnipro International Children's Circus Festival practices before the competition in Budapest, Hungary, January 1, 2023. Reuters/Marton Monus
Minister of National Security in Israeli entity storms Al-Aqsa mosque 03 Jan 2023 - 02:30 pm
Pic: Twitter / QNA
Pakistan shuts markets in evenings under energy conservation plan: Minister 03 Jan 2023 - 01:53 pm
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Vietnam rescuers try to raise concrete pillar with trapped boy 03 Jan 2023 - 01:49 pm
Rescuers look down into the site of where a 10-year-old boy is thought to be trapped in a 35-metre deep shaft at a bridge construction area in Vietnam's Dong Thap province on January 2, 2023. Photo by AFP
Elderly patients fill hospitals in Shanghai Covid surge 03 Jan 2023 - 01:29 pm
Patients lie on beds next to closed counters at the emergency department of Zhongshan Hospital, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Shanghai, China January 3, 2023. REUTERS/Staff
French PM says Covid tests for travellers from China 'will continue' 03 Jan 2023 - 12:08 pm
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French PM says raising retirement age to 65 not set in stone 03 Jan 2023 - 11:53 am
Reuters file photo of French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne
Why China's Covid wave is stirring fear 03 Jan 2023 - 10:30 am
Patients lie on beds at the emergency department of Zhongshan Hospital, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Shanghai, China January 3, 2023. Reuters/Staff
Brazil's Lula to attend Pele wake on Tuesday 02 Jan 2023 - 11:34 pm
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva holds hands with Colombian President Gustavo Petro during a bilateral meeting at the Itamaraty Palace in Brasilia, Brazil January 2, 2023. REUTERS/Adriano Machado
DR Congo rebels have not retreated from key town, say locals 02 Jan 2023 - 11:23 pm
Congolese M23 rebels are seen as they withdraw from the 3 antennes location in Kibumba, near Goma, North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, December 23, 2022. REUTERS/Arlette Bashizi
Death toll from Mexican prison attack rises to 19 02 Jan 2023 - 11:17 pm
A woman hugs a woman from the Penitentiary Security Police at the Cereso number 3 state prison after unknown assailants entered the prison and freed several inmates, resulting in injuries and deaths, according to local media, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico January 1, 2023. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez
Mexico elects first female Supreme Court president 02 Jan 2023 - 11:08 pm
A screen shows the ceremony in which Norma Lucia Pina prepares to take the oath as president of the Supreme Court of Justice, in the press room of the Supreme Court building in Mexico City, Mexico, January 2, 2023. (REUTERS/Henry Romero)
UK medical bodies say winter crisis costing lives 02 Jan 2023 - 10:54 pm
An aerial view of London, Britain, December 12, 2022 as the capital struggled with the aftermath of a heavy snowfall overnight. (REUTERS/Yann Tessier)
Tunisia transport workers strike amid economic woes 02 Jan 2023 - 10:41 pm
Tunisians are pictured next to a tram station in the capital Tunis' Ariana district, on January 2, 2023, after a strike by the public transport employees was announced the night before. (Photo by FETHI BELAID / AFP)
Belgium to test wastewater on airliners from COVID-hit China 02 Jan 2023 - 09:31 pm
Chairman of the scientific committee on Covid-19, Steven Van Gucht attends a press conference after a meeting of the Risk Management Group concerning visitors from China and the risk of Covid-19 spreading, in Brussels, on January 2, 2023. (Photo by James Arthur Gekiere / Belga / AFP)