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News from around the world covering politics, society, and current affairs.

Worried about the war and put off by high prices for long-haul flights, Europeans are choosing to vacation closer to home

Holidays close to home

Middle East tourism pain is Europe's gain

Wes Streeting resigned as health secretary last week and said he wants to challenge Keir Starmer for the Labour leadership

Divisive wounds

UK Labour leadership hopeful reopens Brexit debate

The MV Hondius hit the headlines after a deadly hantavirus outbreak

Passengers face weeks of quarantine

Hantavirus-hit cruise ship ends deadly voyage

BB fans gather on the Cannes beach that was officially renamed Brigitte Bardot Beach on Monday

Normally tightly controlled

Dogs allowed on new Brigitte Bardot beach in glitzy Cannes

Mushfiqur Rahim racked up his 14th Test century to put Bangladesh into an imposing position against Pakistan in the 2nd Test in Sylhet

Imposing position

Mushfiqur ton leaves Pakistan needing record run chase to beat Bangladesh

Kenya's public transport system was paralysed when protesters barricaded roads over fuel price hikes

Triggered by Middle East war

Transport protests hit Kenya over rising fuel prices

New BBC director general Matt Brittin arrives at the BBC's central London headquarters

New director-general

Ex-Google exec takes reins at under-fire BBC

Israel's military told residents of five villages around Tyre to leave ahead of its air strikes

War in Middle East: latest developments

The overhaul of the Louvre museum is President Emmanuel Macron's signature project

Set to cost €800 million

France unveils architects to transform Louvre

Toast of Cannes: Nigerian film director twins Arie Esiri (left) and Chuko Esiri

Never before seen on big screen

'Mesmeric' movie on secret lives of Nigeria's rich wows Cannes

Would-be clients camping out at the Swatch store in Times Square, New York, on Friday, a day before the 'Royal Pop' launch

Disruptive collaboration

Swatch blames shopping centres for 'problems' with star product launch

Activists demonstrate in Berlin. Germany has seen a growing number of protests calling for greater action on climate protection

Europe's biggest economy

Germany set to miss 2030 climate goal: experts

Hop hop and away

Runaway kangaroo disrupts Belgian rail service

The ruling comes as Shakira is set to wrap up her record-breaking "Women Don't Cry Anymore" world tour with a concert residency in Madrid starting in September

Improperly collected

Spanish court orders 55 mn euro tax refund to Shakira

Na's latest offering is South Korea's biggest budget film ever

Blood-splattered sci-fi thriller

Blockbuster 'Hope' shows S.Korea's growing movie muscle

Steps to curb the spread of an Ebola outbreak in the DR Congo rely on adherence to protective measures and detecting cases quickly to limit contact

Killed more than 90 people

New Ebola outbreak in DR Congo: What we know

Mohammadi has spent much of the past two decades in and out of prison for her activism

Iran Nobel winner discharged from hospital: supporters

Oil prices have soared since the start of the US-Iran war

Volatile oil markets

Ryanair flags Iran war uncertainty as annual profit jumps

Barrister Chow Hang-tung (pictured after her arrest in 2021) and fellow democracy activist Lee Cheuk-yan are on trial for 'incitement to subversion' over the annual Hong Kong vigils to remember the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown

Freedom of speech 'not an absolute right', Hong Kong trial of Tiananmen activists hears

French Finance Minister Roland Lescure, left, greeting US Treasury Scott Bessent in Paris on Monday

Two-day Paris talks

G7 finance chiefs meet to seek common stance on unstable ground

Philippine senators will be the judges of an impeachment trial on whether to oust Vice President Sara Duterte

Second attempt since last year

Philippines swears in senators for VP Duterte's impeachment trial

Iran's team were given a send off last week in Tehran, but doubts still hang over their World Cup participation

Team plans to participate

Iran's World Cup football team leaves for Turkey: media

Tourists have flocked to the Ichikawa City Zoo to see the macaque named Punch, who was abandoned by his mother shortly after his birth

Global internet sensation

Japan arrests Americans over stunt at baby monkey Punch's zoo

Women hold Iran's national flags during an anti-US and Israel protest in Tehran

Locked in war since February

Trump says 'clock ticking' for Iran as peace negotiations stall

Striker Jordan Ayew (L) captains 2026 World Cup qualifiers Ghana.

Qualifying draw

World Cup duo Ghana, Cape Verde not among AFCON top seeds

Manchester City winger Antoine Semenyo (C) bursts between two Chelsea defenders during the FA Cup final at Wembley.

African players in Europe: Daring Semenyo wins final for City

The Giant African Harvester Ant is among the prized by collectors around the world

Kenya's new poaching problem: smuggling Giant Harvester Ants

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus faces a lomming funding crisis and an Ebola epidemic in the DR Congo

WHO kicks off annual assembly amid hantavirus, Ebola crises

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