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Pakistani militant accused of Mumbai attacks faces terror financing charges 11 Dec 2019 - 01:04 pm
FILE PHOTO: Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, chief of the banned Islamic charity Jamat-ud-Dawa, looks over the crowed as they end a
Chemical plant fire in Spain forces authorities to evacuate area 11 Dec 2019 - 01:01 pm
Smoke rises from a fire in a chemical plant outside of Barcelona, Spain December 11, 2019. REUTERS/Albert Gea
Multiple people killed in New Jersey shooting, including cop 11 Dec 2019 - 10:50 am
JERSEY CITY, NJ - DECEMBER 10: Emergency personnel are shown on the scene of a shooting that left multiple people dead on December 10, 2019 in Jersey City, New Jersey. In a raging gun battle that by some accounts lasted in excess of an hour, six people -
Scaled back power cuts set to continue in South Africa 11 Dec 2019 - 10:20 am
File photo of the logo of state power utility Eskom, March 20, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings/File Photo
New Zealand's Ardern says new Finnish PM "needs no advice" 11 Dec 2019 - 09:36 am
New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks during an interview with Reuters in Wellington, New Zealand, December 11, 2019. REUTERS/Yiming Woo
Tremors worsen on NZ volcano island, prevent recovery of bodies 11 Dec 2019 - 09:28 am
Steam rises from the White Island volcano following the December 9 volcanic eruption, in Whakatane on December 11, 2019. AFP / Marty Melville
Trump on impeachment brink, but far from falling 11 Dec 2019 - 09:22 am
US President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally on December 10, 2019 at Giant Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States. ( Lev Radin - Anadolu Agency )
World Bank says Indonesia forest fires cost $5.2 bln in economic losses 11 Dec 2019 - 09:17 am
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Somali security forces kill 5 al Shabaab fighters to end hotel siege 11 Dec 2019 - 08:51 am
An ambulance carrying an injured person from an attack by Al Shabaab gunmen on a hotel near the presidential residence arrives to the Shaafi hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia December 10, 2019. Reuters/Feisal Omar
Eight in 10 girls in western Nepal forced to sleep outside during periods 10 Dec 2019 - 11:24 pm
In this 2014 archive photo a 14-year old girl sits inside a Chaupadi shed in the hills of Legudsen village in Achham District in western Nepal. Reuters / Navesh Chitrakar
Rape map and murdered women - welcome to South Africa's Republic of Sexual Abuse 10 Dec 2019 - 11:23 pm
Women hold placards as they protest against gender-based violence, outside the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa, September 13, 2019. Reuters/Marius Bosch
Bangladesh film about girl surfer faces calls to be banned 10 Dec 2019 - 11:23 pm
A worker hangs clothes to dry on the roof of a garment factory in Dhaka in this June 15, 2005 file photo. Reuters / Rafiqur Rahman
US sanctions 5 South Sudan agents it says killed 2 critics 10 Dec 2019 - 11:07 pm
File photo of Rwandese UN peacekeepers in South Sudan. AFP
Grief and neglect: 10 factory disasters in South Asia 10 Dec 2019 - 08:54 pm
Relatives of victims of the Rana Plaza building collapse pay their respects at a graveyard in Dhaka on April 24, 2016. AFP / Rehman Asad
Closing down: aging residents, falling fish stocks spell end for Canadian town 10 Dec 2019 - 08:54 pm
Michael Parsons watches the sunrise from Back Beach, Little Bay Islands, Canada, November 2, 2019. Photo handout by Michael Parsons
Refugee girls in Chad embrace school as path to university opens up 10 Dec 2019 - 08:54 pm
Mouna Issahk poses for a portrait with her daughter at her school in Touloum refugee camp, Iriba, Chad, November 27, 2019. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Nellie Peyton
Five ways women protested against sexual violence this year 10 Dec 2019 - 08:54 pm
This file photo taken on June 11, 2019 shows a demonstrator holding a placard during a protest against the lack of substantial legal protection for sexual assault victims in Tokyo. AFP / Charly Triballeau
Consulting firm allows Buttigieg to release names of clients 10 Dec 2019 - 07:59 pm
Pete Buttigieg participates in the Black Economic Alliance Forum at the Charleston Music Hall on June 15, 2019 in Charleston, South Carolina. Sean Rayford / Getty Images / AFP