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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)
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
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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)

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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Firefighters work to extinguish a fire after an explosion in an industrial area of Ezeiza, Buenos Aires province, Argentina on November 15, 2025. Powerful explosions rocked an industrial area and ignited a fire south of Buenos Aires on the night of November 14, 2025, officials said, with at least 22 people sent to the hospital. (Photo by Luis Robayo / AFP Huge fire sparked by explosions near Argentine capital 'contained'
Former first lady Michelle Obama addresses the crowd at the When We All Vote Rally outside Atlanta, a campaign appearance stumping for Vice President Kamala Harris last year. Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post Michelle Obama says America is ‘not ready’ for a female president
Visitors walk through the recently re-opened National Museum of American History on November 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. Heather Diehl/Getty Images/AFP 'So happy': Tourists flock to Washington museums after US shutdown

Gulf

File photo of Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman Saudi crown prince departs for US
A Boeing 777-9 sits on the tarmac at Al-Maktoum International Airport during the Dubai Airshow 2025 in Dubai on November 17, 2025. (Photo by Giuseppe Cacace / AFP) Emirates orders 65 Boeing 777X planes in $38 bn deal
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