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US President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin

High-stakes summit

Dueling interests for Trump and Putin at Alaska summit

A Frontex border patrol ship in Lampedusa on Thursday as searches continued for survivors of two migrant boat capsizings

Deadly crossing

Searchers seek missing after deadly Italy migrant shipwreck

In 2024, the human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine documented 209 cases of conflict-related sexual violence

In light of credible evidence of violations

UN warns Russia, Israel of conflict sex crimes listing risk

Foreign ministers from the Pacific Islands Forum gather in Suva ahead of the main meeting in Solomon Islands next month

Defending its decisions

Solomon Islands says China not influencing diplomatic decisions

Trump and Putin at a press conference in Helsinki in 2018.

Analysis: All eyes on Alaska

What can be expected of the Trump–Putin summit on Friday?

Palestinians scramble to receive cooked meals from an aid distribution centre in Gaza City.

Requests continue to be refused

Foreign NGOs say new Israeli rules keep them from delivering Gaza aid

Cholera patients receive treatment in an isolation tent in a displaced persons' camp in Sudan's war-torn western region of Darfur

Tragedy upon tragedy

At least 40 dead in Sudan's worst cholera outbreak in years: MSF

Extreme summer heat

Spain suffers third wildfire death, Greece beats back flames

Alaska holds significance for Russia, which sold the territory to the United States in the 19th century

Hosting historic summit

Alaska: a source of Russian imperial nostalgia

Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korea's leader, has denied reports by Seoul's military that Pyongyang removed propaganda loudspeakers along the border

Tit-for-tat propaganda

North Korea denies removing border loudspeakers

Updated figures

1,300 illegal border entries from Luxembourg: German police

Sloviansk is one of few pockets of relative normality even though it is close to advancing Russian forces

Blissful juxtaposition

War-weary Ukrainians find solace by frontline lake

Morning Roundup

Frieden says US wants Europe on board in Ukraine talks, Listeria outbreak, and road rage accident on Trier motorway

This photo taken on June 8, 2025 shows Takemasa Kinjo, who was a high school student when his mother was killed by a US Marine in 1974, holding her portrait during an interview with AFP

Global commemorations

Okinawa a reluctant host for US troops 80 years after WWII

Jailed Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai's national security will enter its final stages with lawyers presenting closing arguments in a trial that began in 2023

Hong Kong court postpones closing arguments in Jimmy Lai trial

Bolivia's right-wing presidential candidate Jorge

Right-wing candidates leading

Bolivia presidential hopefuls make last push for votes

A boy walks past a destroyed tank at an open air exhibition of destroyed Russian military equipment in Kyiv on August 13, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Trump warns of make-or-break chance with Putin as pressure mounts

British Foreign Minister David Lammy did not have the rod licence needed to angle for freshwater fish like carp

Failed to catch any

Oh carp: UK's Lammy on the hook after fishing with Vance without licence

UN-backed experts have warned of widespread famine unfolding in the territory

Despite dire humanitarian conditions

Israeli military says approved plan for new Gaza offensive

The widow of the late presidential hopeful and senator Miguel Uribe, Maria Claudia Tarazona, mourns after a funeral mass in Bogota

Colombia buries assassinated presidential candidate

About 80 human rights activists, journalists, lawyers and environmentalists have fled El Salvador in the last four months, according to an AFP tally

Tightening his grip

Bukele critics face long exile from El Salvador homeland

Peru's President Dina Boluarte addresses the nation on Independence Day at the National Congress in Lima on July 28, 2025

Controversial bill

Peru's president signs military crimes amnesty bill into law

Shoes hanging on the

10 others still missing

At least 26 migrants dead in two shipwrecks off Italy

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer co-chairs a 'Coalition of the Willing' video conference call with European leaders on Ukraine

'Viable' chance for Ukraine ceasefire thanks to Trump: UK PM

JD Vance addresses troops at Britain's Fairford air force base

US Vice President

Vance visits US troops during UK trip

Road rage investigation

Authorities seize licences after 'provoked' crash on German motorway near Luxembourg border

A doctor points at a screen with the tests of a patient suffering from cervical cancer

New cancer plan urged as survival improvements in England slow

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani, seen on the left, and his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan have met frequently since the ouster of Bashar al-Assad in December

Not to stir chaos

Ankara, Damascus top diplomats warn Israel over Syria action

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