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Paris imposes car-sharing lane on congested ring road 03 Mar 2025 - 12:46 pm
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Pakistan's old English manners spell youth Scrabble success 03 Mar 2025 - 11:16 am
In this photograph taken on February 16, 2025, Pakistani prodigy Bilal Asher, world under-14 Scrabble champion, competes against professional Scrabble coach Waseem Khatri during an event in Karachi. (Photo by Asif Hassan / AFP)
Melting ice could slow vital Antarctic ocean current: study 03 Mar 2025 - 10:34 am
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Japan deploys nearly 1,700 firefighters to tackle forest blaze 03 Mar 2025 - 08:19 am
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Egypt rejects attempts to form parallel Sudanese govt: statement 03 Mar 2025 - 01:14 am
Egypt's Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty (R) receives Sudan's Foreign Minister Ali Yousuf al-Sharif for a meeting at the New Administrative Capital, about 45 kilometres east of Cairo, on February 23, 2025. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)
Indonesians swindled by scams using President Prabowo deepfakes 03 Mar 2025 - 01:11 am
(FILES) Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto speaks as he attends a press conference with Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim (not pictured) during a meeting in Kuala Lumpuron January 27, 2025. (Photo by HASNOOR HUSSAIN / POOL / AFP)
5.7-magnitude earthquake jolts Indonesia's Seram island 03 Mar 2025 - 01:04 am
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Over 75,000 Palestinians perform Isha, Taraweeh prayers at Al Aqsa Mosque 02 Mar 2025 - 11:19 pm
Palestinian devotees perform the evening 'Taraweeh' prayers at the Al Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem on February 28, 2025, on the eve of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
Maldives shuts government offices as record rainfall triggers severe flooding 02 Mar 2025 - 10:29 pm
Maldives' President Mohamed Muizzu looks on after reading the oath during his inauguration ceremony in Male on November 17, 2023. (Photo by Ishara S. Kodokara / AFP)
China's top political advisory body concludes standing committee session 02 Mar 2025 - 10:24 pm
Wang Huning, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), presides over the closing meeting of the 10th session of the Standing Committee of the 14th CPPCC National Committee and delivers a speech at the meeting in Beijing, capital of China, March 2, 2025. (Xinhua/Xie Huanchi)
Brunei starts Ramadan amid food price stabilization efforts 02 Mar 2025 - 10:19 pm
People buy food for Iftar during the holy month of Ramadan at a market in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei, March 2, 2025. (Photo by Haji Norazlan Othman/Xinhua)
US Republicans suggest Zelensky may have to step down 02 Mar 2025 - 08:17 pm
US President Donald Trump and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky meet in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, February 28, 2025. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)
Sri Lanka issues severe lightning warning 02 Mar 2025 - 08:13 pm
Citizens take a walk inside the Jaffna Fort in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, on February 23, 2025. (Xinhua/Chen Dongshu)
Over 500 colonists storm Al Aqsa Mosque 02 Mar 2025 - 08:02 pm
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Japan PM touts "cute" Japan at fashion show 02 Mar 2025 - 06:34 pm
Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba stands with Myaku-Myaku, the mascot for the 2025 Osaka World Expo, during a visit to the Tokyo Girls Collection fashion event in the Shibuya district of Tokyo on March 1, 2025. (Photo by Jiji Press / AFP)
In first, private US spaceship lands upright on Moon 02 Mar 2025 - 06:25 pm
In this handout photograph taken and released by Firefly Aerospace on March 2, 2025, the Firefly's Blue Ghost lander manoeuvres its lunar landing as part of the Ghost Mission 1. Photo by Handout / Firefly Aerospace / AFP
At least 37 dead in Bolivia after two buses collide 02 Mar 2025 - 04:43 pm
Handout picture released by Bolivian Police shows a man checking the wreckage of a bus that collided with another one on a highway near Uyuni, Bolivia on March 1, 2025. Photo by Handout / Bolivian Police / AFP
Tanker suspected of damaging Baltic cables allowed to leave Finland 02 Mar 2025 - 03:14 pm
This handout picture taken and released by The Finnish Border Guard on March 2, 2025 shows the Border Guard ship Turva (front) escorting Cook Islands registered oil tanker Eagle S out to sea near Porvoo (Borga), Finland. Photo by Handout / various sources / AFP