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China replaces top envoy to Hong Kong: state media 04 Jan 2020 - 02:03 pm
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China removes Hong Kong liaison office head Wang Zhimin 04 Jan 2020 - 02:00 pm
Teachers and pro-democracy supporters hold placards as they take part in a rally to support teachers at Edinburgh Place in the Central district of Hong Kong on January 3, 2020. AFP / Philip Fong
Hong Kong steps up response to mystery disease from China 04 Jan 2020 - 01:59 pm
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Coalition scales back Iraq operations for security reasons: US 04 Jan 2020 - 01:27 pm
A handout picture received from the US embassy in Iraq on December 31, 2019, shows American soldiers taking position around the embassy in the capital Baghdad, after supporters and members of the Hashed al-Shaabi military network breached the outer wall o
Sanchez prepares to take power in Spain with Catalans’ backing 04 Jan 2020 - 01:00 pm
Spanish caretaker prime minister, socialist Pedro Sanchez, delivers a speech during the first day of a parliamentary investiture debate to vote for a premier at the Spanish Congress (Las Cortes) in Madrid on January 4, 2020. / AFP / PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU
Volcano briefly erupts on Alaska island, sends up ash cloud 04 Jan 2020 - 12:33 pm
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China Plans to Increase High-Speed Railway Network by 2,000 Kilometers 04 Jan 2020 - 11:52 am
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London advises Brits to avoid travel to Iraq, Iran 04 Jan 2020 - 11:25 am
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Thousands of Iraqis join Baghdad funeral for slain commanders 04 Jan 2020 - 10:41 am
People gather at the funeral of the Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani, top commander of the elite Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guards, and the Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who were killed in an air strike at Baghdad airport, in B
Hundreds of Thousands Flee as Flooding in Jakarta Kills 53 04 Jan 2020 - 10:11 am
Indonesians clean their homes and cutlery along the river in Jakarta on January 3, 2020, after flooding triggered by heavy rain which started on New Year's Eve hit the area. / AFP / BAY ISMOYO
Search in Cambodia resumes after building collapse kills 5 04 Jan 2020 - 10:01 am
Rescue personnel work at the site where an under-construction building on January 3 collapsed, trapping and killing workers, in southern Cambodia's coastal Kep province on January 4, 2020. Hundreds of soldiers and rescuers frantically picked through the r
Australian PM calls up reservists as fire threats escalate 04 Jan 2020 - 09:51 am
A handout photo taken and received on December 31, 2019 from the State Government of Victoria shows a helicopter fighting a bushfire near Bairnsdale in Victoria's East Gippsland region.
US sending 3,000 more troops to Mideast as reinforcements 03 Jan 2020 - 09:01 pm
US soldiers in the US military camp of Bondsteel near the village of Sojeve on March 10, 2016. AFP /  Armend Nimani
Airlines suspend flights to Baghdad over security concerns 03 Jan 2020 - 09:01 pm
A military helicopter flies over the US embassy as supporters of Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary protest in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on January 1, 2020. AFP / Ahmad Al-Rubaye
US Republicans, Democrats spar over killing of Iran commander 03 Jan 2020 - 09:01 pm
Democratic lawmakers and aides say congressional leaders including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, both fierce Trump critics, were left in the dark about the deadly strike. Mark Wilson / Getty Images / AFP
New York mayor says city bracing for Iranian retaliation after Soleimani killed 03 Jan 2020 - 09:01 pm
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio during a gathering on December 29, 2019. Reuters / Amr Alfiky
Israel on alert for fallout after US killing of Iran commander 03 Jan 2020 - 09:01 pm
An Israeli flag is seen placed on Mount Bental in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights on May 10, 2018. AFP / Jalaa Marey
French police shoot dead man near Paris after fatal stabbing 03 Jan 2020 - 07:30 pm
Police officers stand guard on January 3, 2020 in L'Hay-les-Roses on the site where police shot dead a knife-wielding man who killed one person and injured at least two others in a nearby park of the south of Paris' suburban city of Villejuif.  AFP / Chri