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The Great Helmsman, who died September 9 1976, is still very much a fixture in central Henan province's Nanjie -- often dubbed "China's last Maoist village"

China's memories of Mao fade to nostalgia 50 years after his death

Syria's new Islamist leaders have not officially prohibited importing alcohol but have imposed hefty new taxes and stricter rules on its consumption

Sobering reality: Curbs on alcohol in northeast Syria cause discontent

In the historic Japanese city of Kanazawa, craftsmen painstakingly shape and slice blocks of ice destined to chill negronis in some of the world's trendiest bars

Kanazawa craftsmanship

'Like a jewel': Japan's luxury ice revered by bars worldwide

Indian filmmaker Shaunak Sen's new documentary began as a "coping" mechanism after a shock cancer diagnosis

Indian Oscar-nominated filmmaker turns camera on his cancer

Rajendra Dawadi was inside his school near Nepal's Trishuli River with around 900 students last week when a colleague delivered an urgent warning

Principal's quick action

'The flood is coming': How a Nepal principal saved 900 students

The strikes marked the first exchange of fire between the United States and Iran in a month.

Latest exchange

US military strikes oil tankers as Iran vows tougher reprisals

Argentine President Javier Milei has seized on Washington's readiness to review its stance on the disputed Falkland Islands

Diplomatic tensions rise

Argentina threatens to sanction oil projects around Falklands

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his aides met the US envoys in Moscow

Witkoff and Kushner

US envoys put forward 'number of ideas' on Ukraine to Putin: Kremlin

British monarchs do not attend funerals of other heads of state per protocol, usually sending another member of the royal family to represent them

Prince William to represent King Charles III at Norway late King Harald's funeral

coverage of the The award was for Tato's work covering the 2025 Generation Z protests in Madagascar

Perpignan festival

AFP photographer wins top prize for Madagascar protest coverage

Czech sculptor Irena Sedlecka's statue of Freddie Mercury was adorned with flowers and balloons to mark his 80th birthday

Don't stop them now: fans party for Freddie Mercury's 80th birthday

Liam (left) and Noel's reconciliation was helped by the budding relationships between their children

Volatile relationship

New Oasis film captures band's frosty reunion

Miss Ethiopia Ruth Weldesilasie sees taking the stage in Vietnam as a way to serve the larger sisterhood of women, even if her own sibling is lost

Turning pain to purpose

Ethiopian Miss World contestant spotlights pain of sister's murder

Mourners wore shirts with the image of Ratko Mladic at a military commemoration for the late Serbian war criminal

Genocide architect hailed as hero

Commemoration held for late Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic

Robert Pattinson, one of Hollywood's most bankable stars, has now also turned to producing

Box office magnet Robert Pattinson appears in paedophile thriller

The waste was illegally buried or dumped in the central Lika region

Illegally dumped in pristine area

Tens of thousands of Croatians protest over hazardous waste

Charged by French prosecutors

Twenty-six former foster children accuse Moselle couple of sexual abuse

Hundreds of hydropower workers went missing since a tsunami-like wall of water and mud swept through the China-Nepal border

Two Nepal rescues revive hopes 10 days after flood

Industrial fire

Fifty firefighters tackle blaze at Trier harbour

"Portrait of a Lady" by Italian baroque portraitist Giuseppe Ghislandi (1655–1743) had been missing for eight decades when a Dutch newspaper spotted it in a real estate ad

'Portrait of a Lady'

Argentina ordered to return Nazi-looted painting to Jewish collector's heir

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee is greeted by members of the local municipality as he arrives to visit the home of a Palestinian-American in the Israeli-occupied West Bank town of Turmus Ayya

In the Occupied territories

US envoy on West Bank visit says Israel has responsibility for Palestinians

De Professer Marcel Lewandowsky fuerscht un der Martin-Luther Universitéit Halle Wittenberg iwwer Populismus an autoritär Regimmer.

Interview with political scientist Marcel Lewandowsky

AfD poised for power in Germany, as CDU faces dilemma in Saxony-Anhalt election

A photo taken from a commercial plane shows haze from Indonesian forest fires blanketing a residential district in Kuching, the capital city of Sarawak state on the island of Borneo on September 5

As schools close

How haze from Indonesian fires impacts Southeast Asia

An Oasis fan sits in the sun waiting for the film's premiere on Saturday night

Ahead of premiere

Oasis fans gather in Venice for band reunion film

Hallgrimsson, who died in Denmark in 1845, was one of the founders of Icelandic romantic nationalism

Jonas Hallgrimsson

In Iceland, the mystery of the poet, the tomb and the Danish grocer

A handout photo from the Yayasan Inisiasi Alam Rehabilitasi Indonesia organisation and Indonesia's Ministry of Forestry shows a mother orangutan and baby being evacuated

West Kalimantan

Indonesia rescues second orangutan mother and baby from wildfire

Police secure the area around an army barracks after a powerful explosion that killed at least two people

'pyrotechnic material'

Bolivian army base blasts kill two, wound dozens

Trump said the US envoys had a 'proposal to end the war' in Ukraine

Witkoff and Kushner

Trump sends envoys to Moscow, Kyiv with new plan to 'end war'

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