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Russia confirms Trump-Putin call set for Tuesday over next steps in ceasefire talks 17 Mar 2025 - 08:06 pm
This combination of pictures created on March 17, 2025 shows US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 13, 2025 and Russia's President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 13, 2025. (Photos by Mandel Ngan and Maxim Shemetov / AFP)
Break-in releases tonnes of oil near Oslo 17 Mar 2025 - 07:42 pm
Representatives from a private company assisting with environmental consulting take water samples after several tons of oil leaked out in Baerum near Oslo, Norway, on March 17, 2025 following a break-in and damage to the Hamang transformer station this weekend. Photo by Ole Berg-Rusten / NTB / AFP
Georgian man arrested after allegedly setting wife on fire in Germany 17 Mar 2025 - 07:04 pm
Fire fighters stand near a tram in Gera on March 16, 2025. Photo by Bodo Schackow / dpa / AFP
US cloud giant Oracle to invest $5 bn in AI-hungry UK 17 Mar 2025 - 06:41 pm
US multinational computer technology company Oracle's logo is pictured at the Mobile World Congress (MWC), the telecom industry's biggest annual gathering, in Barcelona on February 27, 2024. Photo by PAU BARRENA / AFP
Plastic pellets spotted in water after North Sea ship crash 17 Mar 2025 - 05:52 pm
A photograph taken on March 12, 2025 shows the MV Stena Immaculate tanker at anchor in the North Sea, off the coast of Withernsea, east of England, after it was hit by the MV Solong container vessel on March 10. Photo by AFP
Kremlin confirms Putin, Trump to speak on Tuesday 17 Mar 2025 - 01:52 pm
Collage of Putin and Trump. Photos by AFP.
What we know about N. Macedonia's fatal nightclub fire 17 Mar 2025 - 01:27 pm
Police officers establish a perimeter with caution tape around a nightclub where a deadly fire broke out a day prior, in Kocani on March 17, 2025. (Photo by Robert ATANASOVSKI / AFP)
Russia maintains sanctions on US Secretary of State Rubio 16 Mar 2025 - 08:09 pm
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks with reporters following the G7 foreign ministers meeting in La Malbaie, Quebec, on March 14, 2025. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / POOL / AFP)
Trump, Putin to discuss Ukraine this week 16 Mar 2025 - 06:52 pm
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France customs seize 800kg of cocaine from truck 16 Mar 2025 - 05:54 pm
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German police hunt man who set woman on fire in tram 16 Mar 2025 - 04:42 pm
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Greece experiences weather 'rollercoaster' 16 Mar 2025 - 04:38 pm
This photograph shows the sea covered in fog and dust at Palaio Faliro suburb, on the Saronic Gulf coast, south of Athens, on March 15, 2025. (Photo by Angelos TZORTZINIS / AFP)
Blaze during concert kills 59 in North Macedonia 16 Mar 2025 - 03:37 pm
This photograph shows a view of a burnt down establishment inside which a fire broke out and killed 51 people in Kocani, a town some 100 kilometres east of the capital Skopje, on March 16, 2025.Photo by Robert ATANASOVSKI / AFP
Hospitalised Pope says 'facing period of trial', body 'weak' 16 Mar 2025 - 02:59 pm
A general view shows children holding white and yellow balloons gathering by the statue of John Paul II outside the Gemelli University Hospital where Pope Francis is hospitalised, in Rome on March 16, 2025. (Photo by Andreas SOLARO / AFP)
Greek PM promises bold action after train disaster anger induces reshuffle 15 Mar 2025 - 05:30 pm
(Files) Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis addresses the audience at the Greek Parliament in Athens, on March 5, 2025. (Photo by Angelos Tzortzinis / AFP)
Pope Francis receiving 'surge' in mail, says Italian post 15 Mar 2025 - 04:49 pm
Candles are laid at the statue of John Paul II outside the Gemelli hospital where Pope Francis is hospitalized with pneumonia, in Rome on March 14, 2025. (Photo by Alberto Pizzoli / AFP)
Serbia's capital braces for massive anti-graft rally 15 Mar 2025 - 04:01 pm
Farmers join protesters as they arrive in the capital from cities across Serbia, to take part in the largest protest since the anti-graft movement, in downtown Belgrade on March 15, 2025. (Photo by Andrej Isakovic / AFP)
Ukraine, Russia launch drones as Moscow retakes Kursk villages 15 Mar 2025 - 02:30 pm
In this handout photograph taken on March 13, 2025 and released on March 14, 2025 by the press service of the 93rd Kholodnyi Yar Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, a Ukrainian serviceman stands among debris in an abandoned area in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Handout / The 93rd Kholodnyi Yar Separate Mechanized Brigade / AFP)

Africa

File photo for representational purposes only Ethiopia launches cholera vaccination for 1 mln at-risk people
File photo for representational purposes only. Experts meet in Kenya to boost Africa's flower exports
Egyptian Mohamed Shaaban, 43, talks during an interview at home in Abu shanab village in Fayyoum governorate, about 101Km southwest of Cairo on March 25, 2025, after he was freed with two compatriots from RSF captivity in war-torn Sudan in a joint operation by Egyptian and Sudanese security forces earlier in the month. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP) 'Waited for death': Ex-detainees recount horrors of Sudan's RSF prisons
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Americas

Peninsula 11 killed in traffic accident in northeast Brazil
A sign reads Canadiano instead of Americano coffee at the booth of Partner country Canada at the Hannover Messe industrial trade fair for mechanical and electrical engineering and digital industries, on March 31, 2025 in Hanover, northern Germany. (Photo by RONNY HARTMANN / AFP) Canada candidates promise less reliance on US a month before vote
Elon Musk gives a $1 million check made to the order of Ekaterina Diesler during a town hall in Green Bay, Wisconsin on March 30, 2025. (Photo by Robin LEGRAND / AFP) Musk deploys wealth in bid to swing Wisconsin court vote
US President Donald Trump listens to a question while speaking to members of the press while returning to Washington, DC on Air Force One on March 30, 2025, in Fredericksburg, Virginia. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) Trump says Zelensky trying to "back out" of rare earth minerals deal with US

Gulf

Peninsula GCC welcomes Khujand Declaration on border cooperation between Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan
Saudi tailor Habib Mohammed (L) his grandson Ghassan and his granddaughter Fajr, work on bishts, inside Mohammed's workshop in the oasis city of Hofuf, in Saudi Arabia on February 16, 2025. (Photo by Fayez Nureldine / AFP) 'My entire life': Saudi tailor keeps robe-making craft alive
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