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Outgoing Prime Minister Keir Starmer announces long-delayed Defence Investment Plan

Over next four years

Starmer boosts budget to modernise UK military before exit

The UN estimates that the number of missing in Venezuela could be as high as 50,000

Crucial moments

'Where is she?' The desperate search for Venezuela's missing

Eagerly awaited decision

US Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to restrict birthright citizenship

Germany's state-run rail operator faces growing criticism for delayed trains and creaky infrastructure

Paving way for foreign companies

German rail regulator backs Italian firm in competition spat

The pope urged the traditionalists to pull back from their plan

Pope appeals to Catholic traditionalists to avoid schism

Opponents of the laws say they single out a tiny number of vulnerable students for exclusion and discrimination, turning children's participation in school sports into a national political battleground

Hailed by Trump

US Supreme Court upholds transgender sports bans

Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann leads his players off the pitch after losing to Paraguay in a penalty shootout

Four-time champions

Germany questions footballing identity after fresh World Cup failure

Spiro's Ugandan management is accused of severely beating employees

Complaint filed

Africa EV firm Spiro accused of torturing Uganda employees

The authorities are trying to keep tourists cool in Rome

'Worse than India'

Tourists soldier on in Rome despite heatwave

Men, women and children have queued in the streets to obtain documents

Amid EU crackdown

Over 1 million migrants apply for Spain's mass regularisation

The mercury could climb to 38C in Ukraine this week

Moment of peace

Escaping heat, forgetting war: Kyiv locals hit the beach

The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory telescope was launched in 2004, and was originally designed for a two-year mission

NASA robot mission aiming to rescue space telescope

Temperature records for May were broken in France and Britain

Costly inaction?

UN says transport infrastructure must adapt to climate

President-elect Keiko Fujimori, seen here on June 24, 2026, won the June 7 run-off by the slimmest of margins but secured the top office after her fourth campaign run

Conservative resurgence

Peruvian political heir Fujimori wins presidency

A job centre in Berlin. Despite thousands of vacancies, German firms are struggling to find candidates to fill them

'Need people now'

Germany's labour market dilemma: rising unemployment despite vacancies

So far, Europe's long-promised visa liberalisation scheme, that would allow Turks to travel to the borderless Schengen zone without a visa, has failed to materialise with applicants facing long delays

Large crowds gather

'Waiting like torture': Turks despair as Schengen visa delays mount

Members of the Philippine religious group Iglesia ni Cristo stage a demonstration that snarled traffic across Metro Manila

'Selective justice'

Thousands from Philippine sect protest pro-Duterte senator's graft case

Monaco's Prince Albert II described the incident as a "heinous crime" and "a shock to the entire Monegasque community

Super-safe principality shaken by the act

Monaco parcel bomb blast wounds Ukrainian oligarch

Citizen-led groups issued an unofficial ultimatum for undocumented foreigners to exit the country

Many more awaiting departure

South Africa repatriations top 25,000 ahead of anti-immigrant ultimatum

The United States restricts the export of its most cutting-edge chips to China

Nine under investigation

Taiwan raids tech firms in China AI chip smuggling probe

Fed up with the dearth of same-sex love stories on Philippine screens, Vee Camallere created her own show using artificial intelligence

Online same-sex romance series embrace AI 'freedom'

Morocco's head coach Mohamed Ouahbi believes his team can go far at the World Cup after their last 16 victory over the Netherlands

If they play to their potential

Morocco 'unstoppable' says coach after Netherlands thriller

The super-rich are giving more to elite universities, earlier in their lives, according to sector experts

'Transformative' donation

New Oxford academic centre symbolises UK's big-donor era

Russia's small companies are struggling as the economy slows

Creeping toll of slowing wartime economy

Russia's small businesses pay the price of spiralling Ukraine war

The Strait of Hormuz again sparked armed exchanges between the United States and Iran

Despite Tehran denials

Trump says Iran meeting set in Qatar, despite uncertainty

Paraguay's Jose Canale sends Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer the wrong way to clinch victory in a penalty shoot-out as the South Americans reach the last 16

Paraguay shock Germany as Brazil, Morocco advance at World Cup

Thousands gathered in downtown Asuncion to celebrate

National holiday declared

Mouse-that-roared Paraguay savors World Cup win over Germany

DR Congo face England in their first ever World Cup knockout game

War-torn struggle, Ebola outbreak

'We came from nothing': DR Congo dreams of England World Cup upset

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