Palestinian-German author Alena Jabarine has been one of Germany's leading Palestinian voices. We speak with her about Palestine’s place in German…
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Kathmandu: The rains had briefly quelled, and beneath a bright mid-morning sky, 43-year-old Subash Tamang was working along the banks of the monsoon…
Divisions within the United Nations Security Council over who should be the organisation’s new secretary-general risk prolonged deadlock and a void…
Italian airshow and Nepal flash flood
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Frecce Tricolori, the aerobatic team of the Italian Air Force, performs on the first day of the BIAS International Air Show, in Bucharest, Romania, on 28 August 2026.
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A drone view of the aftermath of flash flooding at the confluence of the Trishuli and Tadi rivers in the Devighat area of Nuwakot district, Nepal, on 29 August 2026.
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A recent graduate prepares to pose for a photograph in front of the ruins of the Roman Temple of Bacchus in the historic town of Baalbek, Lebanon, on 29 August 2026.
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Pedestrians walk past a wall mural along a street in downtown Tehran on 31 August 2026. Iran attacked US military targets in the Middle East in retaliation for US strikes on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz.
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A powerful branching bolt of lightning flashes across the nighttime landscape, illuminating a wind farm in Sieversdorf, Germany, on 31 August 2026.
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Atlantic puffins gather among the grassy nesting burrows on the coastal cliffs of Heimaey, part of Iceland’s Westman Islands (Vestmannaeyjar), on 26 August 2026.
Federico PARRA / AFP
A full moon is seen behind a collapsed residential building in Catia La Mar, La Guaira State, Venezuela, on 28 August 2026, more than two months after earthquakes of magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5 struck the area.
REUTERS/Hasnoor Hussain
Performers wave Malaysian flags during the 69th National Day celebration in Putrajaya, Malaysia, on 31 August 2026.
AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean
Palestinian men work on pots at a traditional pottery workshop in the West Bank city of Hebron, on 26 August 2026.
GREG BAKER / AFP
Humanoid robots fight in a kickboxing match during the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games at the National Speed Skating Oval in Beijing on 26 August 2026.
Russia is expanding a network of military and drone-launch facilities along its western border, bringing parts of NATO territory within range of its…
Three centuries ago, in 1729, author Jonathan Swift used the cold language of arithmetic to suggest that Ireland’s poor sell their children as food…
From New Alamein to Ras El Hekma and Alam Al Roum, Egypt’s northwest coast is transitioning from a strip of resorts that fills up in the summer to a…
Last week, Syria’s Central Authority for Control and Inspection revealed serious irregularities in oil production and contracting in Deir ez-Zor. Its…
Syria continues to move towards becoming a unified and stable state, and towards something more fundamental still: a normal country, the kind neither…
In more than 20 years of closely following US politics, foreign policy, and the issue of Palestinian liberation, there has always been one clear…
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