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More than two dozen couples take part in a piggyback contest in Taiwan as part of the Lunar New Year celebration in Taiwan. Video provided by AFP

Some 102 Bangladeshi meth dealers have surrendered to authorities at a pre-scheduled ceremony in a coastal town, as a Philippines-style anti-narcotics crackdown sows fear among kingpins. Bangladesh last year launched a “war” on drugs following a prolif…

Rescue workers retrieve 24 bodies and eight survivors from two flooded gold mines in Zimbabwe where officials fear dozens more illegal miners are still trapped. Video provided by AFP

“We don’t want to survive, we want to live,” says a “yellow vest” demonstrator protesting near the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Nearly 300 “yellow vest” protesters were gathered in the late morning in calm on the Champs-Elysées for a new day of mobilization, three months to the day after the beginning of this protest movement.
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Trucks carrying desperately-needed humanitarian aid for crisis-wracked Venezuela arrive at its border with Colombia as ministers from more than a dozen European and Latin American countries call on socialist leader Nicolas Maduro to hold “free” preside…

Pope Francis holds a historic public mass for an estimated 170,000 Catholics at an Abu Dhabi stadium on the first ever papal visit to the Muslim Gulf. Video provided by AFP