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Paris metro 'impossible' for disabled, transport boss admits 26 Aug 2024 - 05:38 pm
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Fire engulfs apartment building in east London, sending 2 to hospital 26 Aug 2024 - 03:09 pm
A handout image released by the London Fire Brigade on August 26, 2024, shows fire services working to control a fire in Dagenham in East London. Photo by London Fire Brigade / AFP
France extends detention of Telegram chief Durov 25 Aug 2024 - 11:42 pm
File: Pavel Durov, CEO and co-founder of Telegram speaks onstage during day one of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015 at Pier 70 on September 21, 2015 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Steve Jennings / Getty Images via AFP)
UK woman marks 102nd birthday with 'scary' skydive 25 Aug 2024 - 07:20 pm
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Reuters says team member missing in Russian strike on east Ukraine hotel 25 Aug 2024 - 07:16 pm
Ukrainian emergency services carry out a search and rescue operation among the rubble of a destroyed hotel after a strike in the town of Kramatorsk, Donetsk region on August 25, 2024. (Photo by Genya SAVILOV / AFP)
Telegram chief Pavel Durov to appear in court after French arrest 25 Aug 2024 - 05:46 pm
This picture taken on March 23, 2022 shows the mobile messaging and call service Telegram logo and US instant messaging software Whatsapp logo on a smartphone screen in Moscow. Photo by AFP.
French authorities arrest Telegram CEO Pavel Durov at a Paris airport, French media report 25 Aug 2024 - 05:36 pm
Pavel Durov, CEO and co-founder of Telegram speaks onstage during day one of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015 at Pier 70 on September 21, 2015 in San Francisco, California. Photo by Steve JENNINGS / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP.
German police say a man has turned himself in over Solingen knife attack that killed 3 25 Aug 2024 - 05:09 pm
Members of a special police unit escort a man suspected to be responsible for the Solingen knife attack from a helicopter to the office of the Federal Prosecutor in Karlsruhe, southern Germany, on August 25, 2024.
Thunberg joins protest at Norway gas plant 24 Aug 2024 - 07:55 pm
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and activists of the Extinction Rebellion (XR) group campaign against Equinor's processing plant for gas and light oil in Tysvوr near Karsto, Norway, on August 24, 2024. (Photo by Jan Kaare Ness / NTB / AFP) / Norway OUT
Italian prosecutors open shipwreck and manslaughter investigation over sunken superyacht 24 Aug 2024 - 05:51 pm
The chief of the public prosecutor's office of Termini Imerese Ambrogio Cartosio speaks next to Italian prosecutor Raffaele Cammarano during a press conference on August 24, 2024 in Termini Imerese, Sicily. (Photo by Alessandro FUCARINI / AFP)
'Bees starving' in disastrous year for French honey 24 Aug 2024 - 05:22 pm
This photograph shows honey bees in their beehive at honey producer La Ruche des Puys in Saint Ours, Auvergne, on August 20, 2024. (Photo by Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP)
Sicily prosecutors open manslaughter probe after yacht sinking 24 Aug 2024 - 12:52 pm
A Coast Guard boat and an Italian fireboat search for six others missing after recovering a victim due to a sailboat sank off the coast of Porticello, nosthwestern of Sicily Island, on August 19, 2024. Photo by Igor Petyx / ANSA / AFP.
Police search for man who killed 3 in knife attack in German city of Solingen 24 Aug 2024 - 10:08 am
Forensic police inspect on early August 24, 2024 the area where at least three people were killed and several injured when a man attacked them with a knife on late August 23, 2024 in Solingen, western Germany, according to German media, as the city celebrated its 650th anniversary. (Photo by INA FASSBENDER / AFP) / ALTERNATE CROP
A seventh body is recovered from sunken superyacht off Sicily, believed to be Mike Lynch's daughter 23 Aug 2024 - 06:58 pm
Italian firefighters and health workers carry a body bag with a victim after a sailboat sank off the coast of Porticello, nosthwestern of Sicily Island, on August 19, 2024. Photo by Igor Petyx / ANSA / AFP.
EU's Borrell says reduced German aid to Ukraine 'worrisome' 23 Aug 2024 - 03:26 pm
European Commission vice-president in charge for High-Representative of the Union for Foreign Policy and Security Policy Josep Borrell speaks during a press conference at the end of an Informal Foreign Affairs Council (Development Ministers) in Brussels, on February 12, 2023. (Photo by Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP)
Modi meets Zelensky on historic Ukraine visit 23 Aug 2024 - 01:24 pm
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (R) shows the way to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the entrance of the Mariinskyi Palace during their meeting, on August 23, 2024. (Photo by Roman PILIPEY / AFP)
An Iceland volcano erupts again but spares the nearby town of Grindavik for now 23 Aug 2024 - 12:43 pm
Handout picture released on August 23, 2024 by the Public Defense Department of the State Police in Iceland and taken during the night from August 22 to 23, 2024 shows lava and smoke erupting from a volcano near Grindavik on the Icelandic peninsula of Reykjanes. (Photo by Public Defense Department of the State Police / AFP)
Baby among at least 10 people who drowned after migrant boat overturned on Serbia-Bosnia border 23 Aug 2024 - 11:47 am
This handout photograph made available by the Ministry of Interior of Serbia shows Serbian Police officers searching a bank of the Drina River after a boat carrying 30 illegal migrants sank on the border between Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina near the town of Ljubovija, on August 22, 2024. (Photo by Handout / SERBIAN INTERIOR MINISTRY / AFP)

Africa

An adult and two juvenile Masai giraffes sprint across the savannah after one is darted with a tranquilizer from a helicopter during an exercise to translocate large herbivores from Kedong Ranch due to land subdivisions and corralling that have disrupted wildlife migratory routes in Naivasha, Nakuru County, on November 16, 2025. Photo by Tony Karumba/ AFP 'Stranded, stressed' giraffes in Kenya relocated as habitats encroached
EAA Foundation, FAO launch livestock restocking initiative to strengthen food security in Sudan EAA Foundation, FAO launch livestock restocking initiative to strengthen food security in Sudan
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Americas

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People walk on the street as the rain pours in the Manhattan borough of New York City on November 19, 2025. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP) US unemployment up even as hiring beats expectations in delayed report
(Combo) This combination of pictures created on November 19, 2025 shows Democratic candidate for Mayor of New York City Zohran Mamdani on October 19, 2025 in New York City and US President Donald Trump in Washington, DC, October 24, 2025. (Photo by Angela Weiss and Saul Loeb / AFP) Trump says will meet with New York mayor-elect Mamdani on Friday
The steel frame of the Francis Scott Key Bridge lies in the water after it collapsed in Baltimore, Maryland, on March 26, 2024. Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP. Ninety seconds could have saved lives on Baltimore bridge: probe

Gulf

Photo credit: Dubai Media Office Pilot dead in Indian warplane crash at Dubai Airshow: govt statement
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Crown Prince and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia HRH Mohammed bin Salman and member of the Saudi Arabia at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC on November 19, 2025. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) Saudi AI firm Humain inks Nvidia deal as US allows chip sales
A Flydubai Boeing 737 MAX 8 performs a display flight at Al-Maktoum International Airport during the Dubai Airshow 2025 in Dubai on November 17, 2025. (Photo by Giuseppe CACACE / AFP) Flydubai orders 75 Boeings as deals roll in at Dubai airshow

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