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Fast-flowing muddy water burst the banks of 40 rivers and waterways in China's Guanxi province

130,000 evacuated

Rescuers search for survivors of China storms as super typhoon nears

Cutting-edge AI models have drawn concern over their ability to identify software vulnerabilities

OpenAI to launch new model after US freeze

Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu has been in custody since March last year

Istanbul mayor ejected from court in corruption case

Ellis's family had argued that she was an abused woman and that a modern-day case would likely have resulted in a charge of manslaughter not murder

'Profound injustice'

Family of last woman executed in UK wins posthumous pardon

Heavy rain in Bangladesh triggered a landslide at the world's largest refugee camp that killed seven children and a teacher during a school class

Due to heavy rain

Landslide kills eight at refugee school in Bangladesh

The Regional Court in Berlin heard the case

Administered lethal doses of sedatives

'Serial killer' German doctor given life sentence for 15 murders

Unstable skyscraper sparks major Manhattan evacuation

The Bayeux Tapestry depicts the last successful military invasion of England in 1066

Bayeux tapestry to arrive in London in secret, high-stakes operation

The island's economy is based largely on fishing and tourism

Lampedusa under pressure

Sunken wrecks, hot seas threaten fishermen on Italian isle

US President Donald Trump reacts as he meets with NATO Secretary General on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara, on July 8, 2026.

After strike exchanges

Trump says Iran ceasefire 'is over'

Graduate student Abhijeet Dipke, 30, sparked a protest movement in India with a viral post

'What if all cockroaches come together?'

How a viral post sparked India's Gen-Z protest

MEP Fernand Kartheiser pictured at the first Patriots Network conference in Paris on 2 May 2026.

'The World Needs a Father'

Fernand Kartheiser joins Moscow congress online

Thai beer dynasty mother drops 'ungrateful child' case against son

Fändele vun den EU-Memberlänner mam Gebai vum EU-Parlament am Hannergrond.

Cross-border unemployment benefits

Luxembourg MEPs weigh in on EU social security reform

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi shakes hands with Australian leader Anthony Albanese during his last visit to Australia in 2023

Historically difficult relationship

Modi visits Australia for minerals talks and rockstar welcome

An employee points to a computer monitor display showing the temperatures inside the display cases as they monitor the temperatures during the heatwave, at London's Grant Museum of Zoology

Heat and flooding

UK museums at 'sharp end' of climate change challenge

The world of work is adapting as climate change makes extreme heat spells more intense, frequent and longer

Adaptive measures

Sensors, early starts: how Spain keeps working when heat hits

Samata Mahmoud unfurls the sail on his 'lanche' boat in Mauritania's Banc d'Arguin National Park

Amid climate change, overfishing

In Mauritania, Imraguen people's desert-ocean paradise under threat

Rastafarians identify as mystical, Pan-Africanist, anti-colonialist, and vegetarian

Awaiting cannabis ruling

Kenya Rastafarians hope for freedom to smoke

Morning Roundup

Fraud case exposes administrative weakness, US–Iran tensions reignite, and NATO summit begins

Vessels are pictured off the coast of the Khor Fakkan Container Terminal, a major UAE container port near Oman, in the same region where three tankers were struck

Renewed tensions

US, Iran trade strikes in new threat to ceasefire

Tuvalu's Prime Minister Feleti Teo talks says he has 'grave and serious concern' over a recent Chinese missile test that landed in the Pacific Ocean

'Grave and serious concern'

Pacific nation of Tuvalu condemns Chinese missile launch into Pacific

Former Australian Test spinner Stuart MacGill (left) has lost his appeal against a conviction for dealing in cocaine

Intensive corrections order

Ex-Australia cricketer MacGill loses appeal against cocaine conviction

Cambodia's last confirmed tiger sighting was in 2007 camera trap footage but conservationists say they may soon be able to reintroduce the big cats

Cambodia wants to bring tigers back, but should it?

Chen Ning, founder of Mulan Build, says it is 'incredibly difficult' for women to break into the home repair industry

Striving towards self-sufficiency

Chinese repairwomen smash stereotypes with power tools

Eva Sevillano, a resident of the Nueva Prosperina neighborhood of Ecuador's port Guayaquil, stands at the waterway known as the Canal de la Muerte (Death Canal)

Over 100 bodies recovered

Ecuador's Death Canal: watery grave for victims of gang violence

Scarlett Goitia carries the baby of her sister Eliana Garcia, who gave birth to a boy in a baseball field hours after the twin earthquakes that rocked Venezuela

Amid aftershocks

In Venezuela's quake ruins, a baby is born

A man wears eclipse-viewing glasses in Burgos on July 2, 2026

'Unique event': Solar eclipse fever fills empty Spain

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