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Discussions on European unity

Grand Duke Guillaume joins German-speaking leaders' summit

A woman walks among the ruins of flash floods in Nepal's Nuwakot district on Tuesday

'Unimaginable and heartbreaking'

China-Nepal flood toll tops 1,000 as tunnel rescue offers last hope

German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt, on the right, and Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul deliver their joint statement on national security

Supported by EU and NATO

Germany blames Russia for airport drone incident, hits back with sanctions

China's President Xi Jinping visits Egypt for the first time in a decade, as the two countries mark 70 years of diplomatic ties

Renewing friendship

China's Xi arrives in Egypt as US sanctions threat looms over Iran links

Vehicles drive along the Corniche in Dakar, Senegal, whose new loan with the IMF totals $2.2 billion

Following suspension of previous deal

IMF reaches agreement with Senegal on new $2.2 bn loan programme

The car bomb followed a Colombian military airstrike on guerrillas earlier Monday

Car bomb at Colombian police station kills one, injures 11

Russia and Iran have massively boosted their ties in recent years

Strait of Hormuz remains key point of contention

Iran president urges return to truce, hails Russian support

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said 'we are going to continue exerting pressure' in Iran

Weekend flare-up

Global bond sell-off deepens on inflation concerns

Moscow has taken advantage of Ukraine running low on US-built air defence missiles to pummel the country

With each day 'the cost of the war is rising'

EU says Russian 'hybrid attacks' won't halt aid to Ukraine

Elon Musk addressed a G20 meeting focused on tech and innovation

Musk defends AI data centers, slams EU rules at G20

The Jaenschwalde power plant runs mainly on coal

Services back online

Explosives used in sabotage attack on German power lines

TOPSHOT - King Haakon VIII of Norway (L) takes the oath as his daughter Crown Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway looks on during an oath-taking ceremony for the new king to Norway's constitution in the main chamber of the Norwegian Parliament, the Storting, in Oslo on September 1, 2026.

Royal succession

King Haakon VIII takes oath before Norwegian parliament

Uganda's veteran opposition figure Kizza Besigye was abducted in November 2024 during a trip to Kenya and later appeared before courts on treason charges after being accused of plotting a conspiracy against President Yoweri Museveni

Activists blame Kenya for Ugandan opposition figure's plight

Nearly 4,000 people are missing in Nepal following the collapse of a Himalayan glacier on the border with China that triggered a tsunami-like wall of freezing water and debris that killed more than 1,000 in the region

Setting souls free

Nepali families hold symbolic funerals for missing after floods

EU economy chief Valdis Dombrovskis said it was not the time to 'normalize' Russia's presence at the G20 finance meeting

Russian finance minister attending

EU official says it's not time to 'normalize' Russia at G20 finance talks

President Emmanuel Macron has been pushing for French children to spend less time in front of screens

Pushing for less screen time

Even at Elysee, phones are handed in, Macron tells French pupils

While the exact cause of the glacial collapse is unclear, climate change is increasing the risk of such disasters

Devastating collapse

Nepal disaster a climate 'warning signal': foreign minister

Swimmers use London's Parliament Hill Fields Lido, with the UK on course to record its warmest summer on record for the second year running

UK chalks up hottest summer on record for second year running

Heavier-than-usual seasonal monsoon rains pounded the northern third of the Philippines in August

Heavier-than-usual rains

Philippine couple married in hip-deep floodwaters

The protests in India led by the online Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) movement led to the resignation of the education minister

Cockroach movement

India's top court drops criminal cases against protesters

Ulrich Siegmund, the far-right Alternative for Germany party's top candidate in the Saxony-Anhalt state election, has promised 'an economic boom'

Could spell disaster

Germany's far-right AfD promises 'boom' but economists fear worst

This handout photograph released by the Nepal Army shows military personnel conducting a search and rescue operation at a hydropower tunnel site in Rasuwa, Nepal

Himalayas floods

Death toll rises above 1,000, but glimmers of hope shine through

Pakistan selector Misbah-ul-Haq has apparently resigned after not being consulted over major team changes

In wake of successive Test defeats

Pakistan selector and ex-captain Misbah resigns after coach sacked

The ILO celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2019

Nominations closed

Former Peru minister last-minute contender for UN labour agency helm

A woman walks among the ruins of flash floods in Nepal's Nuwakot district on Tuesday

Shortage of water

Women survivors face sanitation woes in Nepal relief camp

A petrol station in Saluzzo, northwestern Italy in August, when energy inflation soared across the eurozone

Global energy costs soaring

Eurozone inflation hits three-year high at 3.3% in August

Haze shrouds the the Sarawak Legislative Assembly building in Kuching, the capital city of Sarawak state on the island of Borneo on September 1

Indonesian forest fires

'Literally tasting the smoke': Malaysians suffer as haze worsens

Pacific Islands Forum summit host Palau is a diplomatic ally of Taiwan

Hosted by Palau

China-Taiwan friction clouds Pacific summit

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