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US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on

Blistering criticism

RFK Jr defends health agency shake up, Democrats call for his ouster

The Paris summit aimed to firm up plans on security guarantees for Ukraine if there is a ceasefire

France says 26 countries commit to Ukraine deployment if peace agreed

The WTO headquarters is next to Lake Geneva

US backtracks without explanation

White House quietly drops WTO, ILO from foreign aid cut list

The court found France failed to respect the European human rights convention's provisions on the prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment

Insufficient protection

European court faults France over sexual consent rules

Authorities fear

Fears suspect leaves country

Alarm in Germany as 'dangerous' Maddie suspect set to walk

Designer Giorgio Armani dies aged 91

After Wednesday's accident some visitors found themselves torn between disbelief and fright

16 reported dead

Tourists and locals united in grief after Lisbon funicular crash

'Constant sirens'

Luxembourgish woman recalls Lisbon funicular accident

Man drives into group of people, multiple children injured

The war has destroyed large swathes of the Gaza Strip

Coffee and cash: how Hamas pays its civil servants in secret

Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Beijing, state media reported

Rare foreign visit

China's Xi holds talks with North Korea's Kim in Beijing

St George's flags fly from lampposts in York, northern England, as a new trend for flying such pennants including the Union Jack has emerged in recent weeks in a display of patriotism linked to the far-right

Far-right displays

Immigration opposition fuels English national flag frenzy

China's President Xi Jinping (C), North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (R) and Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) in Beijing for a military parade

Two blockbustre events

China's Xi at centre of world stage after days of high-level hobnobbing

Eerie conversation

Open mic caught Xi, Putin discussing immortality

People restrain a man during a fight between supporters and opponents of Argentina's President Javier Milei at the end of a rally for the La Libertad Avanza political party

Fist fights and hurled projectiles

Campaign event for Argentina's Milei ends with skirmishes

Morning Roundup

Deadly funicular accident in Lisbon, no deal in social talks, and critics react to Israel Philharmonic performing in Luxembourg

A lunar eclipse turns the Moon red near the Australian capital city of Canberra on March 14, 2025

In Luxembourg too

'Blood Moon' to rise during total lunar eclipse Sunday night

Former Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra is facing corruption charges

With disparate outcomes

Peruvian ex-presidents face courts in separate corruption trials

Harvard has been at the forefront of Trump's campaign against top universities after it defied his demands

Froze over $2 billion

Judge overturns Trump funding cuts to Harvard

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio waves as he boards his plane en route to Ecuador at Felipe Angeles International Airport in Mexico City

To tackle cartel violence

Ecuador eyes US security accords during Rubio's visit

Guyanese President Irfaan Ali has won reelection to a second five-year term

In office since 2020

Guyana's President Irfaan Ali: oil industry 'puppet' or visionary?

Guyana's President Irfaan Ali has won re-election for another five-year term

Guyanese President Irfaan Ali claims election victory

Supporters of slain presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio demonstrate outside the judicial complex in northern Quito on September 3, 2025, while prosecutors file charges against alleged masterminds of his murder

Former minister, ex-lawmaker, and a businessman

Ecuador charges trio in presidential hopeful's assassination

Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, seen here inside his house in Brasilia on Tuesday, is not attending the close of his trial for coup plotting

Bolsonaro lawyers tell Brazil court acquittal 'imperative'

President Donald Trump said the US strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat should

Significant escalation

US strike marks shift to military action against drug cartels

US President Donald Trump and Polish President Karol Nawrocki walk down the White House Colonnade on the way to the Oval Office

Trump offers more US troops to Poland's nationalist president

Progress towards settling the three-and-a-half-year war appears to have stalled

Putin vows not to back down in Ukraine

Security personnel inspect a damaged vehicle at the site of an explosion after a suicide bombing in Quetta, Pakistan on September 2, 2025

Islamic State claims deadly attack on Pakistan rally

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