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This handout photo released by the Lebanese presidency on August 5, 2025 shows Prime Minister Nawaf Salam speaking to the press after a cabinet session to discuss the issue of disarming Hezbollah

Lebanon's Hezbollah rejects cabinet decision to disarm it

A Palestinian girl at the site of an overnight Israeli strike in Gaza City

23 months of war

Israel orders army to execute govt decisions on Gaza

A visitor looks out towards the Giza pyramid complex as she tours the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza on the southwestern outskirts of the capital Cairo on May 5, 2025

Treasures of Tutankhamun

Egypt sets opening of $1 bn Pyramids museum for Nov 1

Major disruptions until December

Historic strike to impact nearly all Spanish airports

Police searching for three suspects after violent robbery in Traben-Trarbach, Germany

The 'Gateway to Hell' was once a pit of blazing red flames and glowing red embers in the middle of the Turkmen desert

Tourists leave disappointed

Turkmenistan's methane-spewing 'Gateway to Hell' loses its anger

Karol Nawrocki has argued that Ukraine 'has not shown gratitude'

Nawrocki: nationalist historian becomes Poland's president

An inquiry by the UK's Chrity Commission clears Prince Harry of bullying in a dispute with the chairperson of his Sentebale charity, but regrets that an internal row was played out publicly

Helping HIV and AIDS patients

Prince Harry cleared of 'bullying' in African charity row

Activists, independent journalists, and relatives of political prisoners in Cuba said they were briefly detained or prevented from leaving their homes by state security agents on the anniversary of the

'Besieged by police'

Cuba activists say detained on anniversary of 1994 anti-Castro protest

Morning Roundup

Wildfire rages in France, 80th anniversary of Hiroshima bombing, and Gerson Rodrigues suspended from national football team

South of France

Woman dies in 11,000-hectare wildfire, nine injured, and one person reported missing

US President Donald Trump's love for television is well documented

'Never reads anything'

How Trump's love for TV is shaping US diplomacy

Visitors pray for atomic bomb victims in front of the memorial cenotaph in Hiroshima

Echoes of the past

Hiroshima marks 80 years as US-Russia nuclear tensions rise

Ghislaine Maxwell, 63, is the only former Epstein associate convicted in connection with his activities

'Broad intrusion'

Epstein accomplice Maxwell opposes unsealing grand jury transcripts

The Amadea, a superyacht that belonged to Russian billionaire Suleiman Kerimov and was seized by the US authorities, is headed to the auction block

Valued at $300M

Russian oligarch's superyacht to be auctioned in US

Israeli army soldiers perform maintenance tasks near the border with the Gaza Strip

Total occupation

Netanyahu says Israel must complete defeat of Hamas to free hostages

Eduardo Bolsonaro is a lawyer by training and has declared himself 'ready' to seek Brazil's highest office

Ambivalent figure

Eduardo Bolsonaro: 'provocateur' inflaming US-Brazil spat

Ion Iliescu was last seen in public in 2017

"Little father"

Ion Iliescu: democratic Romania's first president

South African Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola said recognising a Palestinian state would help bring about a Gaza ceasefire

Foreign minister's remarks

S.Africa urges more countries to stand up to Israel's 'genocidal activities'

The five occupants of the Titan submersible experienced 'instantaneous death' when its hull failed, the Coast Guard said in a final report

OceanGate implosion

Probe blames operator for 'preventable' Titanic sub disaster

Bangladesh on Tuesday marked the first anniversary since a student-led revolt ousted then-prime minister Sheikh Hasina

'Unforgettable chapter'

Bangladesh's Yunus calls for reform on revolution anniversary

Residents of Kyiv piled flowers and portraits of those killed beneath the debris of a nine-storey building gutted in a Russian attack

Barrage of missiles

Kyiv buries soldier's wife and daughters killed in Russian attack

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with a US-made Patriot missile defence system -- European countries have promised the first $1 billion to bolster weapons supplies to his country

So-called Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List

European countries announce $1 bn purchase of US weapons for Ukraine

Rhineland-Palatinate

Couple reported for lewd conduct in public space

UN experts have called for the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), that has distributed aid in the Palestinian territory, to be closed down

Concerns over exploitation

UN experts call for GHF to be dismantled

Defendant Jian G., a former assistant to then-member of the European Parliament Maximilian Krah of the far-right Alternative for Germany party, arrives at his espionage trial in a court in Dresden, eastern Germany

Passing on sensitive information

Far-right German MP's ex-aide on trial for spying for China

China's population has declined for three consecutive years, with UN models predicting it could fall from around 1.4 billion today to 800 million by 2100

Amid demographic crisis

China to offer free pre-school education from autumn

Protesters in Srinagar call for the restoration of state-hood for Kashmir, which has been under direct rule from New Delhi for six years

Six years under New Delhi rule

India's top court to hear Kashmir statehood plea

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