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Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said his government 'cannot take all the responsibility' for the massive alleged fraud of EU farm aid

'Our government cannot take all responsibility'

Greek PM calls fraud in EU farm subsidies 'a chronic problem'

Shigeru Ishiba said he had decided to step down, following calls for him to take responsibility for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's poor performance in upper house elections in July

'Geek' Shigeru Ishiba quits dream job as Japan PM

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has faced calls to resign following the LDP's disastrous performance in upper house elections

Japan PM decides to quit as opponents seek leadership election: reports

Anutin Charnvirakul, a former minister who championed Thailand's decriminalisation of cannabis, becomes the kingdom's third prime minister in two years

Anutin Charnvirakul

Thai cannabis-championing tycoon takes office as PM

A surfer killed off Sydney was likely taken by a great white shark

Measuring up to 3.6m

Experts say great white shark likely killed Australian surfer

Britain's Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, looks on as his father leaves Westminster Abbey after being crowned King Charles III in 2023

After years of tension

Will Harry meet King Charles on trip to UK?

People hold anti-Trump signs as they march past Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago during a demonstration against the planned deployment of National Guard troops

Heightening tensions

Trump escalates crackdown threats with Chicago 'war' warning

Rosa Tarlovsky de Roisinblit photographed at her home in Buenos Aires on July 20, 2016

'We only have words of gratitude'

Rosa Roisinblit, activist for Argentina's 'stolen' children, dies at 106

Farage believes he can be Britain's next prime minister

Spearheaded by Farage

'Pessimist patriots': hard-right Reform UK widens appeal

An elderly protester was taken away by police at the 'Lift The Ban' demo

Over 400 people

UK police arrest hundreds in latest Palestine Action demo

Pope Leo XIV has not yet set out the direction he wants to take on same-sex couples in the Catholic Church

No private audience with pope

Vatican receives first LGBTQ pilgrimage

Colombian Defense Minister Pedro Sanchez tours a coca eradication program on Colombia's restive border with Ecuador

Cocaine exports

Colombia 'committed' to drug fight, minister says, as US deadline looms

Smoke billows from Israeli strikes that brought down a high-rise tower in Gaza City on Friday

'Humanitarian zone'

Israel flattens high-rise as it tells Gaza City residents to flee

'The Everest of gas ballooning'

Gordon Bennett balloon race launches from Metz

A court annuled the outcome of the CHP Istanbul provincial congress in October 2023, throwing out its leader Ozgur Celik

Graft allegations

Turkey opposition calls extraordinary congress for Sept 21

Conservative tycoon Anutin Charnvirakul was confirmed as Thailand's next prime minister by parliament on Friday

With fractured interim government

Thailand's next PM reaffirms fresh polls promise

Japanese Prince Hisahito wearing an ancient ceremonial costume, leaves for a ceremony by a carriage at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo

Elaborate ceremony

Japan prince comes of age as succession crisis looms

The Luxembourgish GSF delegation in Tunis, from left to right: Abdessamad Taqui, Nora Rosa Fellens Huberty, and Maya Garman

Inside the flotilla

Luxembourg volunteer shares glimpse of preparations for Gaza

It was the first fatal shark attack in Sydney since 2022, when 35-year-old British diving instructor Simon Nellist was killed off Little Bay

Rare fatal attack

'Large shark' kills man off Sydney beach

Chile's presidential candidate Jeannette Jara, of the Progressive Center-Left Coalition, speaks to supporters during a rally at the Manzanal gymnasium in the city of Rancagua, Chile, in August 2025

November elections

Chilean candidate downplays communist roots in quest for presidency

Australian police say someone may be helping fugitive gunman Desmond Freeman

Australia offers reward for arrest of gunman after police killings

Venezuelan stylist Andry Hernandez Romero migrated to the United States to live with a man he met online and further his career as a make-up artist but was deported to a brutal prison in El Salvador, where he says he was sexually assaulted

Arrested and deported

A Venezuelan-US love story crushed by Trump's migrant crackdown

The United States is deploying 10 F-35 fighter jets to Puerto Rico

Warships also deployed

Venezuela's Maduro urges dialogue after Trump threat

US President Donald Trump (L) speaks to reporters as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (C) looks on while signing executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on September 5, 2025

Old name was too 'wokey'

Trump hails Department of War rebrand as 'message of victory'

US President Donald Trump said

Billionaire president

Trump to host G20 at own Miami golf resort

US President Donald Trump waits for Polish President Karol Nawrocki to arrive on the South Portico at the White House on September 3, 2025

No countries yet named

Trump to blacklist countries for imprisoning Americans

Mushtaha Tower in Gaza City collapses after an Israeli strike on Friday

Ahead of planned conquest

Israel army levels high-rise in Gaza City offensive

A man stahnds in the rubble of his quake -shattered home in Nurgal, Eastern Afghanistan, on September 4

Powerful quake aftershocks cause more injuries in Afghanistan

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