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Iran is aware Trump is facing the midterms

Intensifying confrontational actions

Defiant Iran seeks to bruise Trump ahead of midterms

Settlements have rapidly expanded under Netanyahu's government

Will Israel's right exploit sanctions in run-up to vote?

During expedition to Georgia

Luxembourg-Belgian pilot crew forced to make emergency landing in Black Sea

Hideo Kojima's 'Metal Gear' game was central to PlayStation's success

'Metal Gear' creator moves to Xbox after Playstation cancellation

The M/V June Aster, which caught fire off the Philippine coast, is aground on an island in Palawan province

Near tourist hotspot

Philippine ferry fire kills 5, dozens missing

Orangutans were hemmed in by fires raging on Borneo islands, leaving them stuck without access to their forest home

Indonesia rescues six orangutans from fires in a week

Macron called on Europe to organise its own crewed spaceflights

Within a decade

Macron urges Europe to develop 'crewed spaceflight' programme

This picture taken on February 25, 2026 and released by North Korea's North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his daughter Kim Ju Ae attend a military parade to mark the end of the ruling Workers' Party congress.

Thought to have three children

North Korea leader's daughter believed to have younger sibling: Seoul

Suspect drove away

Three-year-old and father dead following motorway accident in North Rhine-Westphalia

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan reviewing a military honour guard in Berlin

Deals worth billions to be signed as UAE leader visits Germany

US Ambassador to Luxembourg Stacey Feinberg in conversation with RTL, 8 September 2026.

Approaching one year in office

'Stay tuned': Ambassador Feinberg says more to come after securing US–Luxembourg flight

Sri Lanka's Supreme Court overturned a presidential pardon granted to Buddhist monk Galagodaatte Gnanasara and ordered him to serve the remainder of his prison sentence for intimidating the wife of a missing cartoonist

Sri Lanka court revokes monk's pardon, orders return to prison

The Asian Games began with a Group B men's basketball game between Qatar and Iran in Nagoya

Weather challenges events

Asian Games begin with Qatar basketball win, nine days before opening ceremony

A woman deported from the US to Cameroon in an immigration crackdown shields her face with a mask as she poses for a photograph in Yaounde on September 9, 2026

'I was a bit afraid to go out'

'Hopeless, stuck, afraid': US deportees in limbo in Cameroon

Climate change is intensifying and lengthening spells of extreme heat and drought across Europe

'It's just a matter of habit'

Portugal harvests grapes at night to beat the heat

Mirabai Chanu trains at a gym in New Delhi ahead of the Asian Games in Nagoya-Aichi

India trailblazer won't 'let go' of chance for Asian weightlifting glory

Vehicles buried by mud and debris after a landslide swept into the parking lot at Fifth Station of Mount Fuji's Fujinomiya Trail

Mount Fuji ends hiking season with landslide, two rescues

Morning Roundup

Frieden at space summit, drone threat to Zelensky's plane, and interest rates set to rise

The ship's manifest had listed 134 passengers and crew

Philippine ferry fire kills 5, dozens missing

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio vowed retaliation for Iranian strikes on US naval ships

Oil prices flare as Iran tightens grip on Hormuz

Emmanuel Fernandez, owner of an Argentine shoe factory, says the plant is operating at minimum capacity since President Javier Milei opened up the country to global competition

'The domestic market is dead'

Argentine industry reels from Milei's free-market revolution

Kazakhstan's Elena Rybakina, already assured of rising to number one in the world after reaching the US Open semi-finals, faces Coco Gauff for a place in the title match

Ending Zheng Qinwen's run

Rybakina books US Open semi against Gauff, secures No.1 ranking

South Korean haenyeo Jin So-hee dives into the sea in the South Korean coastal town of Geoje

Seafood harvest

Women quit South Korea's grind for diving tradition

A six month-old leaf monkey that was intercepted by the Wildlife Crime Intelligence Unit at Suvarnabhumi airport

Exotic souvenirs

Online and undercover: saving trafficked wildlife in Thailand

A mining area believed to be the Man Maw mine, located in autonomous Wa State in eastern Myanmar, near the Chinese border

Suspended since 2023

Myanmar tin mega-mine restarts operations: think tank

In 1987, Sweden adopted a new strategy to distribute refugees more evenly across the country, and asked Sjobo, then a town of around 15,400, to take in around 15 people

Sjobo, cradle of Sweden's now-mainstream anti-migrant sentiment

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (C) and his wife, Jeanette Rubio, prepare to depart Quito, Ecuador and head to Peru for the third and final stop on his tour of Latin America

Shoring up conservative allies

Rubio defends anti-drug boat strikes, warns of cartel 'cancer'

Venice Film Festival organisers have selected several films about the Gaza conflict as part of this year's programme

Israeli-made film about Gaza civilian deaths to debut in Venice

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