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Joe Biden finally expected to enter 2020 race Thursday 25 Apr 2019 - 07:33 am
In this file photo taken on April 18, 2019 Former US vice president Joe Biden leaves a rally organized by UFCW Union members to support Stop and Shop employees on strike throughout the region at the Stop and Shop in Dorchester, Massachusetts.  / AFP / JOS
Prince William attends emotional Anzac Day ceremony in New Zealand 25 Apr 2019 - 07:26 am
Britain's Prince William proceeds to lay a wreath during the Anzac Day service at Auckland War Memorial Museum on April 25, 2019.  / AFP / Fiona Goodall
India gang-rape victim's record compensation could help others, say activists 24 Apr 2019 - 09:40 pm
ARCHIVE PHOTO: Bilkis Bano reacts as her husband Yakub Rasool and her two-year-old daughter Aksha, look on during a press conference in New Delhi, India May 8, 2017. Reuters/Cathal McNaughton
UK anti-slavery hotline uncovers more cases, but triggers few probes 24 Apr 2019 - 09:40 pm
A woman carries an umbrella during a rain shower as she walks past the Bank of England in London, November 30, 2009. Reuters/Andrew Winning
UK to provide all female prisoners with free sanitary products 24 Apr 2019 - 09:40 pm
CCTV cameras are seen at Wandsworth prison in southwest London on April 12, 2019. AFP/Niklas Hallen
Could Swedish teen climate activist win the Nobel Peace Prize? You bet 24 Apr 2019 - 09:40 pm
15-year-old Greta Thunberg holds a placard reading 'School strike for the climate' outside the Swedish parliament in Stockholm, Nov 30, 2018. TT News Agency/Hanna Franzen/Reuters
For Sri Lanka grave digger, a grim parade 24 Apr 2019 - 06:25 pm
A cemetery worker digs a grave at Madampitiya cemetery in Colombo on April 23, 2019.  AFP / Lakruwan Wanniarachchi
Sri Lanka should ‘rise above’ politics after blasts, US envoy says 24 Apr 2019 - 06:25 pm
A Buddhist monk prays for the bomb blast victims at Kelaiya temple in Colombo on April 24, 2019, three days after a series of suicide attacks targeting churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka. AFP / Ishara S Kodikara
Sri Lanka asks for resignations of top security officials 24 Apr 2019 - 05:16 pm
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena (2nd R) visits the St. Sebastian Church after the multiple terror attacks in Negombo, Sri Lanka on April 23 , 2019. The Presidential Office of Sri Lanka
Sudan's protesters hope cheerful staying-power will oust army 24 Apr 2019 - 04:17 pm
Sudanese civil society activists Muawia Shaddad (C-L) and Omar el-Digeir (C-R), two of the leaders from the protest movement led by the Alliance for Freedom and Change, give a press conference in the capital Khartoum on April 24, 2019.   AFP / OZAN KOSE
Trump says sending 'armed soldiers' to US-Mexico border 24 Apr 2019 - 03:53 pm
FILE PHOTO: Soldiers from the Kentucky-based 19th Engineer Battalion install barbed wire fences on the banks of the Rio Grande in Laredo, Texas. November 18, 2018. AFP / Thomas WATKINS
Russia offers quick citizenship in Ukraine's separatist area 24 Apr 2019 - 03:44 pm
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Erdogan says deporting Armenians was ‘Appropriate’ at the time 24 Apr 2019 - 02:29 pm
President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan greets MP's during a special session at Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) within National Sovereignty and Children’s Day in Ankara, Turkey on April 23, 2019. Evrim Ayd?n - Anadolu
Iran leader says US oil sanctions won't go 'without response' 24 Apr 2019 - 01:07 pm
FILE PHOTO: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on March 21, 2019 shows him addressing crowds of Iranians gathering in the northeastern holy city of Mashhad for a celebration of Noruz, the Persian New Year. AFP
12 killed in blast in northwest Syria: monitor 24 Apr 2019 - 11:47 am
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UN: Pro-government forces kill more Afghans than insurgents 24 Apr 2019 - 11:39 am
Afghan security forces take guard after an explosion followed by gunfire in the ministry of information and technology of Afghanistan's main building, 20 April 2019, Kabul, Afghanistan. Sayed Khodaberdi Sadat - Anadolu
More than 50 dead in South Africa after heavy rains 24 Apr 2019 - 11:20 am
Peninsula
North Korea's Kim arrives in Russia before summit with Putin 24 Apr 2019 - 10:39 am
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (R) attends a meeting with Russia's Minister for the Development of the Russian Far East Alexander Kozlov upon his arrival at a railway station in Khasan, Russia April 24, 2019.