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Possible Zelensky visit on Thursday: EU officials 06 Feb 2023 - 11:45 pm
Tapes in colours of the Ukraine's national flag are wrapped around a tree near Yampil on February 6, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP)
Silent phones, freezing rain and anguish in Turkiye quake 06 Feb 2023 - 11:34 pm
(A general view shows damaged and collapsed buildings after an earthquake in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, February 6, 2023. (Ihlas News Agency (IHA) via Reuters)
UN human rights chief to visit Haiti this week 06 Feb 2023 - 11:15 pm
Volker Türk. File. | Photo Credit: AFP
International help arrives for fire-hit Chile 06 Feb 2023 - 11:07 pm
Firefighters prepare to load water into the US DC-10 Air Tanker at the Carriel Sur airport in Concepcion, Chile on February 6, 2023. - The forest fires that hit the south-central zone of Chile have already left 26 dead and have destroyed more than 1,100 homes, at a time when international aid begins to arrive to fight the flames.  (Photo by JAVIER TORRES / AFP)
Latvia probes citizenship of Russian tycoon Aven under new law 06 Feb 2023 - 10:45 pm
Latvia President Egils Levits.  [Tobias Schwarz/AFP]
US recovering balloon debris, won't return to China: White House 06 Feb 2023 - 10:26 pm
John Kirby, National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications, answers questions during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, US, January 25, 2023. (REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein)
Georgian court rejects ailing ex-leader Saakashvili's bid to leave jail 06 Feb 2023 - 10:24 pm
Supporters of Georgia's detained ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili rally outside the Tbilisi City Court on February 6, 2023. - A Georgian court on February 6 rejected ailing ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili's bid to get a six-year sentence for alleged abuse of office deferred over poor health.  (Photo by Vano SHLAMOV / AFP)
Russia's Lavrov to visit Mali in sign of deepening ties 06 Feb 2023 - 10:21 pm
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov shakes hands with Mali's Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Abdoulaye Diop during a news conference, in Moscow, Russia, May 20, 2022. (Yuri Kadobnov/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo)
UAE pledges $13 million in aid to quake-hit Syria 06 Feb 2023 - 09:46 pm
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad with the UAE's Vice President and Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum during the Syrian president's visit to the UAE on March 18, 2022. File photo /Syrian Presidency Facebook page/AFP
Thai cadets break world record with mass martial arts ritual 06 Feb 2023 - 09:34 pm
Muay Thai fighters perform the traditional Wai Kru ceremony during a festival for the Thai martial art in Rajabhakti Park in Hua Hin on February 6, 2023, as some 3,360 exponents gathered in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the most people taking part in the Wai Kru ritual at once. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha / AFP)
China's Xi sends condolences to Turkey, Syria over deadly quake 06 Feb 2023 - 09:31 pm
Chinese President Xi Jinping. Noel CELIS AFP/File
Brazil deploys police as miners flee Yanomami territory 06 Feb 2023 - 09:24 pm
Brazil's Minister of Justice Flávio Dino.
WHO says quake toll liable to rise significantly 06 Feb 2023 - 09:17 pm
Rescue workers and volunteers pull out a survivor from the rubble in Diyarbakir on February 6, 2023, after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country's south-east. (Photo by ILYAS AKENGIN / AFP)
Five Argentine rugby players sentenced to life for shocking murder 06 Feb 2023 - 09:16 pm
Defendants accused of the murder of Fernando Baez Sosa Ciro Pertossi (front, L), Matias Benicelli (front, 2-L), Blas Cinalli (front, 2-R), Lucas Pertossi (front, R), Ayrton Viollaz (back, L), Maximo Thomsen (back, 2-L), Enzo Comelli (back, 2-R) and Luciano Pertossi (back, R) hear their sentence at the court in Dolores, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, on February 6, 2023. (Photo by JUAN MABROMATA / AFP)
Greek PM calls Turkish president to offer 'immediate' aid 06 Feb 2023 - 08:52 pm
Members of the Disaster Response Special Unit who will fly to Turkey to help in the aftermath of an earthquake, board a Hellenic Air Force C-130, before departing from the military airport of Elefsina, Greece, February 6, 2023. (REUTERS/Louiza Vradi)
Pakistan unblocks Wikipedia as PM overturns regulator’s order 06 Feb 2023 - 08:48 pm
File photo of Wikipedia. (Photo: AFP/Lionel BONAVENTURE)
All football matches in Turkiye called off after earthquake 06 Feb 2023 - 08:24 pm
Rescue workers and volunteers search for survivors in the rubble of a collapsed building, in Sanliurfa, Turkey, on February 6, 2023, after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country's southeast. (Photo by REMI BANET / AFP)
French parliament debates pension reform as new strike looms 06 Feb 2023 - 08:13 pm
French National Assembly president Yael Braun-Pivet chairs the debate regarding the draft law on pension system reform at the National Assembly in Paris, on February 6, 2023. (Photo by Ludovic Marin / AFP)