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Sudan protesters vow to press on after talks suspended 16 May 2019 - 02:24 pm
Sudanese protesters are gathered during a sit-in outside military headquarters after clashing with security forces in Khartoum on May 15, 2019. AFP / Mohamed el-Shahed
Doctors unveil first child blast wound manual 16 May 2019 - 11:01 am
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Eurovision Village partying upsets nearby mosque worshippers in Ramadan 15 May 2019 - 09:46 pm
Participant Michael Rice of the United Kingdom performs during a dress rehearsal ahead of the second semi-final of 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv, Israel May 15, 2019. Reuters/Ronen Zvulun
German army suspends training of Iraqi forces 15 May 2019 - 03:41 pm
FILE PHOTO: German military experts work on an army vehicle at a workshop for Peshmerga forces in Erbil. AFP / SAFIN HAMED
More than one million people in Gaza may not have enough food by June: UNRWA 14 May 2019 - 06:07 pm
:A Palestinian man with his child on May 13, 2019 in the southern Gaza Strip refugee camp of Khan Yunis. (AFP / MOHAMMED ABED)
New York Times report gives look into Assad's torture prisons 13 May 2019 - 11:45 pm
Many of these cases took place at Saydnaya Prison, which is known in Syria as the place where prisoners were sent in mass to face executions.
British Council staffer sentenced to 10 years for 'spying': Iran 13 May 2019 - 09:15 pm
A London-based British Council employee, Aras Amiri, (centre) was arrested in Iran in 2018 during a trip to visit relatives. It was not immediately clear if she was the person whose sentencing was announced on Monday.
Syrian troops capture 2 villages in last rebel stronghold 13 May 2019 - 02:47 pm
Syrian army forces enter the town of Kafr Nabuda, about 40 kilometres north of Hama, on May 11, 2019. / AFP / George OURFALIAN
Sudanese renew talks with army, call for new protests 13 May 2019 - 02:26 pm
Sudanese protesters wearing yellow and orange gilets and waving a national flag stand on a closed railway track leading to the protest site in central Khartoum on May 12, 2019. AFP / ASHRAF SHAZLY
Iran says it has sentenced Iranian woman to 10 years for spying for UK 13 May 2019 - 12:19 pm
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Retired Lebanese soldiers picket central bank over cuts 12 May 2019 - 11:19 pm
Retired soldiers gesture as they take part in a protest over proposed cuts to the cost of military pensions and benefits in front of the central bank in Beirut, Lebanon May 12, 2019. Reuters/Mohamed Azakir
Migrant women, children denied shelter in Libya's battleground 12 May 2019 - 08:21 pm
Women carry banners during a funeral ceremony for those died in attacks by Khalifa Haftar forces at the Abu Salim neighborhood's Martyrs Square, Tripoli, Libya, April 17, 2019. Hazem Turkia/ Anadolu Agency
147 illegal immigrants rescued off the coast of Libya 12 May 2019 - 03:51 pm
Migrants, who were rescued after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the Tunisian Coast after they had left Libya, are seen inside a local Red Cresent chapter in Zarzis, Tunisia May 11, 2019. REUTERS/Zoubei Souissi
Egypt sentences two to death over church attack 12 May 2019 - 03:43 pm
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New talks on Sudan civil rule Monday: protest movement 12 May 2019 - 03:32 pm
Sudanese protesters wave national flags at the sit-in outside the army headquarters in Khartoum on May 9, 2019. / AFP / Mohamed el-Shahed
Syria says insurgent shelling kills 6 civilians in northwest 12 May 2019 - 03:13 pm
A member of the Syrian Civil Defence (White Helmets) inspect the rubble following shelling by Syrian regime forces and their allies on a the village of Maarit Sin in the countryside of the rebel-held Idlib province on May 11, 2019. / AFP / OMAR HAJ KADOUR
Iran says US aircraft carrier 'psychological war' 12 May 2019 - 02:45 pm
The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln transits the Suez Canal in Egypt, May 9, 2019. Picture was taken May 9, 2019. Dan Snow/U.S. Navy
Money, guns and brides fuel South Sudan's cattle wars 12 May 2019 - 12:38 pm
A man carrying a gun walks past cattle at Kirgui village in Udier, on March 9, 2019. AFP/Simon Maina

Asia

Mongolian Prime Minister Gombojav Zandanshatar looks on as he attends a vote on his dismissal during a plenary session at the parliament in Ulaanbaatar on October 17, 2025. Photo by Byambasuren BYAMBA-OCHIR / AFP Mongolian PM out after four months in office
Former Japanese prime minister Tomiichi Murayama answers questions during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on July 29, 2015. Photo by KAZUHIRO NOGI / AFP Japan's Former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama dies at 101
An investigation team inspects the wreckage of Air India flight 171 a day after it crashed in a residential area near the airport, in Ahmedabad on June 13, 2025. Photo by Sam PANTHAKY / AFP. Father of Air India crash pilot seeks independent probe
Peninsula Expo in Japan records over 25.5 million general visitors

Europe

Italian Carabinieri stand guard in front of the residence of Italian journalist of TV investigative television news show 'Report', Sigfrido Ranucci, after a bomb destroyed vehicles parked in front of his house in Pomezia near Rome, on 17 October 2025. Photo by Emanuele VALERI / ANSA / AFP Bomb destroys well-known Italian journalist's car, no deaths
Peninsula Picasso painting vanishes en route to Spanish exhibition
Pope Leo XIV delivers a speech during the World Food Day event in Rome on October 16, 2025. (Photo by Alberto Pizzoli / AFP) Pope slams millions facing hunger worldwide as 'collective failure'
Peninsula Greece lawmakers back plan to allow 13-hour work day

Africa

IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva speaks during a press conference during the IMF/World Bank annual meetings at the IMF headquarters in Washington, DC, on October 16, 2025. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP) IMF chief says acted 'as soon as conditions allowed' on Senegal debt
Members of Madagascar’s Army CAPSAT unit ride in armoured vehicles while assuming a defensive posture as they leave the Presidential Palace in Antananarivo, October 14, 2025. (Photo by Luis Tato / AFP) Military seizes power in Madagascar as president impeached
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