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A year after floods devastated his town in the east of Belgium, 70-year-old retired welder Mario Bonelli remains traumatised by the event and fellow townsfolk are still repairing their ravaged homes.

King Maha Vajiralongkorn of Thailand has been living the life that many of us cannot even imagine of living.

The euro languished at $1.01475, having lost 2.3% last week and briefly falling to its lowest since late 2002.

A U.S. congressional committee has asked data brokers and personal health apps to tell how they handle users' reproductive health data amid concerns states will use the information to track patients seeking abortion where it is illegal.

Syria's Assad in first official visit to Aleppo since war

Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos's announcement Friday that he will step down brings to an end a 37-year reign marked by an unrelenting authoritarian style.

Angola's former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled Africa's second biggest oil producer for nearly four decades, died on Friday, the presidency said.

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest reached a record high for the first six months of the year, as an area five times the size of New York City was destroyed, preliminary government data showed on Friday.

The family of slain Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh has accused the United States of providing impunity for Israel over her killing and asked to meet President Joe Biden in person during his trip to Israel next week.

Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan's longest-serving leader, died on Friday after being shot while campaigning for a parliamentary election, an official from his political party said.

G20 foreign ministers head to a joint summit on Friday that will put some of the staunchest critics of Russia invasion of Ukraine in the same room as Moscow's top diplomat, in the first such meeting since the war started in February.

While the European Commission publicly dodged commenting about the political upheaval in the UK, others in Brussels' orbit let loose.

A six-year-old boy died while his father is fighting for life in an alleged case of food poisoning at a holiday resort in Egypt.

A group of Afghan children were grazing sheep in fields near the village of Bolak Wandi in eastern Helmand when they spotted a metallic object half-buried in the ground.

War-themed fashion is hit with patriotic Ukrainians

Parliamentary hearings worldwide used to spread anti-vaccine conspiracies

One year after Haiti's president assassinated, investigation stalls

Russia's plastic surgery sector feels pinch from western sanctions

Hong Kong suspends 'not effective' Covid flight ban

US hopes for G20 action on Ukraine even with Russia presence

Muslim pilgrims stream out of Mecca for hajj high point

Taliban excavate ex-leader Mullah Omar's 'getaway car'

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was on the Indonesian island of Bali on Thursday preparing for a G20 gathering that will be his first face-to-face meeting with the fiercest critics of his country's invasion of Ukraine.

This week's G20 meeting in Bali cannot be business as usual but the United States is determined to ensure nothing happens there that can give legitimacy to Russia's "brutalising" of Ukraine, a senior U.S.

Japan introduces up to one-year jail time for cyberbullying

Five in hospital as Spain's Pamplona bull run returns

Russia says US 'hype' not helping WNBA player Griner

The two also warned that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, which Beijing views as its territory, would cause a massive disruption to global commerce and industry.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards have detained several foreigners, including Britain's second most senior envoy in Tehran, for alleged acts of spying such as taking soil samples in restricted areas, state television reported on Wednesday.