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Many Kurds were hoping to return to their hometown after years of displacement

Attacks by 'armed groups'

Return of displaced Syrian Kurds to hometown suspended after violence

Play was washed out by rain on the ninth day of the ATP Montreal Masters, pushing all four quarter-final matches to the same day

Threat of lightning

Rain postponements wreck Montreal Masters schedule

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has written about his vision for artificial intelligence amid a debate in the US about whether access to the technology should be more restricted

Meta pushes global AI vision amid race with OpenAI, Anthropic and China

Chairperson of the Indian conglomerate Adani Group, Gautam Adani

Fraud and bribery allegations

US judge ends graft case against India's Adani

Kenyan-born US runner Jonah Koech was issued a three-year ban for blood doping by the US Anti-Doping Agency and stripped of the 2025 US 1,500-meter title he is shown celebrating

Koech gets three-year ban, stripped of US 1,500m title

Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen celebrates after winning the men's 5,000m at the European Athletics Championships

Record-extending result

Sensational Ingebrigtsen back with more European gold

In a mishap that went viral, Jacy Maranhao, the captain and defender with the Coritiba club in Brazil's top league, leaped over the pitch perimeter and down an opening to stairs and a tunnel that access the locker rooms

'A scare': Brazil player leaps into tunnel in joy over goal

Britain's Amy Hunt (R) celebrates as she crosses the finish line of the 100m

'I had to upgrade'

Britain's Amy Hunt wins European women's 100m gold

USA Swimming chief financial officer Cory Hilliard has been arrested on theft charges

Allegations of embezzlement, misconduct

USA Swimming CFO Hilliard arrested for alleged theft

In July 2025, PKK fighters in northern Iraq joined a symbolic ceremony at which they began destroying their own weapons

'Terror-free Turkey law'

Turkey MPs back historic law on reintegrating Kurdish militants

Ronald Araujo (C) fell out of favour with Barcelona coach Hans-Dieter Flick (L) last season

Uruguay centre-back

Barcelona's Araujo heads to Liverpool on loan

Duane 'Keffe D' Davis arrives at court in Las Vegas for the first day of jury selection in his murder trial related to the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur

High-profile unresolved murders

Tupac Shakur murder trial begins 30 years after rapper's death

An open fire hydrant delivers some relief on the west side of Chicago on July 2, 2026

One for the books

US had hottest month on record in July

Firemen work to extinguish a blaze that broke out at a livestock facility near Kouvaras, south of Athens, on August 10, 2026

Europe braces for another summer heatwave

The Rhine river in Germany has dried to a narrow channel in parts

As heat waves continue

Drought dries major European rivers to record lows

A police officer walks amid the debris of a damaged commercial store after the earthquake in Manizales, Colombia, on August 10, 2026

Major quake rocks Colombia and neighbors, 18 confirmed dead

Embraer is the world's third-largest aircraft manufacturer after Airbus and Boeing

High order backlog

Brazil aircraft maker Embraer raises outlook after record revenue

A bridge spans the dried out Loire River in western France on July 10, 2026

Successive heatwaves

Drought forces water restrictions across nearly 70 percent of France

A liquefied natural gas storage tank at the terminal in Fos-sur-Mer near Marseille, southern France

Europe wary as gas stocks languish at lows while winter looms

FIFA boss Gianni Infantino, who maintains friendships with several right-wing leaders, attended De la Espriella’s inauguration

Scathing criticism

What next for beleaguered FIFA president Infantino?

Firemen work to extinguish a fire that broke out at a livestock facility near Kouvaras, south of Athens, on August 10, 2026

No more active front

Greece contains new wind-driven fire near Athens

Not quite gone yet: King Charles III

UK radio broke rules in announcing king's death: watchdog

State media were merged into MTVA under Orban

Massive shake-up of Hungary media after Orban's exit

Passengers often complain of late services and breakdowns on Germany's train network

New German transport chief gets taste of train chaos

Motorists commute along a flooded street after heavy rain in Manila on Monday

Nine-day downpour

Days of heavy rain leave at least 16 dead in Philippines

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is reportedly part of a consortium nearing a deal to buy a one-third stake in Liverpool

One-third stake

Bezos consortium nears deal to buy Liverpool stake: report

The Rhine river in Germany has fallen to historic lows

Dropping water levels

Parts of Germany's Rhine could become unnavigable, group warns

Former MP Chalong Riewrang at a police station in Thailand's Nonthaburi province, after being arrested over the shooting

Outside government building

Ex-Thai MP shoots dead local official over money row

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