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Lebanese block roads as protests enter fourth month 18 Jan 2020 - 05:41 pm
FILE PHOTO: Protesters smash the window of a bank as demonstrations against the government continue in Beirut, Lebanon January 14, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
Black boxes of shot-down Ukrainian airliner will be sent to Ukraine: Iranian news agency 18 Jan 2020 - 04:26 pm
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Philippine volcano simmers, officials brace for long crisis 18 Jan 2020 - 03:52 pm
Children displaced by the Taal volcano eruption play on vehicles at a government complex used as an evacuation centre in Tagaytay on January 18, 2020. / AFP / Ed JONES
Russia strike kill five civilians in northwest Syria: monitor 18 Jan 2020 - 03:45 pm
Members of the Syrian Civil Defence, also known as the White Helmets, dig through the rubble of a building, hit by airstrikes, in the town of Baleh, in the western countryside of the northern province of Aleppo on January 18, 2020. / AFP / Aaref WATAD
Protesters gather at Paris theatre to confront Macron over pension reform 18 Jan 2020 - 02:59 pm
A protestor speaks in a megaphone during a demonstration in front of the Bouffes du Nord theatre in Paris on January 17, 2020, as French President attends a play. AFP / Lucas BARIOULET
Putin's moves leave Russian opposition with few options 18 Jan 2020 - 02:20 pm
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives for a meeting with head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund Kirill Dmitriyev at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia January 17, 2020. Aleksey Nikolskyi/Kremlin
Sky-high chicken prices on French island ruffle feathers 18 Jan 2020 - 02:10 pm
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Car bomb hits Turkish contractors, police in town outside Somali capital - police 18 Jan 2020 - 01:29 pm
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Four S.Korean trekkers among seven missing in Nepal avalanche 18 Jan 2020 - 12:58 pm
Mount Everest, the world highest peak, and other peaks of the Himalayan range are seen through an aircraft window during a mountain flight from Kathmandu, Nepal January 15, 2020. REUTERS/Monika Deupala
Jury of 7 men, 5 women selected for Weinstein's rape trial 17 Jan 2020 - 10:27 pm
Harvey Weinstein at New York Criminal Court with his attorney Donna Rotunno for his sexual assault trial in the Manhattan borough of New York City, January 17, 2020. Reuters/Eduardo Munoz
Canada says black boxes from Iran crash should be sent to France 17 Jan 2020 - 10:26 pm
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at a news conference January 17, 2020 in Ottawa, Canada. AFP / Dave Chan
US to screen passengers for China mystery virus 17 Jan 2020 - 10:26 pm
Passengers arrive at a train station in the city of Wuhan in Hubei province on January 12, 2020. AFP / Noel Celis
Fit for office? Gabbard wins campaign push-up battle 17 Jan 2020 - 10:26 pm
Tulsi Gabbard speaks during the fourth US Democratic presidential candidates 2020 election debate in Westerville, Ohio, October 15, 2019. Reuters / Shannon Stapleton
Cambodia enlists tuk-tuk drivers in fight against trafficking 17 Jan 2020 - 09:28 pm
Children sit on top of a tricycle cab as they make their way to school along a main street in Tondo city, metro Manila June 4, 2012. Reuters/Romeo Ranoco
India's Dalits protest against plan to develop common land 17 Jan 2020 - 09:28 pm
Representative image (A group of Dalit women of a farming collective walking on the land that they took over for cultivation in Pallur, India. Thomson Reuters Foundation / Rina Chandran)
In Peru's highlands, student radio show sounds alarm on trafficking 17 Jan 2020 - 09:28 pm
A mural outside a bus station warns of the dangers of human trafficking, Calca, Peru. December 1, 2019. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Anastasia Moloney
Slave descendants in tiny South African town battle for church-owned land 17 Jan 2020 - 09:28 pm
Pauline Cloete poses in front of her house for a photo in Elim in the Western Cape, South Africa, 11 December 2019. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Kim Harrisberg
Painting found in Italian museum wall is stolen Klimt 17 Jan 2020 - 08:45 pm
Police officers standing by a painting stolen over 20 years ago and which by initial indications was painted by Gustav Klimt found by chance in Piacenza museum gardens in northern Italy AFP Polizia Di Stato (Italian State Police video grab on December 12,