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  • A crane carries a part of drilling machine as rescue operation enters its final phase, for workers trapped in the Silkyara under construction road tunnel, days after it collapsed in the Uttarkashi district of India's Uttarakhand state on 22 November 2023. Picture: Arun SANKAR/AFP

    'Like battle': Indian rescuers strive to free 41 trapped workers

    Ambulances were on standby Thursday as Indian rescuers dug through the final metres of debris separating them from 41 workers trapped in a collapsed road tunnel for nearly two weeks.

    23 November 2023 19:09
  • Emissions from China’s transport and residential sectors didn’t change much/ The Conversation

    WHO asks China for more data on respiratory illness

    Beijing's National Health Commission (NHC) told reporters last week that the respiratory illness spike was due to the lifting of Covid-19 restrictions and the circulation of known pathogens, including influenza and common bacterial infections that affect children.

    23 November 2023 06:29
  • Family members and relatives of Palestinian Ubay Abu Maria, prisoner in Israel since last August, hold his pictures in the village of Beit Omar, north the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, on 22 November 2023.

    Israel, Hamas truce and hostage release delayed

    The delay is a hammer blow to families desperate to see their loved ones return home, and to two million-plus Gazans praying for an end to 47 days of war and destruction.

    23 November 2023 06:02
  • This picture taken from the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip on November 10, 2023, shows smoke rising over Gaza during an Israeli strike on the Palestinian enclave, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Hamas movement. Picture: KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP.

    'First good news': World welcomes Gaza hostage deal

    Some 240 people - ranging from infants to the elderly - were taken captive during the Hamas-led 7 October attack that killed about 1,200 in Israel, mostly civilians, according to Israeli authorities.

    22 November 2023 12:58
  • A sign illuminates a square in Tel Aviv calling for the release of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip since the October 7 attack by Hamas militants, on 21 November 2023, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian armed group. Picture: AFP

    Israel, Hamas agree to four-day truce, 50 hostages to be released

    Hamas released a statement welcoming the "humanitarian truce" and said it would also see 150 Palestinians released from Israeli jails.

    22 November 2023 06:45
  • Palestinians walk down a road as they flee Gaza City and other parts of northern Gaza towards the southern areas on 18 November 2023 amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement Picture: AFP

    Displaced Gazans search for warm clothes as cold draws in

    The heat still lingered when families fled their home in the northern Gaza strip under Israeli bombardment in early October, but as winter loomed, they struggled to find clothing for their children to keep them warm in the rain and bitter cold.

    22 November 2023 06:06
  • Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delivers a speech at a college in north London on 20 November 2023. Picture: AFP

    Britain awaits key budget with eyes on election

    Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was boosted last week by news that he has met his target to halve inflation, and won another lift on Tuesday after year-to-date borrowing undershot forecasts.

    22 November 2023 06:05
  • Argentine presidential candidate for the La Libertad Avanza alliance Javier Milei celebrates with supporters after winning the presidential election runoff outside his party headquarters in Buenos Aires on 19 November 2023.

    Argentine markets surge with optimism on Milei election

    Latin America's third-biggest economy is creaking under annual inflation of 143 percent.

    22 November 2023 05:58
  • Rescue workers stand at an entrance of the under construction road tunnel, days after it collapsed in the Uttarkashi district of India's Uttarakhand state on 18 November 2023. Indian rescuers said on 18 November they had paused efforts to reach 41 men trapped in a collapsed road tunnel after a cracking sound created a "panic situation" over the possibility of a further cave-in. Picture: AFP

    Indian workers trapped in tunnel for 10 days seen on camera

    Before the camera was introduced, rescuers had been communicating with the men inside using radios.

    21 November 2023 12:20
  • US President Joe Biden addresses the nation on the conflict between Israel and Gaza and the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on 19 October 2023. Picture: AFP

    With X's Musk under fire, Biden joins rival Threads

    The White House confirmed it had launched Threads accounts for the president, First Lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, her husband Douglas Emhoff and the White House itself in English and Spanish.

    21 November 2023 06:13
  • Hamas leader in Gaza Ismail Haniya speaks during a meeting with Foreign press correspondents, in Gaza City on 20 June 2019 Hamas leader Ismail Haniya said his movement rejected an upcoming US-sponsored Mideast economic conference as Arab "normalisation" with Israel, calling on Bahrain to rethink their role as hosts. Picture: AFP

    Hamas leader says 'close to reaching' truce deal in Israel-Hamas war

    Negotiators have been working to seal a deal to allow the release of around 240 mostly Israeli hostages seized on October 7, during the deadliest assault on Israel in its history.

    21 November 2023 06:12
  • Rakim Mayers, aka A$AP Rocky, sits in the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center during a preliminary hearing in his assault with a semiautomatic firearm case in Los Angeles, California on 20 November 2023. Picture: AFP

    Rapper A$AP Rocky to stand trial over allegedly shooting at old friend

    The 35-year-old, who has two children with R&B star Rihanna, is being prosecuted on two counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm but has denied the charges.

    21 November 2023 05:57
  • Maldives' President Mohamed Muizzu speaks after reading the oath during his inauguration ceremony in Male on 17 November 2023. Picture: AFP

    Maldives to battle rising seas by building fortress islands

    President Mohamed Muizzu promises the low-lying nation will beat back the waves through ambitious land reclamation and building islands higher - policies, however, that environmental and rights groups warn could even exacerbate flooding risks.

    21 November 2023 05:56
  • Argentine presidential candidate for the La Libertad Avanza alliance Javier Milei speaks to supporters after winning the presidential election runoff at his party headquarters in Buenos Aires on 19 November 2023. Picture: AFP

    Milei says could take two years to tame Argentina's inflation

    The 53-year-old outsider, who has drawn comparisons with former US president Donald Trump and Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro for his abrasive style and controversial remarks, vowed to "very quickly put public accounts in order."

    21 November 2023 05:41
  • FILE: Former Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a meeting with the Ukrainian President (not in picture) at the Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Munich, southern Germany, on 19 February 2022. Picture: Matt Dunham/POOL/AFP

    Boris Johnson 'bamboozled' by COVID data, inquiry hears

    Former chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance said Johnson, who was prime minister at the time, sometimes struggled to retain scientific information.

    20 November 2023 20:13
  • FILE: Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to the report of Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Commander of the Admiral Gorshkov frigate Igor Krokhmal before a ceremony to launch the Admiral Gorshkov frigate to the combat mission, via a video conference in Moscow, Russia, on 4 January 2023. Picture: Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik/AFP

    Putin to take part in virtual BRICS summit on Gaza

    The meeting will be chaired by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the hope of drawing up a common response to the more than six week conflict.

    20 November 2023 19:57
  • This image grab taken from AFPTV video footage shows Palestinians checking the destruction in the aftermath of an Israeli strike on the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, on 1 November 2023, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. Picture: AFP

    World must 'act urgently' to stop humanitarian crisis in Gaza: China FM

    Israel has vowed to destroy Gaza's rulers Hamas over the October 7 attacks that it says killed 1,200 people and saw 240 hostages taken, in the worst-ever onslaught on the country.

    20 November 2023 07:00
  • Former US President Donald Trump gestures after delivering remarks at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in Bedminster, New Jersey, on 13 June 2023. Picture: Ed Jones/AFP

    Not just Biden -- 77-year-old Trump also under age scrutiny

    Videos of the 77-year-old real estate tycoon stammering, verbally stumbling, or looking frail and sweaty have been gleefully posted on social media by the campaign team of Ron DeSantis. The Florida governor, a youthful 45, is currently leading Trump's Republican rivals in opinion polls in most states

    20 November 2023 06:27
  • Argentine presidential candidate for the La Libertad Avanza alliance Javier Milei celebrates with supporters after winning the presidential election runoff at his party headquarters in Buenos Aires on 19 November 2023. Picture: AFP

    'The change we want': Milei supporters elated in Argentina

    One supporter dressed up as a lion, while another wore a makeshift chainsaw on his head -- a nod to the power tool Milei carried around during his campaign, vowing to slash government spending.

    20 November 2023 06:18
  • This picture taken on 3 November 2023 shows a view of Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City surrounded by darkness as fuel for electricity generation runs out amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. Picture: AFP

    Gaza health official says 31 premature babies evacuated from Al-Shifa hospital

    The move came a day after hundreds fled the hospital - Gaza's largest, which the World Health Organisation has described as a "death zone". This after Al-Shifa's director said the Israeli army had ordered it to be evacuated.

    19 November 2023 15:04
  • Nicaragua's Sheynnis Palacios was crowned Miss Universe 2023 on 18 November 2023 at the 72nd edition of the pageant, held this year in El Salvador. Picture: X/@MissUniverse

    Nicaraguan Sheynnis Palacios wins crown at Miss Universe 2023

    Nicaragua's Sheynnis Palacios was crowned Miss Universe 2023 on Saturday at the 72nd edition of the pageant, held this year in El Salvador.

    19 November 2023 08:17
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