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Update – Suspected knife attack

Major police operation in Essen school, one person wounded

Jihadist violence in the Sahel region

Chinese firms pay price of jihadist strikes against Mali junta

Morning Roundup

Luxembourg U-21 team bus overturns, Frieden says pension reform will move forward and Red Lions lose to Northern Ireland

Carlo Acutis has been dubbed the world's first millenial saint

'God's Influencer' to become first millennial saint

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was appointed as US Secretary of Health and Human Services by President Donald Trump

Firing scientists, overhauling policies

Trump defends RFK Jr, after heated Congress grilling

The Bell Hotel, where Kebatu was staying at the time of the incident, became the flashpoint for anti-migrant protests

UK court convicts asylum seeker of sexual assault

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has repeatedly touted the push to restore a 'warrior ethos' in the Pentagon

A more 'powerful' image

Trump rebrands Department of Defense as 'Department of War'

The Paris summit aimed to firm up plans on security guarantees for Ukraine if there is a ceasefire

Russia rejects Western security guarantees for Ukraine after coalition pledges force

A protocol officer accompanies US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to a meeting with Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa in Quito

Shoot-first crackdown

Rubio ramps up Ecuador support in tough anti-crime drive

Alcides Moura, manager of the newly renamed COP30 hotel, checks the air conditioning in a room in Belem, Brazil

'Sleep under the stars': hotel mess in Brazil ahead of UN meet

Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un arrive for a reception at the Great Hall of People in Beijing on September 3

Bilateral relations

North Korea's Kim tells Xi hopes to 'steadily develop' ties: KCNA

Thailand's former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra leaves the Pheu Thai Party headquarters in Bangkok on August 29, 2025

Thaksin Shinawatra

Thai ex-PM leaves country before parliament votes on leadership

The name of the country the soldier -- whose face has been blurred under a court order -- had attempted to defect to is permanently suppressed

Two year sentence

NZ army appeals soldier's 'inadequate' spying sentence

A fan of Universidad de Chile bleeds while being hit by fans of Independiente during the interruption of the Copa Sudamericana round of 16 second leg football match between Argentina's Independiente and Chile's Universidad de Chile at the Libertadores de America stadium in Avellaneda, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, on August 20, 2025.

Football governing body

Argentina's Independiente disqualified from Copa Sudamericana over stadium brawl

A placard reading 'No to the Veto' waved by a protester outside Congress in Buenos Aires

For the first time

Argentine Congress overturns Milei veto on disability funds

Venezuela has a ragtag collection of Russian fighter jets, Iranian drones, old French tanks and a German submarine, as well as an estimated 340,000-odd men and women in arms

In face of US 'threat,' how does Venezuela's military stack up?

Searchers pulled bodies from flattened homes in Afghanistan, four days after a massive quake struck

Deadly earthquake

Afghanistan quake deadliest in decades, killing over 2,200

The United Nations estimates that nearly one million people live in and around Gaza City, where it has declared famine

Largest urban center

Israel military says controls 40 percent of Gaza City

The yellow Gloria funicular veered off a steep stretch of tracks Wednesday evening

Update – 'Tragedy our city has never seen'

Portugal releases first details of 16 killed in funicular crash

US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on

Blistering criticism

RFK Jr defends health agency shake up, Democrats call for his ouster

The Paris summit aimed to firm up plans on security guarantees for Ukraine if there is a ceasefire

France says 26 countries commit to Ukraine deployment if peace agreed

The WTO headquarters is next to Lake Geneva

US backtracks without explanation

White House quietly drops WTO, ILO from foreign aid cut list

The court found France failed to respect the European human rights convention's provisions on the prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment

Insufficient protection

European court faults France over sexual consent rules

Authorities fear

Fears suspect leaves country

Alarm in Germany as 'dangerous' Maddie suspect set to walk

Designer Giorgio Armani dies aged 91

After Wednesday's accident some visitors found themselves torn between disbelief and fright

16 reported dead

Tourists and locals united in grief after Lisbon funicular crash

'Constant sirens'

Luxembourgish woman recalls Lisbon funicular accident

Man drives into group of people, multiple children injured

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