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Philippines quake causes hospital evacuation, minor damage 16 Feb 2023 - 08:11 am
This handout photo received from the City of Masbate Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office on February 16, 2023 shows officials assessing the damage at Magallanes Coliseum in Masbate, after a 6.1-magnitude earthquake rocked the central Philippines. (Photo by Handout / City of Masbate Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office / AFP)
China's top diplomat starts weeklong Europe tour in Paris 16 Feb 2023 - 01:24 am
China's Foreign minister Wang Yi shakes hands with French Foreign and European Affairs Minister Catherine Colonna ahead of their meeting in Paris, on February 15, 2023. (Photo by STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP)
Greece's largest museum to undergo four-year upgrade 16 Feb 2023 - 12:41 am
This picture taken on February 15, 2023 shows the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. (Photo by Angelos Tzortzinis / AFP)
Blinken to pledge quake support on first Turkey visit 15 Feb 2023 - 10:56 pm
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken looks on during a meeting with Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen, not pictured, in the Treaty Room of the State Department in Washington, DC, on February 13, 2023. (Photo by Jim Watson / AFP)
DeSantis wants to be GOP’s most gun-friendly candidate 15 Feb 2023 - 10:12 pm
File photo: Florida's Governor Ron DeSantis gives a speech to those in attendance after taking the oath of office at his second term inauguration in Tallahassee, Florida, U.S. January 3, 2023. REUTERS/Octavio Jones
White House: Tesla to make some EV chargers available to all 15 Feb 2023 - 09:55 pm
File photo: A Tesla charging station is seen in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. September 28, 2017. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
Pre-Islamic inscriptions, rare archaeological finds discovered in Saudi Arabia 15 Feb 2023 - 09:38 pm
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Adani hires banks to hold investor calls amid debt turmoil 15 Feb 2023 - 09:27 pm
Adani logo and decreasing stock graph is seen in this illustration taken on January 31, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
Mexico president rejects 'slanderous' drug money claim 15 Feb 2023 - 09:20 pm
A man protests outside the courthouse where the closing arguments for the trial of the former Mexican Secretary of Public Security Genaro Garcia Luna is held in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on February 15, 2023. - Luna is accused of taking bribes to allow the notorious Sinaloa cartel to smuggle cocaine when he was public security minister during Felipe Calderon's 2006-2012 presidency. (Photo by Yuki IWAMURA / AFP)
Munich airport scraps flights Friday over strike 15 Feb 2023 - 08:32 pm
(FILES) In this file photo taken on January 25, 2022 employees wait in front of empty terminal counters of the Franz-Josef-Strauss airport in Munich, southern Germany. - More than 700 passenger flights will be cancelled at Munich airport on February 17, 2023 because of a strike by ground staff and security crew, just as the city is to host the Munich Security Conference. (Photo by Christof STACHE / AFP)
At least 39 dead in Panama migrant bus crash 15 Feb 2023 - 08:23 pm
This handout picture released by Panama Chiriqui's Firefighters shows the aftermath of a bus transporting migrant people crashed, causing 39 deaths in Gualaca, Panama on February 15, 2023. (Photo by Panama Chiriqui's Firefighters / AFP)
Charges dropped against reporter arrested at news conference 15 Feb 2023 - 08:17 pm
EAST PALESTINE, OH - FEBRUARY 14: Workers remove contaminated dirt near the railroad tracks on February 14, 2023 in East Palestine, Ohio. A train operated by Norfolk Southern derailed on February 3, releasing toxic fumes and forcing evacuation of residents. Angelo Merendino/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Angelo Merendino / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
Ohio town takes resident questions on derailment, chemicals 15 Feb 2023 - 07:59 pm
EAST PALESTINE, OH - FEBRUARY 14: Machinery is situated along rail tracks on February 14, 2023 in East Palestine, Ohio. A train operated by Norfolk Southern derailed on February 3, releasing toxic fumes and forcing evacuation of residents. Angelo Merendino/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Angelo Merendino / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
White supremacist gets life sentence for Buffalo market massacre 15 Feb 2023 - 07:52 pm
(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 19, 2022, Payton Gendron arrives for a hearing at the Erie County Courthouse in Buffalo, New York. - A man in court on February 15, 2023, lunged at the Gendron, 19, who murdered 10 Black people during a live-streamed supermarket rampage in Buffalo, New York, on May 14, 2022, disrupting the sentencing hearing for the self-declared white supremacist. (Photo by SCOTT OLSON / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)
Cows, cars and hot bread: Turks rally to help quake victims 15 Feb 2023 - 07:13 pm
Quake-hit displaced people wait in a line to receive food at Islahiye Atatürk Stadium in Islahiye near Gaziantep on February 14, 2023, a week after a deadly earthquake struck parts of Turkey and Syria. (Photo by Zein Al RIFAI / AFP)
Peru reopens Machu Picchu after agreement with protesters 15 Feb 2023 - 07:01 pm
File Photo: Demonstrators hold a protest against the government of Peruvian President Dina Boluarte and to demand her resignation, in Juliaca, southern Peru, on January 27, 2023.
Victims' kin speak at Buffalo market gunman's sentencing 15 Feb 2023 - 06:53 pm
FILE PHOTO: Buffalo shooting suspect, Payton Gendron, appears in court accused of killing 10 people in a live-streamed supermarket shooting in a Black neighborhood of Buffalo, New York, U.S., May 19, 2022. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Football captain from Thai cave rescue dies in UK 15 Feb 2023 - 05:56 pm
In this file photo taken on June 24, 2019 Duangpetch Promthep (front 2nd left), one of the 12 boys rescued from deep inside a Thai cave, poses for photos with other members of the 'Wild Boars' football team at the Tham Luang cave centre as they mark the first anniversary of their rescue in the Mae Sai district of Chiang Rai province. (Photo by Jittrapon Kaicome / AFP)