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China's President Xi Jinping (C), North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (R) and Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) in Beijing for a military parade

Two blockbustre events

China's Xi at centre of world stage after days of high-level hobnobbing

Eerie conversation

Open mic caught Xi, Putin discussing immortality

People restrain a man during a fight between supporters and opponents of Argentina's President Javier Milei at the end of a rally for the La Libertad Avanza political party

Fist fights and hurled projectiles

Campaign event for Argentina's Milei ends with skirmishes

Morning Roundup

Deadly funicular accident in Lisbon, no deal in social talks, and critics react to Israel Philharmonic performing in Luxembourg

A lunar eclipse turns the Moon red near the Australian capital city of Canberra on March 14, 2025

In Luxembourg too

'Blood Moon' to rise during total lunar eclipse Sunday night

Former Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra is facing corruption charges

With disparate outcomes

Peruvian ex-presidents face courts in separate corruption trials

Harvard has been at the forefront of Trump's campaign against top universities after it defied his demands

Froze over $2 billion

Judge overturns Trump funding cuts to Harvard

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio waves as he boards his plane en route to Ecuador at Felipe Angeles International Airport in Mexico City

To tackle cartel violence

Ecuador eyes US security accords during Rubio's visit

Guyanese President Irfaan Ali has won reelection to a second five-year term

In office since 2020

Guyana's President Irfaan Ali: oil industry 'puppet' or visionary?

Guyana's President Irfaan Ali has won re-election for another five-year term

Guyanese President Irfaan Ali claims election victory

Supporters of slain presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio demonstrate outside the judicial complex in northern Quito on September 3, 2025, while prosecutors file charges against alleged masterminds of his murder

Former minister, ex-lawmaker, and a businessman

Ecuador charges trio in presidential hopeful's assassination

Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, seen here inside his house in Brasilia on Tuesday, is not attending the close of his trial for coup plotting

Bolsonaro lawyers tell Brazil court acquittal 'imperative'

President Donald Trump said the US strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat should

Significant escalation

US strike marks shift to military action against drug cartels

US President Donald Trump and Polish President Karol Nawrocki walk down the White House Colonnade on the way to the Oval Office

Trump offers more US troops to Poland's nationalist president

Progress towards settling the three-and-a-half-year war appears to have stalled

Putin vows not to back down in Ukraine

Security personnel inspect a damaged vehicle at the site of an explosion after a suicide bombing in Quetta, Pakistan on September 2, 2025

Islamic State claims deadly attack on Pakistan rally

The vast majority of Gaza's more than two million people have been displaced at least once during nearly two years of war

Israel says expecting one million Gazans to flee new offensive

Restrictions on humanitarian aid being brought into the Gaza Strip are disproportionately impacting the disabled, said the committee

Since 7 October

At least 21,000 children disabled in Gaza war: UN committee

Including Luxembourg

Over 1.2 million Europeans demand protective framework for abortion

The 'Let's block everything' movement launched on social media

Anti-government campaign

'Block everything': France on alert ahead of nationwide protest

Pari island residents Edi (L) and Asmania pose next to the factory of Swiss cement giant Holcim in Eclepens, western Switzerland

Indonesian islanders take on Swiss cement group in climate case

The major earthquake in Afghanistan killed more than 1,400 people and injured over 3,300

Challenging remote areas

Days after quake, Afghan survivors still await aid

'This is a direct challenge to the international system built on rules,' said Kallas

Xi, Putin, Kim meeting 'direct challenge' to international system: EU top diplomat

Residents of quake-hit Dar-i-nur village have had to cobble together makeshift shelters after their homes were destroyed

Homeless and fearful, Afghan quake survivors sleep in the open

Amnéville Zoo safely retrieves escaped Steller's sea eagle

Anutin Charnvirakul, a former minister who championed Thailand's decriminalisation of cannabis, has the backing of the largest opposition party in his bid for prime minister

PM ousted after leaked call

Acting Thai government moves to dissolve parliament

President Donald Trump said that US forces had attacked a boat carrying drugs from Venezuela

Escalating relations

Trump says 11 dead in US strike on drug-carrying boat from Venezuela

Takeshi Niinami, one of Japan's best-known business people, quit after he was put under investigation regarding his involvement in supplements sent from the United States to Japan

Strict drug laws

Japan's ex-Suntory chief says CBD was for jet lag

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