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AFP/APP Hague: South Africa accused Israel of violating the UN Genocide Convention, asserting that even the October 7 attack could not justify such alleged actions on Thursday. Pretoria has lodged an urgent appeal to the International…

AFP/APP Washington: Severe weather battered the United States Tuesday, spinning off tornadoes and reportedly killing three people in the South as high winds and blizzards buffeted the North and hundreds of thousands lost power. Heavy…

AFP/APP Washington: US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is facing growing criticism for waiting days to inform the White House and Congress about his hospitalization, keeping key officials in the dark about his status during a major Middle…

Xinhua/APP Changsha: Central China's Hunan Province recorded an annual average temperature of 18.7 degrees Celsius in 2023, marking the highest since the province began meteorological records in 1910, according to the Hunan Meteorological…

AFP/APP Shiroma: In the aftermath of the recent earthquake that struck Japan, the nation grapples with the somber reality as the death toll continues to rise, reaching a devastating count of 126 lives lost. The death toll from the New…

AFP/APP Amsterdam: Ikram Cakir hands over a multi-coloured blue and white blouse and selects a similar item, this time in hot pink. Welcome to Amsterdam's "fashion library". Billed as one of the world's only physical centres for renting…

APP Islamabad: At least eight people were injured when a passenger van overturned near Mastung Quetta on the Karachi Highway early Thursday morning. According to rescue sources, the accident happened when a passenger bus overturned due to…

AFP/APP Wajima: Japanese rescuers scrambled to search for survivors on Wednesday as authorities warned of landslides and heavy rain after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 62 people. The 7.5-magnitude quake on January 1 that…

AFP/APP New York: Fireworks illuminated skies over Paris, Rio, and Sydney to celebrate the entry of 2024, while in Israel, Gaza, and Ukraine, rockets and strikes marked the year's earliest hours. Much of the world's population—now…

AFP/APP Washington: The US state of Maine on Thursday blocked former president Donald Trump from its Republican presidential primary ballot, the second state to disqualify him over his role in the January 2021 assault on the US Capitol.…