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Osaka World Expo

Luxembourg grilled sausage and beer prove popular with Japanese audiences

President Donald Trump and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer last met in June in Canada for a G7 summit where they signed a highly-anticipated trade agreement

Buckingham Palace confirms

UK to roll out red carpet for second Trump state visit

Trump has threatened Europe with higher tariffs starting August 1

Aiming for 'negotiated solution'

EU still seeks Trump trade deal -- but readies retaliation

A Ukrainian fighter jet over the eastern Donetsk region

As attacks intensify

Zelensky talks air defence in 'productive' meeting with US envoy

Why Brussels opts for negotiation over retaliation

A six-year enquiry sparked by the initial discoveries in Tuam found 56,000 unmarried women and 57,000 children passed through 18 such homes over a 76-year period

Infamous Magdalene Laundries

Excavations begin at child mass grave site in Ireland

The German doctor will stand trial in Berlin

The tip of the iceberg?

German doctor goes on trial for 15 murders

The tail section of the crashed Air India Boeing protruding from a building in Ahmedabad. A preliminary report found the fuel switches had been turned off

'Absolutely no basis for such a claim'

Pilot groups reject claims of human error in Air India crash

No unwanted surprises

Driving to Portugal? Know the toll rules or risk fines

German backpacker Carolina Wilga lost hope of rescue after 11 nights in the Australian bush

Lost hope of being rescued

Rescued German backpacker details Australia bush ordeal

Some Iraqis have been forced to disown their family members suspected of jihadist links

Returnees 'face a murky future'

Iraqis face difficult return from Syria camp for IS families

US Senators are working on a bill that would give President Donald Trump (L) new 'sledgehammer' sanctions to use against Russia

Hinted at new sanctions on Russia

Trump teases 'major statement' on Russia ahead of NATO talks

Humanitarian support

Red Cross Director warns of 'crisis marathon' amid surge in global conflicts

Morning Roundup

Ukraine to get US Patriot missiles, primary schools to offer choice of languages, and Gordon Ramsay competes in Ironman Luxembourg

Around 200 pigeons live in Mont Valerien

Europe's last military pigeon loft

France's military pigeons race in memory of brave predecessors

Former legislator 'Long Hair' Leung Kwok-hung, pictured in his Legco office in March 2017, is among the democracy campaigners appealing their sentences

Jailed for subversion

Hong Kong court hears appeals by jailed democracy campaigners

An Israeli air strike hit a house in Nuseirat camp in central Gaza

Death does not cease

Gaza civil defence says Israeli strikes kill 43 as truce talks deadlocked

Macron wants a big boost to French defence spending

Threat to freedom in Europe

Macron to raise defence targets, citing Russia threat

Belgium hosted the Quadball World Cup, , a sport inspired by quidditch in the Harry Potter books

Officially known as quadball

Belgium conjures up win at quidditch world cup

Muhammadu Buhari governed Nigeria with a strong hand as a military ruler in the 1980s before reinventing himself as a 'converted democrat',serving two terms from 2015 to 2023

Following prolonged illness

Nigeria's former president Buhari dead at 82

Ramaphosa first got word of the corruption allegations while attending the BRICS summit earlier this month

Widespread corruption alleged

S.Africa police minister suspended after corruption allegations

US Palestinian Saif al-Din Abdul Karim Musalat, 20, and Mohammed al-Shalabi, 23, were killed in clashes with Israeli settlers on Friday

'They dehumanise us'

Anger in West Bank village at funeral of two young men

Tiwai Island Wildlife Sanctuary in Sierra Leone that has become a UNESCO World Heritage Site

The activist who fought for Sierra Leone's first World Heritage site

Pope Leo has revived the papal summer residence at Castel Gandolfo

'Let us not forget to pray for peace'

Thousands attend Pope Leo's first Angelus prayer

Steel standoff on pause

EU chief says extending suspension of US tariffs countermeasures to August

California National Guard troops face off with protestors during a federal immigration raid on Glass House Farms in Camarillo, California

Injured in a fall

Farm worker dies after US immigration raid in California

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (L) received Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov (R) in the town of Wonsan, the Russian foreign ministry said

Countering extra-regional pressure

N.Korea's Kim offers Russia full support on Ukraine in Lavrov talks: KCNA

Trump called for his base not to 'waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein'

Democratic 'hoax'

Trump calls for MAGA base to end 'Epstein Files' obsession

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