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Yekatom was arrested after firing a gun in parliament

Committed during civil war

ICC convicts pair over Central Africa war crimes

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen (L) warns that China's ties with Russia were now the 'determining' factor in its relations with the European Union

'Correct strategic choices'

EU says China's links with Russia now 'determining factor' in ties

Torture and arbitrary detention

UN says Taliban committing 'rights violations' against Afghan returnees

Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein in an undated image released by prosecutors at her 2021 trial

Back in the headlines

Justice Dept to meet Epstein accomplice Maxwell on Thursday: US media

International criticism is growing over the plight of the more than two million Palestinian civilians in Gaza

Strict blockade

International media groups urge Israel to allow access to Gaza

Despite recent gains in the northwest, the military remains overstretched

Shootout and airstrikes

Troops kill at least 95 'bandits' in northwest Nigeria

International criticism is growing over the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza

Under evaluation

Hamas says responded to latest Gaza ceasefire proposal

Robyn Bedell Zalewa and her sister Sophia communicate through an online translator tool

Adopted in US, Greek Cold War kids find long-lost families

A Palestinian woman clears debris from her home after an Israeli strike on the Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, on July 9, 2025

Mass destruction

Gaza today: under debris and in darkness

Russia's far eastern region of Amur where the remains of a crashed passenger plane were located on Thursday, 24 July 2025.

Update – No evidence of survivors

Plane carrying nearly 50 crashes in Russia's far east

US President Donald Trump (L) welcomes Filipino President Ferdinand Marcos at the White House earlier this week

Never-ending saga

Tariff negotiations with US 'not finished', says Philippines

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

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