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After a recent French court ruling allowed far-right leader Marine Le Pen to run in the presidential election next year, the country’s political…
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Israel’s election on 27 October promises to be different to other recent votes in that it could bring to an end the longest political era in the…
Wildfires in southwest Europe and more from the world
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Hand-crafted bamboo tubes packed with gunpowder that erupt in a towering column of spark and flame, during the Tatebayashi Arm-Held Fireworks Festival in Tatebayashi, Gunma Prefecture, on July 25, 2026.
Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Handout via REUTERS
A firefighter works at the site of a petrol station hit by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Sumy, Ukraine, in this handout picture released July 23, 2026.
REUTERS/Steve Nesius
Super Heavy v3 Booster 20 stands on Pad 2 at the SpaceX launch complex ahead of additional testing in Starbase, Texas, U.S., July 22, 2026.
Photo by THIBAUD MORITZ / AFP
A French Civil Security Canadair CL-415 aircraft flies past flames burning a forest surrounding Cotignac, southeastern France on July 23, 2026 during a wildfire.
Photo by MAXIMILIEN LAMY / AFP
Beach goers rest on the beach of Moutchic on the shore of Lake Lacanau (Etang de Lacanau) in Lacanau , southwestern France on July 24, 2026, as clouds of smoke rise into the sky from the Gironde wildfire.
Photo by CESAR MANSO / AFP
An Air Tractor AT-802F Fire Boss aircraft dumps water over a wildfire burning near San Martin de Valdeiglesias, about 70km west of Madrid, on July 26, 2026.
Photo by Eyad Baba / AFP
Children queue to receive meals from a charity kitchen at the Maghazi camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip on July 26, 2026.
Photo by PAUL MILLER / AFP
Pallas's cat Azu , a species considered to be the world's oldest living feline, is seen in her enclosure at Kobe Animal Kingdom in Kobe on July 27, 2026.
Photo by JOHN WESSELS / AFP
A Palestinian boy stands on top of a pile of rubble from a building containing shops and flats that were demolished by Israeli forces, in Arraba, south of the Palestinian city of Jenin in West Bank, on July 27, 2026.
(UGC via AP)
Smoke billows into the sky following Ukrainian drone strikes on warehouses of Russia's online retailer Wildberries, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Friday, July 24, 2026, with St. Isaac's Cathedral seen in foreground.
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It was more than a local disturbance when the convoy of Hasakah’s governor was attacked in Ras al-Ayn on 22 July. Protesters blocked the road and…
Pickaxe Mountain in Iran is one of the most secretive and heavily fortified sites in the country’s nuclear programme and came to prominence after US…
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