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Over 72,000 migrants dead, disappeared globally since 2014: UN 29 Apr 2025 - 03:50 pm
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi addresses the Security Council at United Nations headquarters in New York City on April 28, 2025. Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP.
Amnesty accuses Israel of 'live-streamed genocide' against Gazans 29 Apr 2025 - 03:33 pm
Members of Amnesty International hold a banner reading
Two cardinals to miss conclave for health reasons: Vatican 29 Apr 2025 - 03:10 pm
This handout picture released by the Press office shows cardinals entering in the Sistine Chapel before the start of the conclave at the Vatican on March 12, 2013. Photo by Handout / OSSERVATORE ROMANO / AFP
Less-thirsty rice offers hope in drought-stricken Chile 29 Apr 2025 - 02:40 pm
Aerial view of the INIA (Agricultural Research Institute) experimental rice crops in San Carlos, Chile, on April 10, 2025. (Photo by Raul Bravo / AFP)
Spain grid operator rules out cyberattack for blackout 29 Apr 2025 - 01:57 pm
Passengers walk along a platform to board a train at Santa Justa railway station in Seville on April 29, 2025, the day after a massive power cut affecting the entire Iberian peninsula and the south of France. Photo by CRISTINA QUICLER / AFP
Northeast China restaurant fire kills 22 29 Apr 2025 - 01:44 pm
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Partial telecoms blackout in Greenland, possibly linked to Spain 29 Apr 2025 - 12:33 pm
This photograph shows an apartment building of Burgos at night, partially without electricity, following a massive power cut affecting the entire Iberian peninsula and the south of France, on April 28, 2025. Photo by CESAR MANSO / AFP.
EU top court rules 'golden passport' schemes are illegal 29 Apr 2025 - 12:23 pm
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Power gradually returns in Spain and Portugal, cause of outage remains unknown 29 Apr 2025 - 12:23 pm
A cyclist rides near an electrical substation in Burgos on April 28, 2025, during a massive power cut affecting the entire Iberian peninsula and the south of France. Photo by CESAR MANSO / AFP.
Blackout plunges Spain into chaotic night of darkness 29 Apr 2025 - 12:20 pm
This photograph shows the 25th April bridge over the Tagus river with the lights off following a massive power cut affecting the entire Iberian peninsula and the south of France, in Lisbon on April 28, 2025. Photo by Patricia DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP.
Trump boasts of 'fun' 100 days, but Americans disenchanted 29 Apr 2025 - 11:31 am
US President Donald Trump arrives for an event celebrating the Philadelphia Eagles, 2025 Super Bowl champions, at the White House on April 28, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jim Watson / AFP)
Carney's Liberals win Canada election defined by Trump 29 Apr 2025 - 09:37 am
Canada's PM and Liberal Party leader Mark Carney speaks at a victory party in Ottawa, Ontario on April 29, 2025. (Photo by Dave Chan / AFP)
Bulgaria sells €4 billion in bonds, its biggest-ever Euro debt haul 28 Apr 2025 - 11:40 pm
Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov’s minority government is looking to secure funding for its budget gap. (Photo by Simon Wohlfahrt/Bloomberg)
Rubio tells Russian counterpart time to end 'senseless war': US 28 Apr 2025 - 11:13 pm
Secretary of State Marco Rubio attends a White House meeting earlier this month. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
Kyrgyzstan to supply 600 mln cubic meters of water to Kazakhstan 28 Apr 2025 - 11:11 pm
View from Astana, Kazakhstan. File photo for representational purposes only.
Over 200 Nigerian migrants deported from Libya IOM 28 Apr 2025 - 10:38 pm
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Japan developing an AI system for meat safety checks 28 Apr 2025 - 10:09 pm
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Jordan receives Pakistani medical supplies for Gaza field hospitals 28 Apr 2025 - 09:56 pm
A Palestinian receives treatment at a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) health center, west of Gaza City, amid a shortage of medicine due to Israel's continued closure of the border crossings in the Gaza Strip, on April 28, 2025. (Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua)