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Group photograph by a section of the participants at a one-day UN Women Regional Stakeholders Workshop for the South-South geopolitical zone held at Transcorp Hotel in Calabar

Cross River: UN Women partners task political stakeholders on gender equity

2nd August 2022

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US Navy deploys four warships east of Taiwan as Pelosi heads to Taipei

2nd August 2022

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UN chief warns world is one step from ‘nuclear annihilation’

2nd August 2022

President Aigbokhan

FOI counsel Aigbokhan tasks youths to emulate Amusan’s resilience

2nd August 2022

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre listens as National Security Council spokesman John Kirby speaks during a briefing at the White House, Monday, Aug. 1, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

White House decries China rhetoric over Pelosi Taiwan visit

2nd August 2022

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres

UN chief going to Hiroshima for 77th anniversary of A-bomb

2nd August 2022

Tropical Storm Frank weakening off Mexico’s Pacific coast

Tropical Storm Frank weakening off Mexico’s Pacific coast

2nd August 2022

Members of the Teachers Union hold a general assembly as they end their nationwide strike to protest inflation outside the Republica de Venezuela school in Panama City, Monday, Aug. 1, 2022. Teachers continue to negotiate with the government over other issues. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

Panama teachers end long strike that set off wider protests

2nd August 2022

Women protest outside the Krugersdorp, South Africa, Magistrates Court Monday, Aug. 1, 2022. More than 80 men suspected of the gang rapes of eight women and armed robbery of a video production crew in the ming town, west of Johannesburg appeared in court on Monday. (AP Photo/Shiraaz Mohamed)

80 men in South African court on charges of raping 8 women

2nd August 2022

A worker scans a QR code before pumping gas to a vehicle at a fuel station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022. Sri Lanka introduced fuel distribution using the QR code Monday as part of implementing a weekly quota for motorists. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Sri Lankans bide time as leaders seek fix for economic woes

2nd August 2022

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FILE – Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte arrives for an EU summit in Brussels, Thursday, June 23, 2022. Mark Rutte became the longest-serving Dutch prime minister Tuesday and the leader known by some as “Teflon Mark” because scandals don’t stick to him is showing no sign of slowing despite unrest gripping his nation and his party’s popularity sliding in polls. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys, File)

Netherlands: ‘Teflon’ Mark Rutte is longest-serving Dutch prime minister

2nd August 2022

Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, left and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrive to pose for the media before their meeting in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Aug.2, 2022. (AP Photo)

India announces a $100 million credit line to the Maldives

2nd August 2022

This handout photo taken and released by Malaysia’s Department of Information, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, center, tours the parliament house in Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022. Pelosi arrived in Malaysia on Tuesday for the second leg of an Asian tour that has been clouded by an expected stop in Taiwan, which would escalate tensions with Beijing. (Malaysia’s Department of Information via AP)

Pelosi believed headed to Taiwan, raising tension with China

2nd August 2022

WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner holds up images as she stands behind bars in a courtroom for a hearing, in Khimki just outside Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022. Since Brittney Griner last appeared in her trial for cannabis possession, the question of her fate expanded from a tiny and cramped courtroom on Moscow’s outskirts to the highest level of Russia-US diplomacy. (Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool Photo via AP)

Russia: Brittney Griner back in court on cannabis charge

2nd August 2022

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Infrastructure Ministry Press Office, the Razoni cargo ship, under the flag of Sierra Leone, with 26,000 tons of the Ukrainian corn aboard, leaves the port in Odesa region, Ukraine, Monday, Aug. 1, 2022. The first ship carrying Ukrainian grain set off from the port of Odesa on Monday under an internationally brokered deal and is expected to reach Istanbul on Tuesday, where it will be inspected, before being allowed to proceed. (Ukrainian Infrastucture Ministry Press Office via AP)

Ukraine: Bad weather in Black Sea slows 1st grain shipment

2nd August 2022

President Joe Biden speaks from the Blue Room Balcony of the White House Monday, Aug. 1, 2022, in Washington, as he announces that a U.S. airstrike killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri in Afghanistan. (Jim Watson/Pool via AP)

Biden: Killing of al-Qaida leader is long-sought ‘justice’

2nd August 2022

FILE – In this 1998 file photo made available Friday, March 19, 2004, Ayman al-Zawahri, left, listens during a news conference with Osama bin Laden in Khost, Afghanistan. A U.S. airstrike has killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri in Afghanistan, according to a person familiar with the matter. President Joe Biden will speak about the operation on Monday night, Aug. 1, 2022, from the White House. (AP Photo/Mazhar Ali Khan, File)

Taliban under scrutiny as US kills al-Qaida leader in Kabul

2nd August 2022

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UN inaugurates alliance to end AIDS in children by 2030

2nd August 2022

Xi Jinping

China calls for deeper relations with developing countries — Official

2nd August 2022

Ukraine-Grain

UN chief welcomes departure of first grain ship from Ukraine

2nd August 2022

In this image from video by Myanmar state broadcaster MRTV, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, head of the ruling State Administration Council, delivers a broadcast speech Monday, Aug. 1 2022. The leader of Myanmar’s military-installed government has announced the extension of its mandate to rule for another six months in preparation for an election it has said will be held next year. (MRTV via AP)

Myanmar leader announces extension of state of emergency

1st August 2022

FILE — In this Friday, Feb. 12, 2016 file photo, Pope Francis, left, reaches to embrace Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill after signing a joint declaration at the Jose Marti International airport in Havana, Cuba. The Vatican confirmed Monday that Pope Francis will travel next month to Kazakhstan, where he could meet with Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church who has justified Moscow’s war in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, Pool)

Pope to Kazakhstan Sept 13-15, may meet Russian patriarch

1st August 2022

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Spain ready to support Albania’s EU integration

1st August 2022

Serbian Foreign Minister Nikola Selakovic speaks during a joint press conference with his Cyprus’ counterpart Ioannis Kasoulides at the Foreign Ministry, in Nicosia, Cyprus, Monday, Aug. 1, 2022. Selakovic is in Cyprus for working visit. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Kosovo delays measure stirring tensions with minority Serbs

1st August 2022

Sudan: Country’s first case of monkeypox detected in Darfur

Sudan: Country’s first case of monkeypox detected in Darfur

1st August 2022

Followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr pray during a sit-in, inside the parliament in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 1, 2022. The political rivals of al-Sadr whose followers stormed the parliament have declared their own counter-protest. The announcement on Monday stirred fear among Iraqis and caused security forces to erect concrete barriers leading to the heavily fortified Green Zone, home of the parliament building. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)

Threat of protests, violent escalation stirs fears in Iraq

1st August 2022

Haitham-Al-Ghais

OPEC’s new Secretary General, Al-Ghais of Kuwait, takes office

1st August 2022

The German charity Sea-Watch 3 with 444 people on board in the central Mediterranean on Sunday, July 24, 2022. Ships in the Mediterranean Sea have rescued over 1,100 people struggling to reach Europe in rickety smugglers boats and found five bodies. The Italian Coast Guard says Sunday that Italian vessels recovered the bodies Saturday as it rescued 674 people packed on a fishing boat adrift in the Mediterranean off the Libyan coast. (Nora Boerding/Sea-Watch via AP)

EU court limits national checks for migrant rescue ships

1st August 2022

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