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Pakistan police arrest 160 people over spate of KFC attacks 19 Apr 2025 - 03:38 pm
Supporters of Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba (IJT), a student wing of Pakistan's Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) party stage a pro-Palestinian protest outside a Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) restaurant on May 7, 2024. (Photo by Farooq Naeem / AFP)
Money, power, violence in high-stakes Philippine elections 19 Apr 2025 - 03:16 pm
(Files) This file photo taken on November 23, 2016 shows Kerwin Espinosa taking an oath during the Senate drug hearing at the Senate building in Manila. (Photo by Noel Celis / AFP)
Gazans resort to turtle meat in hunt for food 19 Apr 2025 - 01:42 pm
A boy salvages flour in the aftermath of a reported Israeli strike on a tent shelter in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on April 17, 2025. Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP.
Japanese warships dock at Cambodia's Chinese-renovated naval base 19 Apr 2025 - 12:54 pm
This handout photo taken and released on April 19, 2025 by the Embassy of Japan in Cambodia shows Royal Cambodian Navy personnel (foreground) securing the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) mine countermeasures vessel JS Bungo during docking at the Ream Naval Base. (Photo by Handout / Embassy of Japan in Cambodia / AFP)
Syria leader hosts Republican US congressman in Damascus 19 Apr 2025 - 12:21 pm
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Dodgers star Ohtani skips trip to Texas to await birth of first child 19 Apr 2025 - 11:51 am
(FILES) Shohei Ohtani (L) and Mamiko Tanaka arrive at the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation's 2024 Blue Diamond Gala at Dodger Stadium on May 2, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter / Getty Images North America / AFP)
Ecuador on 'maximum alert' over alleged assassination plot 19 Apr 2025 - 11:27 am
Photo used for representational purposes. Ecuador's reelected President Daniel Noboa (R) and his wife, Lavinia Valbonesi, gesture from a balcony of the Carondelet Presidential Palace during the changing of the guard ceremony in Quito on April 15, 2025. Photo by Rodrigo BUENDIA / AFP.
US to withdraw some 1,000 troops from Syria 19 Apr 2025 - 10:49 am
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Iran, US to hold second round of high-stakes nuclear talks in Rome 19 Apr 2025 - 10:04 am
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi attends a joint press conference with Russian Foreign Minister following their talks in Moscow on April 18, 2025. (Photo by Tatyana MAKEYEVA / POOL / AFP)
Pakistan foreign minister arrives in Kabul as Afghan deportations rise 19 Apr 2025 - 10:03 am
Photo used for representational purposes. A policeman escorts a van carrying Afghan refugees from a camp in Panjpai area on the outskirts of Quetta on April 16, 2025. Photo by Banaras KHAN / AFP.
Gunman fires at Sri Lanka church ahead of Easter bombings anniversary 19 Apr 2025 - 09:51 am
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Trump goes to war with the Fed 19 Apr 2025 - 09:17 am
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Gunmen disguised as soldiers kill 12 people at Ecuador cockfight 19 Apr 2025 - 08:48 am
This handout picture released by the Ecuadorian Police shows members of the police checking the Coliseo de Gallos Fortaleza in the rural community of La Valencia in El Carmen Canton, Manabi Province, Ecuador, on April 18, 2025, where an armed attack took place the night before. (Photo by Handout / Ecuadorian Police / AFP)
White House site blames China for Covid-19 'lab leak' 18 Apr 2025 - 11:12 pm
People walk down a street next to a local market in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province, on January 23, 2023. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP)
UNRWA says current blockade on Gaza the most severe since aggression began 18 Apr 2025 - 11:08 pm
A man looks through the rubble to inspect a destroyed building that was hit by Israeli bombardment in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on April 18, 2025.  (Photo by Bashar Taleb / AFP)
Vance meets Italy's Meloni before Easter at the Vatican 18 Apr 2025 - 09:54 pm
Italy's Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni welcomes U.S. Vice President JD Vance at Palazzo Chigi prior their meeting in Rome on April 18, 2025. (Photo by Kenny HOLSTON / POOL / AFP)
Why is Mark Zuckerberg jealous of Instagram? 18 Apr 2025 - 09:49 pm
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Capitol Hill on January 20, 2025, after Donald Trump's presidential inauguration. (Photo by Tom Brenner/For The Washington Post)
80 killed in deadliest US attack on Yemen: Houthi media 18 Apr 2025 - 09:12 pm
Brigadier Yahya Saree Qasim, the spokesman for Yemen's Houthis, speaks during a protest to denounce US airstrikes on Yemen, in Sanaa on April 18, 2025. (Photo by MOHAMMED HUWAIS / AFP)