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French police on trial for alleged rape in former headquarters 14 Jan 2019 - 06:55 pm
This file photo taken on August 6, 2014 shows the entrance of Paris criminal investigation department headquarters, located at the 36 Quai des Orfevres in the French capital.  AFP / Bertrand Guay
Yellow vest protests hit with police water cannon, tear gas in Paris 14 Jan 2019 - 06:55 pm
Firefighters evacuate an injured person on a stretcher after the explosion of a bakery on the corner of the streets Saint-Cecile and Rue de Trevise in central Paris on January 12, 2019. AFP / Thomas Samson
Roadside bomb hits police convoy in Egypt's Sinai, kills 1 14 Jan 2019 - 06:34 pm
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Jailed UK-Iranian mother launches hunger strike: husband 14 Jan 2019 - 05:03 pm
Richard Ratcliffe (R), husband of jailed British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Nobel Laureate Iran's Shirin Ebadi (C) take part in a joint press conference in London to mark the start of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's hunger strike in Tehran's Evin p
Austrian police arrest 19-year-old Syrian for teen's killing 14 Jan 2019 - 03:38 pm
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Italian ex-militant extradited and jailed after decades on run 14 Jan 2019 - 02:39 pm
Italian former communist militant Cesare Battisti (C), wanted in Rome for four murders attributed to a far-left group in the 1970s, is escorted by Italian Police officers after stepping off a plane coming from Bolivia and chartered by Italian authorities,
Iran army says 13 dead in cargo plane crash 14 Jan 2019 - 02:12 pm
Wreckage is seen of a Boeing 707 military cargo plane which crashed on the west of the Iranian capital, near Fath airport, near Karaj, Iran, January 14, 2019. Abbas Shariati/Tasnim News Agency
New tensions, worries mark Tunisia's revolution anniversary 14 Jan 2019 - 02:06 pm
People take part in a demonstration marking the eighth anniversary of the 2011 uprising that unseated former president Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, in Tunis, Tunisia, January 14, 2019. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi
Zimbabwean protesters burn tyres, block roads over fuel price hike 14 Jan 2019 - 01:27 pm
Protesters throw stones towards a bus which is alleged to be working during a
Another African bloc wants Congo election recount 14 Jan 2019 - 12:09 pm
Supporters of opposition presidential candidate in the Democratic Republic of Congo Martin Fayulu sing in Kinshasa on January 12, 2019, as presidential candidate Martin Fayulu filed his appeal to impose a recount of the votes in the presidential election
Merkel's CDU successor laments "crusades" against diesel 14 Jan 2019 - 11:52 am
CDU party leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer attends a strategy meeting of Germany's governing Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party in Potsdam, Germany, January 14, 2019. REUTERS/Axel Schmidt
2 shot outside mall in Salt Lake City suburb 14 Jan 2019 - 11:27 am
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Nine dead in Papua New Guinea floods 14 Jan 2019 - 11:13 am
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Cargo plane with nine people onboard crashes at Iran's Fath airport - Fars 14 Jan 2019 - 09:30 am
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Fugitive Italian ex-militant Battisti extradited from Bolivia 14 Jan 2019 - 08:52 am
A picture handout by the Italian Interior Ministry clicked and released by the Polizia di Stato on January 13, 2019, shows former far-left Italian militant Cesare Battisti sitting aboard a plane chartered by the Italian government, prior to taking off fro
Travelers fume in long lines at Miami International in govt shutdown 14 Jan 2019 - 08:47 am
Passengers flying from Miami International Airport wait in line to enter the checkpoint at Concourse F, where some of the flights of a closed terminal were diverted, in Miami, Florida, on January 13, 2019. AFP / Leila MACOR
Second black box from Lion Air crash found: Indonesian officials 14 Jan 2019 - 08:46 am
This handout picture taken on January 14, 2019 and released by the Indonesian Navy TNI-AL shows an Indonesian Navy diver with the second
India temple trailblazers braving threats and family anger 14 Jan 2019 - 07:58 am
In this photo taken on January 11, 2019, Bindu Ammini (R) and Kanakadurga (L), the two Indian women who entered the Sabarimala Ayyapa temple, pose for photographs during an interview with the media in Kochi in the southern state of Kerala. / AFP / STR /