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An anti-immigration protestor outside a hotel south of London believed to be housing asylum seekers

Overhauling system

UK vows to speed up asylum claims as hotel protests spread

Calls for more awareness

Italian Alps record over 100 deaths this summer

Thousands line up to join the civilian militia in Venezuela after President Nicolas Maduro warned of possible US invasion

Venezuela rallies militia volunteers in response to US 'threat'

A van being used by the metropolitan police as part of their live facial recognition operation is pictured ahead of the 2023 coronation of King Charles III

UK's mass facial-recognition roll-out alarms rights groups

Nigeria's army has been battling a 16-year jihadist insurgency

'Intensified efforts'

Nigeria says killed over 35 jihadists near Cameroon border

The UN officially declared a famine in Gaza on Friday, blaming the 'systematic obstruction' of aid by Israel

'Systematic obstruction' of aid

'Far too late': Palestinians despair after UN declares famine in Gaza

US Senator Chris Van Hollen (R) met with Salvadoran migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a US resident, in April 2025 in San Salvador in a bid to have him returned to the United States

Hardline immigration policies

US govt wants migrant targeted in crackdown deported to Uganda: lawyers

The Donetsk region has become one of the main flashpoints of the fighting

Slowly advancing

Russia claims more Ukraine land as hopes for summit fade

Sri Lanka's former president Ranil Wickremesinghe looks on as he sits in a prison bus in Colombo

Severely dehydrated

Sri Lanka ex-president rushed to intensive care after jailing

A general view shows the North Korean side (back) of the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas at South Korea's Odusan Unification Observatory -- Seoul says it fired warning shots at North Korean soldiers who briefly crossed the border

'Uncontrollable tensions'

Seoul says fired warning shots after North Korean troops crossed border

Dodik is defying a ban on him staying in office, and seeking public support to stay in power

International condemnation

Bosnia's Serb statelet calls referendum on verdict against leader

Passenger arrested

Lyon–Porto flight turns around after cockpit intrusion attempt

Guinea's opposition accuses the head of the country's junta, General Mamadi Doumbouya, of making a power grab by moving to rewrite the constitution

Ahead of electoral campaign

Guinea's junta suspends three main political parties

A US judicial commission denied parole Friday to Joseph Lyle Menendez, a day after his brother Erik was also ordered to stay in prison

To remain behind bars

Lyle Menendez denied parole decades after murder of parents

Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro's lawyers denied that he violated restrictions imposed for his detention during his trial

Former president

Bolsonaro defense says Brazil police aim to 'discredit' him

Passengers aboard the tour bus had visited Niagara Falls before the deadly accident

Filled with tourists

Five killed in New York state tourist bus crash

A security member stands guard as cleaners clear debris from the site of a bomb explosion in Cali, Colombia

Worst security crisis in decades

Colombia vows to neutralize guerrilla threat as twin attacks kill 19

Sergio Gor (right), who has been tapped a the next US ambassador to India, walks with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on the White House lawn after a trip with President Donald Trump in April 2025

Low-profile aide in the White House

Trump names close political aide as ambassador to India

Caspar Veldkamp resigned as Dutch foreign minister after cabinet failed to agree new sanctions against Israel

Growing political chaos

Dutch foreign minister resigns over Israel sanctions showdown

US President Donald Trump said he would make a decision on Ukraine peace efforts in two weeks

Despite US mediation

Hopes dim for Putin-Zelensky peace summit

The Boko Haram jihadist group has been active in the Lake Chad basin for around 15 years

Alleged 'surgical operation'

Boko Haram denies Nigerien army claim to have killed leader

On September 26, 2022, underwater blasts ruptured the two Nord Stream gas pipelines laid under the Baltic Sea

Arrested in Italy

Ukrainian refuses German extradition in Nord Stream sabotage case

FBI agents carry boxes as they arrive at the house of John Bolton, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser

Former security advisor

FBI raids home of outspoken Trump critic John Bolton

Iran faces a narrowing window of time to avoid snapback sanctions over its nuclear programme

Nuclear programme

Iran, Europeans to meet as snapback sanctions loom

'Robust security guarantees will be essential,' said Rutte, speaking alongside Zelensky

Potential peace deal

NATO chief calls for 'robust security guarantees' on Ukraine visit

UN aid chief Tom Fletcher said the famine was entirely preventable

Dismissed as 'Hamas lies'

UN declares famine in Gaza, blames Israel's systematic obstruction of aid

Thailand's former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra will learn his fate in a royal insult case that could see him jailed, as the political dynasty he founded falters

Faced 15 years in prison

Thai ex-PM Thaksin acquitted of royal insult charges

Morning Roundup

Luxembourg City launches new green initiative, Colombian attacks, and Menendez denied parole

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