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Xi says China’s Covid fight in new stage, faces tough tasks 18 Jan 2023 - 05:15 pm
A calligrapher writes spring couplets, a kind of Lunar New Year decorations, at a stall along a street in Foshan, in southern China's Guangdong province on January 18, ahead of the start of the Lunar New Year, which ushers in the Year of the Rabbit on January 22. (Photo by Jade Gao / AFP)
UK ambulance workers set dates for four more strikes, union says 18 Jan 2023 - 04:33 pm
Military personnel and an ambulance worker walk between parked ambulances outside their Waterloo station, amid a strike by ambulance workers due to a dispute with the government over pay, in London, Britain on January 11, 2023. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo
Davos 2023: Moderna CEO in talks with China to supply COVID vaccines 18 Jan 2023 - 03:31 pm
Moderna pharmaceutical and biotechnology company's CEO Stephane Bancel speaks during a session of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on January 18, 2023. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
India considers banning news identified as 'fake' by govt on social media 18 Jan 2023 - 03:11 pm
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Uber resumes services in Tanzania 18 Jan 2023 - 03:06 pm
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Make it easier to raise children say many Chinese after population falls 18 Jan 2023 - 02:08 pm
A woman pushes a trolley with twins along a street in Beijing on Aug. 2, 2022. (Photo: AFP)
Ukraine's Zelenskiy says helicopter crash is 'terrible tragedy' 18 Jan 2023 - 01:55 pm
Firefighters work near the site where a helicopter crashed near a kindergarten in Brovary, outside the capital Kyiv, killing Sixteen people, including two children and Ukrainian interior minister, on January 18, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky / AFP)
Saudi Arabia says open to settling trade in other currencies 18 Jan 2023 - 01:52 pm
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Indonesia to break ground for $2.7 bln housing project in new capital in Q2 18 Jan 2023 - 01:21 pm
People wearing protective masks enjoy a pedestrian bridge during the dusk amid of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Jakarta, Indonesia, March 15, 2022. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan
Saudi Arabia reduces Umrah insurance cost for overseas pilgrims 18 Jan 2023 - 01:03 pm
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Qantas flight lands safely at Sydney airport after issuing distress signal 18 Jan 2023 - 12:05 pm
A Qantas Boeing 737-800 aircraft operating as flight QF144 is seen past heat haze after its safe landing at the Sydney International Airport on January 18, 2023. Photo by Andrew LEESON / AFP
Girl killed as convenience store collapses in Vietnam 18 Jan 2023 - 12:00 pm
Rescue workers carry out equipment from a Circle-K convenience store after part of the building collapsed, killing a 15-year-old girl, in Ho Chi Minh City on January 18, 2023. Photo by Dat Tran / AFP
Ukraine helicopter crash kills 16, including interior minister 18 Jan 2023 - 11:41 am
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7.0-magnitude quake hits eastern Indonesia, tsunami warning lifted 18 Jan 2023 - 10:38 am
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Aircraft crashes into building outside Ukrainian capital: Kyiv 18 Jan 2023 - 10:35 am
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US Treasury's Yellen, China's Liu to meet in Zurich for first in-person talks 18 Jan 2023 - 08:11 am
 In this file photo taken on December 15, 2022 US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen meets with President of Senegal Macky Sall during the US - Africa Leaders Summit at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. (Photo by Saul Loeb / AFP)
UN envoys in Kabul to press for women's rights 18 Jan 2023 - 12:51 am
Afghan girls carry a gas cylinder along a street in Kabul on January 17, 2023. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar / AFP)
World's oldest person, French nun Sister Andre, dies at 118 18 Jan 2023 - 12:28 am
In this file photo taken on February 10, 2021 Sister Andre, Lucile Randon in the registry of birth, prays in a wheelchair, on the eve of her 117th birthday, in an EHPAD (Housing Establishment for Dependant Elderly People) in Toulon, southern France, where she has been living since 2009. (Photo by Nicolas Tucat / AFP)