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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)
Sicily divers seek tycoon's daughter after superyacht sinking 23 Aug 2024 - 11:29 am
Divers of the Vigili del Fuoco, the Italian Corps. of Firefighters leave Porticello harbor near Palermo, to resume research for a last missing person on August 23, 2024, four days after the British-flagged luxury yacht Bayesian sank. (Photo by Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP)
Indian Prime Minister arrives in Ukraine 23 Aug 2024 - 11:26 am
Peninsula
Hungary to provide free tickets to Brussels for migrants trying to enter the EU 22 Aug 2024 - 08:51 pm
Refugees sit on the pavement close to their former shelter in Kocs village, about 70 km north-west from the Hungarian capital Budapest, on August 21, 2024. (Photo by Attila 
Kisbenedek / AFP)
Zelenskyy visits border area for the first time since Ukrainian forces entered Russia's Kursk region 22 Aug 2024 - 08:48 pm
Ukrainian soldiers take part in a casualty simulation training excercise operated by Britain's armed forces, as part of the Interflex programme, in southern England, on August 22, 2024. (Photo by Justin Tallis / AFP)
Portugal seeks EU help as wildfire threatens UNESCO-listed forest 21 Aug 2024 - 11:18 pm
A Regional Civil Protection Service helicopter fights a wildfire raging through Pico do Areeiro mountain on August 21, 2024 in Santana on the Portuguese island of Madeira, which broke out one week ago in the Ribeira Brava district. (Photo by Helder Santos / AFP)
Five bodies found, one still missing in UK tycoon shipwreck 21 Aug 2024 - 09:23 pm
Divers of the Vigili del Fuoco, the Italian Corps. of Firefighters arrive in Porticello harbor near Palermo, with a third body at the back of the boat on August 21, 2024, two days after the British-flagged luxury yacht Bayesian sank. (Photo by Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP)
Police shoot man who set fire at French town hall 21 Aug 2024 - 08:08 pm
French police stand guard in front of the Town Hall after a man attempted to set the building alight with petrol in Angouleme on August 21, 2024. (Photo by Romain PERROCHEAU / AFP)
Divers retrieve 4 bodies during sunken Sicily superyacht wreckage search 21 Aug 2024 - 07:57 pm
Italian Coast Guards carry a body on a rescue boat in Porticello harbor near Palermo, with a third body at the back of the boat on August 21, 2024, two days after the British-flagged luxury yacht Bayesian sank. (Photo by Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP)
Kursk assault 'severe blow' to Putin: EU's Borrell 21 Aug 2024 - 07:29 pm
An image taken from a handout footage released by the Russian Defence Ministry on August 21, 2024, reportedly shows a Russian Mi-35m attack helicopter firing rockets on Ukrainian Armed Forces at the border area of Kursk region in Russia. (Photo by Handout / Russian Defence Ministry / AFP)
Ukraine civilians flee advancing Russian troops in east 21 Aug 2024 - 07:03 pm
Ukrainian firefighters work to extinguish a fire in a private house that broke out a day after a missile attack in Myrnograd, Donetsk region, on August 21, 2024. (Photo by Genya SAVILOV / AFP)
Greek authorities rescue 147 migrants trying to reach the country in small boats 21 Aug 2024 - 06:13 pm
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Two bodies found in Sicily yacht wreck search 21 Aug 2024 - 05:27 pm
Divers of the Vigili del Fuoco, the Italian Corps. of Firefighters arrive with a body bag at the back of the boat in Porticello near Palermo, on August 21, 2024 two days after the British-flagged luxury yacht Bayesian sank. (Photo by Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP)
Switzerland moves towards cashless future with instant payments 21 Aug 2024 - 03:18 pm
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