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Magistrates of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP), Ana Manuela Ochoa, Camilo Andres Suarez and Juan Ramon Martinez, attend the reading of sentences against former FARC commanders for kidnappings, in Bogota, Colombia September 16, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 19 Sep 2025

Colombian court issues first sentences for ex-soldiers over civilian killings

Smoke billows amid Israeli strikes in the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Tibnit on September 18, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 19 Sep 2025

Israel launches strikes on five Lebanese towns after ordering residents to flee

Protestors demonstrate in Strasbourg, eastern France on September 18, 2025, during a day of nationwide strikes and protests called by unions over France’s national budget. — AFP pic
World / 19 Sep 2025

France paralysed as mass protests erupt against Macron’s austerity push

Smoke rises from Gaza after an explosion, as seen from Israel September 17, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 19 Sep 2025

‘Unfit for human dignity’: Israel’s Gaza offensive intensifies with bombardment, famine and UN genocide accusations

US deputy Middle East envoy Morgan Ortagus (centre) raises her hand to veto a draft resolution during a United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in Gaza, at UN headquarters in New York on September 18, 2025. The UN Security Council is slated to vote on the latest call for a ceasefire and increased humanitarian access to Gaza, a move supported by a majority seeking to act despite repeated US vetoes. — AFP pic
World / 19 Sep 2025

US vetoes UN Gaza ceasefire call again despite genocide findings

File picture of a video grab from a drone handout footage released by Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences on July 30, 2025, shows the tsunami-hit Severo-Kurilsk on Paramushir island of Russia's northern Kuril islands. A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka peninsula early Friday, rocking buildings and prompting authorities to issue a tsunami alert, later lifted. — Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences via AFP pic
World / 19 Sep 2025

Powerful 7.8 magnitude quake rocks Russia Far East, tsunami alert issued

Signs of the US and Taiwan symbolising bilateral cooperation are seen on the Barracuda-500, a low-cost autonomous cruise missile jointly developed by NCSIST and US company Anduril, during the Taipei Aerospace & Defense Technology Exhibition in Taipei on July 18, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 18 Sep 2025

In first, Taiwan to jointly manufacture autonomous missile and underwater drone with US partner

India has issued a health alert after infections and deaths from the amoeba ‘Naegleria fowleri’ doubled in Kerala, with 72 cases and 19 deaths reported this year. — Reuters pic
World / 18 Sep 2025

‘Rare but fatal’: India on health alert as ‘brain-eating’ amoeba cases rise in Kerala

Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer and US President Donald Trump sit down for a bilateral meeting at Chequers, in Aylesbury, central England, on September 18, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 18 Sep 2025

Trump’s UK visit shifts from royal pageantry to talks on trade, Ukraine and Gaza

Former Japan's internal affairs minister Sanae Takaichi announces her intention to run in the Liberal Democratic Party's presidential election to decide the successor to Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in Tokyo September 18, 2025. — Jiji Press/AFP pic
World / 18 Sep 2025

China critic Takaichi launches campaign to become Japan’s first woman prime minister

Han Hak-ja, the leader of the Unification Church, arrives at the special prosecutors' office for questioning over allegations, which she has denied, that she instructed the church to bribe the wife of ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol and a politician close to Yoon, in Seoul September 17, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 18 Sep 2025

South Korea seeks arrest of Unification Church leader in corruption scandal tied to ousted president’s wife

Chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, South African judge Navi Pillay, gestures after a press conference in Geneva on September 16, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 18 Sep 2025

‘It’s so painful to watch’: UN Gaza investigator draws Rwanda parallels, urges prosecution of Israeli leaders for genocide

Susan Monarez, then US President Donald Trump’s nominee to be director of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, testifies before a Senate Health, Education, Labour, and Pensions Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. June 25, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 18 Sep 2025

Fired CDC chief says RFK Jr pressured her to ignore science, demanded unproven vaccine changes

Alexei Navalny's widow Yulia Navalnaya takes part in a march of members of the Russian opposition in Berlin on March 1, 2025. The wife of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said on September 17, 2025 that laboratory analysis of smuggled biological samples had found he was killed by poisoning while incarcerated in an Arctic prison in February 2024. — AFP pic
World / 18 Sep 2025

‘Alexei was killed. Specifically, poisoned’: Navalny’s widow accuses Putin of Arctic prison murder, cites foreign lab findings

A woman walks along the seafront in Ajaccio, on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica, on June 20, 2024. After an air traffic controller dozed off on Monday, the Air Corsica flight from Paris Orly airport to Ajaccio was forced to fly around in circles above the Mediterranean Sea for ‘18 minutes’, authorities said. — AFP pic
World / 18 Sep 2025

‘Fell asleep at his post’: French air traffic controller dozes off, stranding Air Corsica flight in holding pattern for 18 minutes over Mediterranean

US President Donald Trump and Britain's King Charles III raise their glasses during a State Banquet at Windsor Castle, in Windsor, on September 17, 2025, during the US President's second State Visit. — Yui Mok/Pool/AFP pic
World / 18 Sep 2025

Lavish Windsor state banquet for Trump features awkward guest amid Epstein-linked legal feud