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Tiwai Island Wildlife Sanctuary in Sierra Leone that has become a UNESCO World Heritage Site

The activist who fought for Sierra Leone's first World Heritage site

Pope Leo has revived the papal summer residence at Castel Gandolfo

'Let us not forget to pray for peace'

Thousands attend Pope Leo's first Angelus prayer

Steel standoff on pause

EU chief says extending suspension of US tariffs countermeasures to August

California National Guard troops face off with protestors during a federal immigration raid on Glass House Farms in Camarillo, California

Injured in a fall

Farm worker dies after US immigration raid in California

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (L) received Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov (R) in the town of Wonsan, the Russian foreign ministry said

Countering extra-regional pressure

N.Korea's Kim offers Russia full support on Ukraine in Lavrov talks: KCNA

Trump called for his base not to 'waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein'

Democratic 'hoax'

Trump calls for MAGA base to end 'Epstein Files' obsession

New Caledonia was the scene of deadly clashes in 2024

'Historic' accord

NCaledonia politicians agree on statehood while remaining French

In a ceremony Friday in Iraq members of the Kurdish rebel group PKK destroyed their weapons

Civilians remain sceptical

Turkey's Kurdish regions not yet ready to believe in peace process

There has been no let-up in Israeli strikes on Gaza during the ceasefire talks

Gaza truce talks in the balance as Israel and Hamas trade blame

Iran's 12-day war with Israel last month rattled its already shaky relationship with the UN nuclear watchdog, prompting it to suspend cooperation.

Desiring diplomatic solution

Iran says cooperation with UN nuclear watchdog will take 'new form'

GERMANY - BAVARIA - TOURISM - NEUSCHWANSTEIN

Inspiration for Walt Disney

'Fairytale' Neuschwanstein castle becomes UNESCO heritage site

Pope Leo XIV waves to people from the terrace of the summer papal estate in Castel Gandolfo

Historical site

Pope Leo's Illinois childhood home to become tourist site

European Weather Agency Copernicus

From the Sahara to Luxembourg: dust clouds swept across Europe this year

California National Guard troops face off with protestors during a federal immigration raid on Glass House Farms in Camarillo, California

On legal cannabis farm

Worker in critical condition after US immigration raid on California farm

German backpacker Carolina Wilga lost hope of rescue after 11 nights in the Australian bush

Remarkable story

German backpacker drank from puddles in Australian bush ordeal

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel is now under US sanctions

Amid food, water shortages

US sanctions Cuban president four years after historic protests

Workers cross the street outside a steel plant in Hamilton, Ontario

Noisy neighbours

Canada just can't win in trade war with Trump

Fired US State Department workers carry their belongings out of the headquarters in Washington, DC, shortly after being told to leave

1,300 employees affected

US State Department begins mass layoffs

Ecuadoran drug lord Adolfo Macias, alias

Cocaine and weapons smuggling charges

Ecuador's top drug lord agrees to US extradition

Ovidio Guzman Lopez, 35, a son of drug kingpin Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, pleaded guilty to drug charges

Son of Mexico's 'El Chapo' pleads guilty in US drugs case

A series of earthquakes damaged buildings in the Guatemalan town of Santa Maria de Jesus

Vigilante violence

Mob lynches five alleged thieves in quake-hit Guatemalan town

This courtroom sketch shows alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed at his Military Commissions hearing on October 15, 2012 at the US Navy base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

Long-running legal saga

US appeals court scraps 9/11 mastermind's plea deal

Trying to cover up the crime, Bosnian Serb forces moved the remains to secondary mass graves

Thousands of people gather

Bosnia commemorates Srebrenica genocide 30 years on

Bese Hozat, the PKK's top female leader, told AFP the Kurdish militants want to return home to engage in politics in Turkey

Back to mainstream

PKK militants want to enter Turkish politics: top commander

MSF said acute malnutrition levels had reached an 'all-time high' at two of its Gaza Strip facilities

'Intentional starvation'

MSF warns acute malnutrition soaring in Gaza

The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh has been added to UNESCO's World Heritage List

Between 1975 and 1979

Three Cambodia genocide sites added to UNESCO register

Canada and the United States are locked in trade negotiations in hopes to reach a deal by July 21, 2025

In letter to PM

Trump threatens Canada with higher tariff, mulls further global levies

A first group of PKK militants burnt their weapons at a symbolic ceremony in northern Iraq

Kurdish PKK fighters destroy weapons at disarmament ceremony

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