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Chinese manuscripts can include thousands of characters created by skilled artists using special brushes

$216,000-worth of theft

Library user borrows rare Chinese artwork, returns fakes: US officials

The United States has increased its bounty on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to $50 million

Faces federal drug trafficking charges

US raises bounty on Venezuela's Maduro to $50 mn

Donald Trump has said he could meet with Vladimir Putin even if his Russian counterpart does not talk to Ukraine's leader

Diplomatic approach

Trump says would meet Putin without Zelensky sit-down

US President Donald Trump (L) shakes hands with Apple CEO Tim Cook in the Oval Office

Buttering him up

Solid gold, royal missives and Nobel noms: how to win Trump over

Bolivian presidential candidate Jorge

Upcoming election

Bolivia right-wing presidential hopeful vows 'radical change'

Supporters of Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group block the streets in Beirut with burning tires as they rally in cars and motorbikes to protest the government's endorsement of a plan to disarm it

Second time in days

Lebanon cabinet meets again on Hezbollah disarmament

Republicans hope to gain as many as five more House seats by reworking the legislative map in Texas

Excluding undocumented immigrants

Trump demands new US census as redistricting war spreads

Thai Deputy Defence Minister Nattaphon Narkphanit (R) and Cambodian Defence Minister General Tea Seiha (L) formalised a ceasefire on Thursday

Dispute over border temples

Thailand and Cambodia agree to extend peace pact

Palestinian children carry water past line after line of tents housing displaced families in the sand dunes of Mawasi on Gaza's Mediterranean coast.

Never-ending destruction

'How much worse could it get?' Gazans fear full occupation

Grandmother Marji Mansfield, 68, history student Zahra Ali, 18, and obstetrician Alice Clack, 49, are among those arrested for supporting Palestine Action

Labelled as terrorists

UK pensioner, student arrested for backing Palestine Action

Macron had hoped for reconciliation with Algiers

Strained relations

Macron urges tougher line in standoff with Algeria

Interior Minister Dobrindt

Germany reaffirms tough migration stance beyond September

Copernicus monitor

No pause in climate change despite slight cooling in July

The population of Japanese nationals fell by a record amount -- more than 900,000 people -- in 2024, official data showed, as the country battles to reverse its low birth rates

Struggles to reverse low birth rates

Japanese population sees record drop in 2024

South Korean prosecutors are seeking an arrest warrant for former first lady Kim Keon Hee, wife of impeached ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol

Following questioning over many allegations

Arrest warrant sought for South Korea's ex-first lady Kim

Putin's meeting with Steve Witkoff at the Kremlin concluded after around three hours

To act by Friday

Trump says likely to meet Putin 'very soon'

Morning Roundup

Person hit by a train, Ryanair strike, and Luxembourg represented at World Aquatics Championships

Sudanese walk past shops in Khartoum's twin city Omdurman on July 29, 2025

Darfur's Nyala airport

Sudan says army destroys Emirati aircraft, killing 40 mercenaries

This handout photo released by the Lebanese presidency on August 5, 2025 shows Prime Minister Nawaf Salam speaking to the press after a cabinet session to discuss the issue of disarming Hezbollah

Lebanon's Hezbollah rejects cabinet decision to disarm it

A Palestinian girl at the site of an overnight Israeli strike in Gaza City

23 months of war

Israel orders army to execute govt decisions on Gaza

A visitor looks out towards the Giza pyramid complex as she tours the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza on the southwestern outskirts of the capital Cairo on May 5, 2025

Treasures of Tutankhamun

Egypt sets opening of $1 bn Pyramids museum for Nov 1

Major disruptions until December

Historic strike to impact nearly all Spanish airports

Police searching for three suspects after violent robbery in Traben-Trarbach, Germany

The 'Gateway to Hell' was once a pit of blazing red flames and glowing red embers in the middle of the Turkmen desert

Tourists leave disappointed

Turkmenistan's methane-spewing 'Gateway to Hell' loses its anger

Karol Nawrocki has argued that Ukraine 'has not shown gratitude'

Nawrocki: nationalist historian becomes Poland's president

An inquiry by the UK's Chrity Commission clears Prince Harry of bullying in a dispute with the chairperson of his Sentebale charity, but regrets that an internal row was played out publicly

Helping HIV and AIDS patients

Prince Harry cleared of 'bullying' in African charity row

Activists, independent journalists, and relatives of political prisoners in Cuba said they were briefly detained or prevented from leaving their homes by state security agents on the anniversary of the

'Besieged by police'

Cuba activists say detained on anniversary of 1994 anti-Castro protest

Morning Roundup

Wildfire rages in France, 80th anniversary of Hiroshima bombing, and Gerson Rodrigues suspended from national football team

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