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Biden blocks US Steel sale to Japan's Nippon Steel 03 Jan 2025 - 07:52 pm
File: An entrance sign for Japanese company Nippon Steel's East Nippon Works Kashima Area facility is pictured in Kashima, Ibaraki prefecture, north of Tokyo on December 6, 2024. (Photo by Richard A Brooks / AFP)
Apple agrees to $95 mn deal to settle Siri eavesdropping suit 03 Jan 2025 - 06:29 pm
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Bereaved orca seen carrying another dead calf in US waters 03 Jan 2025 - 02:40 pm
Photo credit: Official Instagram account of Center for Whale Research
US stocks rise on first trading day of 2025 02 Jan 2025 - 09:51 pm
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on the first day of trading of the new year on January 02, 2025 in New York City.(Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)
New Orleans killer acted alone, professed loyalty to Islamic State: FBI 02 Jan 2025 - 09:27 pm
A woman speaks with a police officer near a blocked off street in the French Quarter on January 2, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP)
Tesla Cybertruck explodes outside Trump hotel in Las Vegas, killing one 02 Jan 2025 - 01:02 pm
An investigator photographs a Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside the lobby of President-elect Donald Trump's hotel on January 1, 2025, in Las Vegas. Photo by WADE VANDERVORT / AFP.
'Numb' New Orleans grapples with horror of deadly truck attack 02 Jan 2025 - 08:31 am
People look at a blocked off road from Canal Street after at least 15 people were killed on Bourbon Street, after an attack early in the morning, on January 1, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP)
New Orleans attacker named as US citizen Shamsud-Din Jabbar: FBI 01 Jan 2025 - 10:06 pm
Police investigators surround a white truck that has been crashed into a work lift in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, on January 1, 2025. (Photo by Matthew Hinton / AFP)
Power restored to most of Puerto Rico: utility 01 Jan 2025 - 05:53 pm
Residential buildings and a hotel are seen in the dark in San Juan, Puerto Rico after a major power outage hit the island on December 31, 2024. (Photo by Ricardo ARDUENGO / AFP)
Ten dead as man drives truck into New Year crowd in New Orleans 01 Jan 2025 - 04:36 pm
Police cordon off the intersection of Canal Street and Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, on January 1, 2025. (Photo by Matthew HINTON / AFP)
10 dead, 30 injured as vehicle hits crowd in New Orleans: city authorities 01 Jan 2025 - 03:10 pm
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Strangers in the night: Celebrating 2025 in New York city 01 Jan 2025 - 10:50 am
Revelers celebrate the New Year at Times Square in New York City, just after midnight on January 1, 2025. (Photo by Leonardo Munoz / AFP)
Panama marks canal handover anniversary in shadow of Trump threat 31 Dec 2024 - 10:55 pm
Panama's President Jose Raul Mulino gives a speech during the ceremony to mark the 25th anniversary of the United States' handover of the interoceanic Panama Canal to Panama, in Panama City on December 31, 2024. (Photo by ARNULFO FRANCO / AFP)
US farmers fret over Trump's deportation plans 31 Dec 2024 - 05:42 pm
An almond remains on a tree after harvest on Del Bosque Farms in Firebaugh, California, on December 17, 2024. (Photo by David Swanson / AFP)
World greets 2025 after sweltering year of Olympics, turmoil, and Trump 31 Dec 2024 - 10:26 am
Photo used for representational purposes. Children ride their bicycle past a New Year 2025 numerals decoration made of plastic flowers in Hanoi on December 30, 2024. Photo by Nhac NGUYEN / AFP.
Venezuela fines TikTok $10 million over viral challenge deaths 30 Dec 2024 - 11:47 pm
The second vice president of Venezuela's Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), Tania D'Amelio (C), speaks about a fine imposed on the social network TikTok at the TSJ building in Caracas on December 30, 2024. (Photo by Federico Parra / AFP)
Argentina charges five over death of singer Liam Payne 30 Dec 2024 - 08:29 pm
A fan holds a doll looking like the late British singer Liam Payne as she attends to pay tribute at the Obelisco in Buenos Aires on October 17, 2024. Photo by JUAN MABROMATA / AFP
Former US president Jimmy Carter dies aged 100 30 Dec 2024 - 08:13 am
(Files) Former President Jimmy Carter waves to the crowd at the Democratic National Convention 2008 at the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado, on August 25, 2008. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP)

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Displaced Palestinians transport their belongings as they return to central Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on January 19, 2025. (Photo by Bashar Taleb / AFP) Displaced Gazans head home through rubble as Israel-Hamas truce begins
Displaced Palestinians wave national flags as they return to Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on January 19, 2025. (Photo by Eyad Baba / AFP) LIVE UPDATES: Palestinian prisoners set to be released from Israeli prison
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Asia

(Combo) This combination photograph created on December 23, 2024 shows a man wearing a protective face mask riding a motorcycle on a street in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province on January 26, 2020 (top) and cars on the same street on December 21, 2024. (Photo by Hector Retamal / AFP) Wuhan keen to shake off pandemic label five years on
File photo: A customer buys vegetables from a stall at a market in Karachi on July 3, 2023. (Photo by Asif HASSAN / AFP) Pakistan's trade deficit with neighboring countries rises by 43.22 pct
From L-R: Laos Minister of Foreign Affairs Thongsavanh Phomvihane, Myanmar's Permanent Secretary to ASEAN Aung Kyaw Moe, Singapore's Minister of Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan, Thailand's Minister of Foreign Affairs Maris Sangiampongsa, Vietnam's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son, Malaysia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohamad Hasan, Philippines's Secretary for Foreign Affairs Enrique A. Manalo, Brunei's Minister of Foreign Affairs Erywan Pehim Yusof, Cambodia's Secretery of State Kung Phoak, Indonesia's Minister for Foreign Affairs Sugiono, East Timor's Minister of Foreign Affairs Bendito Freitas, and ASEAN Secretary General Kao Kim Hourn pose for a group photo during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers' Retreat in Malaysia's Langkawi Island on January 19, 2025. (Photo by Azneal Ishak / POOL / AFP) ASEAN tells Myanmar to prioritise ceasefire over elections
Police stand guard on a street near the Seoul Western District Court in Seoul, early on January 19, 2025, after hundreds of pro-Yoon protesters smashed windows and broke down doors to enter the court following the extension of the detention of impeached South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol. Photo by Jin-kyu Kang / AFP Protesters storm S. Korea court after president's detention extended

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