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Poland's ruling nationalists ahead in election - partial results 14 Oct 2019 - 08:19 am
Poland's ruling party Law and Justice (PiS) leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski receives flowers after the exit poll results are announced in Warsaw, Poland, October 13, 2019. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel
Trump violently attacks media figures in supporter's event meme: NYT 14 Oct 2019 - 08:13 am
In this file photo taken on October 12, 2019 US President Donald Trump speaks at the Values Voter Summit at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC. / AFP / Eric BARADAT
Outsider Saied set for landslide in Tunisia presidency: exit polls 14 Oct 2019 - 08:03 am
Tunisia’s independent candidate Kais Saied holds a press conference after has secured more than 72% of votes in the presidential election held on Sunday, said an exit polls agency, in Tunis, Tunisia on October 13, 2019. ( Yassine Gaidi - Anadolu Agency )
California governor signs fur sale, circus animal bans 13 Oct 2019 - 06:37 pm
California governor Gavin Newsom speaks at a news conference as he signs SB 113, which will enable the transfer of $331million in state funds to the National Mortgage Special Deposit Fund in San Diego, California, October 9, 2019. Reuters/ Mike Blake
Are China's 'internal affairs' going more global? 13 Oct 2019 - 06:37 pm
A Muslim man arriving at the Id Kah Mosque for the morning prayer on Eid al-Fitr in the old town of Kashgar in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China, on June 26, 2017. AFP / Johannes Eisele
At least 26 dead as Typhoon Hagibis slams Japan 13 Oct 2019 - 06:15 pm
This aerial view shows the flooded Kawagoe Kings Garden nursing home beside the Oppegawa river in Kawagoe, Saitama prefecture on October 13, 2019.  AFP / JIJI PRESS
Hippo ivory to be banned in the U.K., Sunday Telegraph reports 13 Oct 2019 - 05:31 pm
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Turkey says takes key M4 highway in Syria 13 Oct 2019 - 05:24 pm
A Turkish soldier overlooks the border with Syria on Ocotber 13, 2019 near the Turkish city of Ceylanpinar as fighting rages in the Syrian border town of Ras al-Ain on the fifth day of the Turkish offensive in Syria against the Kurdish People's Protection
176 migrants rescued off Libya, 110 others turned back 13 Oct 2019 - 05:10 pm
Rwanda's Ministry of Emergency Management (MINEMA) teken on October 10, 2019, shows the arrival of 123 Africal refugees and asylum seekers, mostly Eritreans, from Libya supported by Rwanda's UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, at the Kigali international airpor
Pentagon says up to 1,000 US troops to withdraw from northern Syria 13 Oct 2019 - 04:41 pm
FILE PHOTO: Turkey near the town of Suruc shows a US observation post near the Syrian town of Kobani Kobane where the Pentagon said an explosion occurred
Mortars fired at Somalia's Mogadishu airport: sources 13 Oct 2019 - 03:29 pm
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Media mogul, academic face off as Tunisians choose president 13 Oct 2019 - 10:17 am
Supporters of Tunisian presidential candidate Kais Saied campaign on October 11, 2019 in Tunis. AFP / ANIS MILI
Ecuador protest talks set for Sunday as capital locks down 13 Oct 2019 - 08:59 am
Motorcyclist policemen are deployed in a street in Quito on October 12, 2019, as a curfew took effect during the 10th day of a protest over a fuel price hike ordered by the government to secure an IMF loan.  AFP / Martin Bernetti
Japan sends in thousands of troops after massive typhoon hammers Tokyo 13 Oct 2019 - 08:54 am
People walk by a flooded convenience store in the aftermath of Typhoon Hagibis in Kakuda, Miyagi Prefecture on October 13, 2019. AFP / CHARLY TRIBALLEAU
Populists eye victory in deeply divided Poland 13 Oct 2019 - 08:41 am
Election posters are pictured in Warsaw, Poland, on October 9, 2019. AFP / AFP PHOTO / Wojtek RADWANSKI
Two dead as Typhoon Hagibis batters Japan with 'unprecedented' rain 12 Oct 2019 - 07:10 pm
Roads are flooded due to heavy rains caused by Typhoon Hagibis at Setagaya ward in Tokyo, Japan, October 12, 2019.
Catalan separatist leaders to get up to 15 years in jail 12 Oct 2019 - 04:48 pm
FILE PHOTO: People hold a giant
Xi becomes 1st Chinese president in 2 decades to visit Nepal 12 Oct 2019 - 04:26 pm
FILE PHOTO: Indian school students wear masks of China's President Xi Jinping in Chennai on October 10, 2019, AFP / ARUN SANKAR