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Mexico begins flying, busing migrants back to Honduras 21 Jan 2020 - 11:20 pm
Central American migrants -mostly Hondurans heading in a caravan for the US- rest on the bank of the Suichate River, where they spent the night, in Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, after crossing from Tecum Uman, Guatemala, on January 21, 2020. AFP / Johan Ordonez
Don't shun China, urges Merkel at American prize ceremony 21 Jan 2020 - 10:47 pm
Former US Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, former president of Stanford University Gerhard Casper and former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry attend the American Academy's award ceremony at the Charlottenburg Palac
Pompeo calls for fair elections in Venezuela and Nicaragua 21 Jan 2020 - 10:47 pm
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. (Reuters / Tom Brenner)
White House lawyer in Trump trial is both defender and key witness to events 21 Jan 2020 - 10:47 pm
White House Counsel Pat Cipollone arrives for the Senate impeachment trial of US President Donald Trump at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, January 21, 2020. AFP / Saul Loeb
Peru to install cameras at Machu Picchu after damage 21 Jan 2020 - 10:47 pm
A general view of the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu as seen in Cusco, Peru, December 2, 2014. Reuters / Enrique Castro-Mendivil
US urges China to join nuclear arms talks with Russia 21 Jan 2020 - 07:46 pm
U.S. President Donald Trump said last year he had discussed a new accord on limiting nuclear arms with Russian President Vladimir Putin and hoped to extend that to China in what would be a major deal between the globe's top three atomic powers. But China
Abused circus animals arrive at South African sanctuary 21 Jan 2020 - 07:46 pm
View of two lions, from a group of 12 tigers and 5 lions that had been rescued from Guatemalan circuses, before being transferred to South Africa, in Santa Elena Barillas, Colonia San Gregorio, 29km of Guatemala City, on January 18, 2020. AFP / Orlando Es
Obamacare backers lose Supreme Court bid for a hearing this term 21 Jan 2020 - 07:46 pm
The US Supreme Court is pictured in Washington, June 8, 2015. Reuters / Gary Cameron
Photos surface showing convicted Nazi guard Demjanjuk at Sobibor 21 Jan 2020 - 05:52 pm
In this file photo taken on May 12, 2011 John Demjanjuk leaves the court after his verdict in Munich, southern Germany. AFP / Christof Stache
India to auction rare art belonging to diamond magnate arrested in UK 21 Jan 2020 - 04:39 pm
FILE PHOTO: A protester holds an effigy depicting billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi during a rally in Kolkata, India, February 18, 2018. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri
Venezuela's Guaido to meet British PM 21 Jan 2020 - 04:36 pm
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido delivers a press conference during the III Hemispheric Ministerial Conference of Fight Against Terrorism in Bogota, on January 20, 2020. AFP / Raul ARBOLEDA
Airstrike in northwest Syria kills 9, including whole family 21 Jan 2020 - 03:55 pm
A Syrian man looks at a crater caused by a reported pro-regime bombardment in the village of Al-Jineh, in Aleppo's western countryside, on January 20, 2020. / AFP / Aaref WATAD
Swedish capital hit again by predawn blasts, 1 injured 21 Jan 2020 - 03:13 pm
Viex of some debris on the balcony of a residential building that was hit by an explosion injuring one person in Husby outside of Stockholm, on January 21, 2020, where two blasts occurred within some minutes and a few hundred metres away one from each oth
Trump hails US economic success in Davos as impeachment trial begins 21 Jan 2020 - 01:45 pm
US President Donald Trump delivers a speech during the 50th World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2020. Reuters/Denis Balibouse
Thunberg slams climate change inaction as Davos awaits Trump 21 Jan 2020 - 12:12 pm
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg attends a session at the Congres center during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, on January 21, 2020. AFP / Fabrice COFFRINI
China's former Interpol chief sentenced to 13 years in prison 21 Jan 2020 - 11:57 am
This handout photo taken on January 21, 2020 and released by the Tianjin First Intermediate People's Court shows former Interpol chief Meng Hongwei (C) during his sentencing at the court in the Chinese city of Tianjin.AFP PHOTO / TIANJIN FIRST INTERMEDIAT
Eleven dead in fire in Siberian workers' shack 21 Jan 2020 - 11:40 am
This handout picture released by the Russian Emergencies Ministry shows firefighters working at the site of a fire that broke out in a one-storey wooden shack in the Prichulymsky settlement in Russia's Tomsk region on January 21, 2020.
Signs of life at 'no-man's land' around Philippine volcano 21 Jan 2020 - 10:56 am
A bird's eye view of mud-covered and destroyed houses with Taal volcano in background as seen from a Philippine airforce helicopter during an aerial survey in Agoncillo town, Batangas province, south of Manila on January 21, 2020. / AFP / Ted ALJIBE