On 20 July, Iran-backed Houthi rebels declared an immediate maritime embargo against Saudi Arabia, formalising the collapse of the UN-sponsored 2022…
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On 29 July, a drone struck a floating American storage and regasification unit at Damietta Port on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast, setting it ablaze…
As hundreds of thousands of people around the world queued outside cinemas to watch the story of the wandering king Odysseus and his epic voyage home…
A new road bridge linking Russia and North Korea is nearing completion across the Tumen River, creating the first direct road connection between the…
The collapse of the Japanese yen was not a sudden event, but the culmination of a prolonged divergence between monetary policy in the United States…
Mexico heatwaves and Gaza sunsets
REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez
Children cool off in fountains at a park after a month of extreme heat in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, on 30 July 2026.
REUTERS/Amir Cohen
The sun sets over Gaza, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, on 2 August 2026.
OMAR AL-QATTAA / AFP
Palestinian children play near the rubble of destroyed buildings in Gaza City on 2 August 2026.
Abdel Majid BZIOUAT / AFP
Migrants walk towards the Fnideq region in northern Morocco after leaving Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta following an attempted crossing at the Bab Sebta border crossing, on the outskirts of Fnideq, on 1 August 2026.
Henry NICHOLLS / AFP
Members of the Spanish Army's 'Regulares' infantry forces watch a group of migrants near the border post of the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on August 2, 2026.
Giuseppe Distefano / Etna Walk / AFP
A plume of ashes rises from a crater of the Mount Etna volcano during an eruption on 30 July 2026 in Sicily, Italy.
MURAT KOCABAS / AFP
A volunteer uses a shovel as they battle a wildfire in the Seydikemer district of Muğla, Türkiye, on 29 July 2026.
JIJI PRESS / AFP
A man walks along a destroyed road in Uki, Japan, on 3 August 2026, following the 28 July earthquake.
KARAR JABBAR / AFP
This aerial photograph shows Muslim devotees gathering between the shrines of Imam Hussein and Imam Abu Al-Fadl Al-Abbas in Iraq's central holy city of Karbala on 2 August 2026, during the Arbaeen pilgrimage.
REUTERS/Andreea Campeanu
Brown bears watch traffic on the side of the Transfagarasan road in Romania on 29 July 2026.
The Schengen Agreement has made travel within the European Union a lot easier since it came into force. It allows its 29 member states to relax their…
More than a year after the outbreak of the US-Israeli war against Iran, Tehran is seeking to widen the battlefield. It is putting into practice the…
Sadly, grimly, but unsurprisingly, the fears of atrocities envisaged in the Sudanese city of El-Fasher, in the western region of Darfur, were…
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