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Mourners sob, sift wreckage of huge Mexico quake 11 Sep 2017 - 08:40 am
Relatives and friends accompany to the cemetery the remains of a victim of Thursday night's 8.2-magnitude quake, in Juchitan, Oaxaca, Mexico, on September 10, 2017. AFP / RONALDO SCHEMIDT
Al Shabaab storms Somali border town, kills 24 Somali soldiers -spokesman, residents 11 Sep 2017 - 08:10 am
Peninsula
Cambodian leader threatens ban on opposition party 11 Sep 2017 - 07:56 am
File photo: President of the ruling Cambodian People's Party and Prime Minister Hun Sen attends a ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of the establishment of the party in Phnom Penh June 28, 2016. REUTERS/Samrang Pring/File Photo
After Irma, tourists party and Cubans take a dip in flooded streets 11 Sep 2017 - 07:42 am
Tourists and a security agent are seen on a beach a day after the passage of Hurricane Irma in Varadero, Cuba, September 10, 2017. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini
Settlers storm Al Aqsa Mosque 11 Sep 2017 - 02:02 am
Peninsula
Little US pressure amid talk of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar 10 Sep 2017 - 09:18 pm
Exhausted Rohingya refugees rest on the shore after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border by boat through the Bay of Bengal in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, September 10, 2017. Reuters/Danish Siddiqui
After insurgents’ truce, Myanmar says “we don’t negotiate with terrorists” 10 Sep 2017 - 09:06 pm
ARSA’s declaration drew no formal response from the military or the government of Buddhist-majority Myanmar. However, the spokesman for Myanmar’s leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, said on Twitter: “We have no policy to negotiate with terrorists.” This file photo
Critics circle Aung San Suu Kyi over Rohingya crisis 10 Sep 2017 - 08:43 pm
A Rohingya refugee man pulls a child as they walk to the shore after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border by boat through the Bay of Bengal in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, September 10, 2017. Reuters/Danish Siddiqui
Latvia tweets no room for mushroom hunters on army base 10 Sep 2017 - 07:10 pm
Mushroom gathering is a national obsession in Latvia.
Irma death toll in St Maarten climbs to four 10 Sep 2017 - 06:45 pm
This handout photograph provided courtesy of the Dutch Department of Defense on September 8, 2017 shows a man looking on over the devastion of Hurricane Irma on the Dutch Caribbean island of Sint Maarten. AFP PHOTO / DUTCH DEFENSE MINISTRY
Giant Catalan rally due before contested independence vote 10 Sep 2017 - 05:36 pm
(FILES) This file photo taken on September 11, 2016 shows people waving 'Esteladas' (pro-independence Catalan flags) as they gather during a pro-independence demonstration, in Barcelona during the National Day of Catalonia 'Diada'.  AFP / PAU BARRENA
Syrian Democratic Forces say reach Deir al-Zor industrial zone 10 Sep 2017 - 03:00 pm
Fighters from Deir al-Zor military council which fights under the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) sit on a back of a truck in the village of Abu Fas, Hasaka province, Syria September 9, 2017. REUTERS/Rodi Said
On the banks of the Tigris, a refuge for Iraqi readers 10 Sep 2017 - 02:27 pm
Iraqis attend a cultural festival at Abu Nawas street, along the Tigris river in the capital Baghdad on September 9, 2017. / AFP / SABAH ARAR
Hurricane Irma hits lower Florida Keys: US forecasters 10 Sep 2017 - 02:24 pm
Rough surf churned up buy the approaching hurricane damage the docks at Whale harbour in the Florida Keys as winds and rain from the outer bands of Hurricane Irma arrive in Islamorada, Florida on September 9, 2017.  AFP / Gaston De Cardenas
Philippines' Duterte says dictator Marcos is a hero 10 Sep 2017 - 11:52 am
Ferdinand
Hurricane Irma nearing Florida with catastrophic winds, deadly storm surges 10 Sep 2017 - 08:39 am
A man wades through a flooded street during the passage of Hurricane Irma, in Havana, on September 9, 2017. Irma's blast through the Cuban coastline weakened it to a Category Three, but it is still packing winds of 125 miles (200 kilometer) per hour. / AF
The siege broken, Deir Ezzor Syrians prepare for pizza 10 Sep 2017 - 08:16 am
Local residents gather to receive humanitarian aid parcels provided by the Syrian Red Crescent in the northeastern city of Deir Ezzor on September 9, 2017. / AFP / STRINGER
Death toll from massive Mexican quake rises to 65 09 Sep 2017 - 10:00 pm
Relatives of German Torres morn during a funeral of victim of the 8.2 magnitude earthquake that hit Mexico's Pacific coast, in Juchitan de Zaragoza, state of Oaxaca, September 9, 2017. AFP / Victoria Razo