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A person takes a photo as a message calling on President Donald Trump to release all files related to Jeffrey Epstein is projected onto the US Chamber of Commerce building across from the White House in Washington, DC July 18, 2025. — AFP pic

Democrats release Epstein estate photos featuring Trump, Clinton and other powerful figures

A girl stands in a pool of water at a makeshift camp sheltering displaced Palestinians after heavy rains in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City on December 11. — AFP pic

Gaza storm kills at least 13, including three children who froze to death in tents

People flee amid clashes between Thailand and Cambodia along a disputed border area, in Oddar Meanchey Province, Cambodia, December 8, 2025. —  Agence Kampuchea Press handout pic via Reuters

Trump says Thailand, Cambodia agree to ceasefire after deadly border clashes

A man watches Chief Election Commissioner A. M. M. Nasir Uddin's address on mobile in Dhaka on December 11, 2025, during the announcement of the parliamentary elections and the July National Charter referendum. — AFP pic

Inside Bangladesh’s next election: Banned parties, student uprising, and reform hopes

This handout image of CCTV footage released by Avon and Somerset Police on December 11, 2025 shows men in the early hours of September 25 in the city of Bristol, south-west England outside a building which housed items from the Bristol Museum’s British Empire and Commonwealth collection. — AFP pic

Over 600 empire-era artefacts stolen from UK museum in ‘significant loss’ to British history

The number of cases jumped 55 percent in a week to an average of 2,660 patients in hospital each day last week. —  AFP pic

UK faces unprecedented wave of super flu as NHS warns of worst-case scenario ahead of Christmas

Chief priest Seihan Mori of Kyoto’s Kiyomizu Temple writes the kanji ‘Kuma’ (bear), chosen as the character symbolising 2025, during a ceremony at the temple on December 12, 2025. — AFP pic/JIJI Press

Japan picks ‘bear’ to define 2025 after record attacks and sightings

Chinese relatives of passengers on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 take part in a prayer service at the Metro Park Hotel in Beijing on April 8, 2014. — AFP pic

‘Finding the truth’: MH370 families still haunted as search set to resume

Controversial British adult film star Bonnie Blue is expected to be deported from Indonesia’s Bali island on Friday. — AFP pic

British adult film star Bonnie Blue’s Bali saga looks set to end with deportation over traffic violations

People look at a hospital damaged in a Myanmar military air strike that killed more than 30 people in Mrauk U, western Rakhine state on December 11, 2025. — AFP pic

WHO condemns Myanmar hospital strike killing 33, warns it may amount to war crime

Photo taken from a Kyodo News airplane on December 9, 2025, shows a collapsed road in Aomori. — Reuters pic/Kyodo

Japan hit by second quake in days, tsunami advisory lifted after minor waves

A vehicle rests on the edge of a collapsed road in Tohoku town in Aomori Prefecture on December 9, 2025, following a 7.5 magnitude earthquake off northern Japan. — AFP pic

Japan Meteorological Agency warns of tsunami after 6.7‑magnitude quake off northern coast

This aerial view shows displaced Palestinians returning to the war-devastated Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on January 19, 2025. — AFP pic

Amnesty accuses Hamas of crimes against humanity, repeats genocide claims against Israel in Gaza war

This picture shows a hospital damaged in a military air strike that killed more than 30 people at a hospital in Mrauk U, western Rakhine state on December 11, 2025. — AFP pic

Hospital reduced to rubble as junta raid leaves more than 30 dead in Myanmar

Tyler Robinson, the man accused of killing right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk appeared in person in a US court for the first time on Thursday. — Reuters pic

Accused killer of Charlie Kirk makes first court appearance in high‑profile US trial

Tech company Reddit launched a legal challenge Friday to Australia’s social media ban on under-16s, just days after the landmark laws came into effect. — AFP pic

Reddit takes Australia to court over landmark under‑16 social media ban