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European leaders to join Zelensky in Trump meeting 17 Aug 2025 - 10:51 pm
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen leave at the end of a joint press conference in Brussels, on August 17, 2025. (Photo by Simon Wohlfahrt / AFP)
250 flee as Turkish rescuers battle wildfire in Gallipoli 17 Aug 2025 - 12:03 pm
This handout photograph taken and released on August 8, 2025 by Turkish news agency DHA (Demiroren News Agency) shows people working to extinguish wildfire in Canakkale, northwestern Turkey in the Marmara region. (Photo by Handout / DHA (Demiroren News Agency) / AFP)
Europe to mull over plan for peace in Ukraine after Trump-Putin summit 17 Aug 2025 - 11:50 am
People walk on the Andriivskyi Descent in the Podil neighborhood, in downtown Kyiv, on August 16, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Roman Pilipey / AFP)
'Pickypockets!' vigilante pairs with social media on London streets 17 Aug 2025 - 11:21 am
Diego Galdino, who hunts and films pickpockets in London and posts the footage on social media, poses on Westminster Bridge in London on August 7, 2025. (Photo by Henry Nicholls / AFP)
Russian President says halting hostilities in Ukraine preferred right away 16 Aug 2025 - 09:14 pm
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European leaders back Putin-Trump-Zelensky meeting 16 Aug 2025 - 04:02 pm
In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, US President Donald Trump (L) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) chat before holding a joint press conference following a US-Russia summit on Ukraine at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 15, 2025. (Photo by Gavriil Grigorov / POOL / AFP)
Netanyahu has become a 'problem', says Danish PM 16 Aug 2025 - 12:02 pm
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Zelensky says will meet Trump in Washington Monday 16 Aug 2025 - 11:08 am
This aerial view shows protesters holding a giant Ukrainian flag in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 15, 2025 during a US-Russia summit. (Photo by Daphné Lemelin / AFP)
Ethiopia's famous fossils of Lucy, Selam to be displayed in Czech Republic 15 Aug 2025 - 11:18 pm
Peninsula
IN PHOTOS: Portugal reports first death from heatwave fires 15 Aug 2025 - 09:08 pm
People use buckets of water to extinguish a wildfire that threatens their house in the Portuguese village of Antas, in Trancoso, on August 15, 2025. (Photo by Patricia De Melo Moreira / AFP)
Turkish cities face water shortages amid record heat, drought 15 Aug 2025 - 07:57 pm
Plumes of black smoke rise from the forest around Manavgat, 75 km (45 miles) east of the resort city of Antalya, Turkey, July 28, 2021. REUTERS/Kaan Soyturk
Italian authorities try to identify Lampedusa capsize victims 15 Aug 2025 - 03:57 pm
This handout video grab taken and released by the Italian Guardia Costiera on August 14, 2025, shows migrants being rescued at sea by the Guardia Costiera after their boat sank at sea off the island of Lampedusa. (Photo by GUARDIA COSTIERA / AFP)
Spain on heat alert and 'very high to extreme' fire risk 15 Aug 2025 - 02:59 pm
View of the burnt area after a wildfire in the village of Santa Baia de Montes, in the province of Ourense, northwestern Spain, on August 14, 2025. Photo by MIGUEL RIOPA / AFP
Searchers seek missing after deadly Italy migrant shipwreck 14 Aug 2025 - 03:21 pm
Migrants disembark from the boat that rescued them after their ship sank off the coast of Italy's Lampedusa island in the harbour of Italian island of Lampedusa on August 14, 2025. Photo by -STR / ANSA / AFP
Greek firefighters make progress against wildfires 14 Aug 2025 - 12:39 pm
This handout satellite image courtesy of Maxar Technologies taken and made available on August 13, 2025 shows a view of wilfires in Gymnotopos, in the Epirus region of Greece. (Photo by Handout / Satellite image 2025 Maxar Technologies / AFP)
French dictionary gets bad rap over Congolese banana leaf dish 14 Aug 2025 - 12:25 pm
A vendor grills liboke in Kinshasa on August 7, 2025. (Photo by Hardy Bope / AFP)
Inflation in Spain Reaches 2.7% YoY 14 Aug 2025 - 03:00 am
Peninsula
Thousands battle Greece fires as heatwave bakes Europe 13 Aug 2025 - 08:03 pm
A firefighting helicopter drops water over a wildfire near the city of Patras, western Greece on August 13, 2025. Greece on August 13, 2025 battled to contain more than 20 wildfires including one menacing its third-largest city Patras as a heatwave stoked blazes and forced the evacuation of thousands in southern Europe. (Photo by Aris MESSINIS / AFP)