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Saudi Arabia’s sporting expansion rumbles on with MMA deal 30 Aug 2023 - 01:14 pm
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Pakistan ex-PM Khan's detention extended over leaked documents 30 Aug 2023 - 12:14 pm
Security personnel stand guard outside the Attock prison, where former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan is sentenced, in Attock on August 30, 2023. (Photo by Abdul Majeed / AFP)
Indian teen chess wizard Pragg given hero's welcome 30 Aug 2023 - 11:51 am
India's chess grandmaster and silver medallist Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, responds to a television media personnel as he is welcomed upon his return from the FIDE Chess World Cup in Baku, at the Chennai International airport in Chennai, on August 30, 2023. (Photo by AFP)
Gabon army officers say election result cancelled, 'regime' ended 30 Aug 2023 - 10:50 am
Residents applaud members of the security forces in the Plein Ciel district Libreville on August 30, 2023. (Photo by AFP)
Hurricane Idalia upgraded to Category 3 storm: US weather agency 30 Aug 2023 - 09:52 am
Workers set up a fence to prevent flooding at Tampa General Hospital in Tampa, Florida, on August 29, 2023 as the city prepares for Hurricane Idalia. Photo by Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo / Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo / AFP
Wagner chief laid to rest in secret ceremony 29 Aug 2023 - 11:57 pm
Russian National Guard (Rosgvardiya) servicemen stand guard at the Porokhovskoye cemetery where Wagner private mercenary group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was killed in a private jet crash in the Tver region last week, was buried, in Saint Petersburg on August 29, 2023. (Photo by Olga Maltseva / AFP)
India's moon rover confirms sulfur, detects several elements near the lunar south pole 29 Aug 2023 - 11:24 pm
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Muslim call to prayer can now be broadcast publicly in New York City without a permit 29 Aug 2023 - 10:55 pm
New York Mayor Eric Adams / Reuters file photo
Sudan’s military leader visits Egypt on his first trip abroad since his country plunged into war 29 Aug 2023 - 09:28 pm
A handout picture released by the Egyptian Presidency shows Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (right) receiving the President of Sudan's Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC) General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan in El Alamein on Egypt's northern coast on August 29, 2023. (Photo by Egyptian Presidency / AFP)
Fukushima wastewater not toxic, says IAEA chief 29 Aug 2023 - 08:21 pm
People walk past a Japanese restaurant near the Japanese embassy in Beijing on August 29, 2023.  (Photo by Pedro Pardo / AFP)
India issues strong protest to China over 'territorial' map 29 Aug 2023 - 08:01 pm
File photo of Delhi--Mumbai expressway
UK orders review into air traffic control chaos 29 Aug 2023 - 07:27 pm
Passengers wait at Stansted Airport, north of London, on August 29, 2023 after UK flights were delayed over a technical issue. (Photo by Daniel Leal / AFP)
China warns US against 'disastrous' trade curbs 29 Aug 2023 - 06:41 pm
China's Premier Li Qiang (right) speaks with US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo during their meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on August 29, 2023. (Photo by Andy Wong / POOL / AFP)
Florida orders evacuations ahead of 'extremely dangerous' Idalia 29 Aug 2023 - 06:21 pm
A grocery store's water section is almost bare as people stock up ahead of the possible arrival of Hurricane Idalia on August 29, 2023 in Pinellas Park, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)
'Manipulation' keeps Pakistan ex-PM Khan in jail despite bail: Lawyers 29 Aug 2023 - 04:34 pm
Lawyers and supporters of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan, shout slogans as they celebrate outside the Islamabad High Court in Islamabad on August 29, 2023, after suspension of Khan's prison sentence for a graft conviction. (Photo by Farooq Naeem / AFP)
Putin will not attend funeral for Wagner chief Prigozhin: Kremlin  29 Aug 2023 - 04:20 pm
Russian police sappers walk at the Serafimovskoye cemetery in Saint Petersburg on August 29, 2023. (Photo by Olga Maltseva / AFP)
Greece blaze is 'largest wildfire ever recorded in EU' 29 Aug 2023 - 02:25 pm
Smoke billows from a forest as wildfire rages in Kasiteres near Komotini, on August 23, 2023. (Photo by Sakis Mitrolidis / AFP)
Moscow residents learn to live with drone strikes 29 Aug 2023 - 01:48 pm
(Files) Police officers (background) secure an area as people and office workers stand in line to enter a building of Expocentre following a drone attack in Moscow on August 18, 2023. (Photo by Natalia Kolesnikova / AFP)