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Pakistan confirms new polio case as tally reaches 46 in 2024 05 Nov 2024 - 04:38 pm
This photograph taken on October 29, 2024 shows an elite police personnel (L) standing guard as a health worker marks houses with numbers during a door-to-door poliovirus vaccination campaign for children on the outskirts of Peshawar. (Photo by Abdul MAJEED / AFP)
Sydney becomes seventh world marathon major 04 Nov 2024 - 11:29 am
Visitors spend their morning under a large tree at Bradleys Head in Sydney, overlooking the Opera House on November 3, 2024. (Photo by Saeed Khan / AFP)
Chinese slimmers trim down at weight-loss camps 04 Nov 2024 - 11:08 am
This photo taken on October 23, 2024 shows people exercising at a weight loss camp in Chengdu, in China's southwestern Sichuan province.  (Photo by Hector Retamal / AFP)
Indonesia volcano eruption kills 10, sets houses aflame 04 Nov 2024 - 10:18 am
Smoke rises from Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki as seen Klatanlo village, in East Flores Regency, East Nusa Tenggara, on November 4, 2024, after it erupted overnight. (Photo by Arnold Welianto / AFP)
Pakistan shuts primary schools in Lahore over record pollution 03 Nov 2024 - 02:16 pm
Commuters make their way amid smog in Lahore on November 2, 2024. (Photo by Arif Ali / AFP)
India's Adani slashes electricity to Bangladesh: power officials 03 Nov 2024 - 01:14 pm
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Rohit Bal, one of India's best-known fashion designers, dies at 63 02 Nov 2024 - 07:06 pm
Archival photo used for demonstration purposes. Indian designer Rohit Bal walks on the catwalk during the Grand Finale of the Wills Lifestyle Indian Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2015 Collection in New Delhi on October 12, 2014. Photo by Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP.
A robot retrieves the first melted fuel from Fukushima nuclear reactor 02 Nov 2024 - 05:20 pm
File photo used for demonstration purposes. This aerial picture shows storage tanks (bottom) used for storing treated water at TEPCO's crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture on August 24, 2023. Photo by JIJI PRESS / AFP.
Shelf-sharing seeks to save bookstores in Japan 02 Nov 2024 - 04:20 pm
This photo taken on August 1, 2024 shows Rokurou Yui, president of book review site All Reviews and president of three shelf-sharing bookstores, working at his bookstore in Tokyo's Kanda Jimbocho district, one of the world's largest
Japan urges 200,000 people to evacuate due to heavy rain 02 Nov 2024 - 11:01 am
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Air monitor records pollution level in Lahore 80 times above WHO limit 02 Nov 2024 - 10:49 am
Commuters make their way amid smog in Lahore on November 2, 2024. (Photo by Arif ALI / AFP)
North Korea says will stand by Russia until 'victory' in Ukraine 01 Nov 2024 - 10:33 pm
In this handout picture taken and released by the Russian Foreign Ministry on November 1, 2024, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui attend a ceremony unveiling a memorial plaque dedicated to Kim Il Sung's visit to the USSR in 1949, at Moscow's Yaroslavsky railway station. (Photo by Russian Foreign Ministry / AFP)
Indonesia adds Google Pixel phones to ban list with iPhone 16 01 Nov 2024 - 04:00 pm
Pic: Google Store
Taiwan races to remove oil from grounded Chinese ship 01 Nov 2024 - 12:53 pm
In this handout photo from Ocean Affairs Council taken and released on November 1, 2024 the Chinese-flagged cargo ship Yu Zhou Qi Hang is stranded around Yeliu Geopark due to Typhoon Kong-rey, in Yehliu on November 1, 2024. (Photo by Ocean Affairs Council / AFP)
Taiwanese driver recounts his narrow escape during Typhoon Kong-rey 01 Nov 2024 - 12:30 pm
A fallen tree blocks a road in Keelung on November 1, 2024, after Typhoon Kong-rey made landfall in eastern Taiwan on October 31. (Photo by I-Hwa Cheng / AFP)
Bombing of Pakistan polio vaccine drive kills 7: police 01 Nov 2024 - 11:26 am
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Attackers set fire to the headquarters of a Bangladesh party that backed ousted leader Sheikh Hasina 31 Oct 2024 - 07:52 pm
Flames engulf a military vehicle after clashes between protesters and the police in Mirpur on October 31, 2024. Bangladeshi garment workers furious at job layoffs in the economically vital sector clashed with police and soldiers on October 31, with two teenagers shot and wounded, officers said. (Photo by Md. Naimur Rahman / AFP)
Hong Kong charges foreigner with killing Southeast Asian woman 31 Oct 2024 - 04:09 pm
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