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Spain's Luis de la Fuente celebrates winning the World Cup in July

Announced Friday

Spain coach De la Fuente offers 'full support' to people of Ceuta

Syrian singer Assala Nasri has made a triumphant return to Damascus

Anti-Assad music star makes triumphant return to Syria

AI 'will get out of control if we don't intervene', Enany told AFP

Khaled el-Enany

UNESCO can be 'moderator' in AI debate: chief to AFP

Senegalese pharmaceutical Teranga Pharma launched Drepaf for treatment of sickle cell disease

Senegal-made sickle cell treatment raises hopes, reduces costs

East Japan Railway is testing robot bins in a section of Shinjuku Station, among the world's busiest transport hubs

Over 2.7 million passengers a day

Japan's busiest rail station tests robot bins

Anthropic said its Claude chatbot leads more than a quarter of its research and development work

Adding to concerns

Anthropic says AI systems moving towards building themselves

People spend their afternoon on a sunny day on Bondi Beach in Sydney. Australia will detain tourists who overstay visas to send a message of deterrence under new rules aimed at reducing levels of migration

'Working holiday visas'

Backpackers fret over Australian visa crackdown

Members of Nepal's delegation arrive at the accommodation for the Asian Games

A plethora of issues

Athletes 'can't take it any more' as Asian Games issues mount

At first glance, the Russian city of Tambov exudes calm

Crucial vote for locals

Peace is a 'dangerous' word in Russian city heading to polls

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan holds a press conference following the inaugural meeting of the Strategic Political and Defense Committee, established under the Makkah Joint Defense Agreement, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 31 August 2026.

Power & Politics

The Makkah Pact III: The great convergence

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said it was "clear" that US President Donald Trump wants dialogue with Pyongyang

Seoul not deploying troops to Iran war

Trump 'clearly' wants dialogue with Pyongyang: South Korean President

Luxembourg ranks 42nd on the Global Gender Gap Index 2026

Almost 200 websites remain inaccessible after Venezuela's telecom regulator announced that some were being unblocked

Ahead of second round of talks in Caracas

Venezuela unblocks some censored news sites

Nikmatullah Seri, spokesman for the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) peace negotiation delegation

Thailand's Muslim separatists vow to fight to the end

AI company Anthropic is expected to press ahead with an IPO later this year despite doomsday warnings from industy insiders about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence

'Gambling with our lives'

AI doomsday warnings unlikely to slow IPOs but questions linger

Diplomats are relucant to predict the outcome of the race because of the sway of the five permanent members of the Security Council

'Every day things get a little bit worse:' Guterres

Mideast turmoil, AI set to dominate UN gathering of world leaders

People run past the Sydney Opera House on the first day of spring in Sydney on September 1, 2026

Reducing levels of migration

Australia to detain tourists who overstay visa, minister says

A blood-covered fan is taken away by police after crowd trouble between West Brom and Wolves in 2024

Police on red alert

Championship rivals brace for renewal of bitter feuds

In the wild, orangutans are found only in Sumatra and Borneo

Multi-million-dollar trade

Baby orangutans in India expose 'frightening' scale of trafficking

Traditional archery is Bhutan's national sport

Fears for its future

Bhutan's traditional archers lose ground to development

Hyrox indoor fitness races have been booming in popularity

Forfeited points from winning

Australian athlete who soiled herself apologises for continuing Hyrox race

The Indigenous village of Manga lies along a river that many fear could be contaminated by an oil spill due to new offshore exploration

Concerns of impact of potential oil spill

In Brazil's Amazon, the hunt for oil fuels hopes and fears

A Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is flown as part of a display on the opening day of the Farnborough International Airshow 2026

US approves sale of 48 F-35 jets to Saudi Arabia

AFP has confirmed the deaths of at least 24 HIV-positive sex workers in Kenya who were in good health until the US slashed aid in 2025

Huge spike in HIV infections: NGOs

US aid cuts are killing Kenyan sex workers

Ed Sheeran says it was not his decision to ditch Macklemore

Doom Loop? Ed Sheeran struggles against Gaza tide

Sharon Sharabi, speaking on behalf of families of hostages abducted by Hamas, speak in London in September 2024

Polls show a tight race

October 7 survivors, families take centre stage in Israel vote

A Sudanese farmer cultivates henna amidst water shortages in El-Damer in the Nile River State

Pressures facing the crop

Sudanese women hold fast to threatened henna body art

Michael Carrick's Man Utd conceded two late equalisers to Everton

Three talking points

Man Utd misery puts Carrick under pressure, Spurs feeling the heat

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