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Five journalists killed in Gaza, summer heatwave across Europe, and Luxembourgish cyclist Geniets talks of horror fall

Unhoused people in the US capital Washington are being put under pressure by US President Donald Trump, who has expressed his intent to have them removed from the city

Despite decreased rates

Trump says to move homeless people 'far' from Washington

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos speaks during a press conference at Malacanang Palace in Manila on August 11

Playing with fire

Marcos says Philippines would be dragged 'kicking and screaming' into Taiwan war

The sun sets over the Gaza Strip on August 10, 2025

Violating press freedom

Al Jazeera says 5 journalists killed in Israeli strike in Gaza

Netanyahu defended his plan for Gaza City as

Defying growing calls to end war

Israel PM says new plan for Gaza 'best way to end the war'

Interior Minister Ali Yerlikay (pictured here in 2024) said one person had died and dozens more had been injured

Istanbul, Izmir affected

One killed, dozens injured, as quake hits western Turkey

The United Nations Security Council holds an emergency meeting on the situation in Gaza, with a senior UN official warning that Israel's plans to control Gaza City risked 'another calamity' for the territory

Warned Security Council

Israel's Gaza plan risks 'another calamity,' UN official warns

Mali's junta chief General Assimi Goita last month granted himself a five-year presidential mandate, renewable without election

'Attempt at destabilisation'

Mali arrests dozens of soldiers over alleged bid to topple junta

Many of the marchers believe the UK should not recognise the State of Palestine

'Time to refocus on the hostages'

Hundreds march in London against UK recognising a Palestinian state

Ecuador, once a peaceful haven between the world's two top cocaine exporters Colombia and Peru, has seen violence erupt in recent years as gangs with ties to Mexican and Colombian cartels vie for control

Cartel violence rising

Eight dead in shooting outside Ecuador nightclub: police

Days before peace summit

Moscow strikes kill six in Ukraine; refineries hit in Russia

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan looks on during a trilateral signing with US President Donald Trump and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC on August 8, 2025

Armenians caught between hope and distrust after accord with Azerbaijan

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz achieved his life's ambition at age 69 to run Europe's top economy

Driven sweeping changes

After busy first 100 days, Germany's Merz faces discord at home

Nearly 620,000 tourists ascended to Mount Vesuvius' crater last year.

To facilitate firefighting

Italy's Mount Vesuvius closed to tourists over wildfire

Surprise interruption

Ten-tonne combine harvester stops party in Baden-Württemberg

Relatives of hostages joined a protest in Tel Aviv calling for an end to the war

Ahead of UN Security Council meeting

Israel far right presses Netanyahu for decisive win against Hamas

Train strikes vehicle, completely destroying it but leaving no one injured

Wrinkly bulldog mix wins World's Ugliest Dog contest

Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump will meet in the far-north US state of Alaska, near Russia, on August 15, to try to resolve the three-year conflict

War cannot be ended 'without Ukraine'

European leaders urge more 'pressure' on Russia ahead of Trump-Putin summit

The government outlawed Palestine Action in July after it claimed a break-in and damage at an air force base

'Let them arrest us all'

UK police arrest hundreds for backing banned pro-Palestine group

Masra's lawyers argued that no concrete evidence against him had been presented to the court

Hate speech and xenophobia

Chad court jails ex-PM, opposition leader for 20 years

Demonstrators waved signs and held up pictures of hostages still being held in the Palestinian territory

Amid expansion vow

Thousands protest in Tel Aviv against Israeli govt move to expand Gaza war

Conservative Senator Miguel Uribe, 39, was speaking to supporters in the capital, Bogota, when a gunman shot him twice in the head and once in the knee

After being shot twice

Colombian presidential hopeful in critical condition again: doctors

Doves fly past the

In commemoration

Restored Nagasaki bell rings in 80 years since A-bomb

A fire at the mosque-cathedral of Cordoba in southern Spain damaged mainly one of its chapels

Significant but localised damage

Historic Spanish mosque-cathedral reopens after blaze

Young driver dies in violent collision near Luxembourg border

Trump has spent his first seven months in office trying to broker peace in Ukraine

Putin-Trump summit: what we know so far

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, left, and Armenia's Nikol Pashinyan shake hands in front of US President Donald Trump

Two former Soviet republics

Trump says Armenia, Azerbaijan commit to end fighting 'forever'

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