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Pope Leo XIV hopes to visit Turkey in what could be his first overseas trip as pontiff. [AFP] Pope Leo…
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters during a meeting with Crown Prince of Bahrain Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa in…
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a meeting with the head of the judiciary and other officials in Tehran…
The CoreCivic, Inc. California City Immigration Processing Center stands in Kern County, California City, California on July 10, 2025. [AFP]…
Syrian security forces deploy amid ongoing clashes in the southern Sweida city on July 16, 2025. [AFP] At least 248…
Thailand’s former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra addresses the SPLASH – Soft Power Forum 2025 at Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre…
Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy and vice president of the European Commission…
Former President Uhuru Kenyatta at a burial in Gatundu South, Kiambu on January 17, 2025. [John Muchucha, Standard] Former President…
The iconic Sycamore Gap tree in the UK. [PAUL BARKER/AFPTV / Northumberland National Park / Crown Prosecution Service / Northumbria…
Members of Syria’s security forces look on as smoke billows during clashes between Bedouin tribes and Druze fighers in an…
President Donald Trump (R) delivers remarks alongside NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte during a meeting in the Oval Office at…
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Wonsan, North Korea, on July 12,…
A member of civic groups wearing a mask of US President Donald Trump performs during a protest against Trump’s tariff…
A Boeing 737 Max aircraft during a display at the Farnborough International Airshow, in Farnborough, Britain, July 20, 2022.[FILE ]…
Emergency vaccination during outbreaks of diseases like cholera, Ebola and measles have over the past quarter-century reduced deaths from such…
Screenshot of when Ovidio Guzman, son of jailed drug kingpin Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman, on October 17, 2019. [AFP] A…
Huthi-affiliated fighters carrying out an attack on the Liberia-flagged bulk carrier Magic Seas at sea.[AFP] Yemen’s Huthis had paused their…
South African Caster Semenya reacts after winning in the women’s 2000m race during the France’s LNA.[AFP] When 19-year-old unknown South…
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet Meeting at the White House on July 08, 2025 in Washington, DC.…
Peru’s President Dina Boluarte addresses the opening session of the third United Nations Ocean Conference.[AFP] Peru’s Congress has approved…
Real Madrid’s Spanish forward #30 Gonzalo Garcia fights for the ball with Paris Saint-Germain’s Portuguese defender #25 Nuno Mendes.[AFP] Paris…
The logo of Nvidia.[AFP] Nvidia became the first company to touch $4 trillion in market value on Wednesday, a new…
. President Donald Trump listens as African Leaders deliver remarks during a multilateral lunch in the State Dining Room of…
Britain’s Defence Secretary John Healey (C) and his French counterpart, Sebastien Lecornu (2R). [AFP] The UK and France will declare…
People walk along a road that collapsed after a series of earthquakes rattled the area in Santa Maria de…
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) pill. [AFP] Low-income countries will gain access to a “game-changing” HIV prevention drug with a new deal…
This photo taken on June 26, 2025 shows a participant of a “hands-on livestreaming bootcamp” for farmers conducting a…
Gabon’s President Ali Bongo looks on during the One Forest Summit at the Presidential Palace in Libreville on March 2,…
Taiwanese reservists participate in pre-combat training on the first day of the annual Han Kuang military exercise in Miaoli on…
Change in intangible asset investments from 2014 to 2024 by the ten European countries which invested the most…
A train transports oil tankers in Ajmer on July 7, 2025. [AFP] Stocks were mixed on Wednesday as investors assessed…
The sun rises by the Eiffel Tower and the Sacre Coeur Basilica ontop of the Montmartre hill in Paris…
President Donald Trump, accompanied by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio (L) and U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (R), discusses…
US President Donald Trump (centre), Secretary of State Marco Rubio (left) and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during a cabinet meeting…
08 July 2025, Berlin: Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) follows the speech by Lars Klingbeil (SPD), Federal Minister of Finance,…
People check the site on an Israeli strike next to a tent housing displaced Palestinians, in Gaza City, on July…
President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, attend a dinner in the Blue Room…
British and Irish Lions’ Tommy Freeman warms up during the captain’s run in Canberra on July 8, 2025, ahead of…
Defendant Juraj Cintula, a 72-year-old poet, sits in the courtroom in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, on July 8, 2025, before the…
Members of a rescue team look for missing people on the Guadalupe River in Kerrville, Texas, on July 6, 2025,…
Smoke clouds rise near the Holy Myrrh-Bearing Women Church after a drone attack in Kharkiv on July 7, 2025, amid…
A search and rescue team looks for people along the Guadalupe River near Camp Mystic in Hunt, Texas, on July…
Trucks wait to load containers at the international cargo terminal at the port of Tokyo on July 8, 2025. Most…
A collage of President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and US President Donald Trump speaking on phones.…
A Palestinian girl walks in the rubble of a building that was targeted in an Israeli strike in the Sheikh…
A house burning during a wildfire in Pikermi, some 30 Kms east of Athens. Hot dry weather in Greece, which…
Chelsea’s Italian head coach Enzo Maresca looks on during a press conference at the Lincoln Financial Field Stadium in…
Caption. President Donald Trump arrives for a rally to kick off the July Fourth holiday weekend at the Iowa State…
Palestinian children check the rubble of a residential house in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on July 1,…
Rescuers search for missing victims of a ferry accident in the waters off the Bali Strait in Jembrana, Bali, on…
Lyubov Brodovska reacts as she holds a portrait of her missing son Oleksandr while awaiting the arrival of released Ukrainian…
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne university (EPFL)…
A rescue team moving a victim’s body brought to shore earlier by local fishermen after a ferry sank on its…
FILES) A picture shows gold bars and porcelain fragments looted from the French Prince de Conty shipwreck that were seized…
US producer-musician Sean “Diddy” Combs poses during the MTV Video Music Awards on September 12, 2023. [Angela Weis, AFP] Sean…
People stand at a bus stop showing a temperature of 37 degrees Celsius during a heatwave in Madrid, on…
U.S. President Donald Trump deplanes Air Force One on July 01, 2025 in Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. Trump spent the…
Kanye West and Bianca Censori attend the 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards on February 02, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. [AFP]…
Prossy Nkayanga (C), Executive Director of Hospice Africa Uganda (HAU), shows patients the Hero’s Medal awarded to Dr. Anne Merriman…
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi gives a statement as he arrives for a crisis…
Kibera slum in Nairobi. [File, Standard] In Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi, it is estimated that over 70 per cent of…
La France Insoumise – Nouveau Front Populaire’s MP Hadrien Clouet speaks during the examination of a motion of no…
Australian airline Qantas said on July 2, 2025 it was investigating a “significant” cyberattack, after hackers infiltrated a system containing…
Joseph Kony addresses journalists in southern Sudan in November 2006. [AFP] Eleven years ago, a documentary catapulted the name Joseph…
oldiers from the “Black Sky” battalion of the Spartan brigade look at an agricultural drone, transformed into a front-line delivery…
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama speaks in a video broadcast at the start of the 15th Tibetan Religious Conference,…
French President Emmanuel Macron and President of the Swiss Confederation Karin Keller Sutter before the start of the official meeting,…
Despite the impressive results, optimism may be tempered by the drug’s cost. [AFP] Drugs to prevent HIV transmission, known as…
Two children stand in the shade in the courtyard of an elementary school during a heatwave in Bordeaux, south-western France…
People protest against the administration of US President Donald Trump’s decision to virtually shut down the United States Agency for…
US President Donald Trump speaks during the “One, Big, Beautiful Event” in the East Room of the White House in…
U.S. President Donald Trump returns from the 2025 NATO Summit on June 24, 2025 at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. [AFP]…
Image grab taken from footage broadcast by Iran’s IRIB news state television on June 26, 2025, shows Iran’s supreme leader,…
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin meets with Iranian Foreign Minister at the Kremlin in Moscow on June 23, 2025. [AFP] North Korea…
A destroyed residential building that was hit in an Israeli strike, in Tehran, on June 25, 2025. [AFP] US Defence Secretary…
Homeless people lay on the floor in Terminal 4 of the Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas airport in Madrid, on May 28,…
A bulldozer clears rubble at the scene of a double explosion in the northern rebel-held city of Idlib on June…
Israeli emergency services and security officers search for casualties in the rubble of a building hit by an Iranian missile…
The Ukraine flag flies above Downing Street during a visit by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky on June 23, 2025. [AFP]…
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Alexandrovsky Garden. [AFP]…
A general view of the Al-Udeid US military air base, south of Doha, on October 23, 2002. [AFP] Iran announced…
A Qatar Airways Dreamliner taxis to the terminal after landing, Düsseldorf Airport, April 28, 2025. [AFP] Qatar Airways has announced…
Members of the United Nations Security Council listen Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, speaks…
A NATO military force stands guard next to the World Forum ahead of the two-day NATO summit at the…
Tetiana reacts as she pays tribute on the birthday day of her son Sergiy Voityshyn, who was killed in 2024…
Israeli security forces and media gather at the site of an Iranian strike that hit a residential neighbourhood in the…
Israeli first responders stand in front of a building heavily damaged by an Iranian strike in Tel Aviv on June…
Israeli security and first responders at the site of an Iranian strike in Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv. June 22, 2025.…
President Donald Trump fires hundreds of journalists for Voice of America (VOA), shutting down the US-funded news outlet [Getty Images]…
Signage for US broadcaster Voice of America (VOA) is seen in Washington, DC, on March 16, 2025. US President Donald…
When Pope Leo XIV delivered his first Regina Caeli prayer from the main central loggia of Saint Peter’s Basilica in…
This photograph shows the engraved facade of the Swiss National Bank (SNB BNS) in Switzerland’s capital Bern, on September 23,…
Israeli security forces gather by a damaged minibus at the scene of a building that was hit by an Iranian…
Israeli emergency services work at the site of an Iranian missile attack in Ramat Gan in central Israel near Tel…
Smoke billows from a building at Soroka Hospital in Beersheba in southern Israel following an Iranian missile attack, on June…
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, giving a televised address in Tehran on June 18, 2025. [AFP] The United States…
Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. [AFP] Germany’s Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul on Wednesday called…
ran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shows him speaking to members of Iran’s air force in Tehran on February 7,…
A woman walks past an electronic board showing the Nikkei 225 index on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo on…