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Morning Roundup

Luxembourg rocked by major telecom outage, ECB expected to hold rate cuts, and England face Spain in the Women's Euros final

Ospreys can take off and land vertically like a helicopter and rotate their propellers forward to fly like a plane

Military aircraft

US Osprey makes emergency landing in Japan

Amid support for Russian agression

North Korea's Kim urges troops to prepare 'for real war'

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron at the Villa Borsig in Berlin

Merz, Macron huddle over NATO and EU-US trade row

The adoption of the law provoked the first major protest in Kyiv since the war began

Domestic challenges

'A free Ukraine': Kyiv protests law threatening anti-corruption bodies

Hundreds of Venezuelan and Salvadoran nationals were sent from the United States to the notorious maximum security CECOT facility in El Salvador

Human smuggling charges

US judges order Abrego Garcia release, block immediate deportation

Russia has intensified its bombardment of Ukrainian towns and cities in recent weeks

After three years of war

Ukraine demands Zelensky-Putin talks, Russia proposes brief truces

Bryan Kohberger has never explained why he stabbed to death four University of Idaho students in their beds while they slept

Death sentence avoided

Criminology student who killed 4 jailed for life in US

Protesters demand accountability from government leaders at a demonstration in Banjul on July 23, 2025

'Not slaves to corruption'

Gambians protest corruption following recent scandals

'We are now witnessing a deadly surge in malnutrition-related deaths,' said Tedros

War-ravaged territory

WHO chief says 'large proportion' of Gaza's people 'starving'

France's new armed forces chief said he has 'the soul of a fighter'

Macron appoints military advisor as new army chief

Gaza is facing chronic shortages of food aid and other essentials

Running on 'false promises'

More than 100 NGOs warn 'mass starvation' spreading across Gaza

Migrant arrivals in Britain on small boats from northern France have hit record levels this year

UK launches first sanctions in new strategy to deter migrant crossings

AFP video journalist Youssef Hassouna, pictured here in January 2024, says his main difficulty is accessing food to feed himself and his family

Youssef Hassouna

AFP journalist covers war as Gaza faces extreme shortages

Major protests in Ukraine

Zelensky defends contested anti-corruption law changes

Germany has offered to finance two of Patriot systems for Ukraine

Anti-missile systems

Germany seeks US guarantee before sending Patriots to Ukraine

Four-year-old girl succumbs to head injuries after fall from apartment window in Metz

Morning Roundup

Half of Luxembourg's pensions paid abroad, education minister plans major reforms, and Gaza faces mass starvation

Ishiba won the party leadership in September, on his fifth try

Despite US trade agreement

Japan PM plans to resign after election debacle: local media

France's President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz are to discuss European security and the trade war with the United States

Meeting in Berlin

Macron-Merz to hold talks on NATO and EU-US trade row

Palau President Surangel Whipps Jr, who has been asked to consider accepting asylum seekers from the United States.

Pacific nation ponders taking asylum seekers from US

Getting aid is a daily and often deadly battle for most Palestinians in the Gaza Strip

In past three days

Gaza hospital says 21 children dead from malnutrition and starvation

Palestinians rush to queue at a charity kitchen in Gaza, where the population has been experiencing acute food shortages for months

'Weaponisation of food'

Hungry and exhausted, AFP journalists document Gaza war

Maikel Olivera (C) -- a Venezuelan migrant who was freed from a notorious Salvadoran prison -- embraces his mother Olivia Rojas as he reunites with family in Barquisimeto, Venezuela

Four-month detention

Tears of joy as Venezuelan migrants return from Salvadoran prison 'hell'

A supporter of Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan hold his portrait during a protest

Opposition leader

Pakistan courts sentence dozens from Khan's party

US President Donald Trump is keen for the public to stop focusing on conspiracy theories about the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

Calculated deflection?

Trump claims Obama 'coup' as Epstein questions mount

France's Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said there was 'no longer any justification for the Israeli army's military operations in Gaza'

After 21 months of war

France's top diplomat calls for foreign press access to Gaza

French Culture Minister Rachida Dati is accused of carrying out lobbying for car giant Renault while serving as a member of the European Parliament

While member of European parliament

France's culture minister to be tried on corruption charges

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