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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro fist-bumps with oil workers during a visit to a facility in the oil-rich Orinoco belt in the state of Monagas, March 21, 2013. Photo: Reuters/Miraflores Palace
Sunrise over Altona pier in Melbourne on Thursday. Weather temperatures are set to soar as a heatwave stretches across Australia. Photo: David Crosling/AAP
President Donald Trump makes a video call to service members from the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard on Christmas. Trump spoke with a 7-year-old on Christmas Eve, asking the young child, "Are you still a believer in Santa? ’Cause at 7, it’s marginal, right?” Photo: Zach Gibson – Pool / Getty Images
The rules on where officials can keep public funds were changed after a Chinese official deposited 400 million yuan in the bank where his daughter worked. Photo: AFP
Pakistani journalists, who have taken on military dictators and been beaten and jailed in the pursuit of a free press, say they face ever-tighter government censorship.
Pakistani journalist Shakil Anjum (l.) sells food with his jobless colleagues to opposition leader Bilawal Bhutto (r.) outside Parliament in Islamabad, Oct. 30. Photo: AP
A fight against corruption is being replicated in Eastern European states still struggling with deep-seated challenges inherited from the communist era, but it is being fought with particular intensity in Romania.
A woman holds a photograph of a 1989 uprising victim while singing the national anthem along with others during a protest in Bucharest on Saturday. More than 1,000 Romanians have demanded more democracy. Photo: AP
