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Pakistan PM urges talks on Kashmir blast, warns India against attack 19 Feb 2019 - 11:25 am
Indian security forces personnel are on manoeuvres as a gunfight with militants has happened that killed 4 soldiers, in South Kashmir's Pulwama district, some 10 km away from the spot of recent suicide bombing, on February 18, 2019. AFP / STR
One-time US head of Russia probe to leave office soon: reports 19 Feb 2019 - 10:58 am
File photo of Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announces grand jury indictments of 12 Russian intelligence officers in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, US,
Sixteen rescued from SeaWorld ride hanging over a California bay 19 Feb 2019 - 10:49 am
Picture: Twitter / San Diego Fire-Rescue Department
Germany sees 'most difficult part' in EU-US trade talks ahead 19 Feb 2019 - 10:45 am
German Economic Minister Peter Altmaier and German Agriculture Minister Julia Kloeckner arrive for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, February 13, 2019. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke
Haitian government denies recruiting mercenaries 19 Feb 2019 - 10:39 am
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Exposed Chinese database shows depth of surveillance state 19 Feb 2019 - 10:14 am
FILE PHOTO - Security cameras are installed at the entrance to the Id Kah Mosque during a government organised trip in Kashgar, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China, January 4, 2019. Picture taken January 4, 2019. REUTERS/Ben Blanchard
US states sue Trump over border wall emergency 19 Feb 2019 - 08:03 am
People gather to protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency to build a border wall, at Trump International Hotel & Tower in Manhattan, New York, U.S. February 15, 2019. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
Ribery to join Bayern, Coman likely fit for Liverpool match 18 Feb 2019 - 11:43 pm
Liverpool's Mohamed Salah and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain during training. Action Images via Reuters/Carl Recine
British boat rescues migrants trying to cross Channel 18 Feb 2019 - 09:45 pm
British rescuers helping some 20 migrants on a semi-rigid boat trying make their way from France across the English Channel  on February 18, 2019.  AFP/Societe Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer
Ukraine seeks more EU aid for south, east regions as elections near 18 Feb 2019 - 07:35 pm
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin speaks during an annual news conference in Kiev, Ukraine January 18, 2019. Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko
Iraq's Kurdish regional parliament elects interim speaker amid boycott 18 Feb 2019 - 07:35 pm
Members of the Kurdistan Region Parliament vote during a session in Erbil, Iraq February 18, 2019. Reuters/Azad Lashkari
'Wake up', Macron will tell Europe in major pre-Brexit speech 18 Feb 2019 - 07:35 pm
Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech at the opening session of the Paris Peace Forum as part of the commemoration ceremony for Armistice Day, November 11, 2018. AFP / Gonzalo Fuentes
UK announces new deployment in Arctic region 18 Feb 2019 - 07:35 pm
A fishing boat enters the harbour at the Arctic port of Svolvaer in northern Norway, March 4, 2013. Reuters/Alister Doyle
Spain and Gibraltar offer differing accounts of warship incident 18 Feb 2019 - 07:35 pm
A cloud partially covers the tip of the Rock of the British territory of Gibraltar at sunrise from La Atunara port  in Algeciras bay, La Linea de la Concepcion in southern Spain August 18, 2013. Reuters/Jon Nazca
Many Indians rally behind Modi after Kashmir attack 18 Feb 2019 - 06:47 pm
As emotions run high following the deadliest attack on security forces in decades, Modi, who faces a general election by May, said he had given a free hand to security forces to avenge the killings in Kashmir, the region disputed with arch-foe Pakistan.
Who are the seven UK lawmakers in the Independent Group? 18 Feb 2019 - 06:47 pm
Britain's Labour Party MPs Ann Coffey, Angela Smith, Chris Leslie, Chuka Umunna, Gavin Shuker and Luciana Berger leave a joint news conference after their announcement they are leaving the party, in London, Britain, February 18, 2019. Reuters/Simon Dawson
Americans arrested in Haiti with weapons 18 Feb 2019 - 06:47 pm
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Philippines says 136 people have died in measles outbreak 18 Feb 2019 - 05:37 pm
A child reacts during a Philippine Read Cross Measles Outbreak Vaccination Response in Baseco compound, a slum area in Manila on February 16, 2019.   AFP / Noel CELIS