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 In this file photo taken on May 23, 2022 French writer Annie Ernaux answers questions after attending the screening of the film “Les Annees Super 8 (The Super 8 Years)” …

A logo is pictured outside a building of the World Health Organisation (WHO) during an executive board meeting on update on the coronavirus outbreak, in Geneva, Switzerland, February 6, 2020. …

  A Merced County Sheriff’s Office poster shows the four family members kidnapped from central California, U.S. in this handout released on October 4, 2022.— Reuters  Four members of an …

A police line. — Unsplash BANGKOK: A former police officer armed with a gun and a knife stormed a nursery in northeast Thailand on Thursday, shooting dead 34 people including …

A view of what state news agency KCNA reports is the test firing of a hypersonic missile at an undisclosed location in North Korea, January 5, 2022, in this photo …

A representative image The Nobel Literature Prize will be announced on Thursday, with speculation in literary circles split over whether it will go to an overdue bestselling author or a …

A representative image of cough syrup bottles. — Unsplash The deaths of dozens of children in Gambia from kidney injuries may be linked to contaminated cough and cold syrups made …

A citizen holds a placard during a peace vigil organised by citizens against what they say is a rise in hate crimes and violence against Muslims in the country, in …

A UK artist’s childhood dream finally came true after he doodled his entire house.  Sam Cox, known as Mr Doodle, told the BBC that he spent nearly three years creating …

The general view of a mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif. — AFP/File Affected mosque used by visitors and sometimes by ministry employees. Interior ministry compound is in secure area next to Kabul …

Detained US citizen and former UNICEF official Baquer Namazi is now 85. — Twitter. Detained US citizen Baquer Namazi allowed to leave Iran. Namazi, 85 , isa former UNICEF official …

An Iraqi worker stands next to a web of electric wires, used to draw electricity from private generators due to an unreliable national electricity supply, in the Iraqi central city …

Jonas Aqvist, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, Hans Ellegren, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Olof Ramstrom, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry …

Twitter app logo is seen in this illustration taken, August 22, 2022. — Reuters  Disinformation stoked Leicester unrest. Majority of geo-tagged, misleading tweets linked to India. Social media platforms must do …

Indian army cheetah helicopter. — Reuters/ File Indian army aviation chopper crashes near Tawang. Helicopter crashed with two pilots onboard. One pilot dies, other still under medical treatment. A pilot …

Rescue professionals finding survivors and bodies.— Screengrab via Twitter 25 people killed after bus carrying wedding guests veered off road. 20 people have been rescued: police official. India accounts for …

A surface-to-surface missile is fired into the sea off the east coast in this handout picture provided by the Defense Ministry, South Korea, October 5, 2022. — Reuters South Korean and …

Former US president Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Warren, Michigan, U.S., October 1, 2022. — Reuters/File  Trump file emergency request asking justices to block part of lower court’s ruling. …

A woman checks her mobile phone while standing by the door at her home during the seven hours power outage in Colombo, Sri Lanka, March 2, 2022. — Reuters/File PARIS: …

A boat carrying migrants is stranded in the Strait of Gibraltar before being rescued by the Spanish Guardia Civil, last September. — AFP/ File Irregular migration is a thorny political …