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Protesters hold placards reading such as "Bring back Fedorov" and "A major step backward" during a demonstration against Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky's decision to dismiss Ukraine's former defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov, in Kyiv on July 16, 2026, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Largest protests since 2022

Bitter row splits Ukraine's military leadership after defence minister ousted

Hydrogen trains use fuel cells to generate electricity by combining hydrogen and oxygen, emitting only water and steam

$12-million project

India launches first hydrogen-powered train in clean energy push

Extreme weather

Tornado sweeps woman into air and overturns lorries near Lyon

Petula Clark, now 93, is planning a concert in London

Veteran British star

Petula Clark, 93, hopes real singers will survive the AI tide

The Japanese flag flutters in the wind from the top of the Bank of Japan headquarters in central Tokyo. A new law criminalises the act of damaging the flag in a manner that causes significant discomfort or revulsion to others

Worries over freedom of expression

Japan outlaws flag desecration despite critics

Vania Tavares collects black sand from the beach near the town of Ribeira da Barca, Cape Verde

'My only alternative'

Women sand miners toil stripped Cape Verde beach

Miners taking part in wind turbine operation training at the Gorzyca Wind Farm

Green transition

From coal pits to wind turbines, Polish miners rise to the occasion

Tech shares after investors viewed a presentation by Claude owner Antrhopic as less threatening than feared to incumbent technology companies

More AI, fewer people?

Startups bet on AI -- and a leaner future

This screen grab from a SpaceX live webcast shows SpaceX's Starship rocket ten minutes before its scheduled launch from South Padre Island, Texas, on July 16, 2026, ahead of an abrupt scrub of the test

SpaceX abruptly scrubs Starship test flight

Morning Roundup

Trump alleges Chinese election interference, Trier University mourns killed student, and World Cup nears finale

Ships sail near the Strait of Hormuz off the eastern coast of the United Arab Emirates at Khor Fakkan on July 13, 2026

Agreement 'dismantled'

US strikes Iran as Tehran warns of Mideast reprisals

US President Donald Trump gestures after delivering an address to the nation in which he warned Americans that election integrity was at risk

White House address

Fact Check: Trump's primetime speech rehashing election claims

US Vice President JD Vance (C) walks with Pakistan's Chief of Defence Forces and Chief of Army Staff Field Marshall Asim Munir (L) and Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar after arriving for talks with Iranian officials in Islamabad on April 11, 2026

Following Iran war mediation

Defence and minerals: inside Pakistan's lobbying push in Washington

Skyroot Aerospace's plans to launch India's first privately developed orbital-class rocket before August 4 mark the next major step for the growing Indian space industry

Ambitious goals

India's space sector takes off as private rocket readies launch

Elon Musk's Starlink dominates the global satellite communications sector with thousands of satellites in orbit and operations in dozens of countries

In case of conflict with China

Taiwan lawmakers to remove legal hurdles for Starlink to operate

Since opening the sector to private players in 2020, India has become home to more than 400 space startups

Reshaping ambitions

India's private space industry shoots for the stars

France will take on Japan in the Nations Championship on Saturday in Tokyo

Nations Championship

Japan, France ready for tussle in steamy Tokyo

The Nana Backpackers Hostel in Laos' Vang Vieng where two Australian victims of tainted alcohol poisoning were reportedly staying

Six tourists dead

Australia protests Laos response to 2024 tainted alcohol deaths

Central Asia is seeing an increasing number of failed -- sometimes fatal -- cosmetic procedures

Social media trend

Central Asia's unbridled cosmetic surgery boom

The Venezuelan town of Anare was miraculously unscathed by the earthquakes on June 24

Miraculously unscathed

'Blessed town' on Venezuelan coast escapes quake damage

Beyonce's stylist contacted Abidjan-based Loza Maleombho after noticing her handmade creations on Instagram

Worn by Beyoncé

I.Coast fashion designers storm the international stage

More than 4,800 people are confirmed dead in the twin earthquakes that devastated Venezuela's La Guaira state on June 24, 2026

Twice in a lifetime

Buried in 1967 quake, Venezuelan now scrambles to help new victims

A video that appears to have come from the Jalisco New Generation Cartel seems to have been filmed in Mexico City's tourist hub of Xochimilco, known as the 'Mexican Venice'

'Mexican Venice'

Mexico City tourist area appears to come into cartel's crosshairs

People play basketball as wildfire smoke from Canada causes hazy conditions in New York

Hazardous Canadian wildfire smoke choking millions in US

Iran says the Strait of Hormuz will remain shut

Latest developments

US-Iran strikes: latest developments

Thousands of hectares of the historic Fontainebleau forest outside of Paris were burnt in a fire

Dozens arrested

Macron pledges 'zero tolerance' for arson after spate of fires in France

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio launched a scathing attack on left-wing extremism, calling for international cooperation to combat a "new wave of this old evil."

International ministerial meeting

US wants to globalize fight against far-left 'terrorism'

US President Donald Trump has cracked down on several types of visas and immigration categories

Maximum of four years

US to limit stays of students, journalists

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