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Vanuatu volcano island evacuation complete 05 Oct 2017 - 08:56 am
Residents evacuated due to the the Manaro Voui volcano, located on Vanuatu's northern island Ambae, register with authorities after disembarking from a boat at Luganville port, on Vanuatu's Espiritu Santos Island located in the South Pacific, October 3, 2
Spain rejects mediation as Catalans plan to declare independence 05 Oct 2017 - 07:55 am
A woman wrapped in a Catalan pro-independence 'Estelada' flag listens to Spain's King Felipe VI address to the nation on a television set in a bar in Barcelona on October 3, 2017 during a general strike in Catalonia. AFP / PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU
State Department denies Tillerson called Trump a moron 04 Oct 2017 - 10:10 pm
U.S. President Donald Trump talks with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson during a meeting with members of his Cabinet at the White House in Washington, U.S., June 12, 2017. Reuters/Kevin Lamarque
Spanish PM seeks safety in numbers before playing Catalonia trump card 04 Oct 2017 - 09:01 pm
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy (R) meets with Spain's Ciudadanos (Citizens) centrist party leader Albert Rivera at La Moncloa palace in Madrid on October 2, 2017. AFP / Javier Soriano
Khamenei: Iran, Turkey must take measures against Kurdish secession 04 Oct 2017 - 08:55 pm
A handout photo provided by the office of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shows him (R) and President Hassan Rouhani (L) meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Tehran on October 4, 2017.  AFP / Iranian Supreme Leader's Website
First German immigration law on agenda as Merkel seeks coalition 04 Oct 2017 - 08:49 pm
Intendants of the State Opera Juergen Flimm (R) and Matthias Schulz (L) pose with German Chancellor Angela Merkel (2L) and her husband Joachim Sauer ahead the re-opening of the State Opera in Berlin, on October 3, 2017.  AFP / John Macdougall
Erdogan, Rouhani united in opposition to Kurdish state 04 Oct 2017 - 06:09 pm
A handout picture provided by the Iranian Presidency shows Iran's President Hassan Rouhani (R) and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan attending a press conference in Tehran on October 4, 2017.  AFP / Iranian Presidency
North Korea's Kim 'very rational': CIA 04 Oct 2017 - 05:55 pm
6 girls, 2 women from one family shot dead in S.Africa 04 Oct 2017 - 05:28 pm
Embangweni Hospital
"It's time to talk": EU again urges dialogue in Spain 04 Oct 2017 - 05:11 pm
European Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans speaks as members of the European Parliament debate the ongoing situation in Catalonia, three days after the banned referendum on a split from Spain, in Strasbourg, France, October 4, 2017. Still p
Italy investigates possible terror base near Rome 04 Oct 2017 - 05:04 pm
(FILES) This file photo taken on December 23, 2016 shows Italian police and forensics experts gathering around the body of suspected Berlin truck attacker Anis Amri after he was shot dead in Milan on December 23, 2016.   AFP / DANIELE BENNATI
Four dead in suicide bombing in Libya's Misrata: security officials 04 Oct 2017 - 04:49 pm
photo credit: Twitter/@mulhaq
Syria army ousts IS from all of Hama province: monitor 04 Oct 2017 - 04:34 pm
town of Uqayribat
Sun bear attacks couple in Indonesia, killing one 04 Oct 2017 - 03:41 pm
Saruli at hospital
Trio takes chemistry Nobel for 'cool' method to study molecules 04 Oct 2017 - 03:30 pm
(L-R) Photos of the winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson are seen on a screen as Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Goran K. Hansson (not seen) announces the winner of the 20
Whirlpool’s washer war is balancing act for Trump 04 Oct 2017 - 03:27 pm
The administrative entrance at the Whirlpool plant in Clyde, Ohio, U.S. October 3, 2017. Picture taken October 3, 2017. REUTERS/Aaron Josefczyk
Recent winners of the Nobel Chemistry Prize 04 Oct 2017 - 03:24 pm
One of the three winners of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Swiss Scientist Jacques Dubochet smiles during a press conference at the Lausanne University following the prize's announcement on October 4, 2017. AFP / Fabrice COFFRINI
Iraq forces push into IS bastion Hawija 04 Oct 2017 - 02:03 pm
Vehicles of the Iraqi forces and Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation) paramilitaries are seen on the advance towards the Islamic State (IS) group's stronghold of Hawija on October 3, 2017, to recapture the town from the jihadists. Iraqi forces on Septe