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Portugal is selling up to 49.9 percent in TAP Air Portugal

Soon-to-be reprivatised

Air France-KLM and Lufthansa bid for Portugal's TAP airline

Earth Overshoot Day

Environmental organisations stage demonstration at Findel airport

US courts have previously found that warrantless searches at the country's border are legal, including forensic searches of electronic devices

Environmental activist

US man accused of destroying evidence by wiping phone at airport

A fan of Korean boy band BTS poses for a photo in front of a poster at Tokyo Dome

Don't want to be boxed in

BTS pulls out of Grammys after Asian pop category introduction

Personal items belonging to the late Amy Winehouse which were part of a 2025 auction in California

Auctioned clothes, personal items

Judge orders Amy Winehouse's father to pay nearly £1mn to her friends

Iraqi security forces and emergency personnel worked to recover the woudned at the site of US-Saudi strikes that targeted a base belonging to the Hashed al-Shaabi forces in Iraq's Diyala province

Expanding strikes

US-Saudi strikes in Iraq kill 20, including Iranians

Pro-Kremlin commentator Xenia Fedorova is the former head of Russian state channel RT in France

Propaganda accusations

Pro-Kremlin TV commentator ordered to leave France, under house arrest

New platform connects cross-border workers for daily carpooling

Three weeks of wandering

Young seal rescued from canal near Brussels

Gaza remains gripped by daily violence, with both the Israeli military and Hamas accusing one another of violating the truce in effect since October

Ceasefire in name only

Israel army hit Gaza mosque, says used for Hamas 'weapons storage'

Spain and France have been gripped by fires for days

Amid new heatwave

Spanish wildfire evacuees go home as France hit by new heat alert

Swiss banking giant UBS reported Wednesday that net profit rose 17 percent to $2.8 billion in the second quarter

Swiss banking giant

UBS second-quarter net profit up 17% to $2.8 billion

The photo became an 'allegory' and an uncomfortable portrait of a generation, according to French media

'Symbolic of the era'

How an AFP beach snap became emblem of Europe's wildfire summer

England is experiencing what is likely to be the driest July on record

Fourth heatwave of the year

More than half of England 'officially in drought': UK govt

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in the buffer zone between the divided Turkish and Greek dominated territories on Cyprus

Dependent on confidence-building measures

UN chief to convene new talks on divided Cyprus

The fires in Spain burned more than 77,000 hectares, including in Avila region which is now the worst wildfire in the country's modern history

Spain's three worst wildfires since 1961 happened in last two years

Jose Fernandez surveyed the damage in his burnt-out home in Pelayos de la Presa

Mountains of ash

'No home': Spanish pensioner returns to charred ruins after wildfire

Nepal's tiger population has risen roughly 20 percent in the past four years to an estimated 429, officials said, a conservation milestone despite challenges from human-wildlife conflict.

Conservation milestone

Nepal's tiger numbers climb 20 percent to estimated 429: survey

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz talks to his outgoing chief of staff, Thorsten Frei, who is set to take over as their conservative party's parliamentary leader

Internal conflict

Germany's Merz under fire over chaotic reshuffle

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi reacts during a bilateral meeting with US President as part of the G7 summit, in Evian, eastern France, on June 17, 2026

India's youth protests puncture Modi's aura of invincibility

Russia has put Telegram founder Pavel Durov on its wanted list, accusing him of 'complicity in terrorism'

'Complicity in terrorism'

Russia seeks arrest of Telegram chief Durov

National security police raided Hong Kong bookshops Have A Nice Stay and Greenfield Book Store

'Items with seditious intent'

Hong Kong independent bookstores to close after police raid

(FILES) Bangladesh's then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina gestures while speaking to the media, a day after she won the 12th parliamentary elections, in Dhaka on January 8, 2024.

'I may be killed'

Bangladesh ex-premier Hasina vows to return despite fearing for life

Temwa Chawinga scored twice for Malawi in a stunning WAFCON victory over Nigeria.

Chawinga sisters sparkle as Malawi stun WAFCON holders Nigeria

A man lies on a pavement in a London street, just days after new Prime Minister Andy Burnham vowed to end rough sleeping

'Route out of homelessness'

On London streets, homeless wary at PM's vow to end rough sleeping

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer called Jay Clayton's confirmation hearing performance "abysmal"

'Outstanding in every way'

Senate confirms Clayton as Trump intelligence chief

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks with US President Donald Trump during their meeting in Washington, DC, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Looking for 'dignified peace'

Zelensky hails 'good' Trump talks on Patriot air defenses

Retaliatory strikes by US and Saudi fighter planes hit logistics and weapons sites in eastern Iraq belonging to "Iran-aligned terrorists", the US military says

Logistics and weapons sites

US, Saudi forces strike Iran-backed groups in Iraq

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