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US President Donald Trump has denied spending time at the US Virgin Islands home where Jeffrey Epstein is said to have trafficked underage girls

No evidence of 'client list'

Trump faces MAGA meltdown over Epstein reversal

Leftover pieces of Erin Patterson's lethal beef Wellington during testing at a toxicology lab.

Celebrity chef dismayed over recipe used by Australia's mushroom killer

A member of a group searching for missing Mexicans examines remains at the Izaguirre Ranch

Murder and kidnapping

Mexican cartel gunmen sentenced to 141 years in prison

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio attends a cabinet meeting at the White House on July 08, 2025

Starting in Malaysia

Rubio departs for whirlwind Asia trip overshadowed by tariffs

People deported from the United States are being held in El Salvador's maximum security CECOT prison

According to court documents

El Salvador says US has jurisdiction over detained migrants

US President Donald Trump has strongly backed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Discussions ongoing

Trump holds fresh talks with Netanyahu to end Gaza 'tragedy'

French President Emmanuel Macron was warmly welcomed by King Charles III in Windsor

Pomp-filled welcome

King Charles, Macron laud new 'entente' on first day of French president's state visit

US President Donald Trump, alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio (L) and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (R), at a cabinet meeting on July 8, 2025

Amid Russian advances

Trump accuses Putin of talking 'bullshit' on Ukraine

The Taliban has 'severely deprived' girls and women of the rights to education, privacy and family life and the freedoms of movement, expression, thought, conscience and religion, the ICC said

Accused of crimes against humanity

ICC seeks arrest of Taliban leaders over persecution of women

A poster of Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada along a road in Kabul

Cornerstone of movement

Hibatullah Akhundzada: Afghanistan's reclusive Taliban leader

Underlining their ease in each other's company the two couples' exchanges were demonstrably friendly and natural despite a meticulous protocol

Macron UK visit

Kisses, handshakes: British royals host friendly state visit for French president

In Kyiv, the move to freeze shipments prompted fears for US-made air-defence systems, crucial for shielding Ukraine's cities from Russian daily drone and missile attacks

Kyiv, Moscow residents baffled by Trump's wavers on Ukraine aid

Alan Bates led the campaign to secure justice for thousands of British post office managers falsely accused of taking money from the till

Wrongfully prosecuted branch managers

UK post office scandal may have caused 13 suicides: inquiry

Juraj Cintula, who has admitted shooting Fico, cried 'long live free culture' before the start of his trial

'Free culture': Slovak gunman defends Fico shooting as trial begins

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will open the annual conference with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni

Rebuilding war-ravaged country

Rome to host Ukraine recovery conference as US support falters

French President Emmanuel Macron is making the first state visit by an EU head of state since Brexit

'Friends and allies'

France's Macron kicks off pomp-filled UK state visit

By group of armed individuals

Young woman shot dead while filming social media video in Metz

200+ upgrades in the pipeline

EU energy chief visits Cattenom amid reactor lifespan extension plans

Morning Roundup

Throne accession programme announced, Texas flood death toll passes 100, and Trump promises weapons for Ukraine

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hands over a letter to US President Donald Trump as they meet at the Blue Room of the White House

Discussions underway

Trump hosts Netanyahu in push for Gaza deal

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said in an interview that Israel, which last month fought a 12-day war with Iran, had attempted to assassinate him

Netanyahu accused of 'forever wars'

Iran president says Israel attempted to assassinate him

Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his New York jail cell on August 10, 2019

Nothing to see?

Epstein died by suicide, did not have 'client list': govt memo

Young Kenyans are protesting over economic stagnation, corruption and police brutality

Anti-government movement

At least 10 dead in Kenya during protests after heavy police deployment

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has clashed with his US counterpart Donald Trump

Trump, Brazil's Lula clash over politically charged coup trial

Thomas Barrack was pressing Lebanese officials on plans to disarm Hezbollah

At Washington's request

US envoy says satisfied with Lebanese response on disarming of Hezbollah

Heads of state and government applaud during the family photo at the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where talks addressed what they called US President Donald Trump's 'indiscriminate' import tariffs

'Damaging and illegal'

Trump tariff threat clouds final day of BRICS summit

US President Donald Trump (C) met with Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa (L), a former Islamist guerilla commander, during a visit to Riyadh on May 14

Formerly linked to Al-Qaeda

US revoking 'terrorist' designation for Syria's HTS

Police officers lay wreaths at the memorial to the July 7 victims in London's Hyde Park

20th anniversary

King hails 'spirit of unity' as Britain remembers 7/7 attacks

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