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Frieden says US wants Europe on board in Ukraine talks, Listeria outbreak, and road rage accident on Trier motorway

This photo taken on June 8, 2025 shows Takemasa Kinjo, who was a high school student when his mother was killed by a US Marine in 1974, holding her portrait during an interview with AFP

Global commemorations

Okinawa a reluctant host for US troops 80 years after WWII

Jailed Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai's national security will enter its final stages with lawyers presenting closing arguments in a trial that began in 2023

Hong Kong court postpones closing arguments in Jimmy Lai trial

Bolivia's right-wing presidential candidate Jorge

Right-wing candidates leading

Bolivia presidential hopefuls make last push for votes

A boy walks past a destroyed tank at an open air exhibition of destroyed Russian military equipment in Kyiv on August 13, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Trump warns of make-or-break chance with Putin as pressure mounts

British Foreign Minister David Lammy did not have the rod licence needed to angle for freshwater fish like carp

Failed to catch any

Oh carp: UK's Lammy on the hook after fishing with Vance without licence

UN-backed experts have warned of widespread famine unfolding in the territory

Despite dire humanitarian conditions

Israeli military says approved plan for new Gaza offensive

The widow of the late presidential hopeful and senator Miguel Uribe, Maria Claudia Tarazona, mourns after a funeral mass in Bogota

Colombia buries assassinated presidential candidate

About 80 human rights activists, journalists, lawyers and environmentalists have fled El Salvador in the last four months, according to an AFP tally

Tightening his grip

Bukele critics face long exile from El Salvador homeland

Peru's President Dina Boluarte addresses the nation on Independence Day at the National Congress in Lima on July 28, 2025

Controversial bill

Peru's president signs military crimes amnesty bill into law

Shoes hanging on the

10 others still missing

At least 26 migrants dead in two shipwrecks off Italy

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer co-chairs a 'Coalition of the Willing' video conference call with European leaders on Ukraine

'Viable' chance for Ukraine ceasefire thanks to Trump: UK PM

JD Vance addresses troops at Britain's Fairford air force base

US Vice President

Vance visits US troops during UK trip

Road rage investigation

Authorities seize licences after 'provoked' crash on German motorway near Luxembourg border

A doctor points at a screen with the tests of a patient suffering from cervical cancer

New cancer plan urged as survival improvements in England slow

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani, seen on the left, and his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan have met frequently since the ouster of Bashar al-Assad in December

Not to stir chaos

Ankara, Damascus top diplomats warn Israel over Syria action

The SolarStratos plane has 22 square metres of solar panels on its wings

9,521m in the air

Swiss pilot surpasses solar-powered plane altitude record

Image d'illustration

Elderly man shot dead outside his home in Thionville

21 new speed cameras planned close to Luxembourg border

South Korea's former first lady Kim Keon Hee, wife of impeached former president Yoon Suk Yeol, arrives for a hearing at the Seoul Central District Court on August 12

For a range of charges

South Korea prosecutors raid party HQ after ex-first lady arrested

Morning Roundup

Heatwave intesifies, Bettel reveals consensus on Kyiv, and prices remain unchanged at this year's Schueberfouer

The last standalone meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin was a 2018 summit in Helsinki where Trump's cowed appearance haunted him long afterward

For Trump, Putin summit presents the ultimate test of dealmaking

Trump and Putin during their last one-on-one meeting in Helsinki in 2018

'Really a feel-out meeting'

Trump and Putin: a strained relationship

Palestinians carry empty pots as they wait to receive lentil soup at a food distribution point in Gaza City on August 2, 2025

After reunion with children

Palestinian mother 'destroyed' after image used to deny Gaza starvation

In a small urban park

'Nobody else knew': Allied prisoners of war held in Taiwan

Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (pictured) have vowed to strengthen cooperation, days ahead of Putin's summit in Alaska with Donald Trump

Strengthening cooperation

Putin, North Korea's Kim vow stronger ties ahead of US-Russia summit

This combination of file photos shows US President Donald Trump at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland on July 15, 2025, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the Chancellery in Berlin on June 10, 2025, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Heads of State and Government summit in The Hague, on June 24, 2025

Set to speak to Trump in second call

European leaders to hold Ukraine online summit before Trump-Putin meet

Japanese camps survivor Tineke Einthoven, 87

'Now I can talk about it without crying'

Dutch child survivor of Japan's WWII camps breaks silence

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