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Gambia honours pro-democracy activist killed in custody 10 Jan 2023 - 11:07 pm
Pallbearers carry the coffin of Solo Sandeng during his funeral in Banjul on January 10, 2023. (Photo by Muhamadou BITTAYE / AFP)
Ghana requests 20 Common Framework debt restructuring 10 Jan 2023 - 10:57 pm
A man trades US dollars for Ghanaian cedis at a currency exchange office in Accra, Ghana, June 15, 2015. Picture taken June 15. File Photo / Reuters
Italian, Japanese leaders agree to form "strategic partnership" 10 Jan 2023 - 10:35 pm
Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida address a press conference in Rome's Palazzo Chigi on January 10, 2023. (Photo by Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP)
Ukraine forces to receive Patriot air defense training in US: Pentagon 10 Jan 2023 - 10:33 pm
Ukrainian military fire an anti-aircraft weapon, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Bakhmut, Ukraine, January 10, 2023. (REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne)
Tigray forces begin handing over heavy weapons to Ethiopian army 10 Jan 2023 - 10:00 pm
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Amnesty International slams ban on raising Palestinian flag in 1948 lands 10 Jan 2023 - 09:48 pm
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Traffic crashes cost US society $340 billion in 2019 10 Jan 2023 - 09:24 pm
Traffic is pictured at twilight along 2nd Ave. in the Manhattan borough of New York, US, March 27, 2019. (REUTERS/Carlo Allegri)
France plans to push retirement age to 64, strikes and protests loom 10 Jan 2023 - 09:03 pm
France's Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne (right) and France's Minister for the Economy and Finances Bruno Le Maire at a press conference to present the government's plan for a pension reform in Paris, France, January 10, 2023. (Bertrand Guay/Pool via REUTERS)
Extreme weather caused $165bn in US damage in 2022: officials 10 Jan 2023 - 08:56 pm
Hurricane Ian, which ravaged Florida in September, caused nearly $123 billion in damage, according to an NOAA report. (Eva Marie UZCATEGUI / AFP)
Prince Harry's book 'fastest-selling non-fiction book ever' - Sky News 10 Jan 2023 - 08:38 pm
A man holds three copies of the book Spare', by Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex during a special midnight opening event for the release of the memoire, at the WHSmith bookstore, at Victoria Station in London, on January 9, 2023. (Photo by ISABEL INFANTES / AFP)
Suspects in German museum heist face lengthy sentences 10 Jan 2023 - 08:27 pm
Defendant Rabieh R (background, right) and defendant Abdul Majed R (foreground, centre) sit next to their lawyers in the courtroom of the Higher Regional Court in Dresden, eastern Germany on January 10, 2023 prior to a hearing in the trial over a jewellery heist on the Green Vault (Gruenes Gewoelbe) museum in Dresden's Royal Palace in November 2019.  (Photo by JENS SCHLUETER / POOL / AF
Spain creates jobless benefit system for artists 10 Jan 2023 - 08:23 pm
File Photo: A woman watches the exhibition 'Genealogies of the art, or art history as visual art' at the Picasso Museum in Malaga, Spain, May 26, 2020. (REUTERS/Jon Nazca)
Colombia VP says assassination bid foiled 10 Jan 2023 - 08:11 pm
In this file photo taken on October 7, 2022, Colombian Vice President Francia Marquez arrives at a Territorial Dialogue Forum in Guachene, department of Cauca, Colombia. (Photo by JOAQUIN SARMIENTO / AFP)
Brazil questions some 1,000 detained protesters after rampage in capital 10 Jan 2023 - 07:42 pm
Supporters of Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro who were detained stand outside as they leave a bus after a camp set by supporters was dismounted in front of the Army Headquarters, in Brasilia, Brazil, on January 10, 2023. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli
In Ukraine, a young gymnast's Olympic dreams hit by war 10 Jan 2023 - 07:22 pm
Frequent Russian missile strikes and daily warnings of aerial attacks have disrupted routines for millions in the capital and upset a gymnast's goal to become a star. (SERGEI CHUZAVKOV / AFP)
Gunmen kill 12 Nigeria security personnel in ambush 10 Jan 2023 - 07:20 pm
Nigerian military ride on their truck as they secure the area where a man was killed by suspected militants during an attack around Polo area of Maiduguri, Nigeria, on February 16, 2019. File Photo / Reuters
California reels from 'endless' storm onslaught, 14 dead 10 Jan 2023 - 06:47 pm
This aerial view shows a flooded home partially underwater in Gilroy, California, on January 9, 2023. - A massive storm called a bomb cyclone
Britain to push ahead with readying ground for a digital pound 10 Jan 2023 - 05:51 pm
Signage for the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the Britain's financial regulatory body, is seen at its head office in London, Britain, March 10, 2022. File Photo / Reuters