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Iraq sandstorm closes airports, puts 3,700 people in hospital 15 Apr 2025 - 02:21 pm
Motorists drive their vehicles along a highway through low visibility conditions as a massive dust storm advances on Iraq's central city of Najaf on April 14, 2025. (Photo by Qassem al-KAABI / AFP)
Employee dead, client critical after Paris cryotherapy session goes wrong 15 Apr 2025 - 01:52 pm
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Bomb blast kills three police officers in southwest Pakistan: officials 15 Apr 2025 - 10:11 am
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Harvard defies Trump demands for policy changes, risking funding 15 Apr 2025 - 12:01 am
People walk through Harvard Yard at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on December 12, 2023. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso / AFP)
Flying car makes debut flight at Japan’s 2025 Expo 14 Apr 2025 - 11:32 pm
A flying vehicle makes its debut flight in front of visitors at the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo on Monday. Photo by The Japan News via Washington Post
Powerful dust storm covers Kuwait and parts of southern Iraq 14 Apr 2025 - 10:52 pm
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EU announces €1.6 billion in new aid package for Palestine 14 Apr 2025 - 10:27 pm
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa (left) and EU High Representative and Vice-President for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas ahead of a European Union Foreign Affairs Council meeting at the European Convention Center Luxembourg (ECCL) in Luxembourg City on April 14, 2025.  (Photo by John Thys / AFP)
Ghana bans foreigners from local gold trading in major overhaul 14 Apr 2025 - 09:31 pm
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Judge says US can deport pro-Palestinian student protester 14 Apr 2025 - 09:19 pm
Demonstrators gather in Times Square in solidarity and to demand the release of detained Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil on April 12, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by David Dee Delgado / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
Noboa wins Ecuador presidential runoff, rival claims fraud 14 Apr 2025 - 08:38 pm
People walk past a giant cardboard image of Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa in Olon, Santa Elena province, Ecuador, on April 14, 2025, the day after the presidential runoff election.  (Photo by Raul Arboleda / AFP)
Indonesia to lift US imports as part of tariffs talks: minister 14 Apr 2025 - 08:34 pm
A customer uses her smartphone while conducting a gold transaction as a monitor displays the gold price per gram at Galeri 24 owned by Pegadaian, state owned pawnshop, in Jakarta on April 14, 2025. (Photo by BAY ISMOYO / AFP)
Indonesia's forex reserves rise to 157 bln USD in March 14 Apr 2025 - 08:30 pm
This aerial picture shows skyscrapers in Jakarta's business district on April 14, 2025. (Photo by BAY ISMOYO / AFP)
Nearly 825,000 children in Sudan's El Fasher face risk of death: UNICEF 14 Apr 2025 - 08:15 pm
People who fled the Zamzam camp for the internally displaced after it fell under RSF control, rest in a makeshift encampment in an open field near the town of Tawila in war-torn Sudan's western Darfur region on April 13, 2025. (Photo by AFP)
Looming healthcare collapse in Gaza Strip, warns OIC 14 Apr 2025 - 08:10 pm
Palestinian children cry as rescuers search the rubble after an Israeli strike on the Manoun family home in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on April 13, 2025. (Photo by Bashar Taleb / AFP)
Three Tunisia students killed in school wall collapse 14 Apr 2025 - 07:53 pm
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Swiss woman abducted in Niger: officials 14 Apr 2025 - 07:25 pm
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Argentine peso depreciates 8.4 percent after exchange controls lifted 14 Apr 2025 - 07:20 pm
This handout picture released by the Central Bank of Argentina shows the new 10,000 pesos banknote in Buenos Aires on May 7, 2024. (Photo by Handout / Central Bank of Argentina / AFP)
South African president appoints special envoy to US 14 Apr 2025 - 07:08 pm
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. File photo.