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Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel is now under US sanctions

Amid food, water shortages

US sanctions Cuban president four years after historic protests

Workers cross the street outside a steel plant in Hamilton, Ontario

Noisy neighbours

Canada just can't win in trade war with Trump

Fired US State Department workers carry their belongings out of the headquarters in Washington, DC, shortly after being told to leave

1,300 employees affected

US State Department begins mass layoffs

Ecuadoran drug lord Adolfo Macias, alias

Cocaine and weapons smuggling charges

Ecuador's top drug lord agrees to US extradition

Ovidio Guzman Lopez, 35, a son of drug kingpin Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, pleaded guilty to drug charges

Son of Mexico's 'El Chapo' pleads guilty in US drugs case

A series of earthquakes damaged buildings in the Guatemalan town of Santa Maria de Jesus

Vigilante violence

Mob lynches five alleged thieves in quake-hit Guatemalan town

This courtroom sketch shows alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed at his Military Commissions hearing on October 15, 2012 at the US Navy base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

Long-running legal saga

US appeals court scraps 9/11 mastermind's plea deal

Trying to cover up the crime, Bosnian Serb forces moved the remains to secondary mass graves

Thousands of people gather

Bosnia commemorates Srebrenica genocide 30 years on

Bese Hozat, the PKK's top female leader, told AFP the Kurdish militants want to return home to engage in politics in Turkey

Back to mainstream

PKK militants want to enter Turkish politics: top commander

MSF said acute malnutrition levels had reached an 'all-time high' at two of its Gaza Strip facilities

'Intentional starvation'

MSF warns acute malnutrition soaring in Gaza

The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh has been added to UNESCO's World Heritage List

Between 1975 and 1979

Three Cambodia genocide sites added to UNESCO register

Canada and the United States are locked in trade negotiations in hopes to reach a deal by July 21, 2025

In letter to PM

Trump threatens Canada with higher tariff, mulls further global levies

A first group of PKK militants burnt their weapons at a symbolic ceremony in northern Iraq

Kurdish PKK fighters destroy weapons at disarmament ceremony

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (front left) with China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (right) during the 58th ASEAN Foreign Ministers meeting in Kuala Lumpur on July 11

Global powerhouses

US and China have 'positive' meeting at ASEAN foreign minister talks

Trees and undergrowth in remote Australian bush.

Remarkable story

German backpacker found after 12 days missing in Australian bush

Kaja Kallas, the European Union's high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, takes part in an interview with AFP

EU blasts Russia's latest Ukraine attacks, threatens new sanctions

Hun Sen (left) speaks to his son Hun Manet during a ceremony marking the 74th founding anniversary of the Cambodian People’s Party in Phnom Penh in June

Rights groups oppose

Cambodia to pass laws allowing for citizenship to be stripped

Denmark's parliament has adopted a law raising the retirement age to 70 by 2040, from the current age of 67

'No intention to wait that long'

Danes reluctant to embrace retirement at 70

Signs on balconies denounce the noise in the Chamberi district of Madrid

'Impossible to sleep': noise disputes rile fun-loving Spain

Boys' Love is a genre of erotic fiction mainly written and read by heterosexual women

Threatened with fines and jail time

China crackdown on gay erotica stifles rare outlet for LGBTQ expression

Behind the screens

Inside the centre monitoring traffic on France's A31

Morning Roundup

Luxembourg–Hamburg flight issue, Frieden addresses trade union discussions in Chamber, and USA in talks with Russia

A woman cries during a demonstration in Caracas for children who remain in the US after being separated from their parents during deportation

Venezuelans deported from US demand return of their children

A man has been arrested over alleged online abuse of basketball player Montrezl Harrell, who was named by Australian media

'Landmark moment'

Australian basketball first as man charged over online racist abuse

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has dragged on for more than three years

Amid intense drone strikes

Russia and US hold 'frank' talks on Ukraine war

Sara Netanyahu has long been the subject of speculation over her alleged influence in Israeli politics

Sara Netanyahu: the ever-present wife of Israel's prime minister

Argentine ex-president Alberto Fernandez will stand trial for alleged graft

Relating to insurance policies

Argentine ex-president Fernandez ordered to stand trial for graft

Gaza has been gripped by 21 months of war between Hamas and Israel

Israel PM sets out red lines for lasting end to war in Gaza

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