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US braces for 'catastrophic' flooding as Storm Debby drenches Florida 05 Aug 2024 - 07:44 pm
Wind and rain kicked up by Hurricane Debby blow through a street on August 05, 2024 in Chiefland, Florida. (Photo by JOE RAEDLE / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
Colombia's congress considers ban on Pablo Escobar souvenirs 05 Aug 2024 - 06:41 pm
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UK's Starmer vows 'swift criminal sanctions' for rioters 05 Aug 2024 - 06:21 pm
A police officer passes the door to 10 Downing Street, the official residence of Britain's Prime Minister, in central London on August 5, 2024. (Photo by BENJAMIN CREMEL / AFP)
Bangladesh's army chief says consultations afoot to form interim government 05 Aug 2024 - 05:44 pm
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Nobel Prize-winning physicist Tsung-Dao Lee dies at age 97 05 Aug 2024 - 05:38 pm
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US military completes withdrawal from final base in Niger: Pentagon 05 Aug 2024 - 04:46 pm
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Over 80 Palestinian corpses handed over by Israel as its forces murder more civilians in Gaza 05 Aug 2024 - 04:31 pm
People burry bodies that were taken and later released by Israel during a mass funeral at a cemetery in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on August 5, 2024. (Photo by Bashar Taleb / AFP)
Human Rights Monitor confirms daily fatalities, injured in Gaza due to imposed Israeli siege 05 Aug 2024 - 03:45 pm
An injured child sits next to a woman at Al-Ahli Arab hospital, also known as the Baptist hospital in Gaza City following Israeli bombardment on the Hassan Salameh and Al-Nassr schools housing displaced Palestinians on August 4, 2024. Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP.
Philippines, Vietnam coast guards to hold first joint drills 05 Aug 2024 - 03:00 pm
Philippine Coast Guard personnel wave flags as a Vietnam Coast Guard ship makes a port call during a goodwill visit at a port in Manila on August 5, 2024. Photo by JAM STA ROSA / AFP.
Kenya's Treetops hotel reopens after Covid shutdown 05 Aug 2024 - 02:23 pm
Wooden debris show remainings of the original location of the former tree house where Britain's Queen Elizabeth II of England stayed the night her father, the King, died and became Queen in 1952 at Treetops Lodge in Aberdare Narional Park in Nyeri, Kenya, on April 10, 2021. Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP
TikTok, bowing to EU, withdraws rewards programme 05 Aug 2024 - 02:11 pm
This file photo taken on March 16, 2023 shows the TikTok logo displayed outside the social media app's company offices in Culver City, California. Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP
PM Sheikh Hasina resigns and leaves Bangladesh amid widening unrest 05 Aug 2024 - 12:54 pm
Anti-government protestors display Bangladesh's national flag as they storm Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's palace in Dhaka on August 5, 2024. Photo by K M ASAD / AFP
Bangladesh protesters storm prime minister's palace 05 Aug 2024 - 12:31 pm
Anti-government protestors march towards Bangladesh prime minister's residence in Dhaka on August 5, 2024. Photo by Munir UZ ZAMAN / AFP
Bangladesh PM flees her palace as protesters roam streets 05 Aug 2024 - 12:25 pm
Protesters block the Shahbagh intersection during a protest in Dhaka on August 4, 2024. Photo by Munir UZ ZAMAN / AFP.
Torrential rains have claimed more than 150 lives in China in the past 2 months 05 Aug 2024 - 11:45 am
A partially buried building is pictured a day after a landslide in Kangding, in China痴 southwest Sichuan province on August 4, 2024. (Photo by CNS / CNS / AFP)
Turkish inflation falls to 61.78% in July 05 Aug 2024 - 11:17 am
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Anti-government protesters in Bangladesh plan to march to capital after a weekend of deadly clashes 05 Aug 2024 - 10:06 am
Protesters block the Shahbagh intersection during a protest in Dhaka in August 4, 2024, to demand justice for the victims arrested and killed in the recent nationwide violence during anti-quota protests.  (Photo by Munir UZ ZAMAN / AFP)
Indian army teams scour landslide site for remaining dead 05 Aug 2024 - 09:11 am
In this handout photograph taken on August 2, 2024 and released by India's National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), relief personnel conduct a search and rescue operation after the landslides in Wayanad. Photo by National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) / AFP