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People participate in a demonstration against the planned deployment of National Guard troops in Chicago September 6, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 07 Sep 2025

‘No Trump, no troops’: US president threatens ‘war’ on Chicago, triggering fierce backlash and nationwide protests

Visitors walk along the shoreline as northern Sydney beaches remain closed following a suspected shark attack at Long Reef Beach on September 6, 2025. A shark mauled a surfer to death in a rare fatal attack off a Sydney beach on September 6, Australian police and rescuers said, leading to a string of beach closures. — AFP pic
World / 07 Sep 2025

Australian authorities deploy drones, helicopter after surfer killed by great white shark off Sydney beach

This combination of pictures created on September 06, 2025 shows (FILES) The logo of French postal service La Poste in central Paris on July 30, 2025, the logo of Germany's Deutsche Post near Frankfurt am Main on June 21, 2018, an India Post vehicle along a road in New Delhi on August 24, 2025, and the logo of the Poste Italiane, the Italian postal service provider, on February 1, 2024 in Rome. Postal traffic to the United States plunged more than 80 percent following Washington's imposition of new tariffs, with 88 operators worldwide fully or partially suspending services, the Universal Postal Union said yesterday. — AFP pic
World / 07 Sep 2025

Global mail to US plunges 81pc as 88 postal operators halt services over tariff rules

French authorities have detained a 17-year-old on suspicion of plotting attacks against embassies or official buildings, sources close to the investigation told AFP yesterday. — AFP pic
World / 07 Sep 2025

French authorities arrest 17-year-old over alleged terror plot targeting embassies, govt buildings

Flowers and tributes are pictured up the stairs at the site of the Gloria funicular accident after the wreckage was removed in Lisbon on September 5, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 07 Sep 2025

Lisbon funicular cable disconnected before crash that killed 16, inspectors say

A car accidentally killed a woman and injured several other people when it hit pedestrians in the coastal town of Pirou, northern France, officials said yesterday. — Reuters pic
World / 07 Sep 2025

Car ploughs into pizzeria terrace in northern France, killing one and injuring six

Jihadists killed at least 63 people in north-eastern Nigeria while storming a town whose residents had been returned from a displacement camp, the state governor said. — Reuters pic
World / 07 Sep 2025

Jihadists kill 63 in attack on resettled Nigerian town near Cameroon border

Venezuelan stylist Andry Hernandez Romero, 33, a migrant repatriated from a prison in El Salvador, speaks during a video call at his home in Capacho village, Tachira state, Venezuela on July 24, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 07 Sep 2025

A Venezuelan-US love story crushed by Trump’s migrant crackdown

Palestinians fleeing south, ride a truck with their belongings, on the coastal road near the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, on August 5, 2025. Despite mounting pressure at home and abroad to halt its nearly two-year offensive in Gaza, Israel has been calling up reservists, intensifying its bombardments and closing in on Gaza City ever since announcing its intention to capture the Palestinian territory's largest city. — AFP pic
World / 06 Sep 2025

Israel flattens Gaza City high-rise as it tells residents to flee

New Thai PM Anutin Charnvirakul's rout of rival contender Chaikasem Nitisiri yesterday was a humiliation for the ruling Pheu Thai party, the populist juggernaut of influential billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra. — Reuters file pic
World / 06 Sep 2025

Thai PM-elect names veterans to cabinet, hoping to bring ‘confidence’

US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has slashed funding for vaccine research, limited access for Covid-19 shots and ousted the head of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. — Reuters pic
World / 06 Sep 2025

Trump backs Kennedy on vaccines despite health, political risks

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung (left) is seen here with US President Donald Trump at the White House, in Washington DC, August 25, 2025. Both their countries have been at odds over the details of a trade deal that includes US$350 billion of South Korean investment in the United States.— Reuters pic
World / 06 Sep 2025

‘Deeply concerned’ S.Korean president vows immediate response to US Hyundai arrests

Men exhumed and burned Nurul Haque’s shrouded corpse through a street in Rajbari district on September 6, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 06 Sep 2025

Bangladesh police launch manhunt after riot over cleric's grave

Around 100 firefighters were called to a blaze today at the former BBC headquarters Television Centre in London’s White City, the British public broadcaster reported. — Reuters pic
World / 06 Sep 2025

Blaze hits nine-storey building at ex-BBC headquarters in White City in west London

Vehicles transporting Palestinians fleeing south, drive along the coastal road near the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, on August 5, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 06 Sep 2025

Israeli army pushes mass displacement from Gaza City amid offensive plans, UN warns of disaster, residents say ‘no safe place’

Thailand’s next prime minister Anutin Charnvirakul has pledged to make good on his promise to lead the fractured interim government to new polls. — Reuters pic
World / 06 Sep 2025

Thailand’s new PM Anutin pledges election within four months, rules out revenge after Thaksin leaves ahead of court ruling