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UK government drops bid to stop Brexit delay bill in parliament 05 Sep 2019 - 09:25 am
A handout photograph released by the UK Parliament shows Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson (CR) listening as the tellers read out the result of the vote on the EU (Withdrawal) (No.6) Bill in the House of Commons in London on September 4, 2019. AFP PH
Blast shakes buildings in centre of Afghan capital 05 Sep 2019 - 09:22 am
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Memorials show California community's grief over boat fire 05 Sep 2019 - 09:07 am
A woman looks emotional as she kneels at a makeshift memorial in Santa Barbara Harbor for victims of the Conception boat fire on September 3, 2019 in Santa Barbara, California. Mario Tama/Getty Images/AFP
Stay or go? Asian nations mull options as seas rise, cities sink 05 Sep 2019 - 08:43 am
A pedestrian wades through a waterlogged street next to a line of auto rickshaws in heavy rain in Mumbai on September 4, 2019. / AFP / PUNIT PARANJPE
China "respects and supports" Hong Kong's withdrawal of extradition bill, leader says 05 Sep 2019 - 08:18 am
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam waits for questions from the media at a press conference in Hong Kong on September 5, 2019, a day after she announced the withdrawal of a loathed extradition bill. AFP / Philip Fong
Biden jokes about gaffes with Colbert, gets serious about climate on CNN 05 Sep 2019 - 08:18 am
FILE PHOTO: Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks on the second night of the second 2020 Democratic U.S. presidential debate in Detroit, Michigan, July 31, 2019. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo
35 hurt as train, truck collide near Tokyo 05 Sep 2019 - 08:09 am
A train is seen derailed after a collision with a truck at a crossing in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture on September 5, 2019. A train and a truck collided at a crossing near Tokyo, injuring 35 people, with at least one person seriously hurt, authorities sa
Tokyo to test artificial snow to cool Olympic spectators 05 Sep 2019 - 08:07 am
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'No safe place': South African women suffering 'epidemic' of violence, activists warn 04 Sep 2019 - 10:11 pm
A pedestrian walks by the community centre at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in the South African landmark township of Soweto on April 24, 2014. AFP / Mujahid Safodien
India's human traffickers escaping punishment as data shows few convictions 04 Sep 2019 - 10:11 pm
Traffic moves in front of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus before the lights were turned off for Earth Hour in Mumbai, India on March 25, 2017. Reuters/Shailesh Andrade
Across decades, families of missing Iraqis share endless anguish 04 Sep 2019 - 10:11 pm
Samya Khasro, a woman from Iraq's once-persecuted Shiite Kurdish minority, sits next to pictures of family members who vanished 35 years prior and whose whereabouts remain unknown, as she gives an interview with AFP at her home in the capital Baghdad's hi
Trump's conservative critics are speaking a code 04 Sep 2019 - 10:11 pm
Donald Trump exits Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on May 13, 2017. AFP /  Olivier Douliery
Six months after cyclones, Pope spotlights Mozambique's needs 04 Sep 2019 - 09:19 pm
Pope Francis attends a welcome ceremony flanked by Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi upon his arrival at the Maputo International Airport on September 4, 2019. AFP / Tiziana Fabi
Bangladesh signs up to UN treaty to combat human trafficking 04 Sep 2019 - 09:19 pm
In this file photo taken on November 26, 2017, Rohingya Muslim refugees walk down a hillside in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh. AFP / Ed Jones
Malaysia's human trafficking court nets few scalps in first year 04 Sep 2019 - 09:19 pm
Airlines passengers in Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Sepang, Malaysia, March 1, 2016. EPA/ Fazry Ismail
Netanyahu pays homage in Hebron, in nod to rightist voters 04 Sep 2019 - 07:13 pm
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks up while his wife Sara touches the outside wall of the Cave of the Patriarchs, a shrine holy to Jews and Muslims during a state memorial ceremony, in Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank September 4, 201
Pope calls US conservative attacks an 'honour' 04 Sep 2019 - 07:13 pm
Municipal workers hang the portrait of Pope Francis ahead of his visit to Madagascar, in Antananarivo, Madagascar, September 4, 2019. Reuters/Baz Ratner
British PM Johnson demands an election, opponents demand a block on no-deal Brexit 04 Sep 2019 - 07:13 pm
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