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Doomed Kiribati ferry crew drunk, victims died horribly: official report 08 Oct 2019 - 08:56 am
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India on the frontline of the fight against tuberculosis 08 Oct 2019 - 08:52 am
In this photograph taken on September 26, 2019, a tuberculosis (TB) patient holds his daily dose of medicine at a DOTS (directly observed treatment, short-course) Centre in New Delhi. AFP / Money SHARMA
Italy to vote on streamlining parliament 08 Oct 2019 - 08:36 am
File photo of the Italian flag waves in front of The
Fewer children, fewer climate risks? Niger ponders a controversial option 07 Oct 2019 - 08:48 pm
Displaced residents of Niamey collect water at tanks on September 11, 2019 in the makeshift camp of Saguia near the capital after the Niger river floods forced inhabitants out of the area. AFP / Boureima Hama
Dissidents under late Uzbek leader still out in the cold 07 Oct 2019 - 08:48 pm
Uzbek journalist and former prisoner Dilmurod Said holds photos of his wife and daughter, who died in a 2009 car crash en route to visit him in a jail, during an interview with AFP in Tashkent on July 26, 2019.  AFP / Temur Ismailov
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena exits, with many promises unfulfilled 07 Oct 2019 - 07:42 pm
Maithripala Sirisena speaks during an interview with Reuters at his residence in Colombo, Sri Lanka May 4, 2019. Reuters/Dinuka Liyanawatte
Zuma's son denies $40 mn bribe offered to South African ex-minister 07 Oct 2019 - 07:42 pm
Duduzane Zuma, the son of former South African President Jacob Zuma, looks on before the start of the commission of inquiry probing state capture in Johannesburg, South Africa October 7, 2019. Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko
North Korea's deadline on denuclearisation talks looms, but what does it mean? 07 Oct 2019 - 07:42 pm
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a wreath-laying ceremony at a WWII memorial in the far-eastern Russian port of Vladivostok on April 26, 2019. AFP / Kirill Kudryavtsev
Kurz given gentle nudge to consider Greens in coalition search 07 Oct 2019 - 07:42 pm
Sebastian Kurz leaves after talks with Austrian President on October 2, 2019 at the Hofburg in Vienna, as part of meetings ahead of coalition talks to build a government. AFP / APA / Helmut Fohringer
3 children, 2 adults found shot, dead in home 07 Oct 2019 - 07:42 pm
Representative image: AFP / Gianrigo Marletta
Bangladesh student killing sparks university protests 07 Oct 2019 - 06:00 pm
A Bangladeshi student sits during a protest in Dhaka on October 7, 2019, next to a portrait of Abrar Fahad, who was allegedly beaten to death by ruling party activists. AFP / Munir Uz Zaman
Indigenous protesters convulse Ecuador, 477 people arrested 07 Oct 2019 - 06:00 pm
People wait as trucks block main roads during protests after Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno's government ended four-decade-old fuel subsidies, in Carapungo, near Quito, Ecuador, October 7, 2019. Reuters/Ivan Alvarado
Profit, not politics: Trump allies sought Ukraine gas deal 07 Oct 2019 - 06:00 pm
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North Korea warns US, Europeans against raising its missile tests at UN 07 Oct 2019 - 06:00 pm
Members of the North Korean delegation arrive to Arlanda airport north of Stockholm on October 3, 2019. AFP / Jonathan Nackstrand
Cyprus buys Israel drones to monitor waters amid Turkey tensions 07 Oct 2019 - 06:00 pm
One of four Israeli-made drones that the ministry said Cyprus has acquired, at an unidentified location on the island in a handout picture provided by the Cypriot Ministry of Defence on October 4, 2019. AFP
With eye on Syria, Greece expands refugee transfers 07 Oct 2019 - 05:52 pm
Refugees and migrants wait to be transferred to a camp in northern Greece, after their arrival from the island of Lesbos to the port of Piraeus near Athens early on October 7, 2019.   AFP / LOUISA GOULIAMAKI
A large grey-blue humpback whale spotted in River Thames near London 07 Oct 2019 - 04:23 pm
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Trump says 'too costly' to back Kurdish forces in Syria 07 Oct 2019 - 04:03 pm
Syrian Kurds take part in a demonstration against Turkish threats at a US-led international coalition base on the outskirts of Ras al-Ain town in Syria's Hasakeh province near the Turkish border on October 6, AFP / Delil SOULEIMAN