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Scientists are racing to find vaccines and treatments that will work against the rare strain of Ebola during a deadly outbreak in DR Congo

Escalating outbreak

Race to find vaccines, treatments for Ebola strain behind outbreak

Britain's King Charles III and Queen Camilla play bodhran drums, traditional Irish drums, as they watch dancers perform on a visit to Belfast

Unexpected appearance

King Charles III bangs drum for Irish music, eyes hip-hop lesson

A drone attack on a crowded market in southern Sudan killed 28 people on Tuesday.

Scene of sudden destruction

Drone attack kills 28 at market in southern Sudan

A hospital in Goma, an eastern Congolese city in the hands of the Rwanda-backed M23, where an Ebola case has been confirmed

Strategies to treat the sick

Long-running conflicts muddy DR Congo Ebola response

Israel's Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said he would force the evacuation of a Palestinian community in the occupied West Bank after hearing that he was to be targeted by an ICC arrest warrant

Retaliation through forced evacuation

Israel finance minister says ICC seeks arrest warrant against him

'Battlestar Galactica' revolved around a ragtag fleet of spaceships, defended by Viper fighters, escaping relentless Cylon attackers

Indie game plunges players into sci-fi epic 'Battlestar Galactica'

Men gather around the husk of a destroyed pickup truck in southwestern Iraq

Israeli troops in Iraq: what do we know?

Annual penal report

Luxembourg among Europe's fastest-growing prison populations

Roland Lescure acknowledged that the discussions had been sometimes difficult

G7 finance ministers vow cooperation to face 'heightened risks'

Sergio Ramirez is in Panama to chair the Centroamerica Cuenta literary festival

Despite the power of literature

Nicaragua's exiled Sergio Ramirez: Autocrats 'don't care' about novels

Spain's former Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has been placed under investigation for influence peddling and related crimes

Adds pressure on current Socialist PM

Spanish ex-PM Zapatero under investigation for influence peddling

Three time Africa Cup of Nations champions Ivory Coast have been drawn in the same qualifying group for the 2027 tournament as quadruple winners Ghana

Ghana, Ivory Coast to clash in 2027 AFCON qualifying

Despite much talk from Moscow, Beijing has said little publicly about the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline

Power of Siberia 2: The giant gas pipeline Russia wants to build to China

Roland Lescure acknowledged that the discussions had been sometimes difficult

Multilateral cooperation

France says G7 finance talks 'frank, sometimes difficult'

Women's rights activists, including some of Sana Yousaf's friends, staged protests in Islamabad following her killing

After rejecting his advances

Pakistan court sentences man to death for killing teen influencer

Two women react following a shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego, in southern California, on May 18, 2026 that left three people dead

US police investigating deadly mosque shooting as hate crime

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola poses with the FA Cup after his team beat Chelsea 1-0 at Wembley

Pep Guardiola: Catalan genius who changed football

The historic work is normally on permanent display in the northern French town of Bayeux in Normandy

Bayeux Tapestry to be shown flat for first time in London exhibit

Uniper was bailed out after Russia slashed gas supplies to Europe

Three years after nationalisation

Germany starts sale of bailed-out energy firm Uniper

Fearing renewed war, Iranian authorities are teaching civilians the basics of weapons handling

Military training booths

Iran civilians learn assault rifle basics to fend off US

The Philippines government warned tech giant Meta it faced legal action should it fail to curb disinformation it labelled an

Setting up a protocol

Beijing says China, US should work together to promote AI governance

In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting via videolink in Moscow on May 18, 2026.

Putin trip aims to show China ties unshakeable after Trump pomp

A Vega-C rocket launches with the SMILE spacecraft on a mission to study Earth's 'invisible armour'

Observations of Earth's magnetic field

Europe-China spacecraft launches to study Earth's 'invisible armour'

Civilians have fled violence from Mali's army and Russian paramilitaries to refugee camps in neighbouring Mauritania

Brutal violence

Malians tell of torture and killings by army, Russian fighters

Déi nei Hëllefsflott fir d'Gazasträif ass en Donneschdeg de 14. Mee 2026 an der Tierkei gestart.

Two Luxembourg residents detained

Israel intercepts new Gaza aid flotilla west of Cyprus

Luxembourg's former EU Commissioner

Viviane Reding to receive European Merit award

North Korea's Naegohyang Women's FC head coach Ri Yu Il (L) and captain Kim Kyong Yong (R) attend a press conference at Suwon Sports Complex ahead of the Women's Asian Champions League semi-final

'Will concentrate exclusively on the game'

'We're here solely to play football,' insists North Korean coach

Bolivia is in the midst of its worst economic ordeal in the past four decades

Calls for President Rodrigo Paz to resign

Bolivia protest sees violent clashes, looting in La Paz

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