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French President Emmanuel Macron (L) urged Russia's Vladimir Putin to agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine 'as soon as possible'

Macron, Putin discuss Iran, Ukraine in first talks since 2022

Israeli troops deployed at the border with the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, as the military announced it had expanded its campaign in the territory

Residents reported fierce gunfire

Israel expands Gaza campaign ahead of Netanyahu's US visit

US President President Donald Trump tours a migrant detention center, dubbed

Harsh immigration crackdown

Trump hails new 'Alligator Alcatraz' migrant detention center

Karol Nawrocki, backed by the Law and Justice party, scored 51 percent of votes to win the June 1 runoff election

Despite numerous appeals

Polish supreme court ratifies nationalist's presidential vote win

The cafe was known before the war for welcoming young professionals and even the few foreigners who were able to visit Gaza

Once a bustling seafront spot

Gaza mourns those killed in Israeli strike on seafront cafe

A Burundian government official speaks with newly arrived Congolese refugees while weighing a sack of rice from the final batches delivered by the now-dismantled United States Agency for International Development

Despite prediction of millions dying

Rubio hails end of USAID as Bush, Obama deplore cost in lives

No casualties reported

Overnight fire erupts in Metz residential neighbourhood

Former nurse Lucy Letby was charged in 2020 following a string of baby deaths at her hospital's neo-natal unit

Manslaughter arrests

UK arrests three in Lucy Letby hospital probe

PM Luc Frieden in Berlin

Proposal for future joint inland controls to be conducted by German and Luxembourg police

Russia has escalated its aerial bombardments even as it attends peace talks with Ukraine

Air defences stretched thin

Russia ramps up drone strikes on Ukraine in June: AFP analysis

Hong Kong marked the 28th anniversary of its return to Chinese rule, although critics decried the use of a

1997 governance model

Hong Kong rights record under fire as it marks China handover anniversary

Thailand's Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra took power less than a year ago

Risking suspension

Thailand's PM suspended by Constitutional Court

Morning Roundup

Orange heat alert for Luxembourg, police start wearing bodycams, and France bans smoking in public places

Islamist protesters clash with Turkish anti riot police officers as they gather to protest Leman cartoon magazine in Istanbul on June 30, 2025

Rubber bullets, tear gas

Clashes in Istanbul over alleged 'Prophet Mohammed' cartoon

Jailed PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan still holds great sway among Kurds across the region

Hoping for new age

PKK disarmament process to begin early July: report

Rescuers saved 39 people from drowning

Eight-year sentence

France court jails migrant smugglers over 2022 Channel deaths

State media images show North Korean leader Kim Jong Un honouring the flag-draped coffins of soldiers killed helping Russia fight Ukraine

Flag-draped coffins

North Korea's Kim shown honouring troops killed in Russia-Ukraine war

A Palestinian man walks beside the rubble of a house hit by overnight Israeli strikes in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday

Fresh calls for ceasefire, as killing continues

Gaza rescuers say Israeli forces kill over 50 as ceasefire calls mount

A woman walks past a billboard in Tel Aviv that promotes peace with leaders of the region including in Syria

Eyeing return to global economy

Trump dismantles Syria sanctions program as Israel ties eyed

During its six month turn as EU president, Denmark wants to push ahead with EU plans presented in March to increase EU defence capabilities

Defence, illegal migration

European security tops Denmark's EU presidency priorities

Mexican police on patrol in Sinaloa state, which has been shaken by cartel infighting

Sinaloa factions fighting

Twenty bodies, some headless, found in Mexican cartel bastion

Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez and UN chief Antonio Guterres join other world leaders in Seville

Sector in crisis

UN chief urges aid surge in world of 'climate chaos, conflicts'

More than 230,000 Afghans left Iran in June, most of them deported, as returns surge ahead of a deadline set by Tehran, the United Nations migration agency said

Most were deported

Over 230,000 Afghans left Iran in June ahead of return deadline: IOM

Iranian authorities are seeking to make up for their own failings in the conflict, activists say

Campaign of fear to 'save face'

Iran unleashes 'wave of repression' after Israel war: activists

China said that two of its aircraft carrier groups had returned from carrying out combat drills in the western Pacific Ocean

Honing its military capacity

China says aircraft carriers conduct combat training in Pacific

Iran ordered Afghans without the right to remain to leave by July 6, triggering a mass exodus

'Few prospects'

'We have nothing': Afghans driven out of Iran return to uncertain future

A 12-person panel has been locked away to decide whether Erin Patterson is guilty or not

Steadfastly denied all charges

Jury retires to decide verdict in Australia's mushroom murder trial

France introduces new public smoking bans in parks and on beaches

'Tobacco-free generation'

France imposes smoking ban on beaches, parks

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