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UK drops demand for access to Apple user data 19 Aug 2025 - 04:17 pm
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'Skibidi' and 'tradwife': social media words added to Cambridge dictionary 19 Aug 2025 - 02:10 pm
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Google agrees to US$36m fine over Android search deals 19 Aug 2025 - 01:59 pm
(Files) A woman walks past a Google logo at the Google Campus in Warsaw on February 13, 2025. (Photo by Sergei Gapon / AFP)
Historic Swedish church to relocate on trailers in logistical feat 19 Aug 2025 - 09:01 am
The wooden Kiruna Church is transferred to its new location, in Kiruna, Sweden on August 19, 2025. (Photo by Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP)
Zelensky says ready for bilateral meeting with Putin to end war 19 Aug 2025 - 07:59 am
(L/R) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks as French President Emmanuel Macron and US President Donald Trump listen during a meeting with European leaders in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on August 18, 2025. (Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/ AFP)
Portugal's wildfire damage exceeds 2024 total, 2 deaths reported 18 Aug 2025 - 06:57 pm
Residents of some villages severely affected by wildfires protest against not being allowed to enter their towns, in Guardo, Palencia province, on August 18, 2025.  (Photo by CESAR MANSO / AFP)
Spain wildfires burn record territory this year: monitor 18 Aug 2025 - 03:06 pm
People fight a wildfire in the village of Vilarino, in Carballeda de Avia municipality, northwestern Spain, on August 17, 2025. Photo by MIGUEL RIOPA / AFP
Greta Thunberg, activists block Norway oil refinery 18 Aug 2025 - 01:11 pm
Swedish climate and political activist Greta Thunberg (C) and activists from the climate protest group Extinction Rebellion take part in a protest at Equinor's oil refinery in Mongstad, north of Bergen, Norway on August 18, 2025. Photo by Paul S. Amundsen / NTB / AFP
European leaders to join Zelensky in Trump meeting 17 Aug 2025 - 10:51 pm
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen leave at the end of a joint press conference in Brussels, on August 17, 2025. (Photo by Simon Wohlfahrt / AFP)
250 flee as Turkish rescuers battle wildfire in Gallipoli 17 Aug 2025 - 12:03 pm
This handout photograph taken and released on August 8, 2025 by Turkish news agency DHA (Demiroren News Agency) shows people working to extinguish wildfire in Canakkale, northwestern Turkey in the Marmara region. (Photo by Handout / DHA (Demiroren News Agency) / AFP)
Europe to mull over plan for peace in Ukraine after Trump-Putin summit 17 Aug 2025 - 11:50 am
People walk on the Andriivskyi Descent in the Podil neighborhood, in downtown Kyiv, on August 16, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Roman Pilipey / AFP)
'Pickypockets!' vigilante pairs with social media on London streets 17 Aug 2025 - 11:21 am
Diego Galdino, who hunts and films pickpockets in London and posts the footage on social media, poses on Westminster Bridge in London on August 7, 2025. (Photo by Henry Nicholls / AFP)
Russian President says halting hostilities in Ukraine preferred right away 16 Aug 2025 - 09:14 pm
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European leaders back Putin-Trump-Zelensky meeting 16 Aug 2025 - 04:02 pm
In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, US President Donald Trump (L) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) chat before holding a joint press conference following a US-Russia summit on Ukraine at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 15, 2025. (Photo by Gavriil Grigorov / POOL / AFP)
Netanyahu has become a 'problem', says Danish PM 16 Aug 2025 - 12:02 pm
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Zelensky says will meet Trump in Washington Monday 16 Aug 2025 - 11:08 am
This aerial view shows protesters holding a giant Ukrainian flag in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 15, 2025 during a US-Russia summit. (Photo by Daphné Lemelin / AFP)
Ethiopia's famous fossils of Lucy, Selam to be displayed in Czech Republic 15 Aug 2025 - 11:18 pm
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IN PHOTOS: Portugal reports first death from heatwave fires 15 Aug 2025 - 09:08 pm
People use buckets of water to extinguish a wildfire that threatens their house in the Portuguese village of Antas, in Trancoso, on August 15, 2025. (Photo by Patricia De Melo Moreira / AFP)