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Over 900 people were arrested as young rioters clashed with police across France overnight 01 Jul 2023 - 10:01 am
A French anti-riot police officer walk past a burning truck in Nantes, western France on early July 1, 2023. Photo by Sebastien SALOM-GOMIS / AFP
Brazil court majority votes for barring Bolsonaro from politics 30 Jun 2023 - 07:01 pm
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro gestures as he speaks to members of the media upon arrival at the Santos Dumont Airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 29, 2023. (Photo by MAURO PIMENTEL / AFP)
US consumers lose steam, setting economy up for sharp slowdown 30 Jun 2023 - 06:32 pm
:(FILES) A woman shops for groceries at a supermarket in Monterey Park, California on October 19, 2022. The US inflation measure most closely watched by the Federal Reserve declined sharply in May, official figures showed June 30, 2029, returning to a downward trend after a jump a month earlier. Much of the slowdown was due to a sharp drop in energy prices, and food prices to a lesser extent. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP)
UN Security Council ends Mali peacekeeping mission 30 Jun 2023 - 06:01 pm
(FILES) Senegalese soldiers the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali MINUSMA (United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali) dismount an armoured personnel carrier, patrolling in the streets of Gao, on July 24, 2019. (Photo by Souleymane Ag Anara / AFP)
Pope Francis meets Julian Assange's wife 30 Jun 2023 - 04:32 pm
This handout photo taken and released on 30 June 2023, by The Vatican Media shows Pope Francis (L) shaking hands with Stella Assange, wife of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, during a private audience in the Vatican. (Photo by Handout / VATICAN MEDIA / AFP)
Ramaphosa cleared in $580,000 stolen cash scandal 30 Jun 2023 - 03:51 pm
File photo: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa speaks to members of the media after attending the African National Congress (ANC) National Working Committee meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, December 4, 2022. REUTERS/Sumaya Hisham
Macron urges parents to keep teens home amid riots in France 30 Jun 2023 - 03:40 pm
French President Emmanuel Macron (L) and French Interior and Overseas Minister Gerald Darmanin arrive to attend a intermninisterial crisis unit (Cellule interministerielle de crise - CIC) meeting after riots erupted for the third night in a row across the country following the death of Nahel, a 17-year-old teenager killed during a traffic stop in Nanterre by a French police officer, at the emergency crisis center of the Interior Ministry in Paris, France, June 30, 2023. (Photo by YVES HERMAN / POOL / AFP)
Sunak lambasted over environment by resigned UK Climate Minister 30 Jun 2023 - 02:48 pm
Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visits the NHS-run Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge on June 30, 2023. (Photo by Dan Kitwood / POOL / AFP)
Marcos Faces Philippine growth, investment tests in second year 30 Jun 2023 - 11:30 am
File photo of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr speaks at a session during the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos on January 18, 2023. (Photo by Fabrice Coffrini / AFP)
Pakistan gets IMF initial approval for $3 Billion loan program 30 Jun 2023 - 11:23 am
International Monetary Fund (IMF) logo, file photo.
64 flights cancelled at Geneva airport over strike 30 Jun 2023 - 10:43 am
Travellers arrives at Geneva's international airport during strikes on June 30, 2023. Flights at Geneva's international airport will be grounded for four hours due to a workers' strike, affecting thousands of passengers at the start of summer travel season. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
Singapore Airlines falls most in over one year after block sale 30 Jun 2023 - 10:38 am
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Sri Lanka seeks to restructure $19.8 Billion of local debt 30 Jun 2023 - 10:31 am
File Photo by (Ishara S. KODIKARA / AFP)
Cambodian PM Hun Sen dumps Facebook on eve of poll campaign 29 Jun 2023 - 11:15 pm
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen speaks at a press conference during the EU-ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) summit at the European Council headquarters in Brussels on December 14, 2022.  (Photo by John Thys / AFP)
Turkmenistan unveils $5 billion city in honour of national leader 29 Jun 2023 - 07:53 pm
People gather for the ceremony inaugurating the new city of Arkadag - named in honour of Turkmenistan's former leader Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov - in Arkadag, some 30 kilometres outside the capital Ashgabat, on June 29, 2023. (Photo by Natalia Kolesnikova / AFP)
US Supreme Court bans the use of race in university admissions 29 Jun 2023 - 07:31 pm
File Photo: Students walk on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. (Reuters)
Mother leads rally in memory of French teen killed by police 29 Jun 2023 - 07:20 pm
Mounia, the mother of Nahel, a teenage driver shot dead by a policeman, gestures as she sits atop a truck during a commemoration march for her son, in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre, on June 29, 2023. (Photo by Alain Jocard / AFP)
Muslim nations denounce police-sanctioned Quran burning in Sweden 29 Jun 2023 - 04:09 pm
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