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  • Shinji Ishimaru, leader of the local political party The Path to Rebirth, attends a press conference in Minato Ward, Tokyo, on August 27, 2025.
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    AI have a dream? A fringe party in Japan wants a chatbot penguin to be its leader
  • Silent Courier: UK intelligence service MI6 launches dark web portal to recruit foreign spies
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  • In show of force to Trump, Venezuela launches military drills and displays its Russian fighter jets
  • Hamas warns Gaza City offensive ends hope for hostage return, as pressure from families on Netanyahu grows
  • Britain showered Trump with all the pomp it could muster. What did it get in return?
  • Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif embrace each other on the day they sign a defence agreement, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, September 17, 2025. Saudi Press Agency/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.
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    Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sign mutual defense pact as Gulf Arab states grow wary of US security guarantees
  • Taliban orders ban on internet in northern Afghanistan ‘to prevent immoral activities’
  • Brazil’s Bolsonaro diagnosed with skin cancer days after being convicted of coup
  • Israel’s culture minister vows to defund ‘Israeli Oscars’ after film about Palestinian boy wins big
  • 2024 parcel blasts in Europe organized by Russians with intelligence ties, Lithuania says
  • Protests, projections and programs: How Britons are showing their displeasure at Trump’s visit
  • Israeli tanks surround Gaza City ahead of ground incursion as EU proposes sanctions amid global outcry
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  • María Verónica Soto reunited with her daughters, Maria Beatrice and Adelia Rose Mereu Chessa, in Chile, 45 years after the twins were stolen as babies and placed for adoption with a foreign family.
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    Chilean mother reunites with her twin daughters for the first time in 45 years
  • Russian tanks move during the "Zapad-2025" (West-2025) joint Russian-Belarusian military drills at a training ground near the town of Borisov, east of the capital Minsk, on September 15, 2025.
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    US observes Belarus-Russia war games as NATO allies feel the heat of Moscow’s incursions

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  • WINDSOR, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 18: Queen Camilla and First Lady Melania Trump look at miniature dolls' house books as they tour Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House and the Royal Library during the State visit by the President and First Lady of the United States of America at Windsor Castle on September 18, 2025 in Windsor, England. President Trump is in England from Sept. 16-18 on his second UK state visit, with the previous one taking place in 2019 during his first presidential term.  (Photo by Aaron Chown -  WPA Pool/Getty Images)
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  • PASADENA, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 17: Sally Rooney speaks onstage during the Hulu Panel at Winter TCA 2020 at The Langham Huntington, Pasadena on January 17, 2020 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Erik Voake/Getty Images for Hulu)
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    Sally Rooney says she cannot ‘safely enter’ UK after supporting banned pro-Palestinian group
  • Pope Leo says he is concerned by ‘some things’ happening in the US in first major interview since election
  • French unions strike against austerity, pressuring Macron
  • British police arrest three on suspicion of spying for Russia
  • Czechs agog as national archive prepares to open mysterious envelope sealed for 20 years
  • Alexey Navalny’s widow says lab tests prove Russian opposition figure was poisoned in prison

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  • Bezalel Smotrich at a news conference in the occupied West Bank last month.
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    Israel’s far-right finance minister suggests a real estate ‘bonanza’ in Gaza will follow the war
  • As US reliability falters, Saudi Arabia turns to a nuclear-armed ally
  • UN commission says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza
  • Arab leaders deliver tough talk but not much action on Israel during Qatar summit
  • Palestinians flee Gaza City as Israel says it launched ground assault amid global outcry
  • Netanyahu admits Israel faces prolonged ‘isolation’ over war in Gaza
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  • SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 17: A rare albino alligator named Claude is reflected in water as it sits in its enclosure at the California Academy of Science on September 17, 2025 in San Francisco, California. The California Academy of Science is celebrating the 30th birthday of its beloved rare albino alligator, Claude, with a month-long birthday bash. Claude was hatched on September 15, 1995, in Louisiana and lacks the pigment melanin, resulting in colorless skin. He was raised at the St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park in Florida before moving to the California Academy of Science in 2008. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
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  • American actor Robert Redford, wearing a brown corduroy blazer over a checked shirt, in a recreation of The Washington Post's offices, in a publicity still for 'All the President's Men', filmed at Burbank Studios in Burbank, California, 1976. The political thriller based on the Watergate scandal, directed by Alan J Pakula, starred Redford as Bob Woodward. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
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  • TOPSHOT - The Moon appears from behind the Tokyo Skytree during a total lunar eclipse in the middle of the night above the Japanese capital early on September 8, 2025. Stargazers enjoyed a "Blood Moon" overnight on September 7 during a total lunar eclipse visible across Asia and swathes of Europe and Africa. (Photo by JIJI Press / AFP) / Japan OUT (Photo by STR/JIJI Press/AFP via Getty Images)
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  • Military personnel take part in a military parade to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Japan's World War II surrender held in front of Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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  • In the medical stockroom of Kuoyo Sub-county Hospital in Kisumu, Kenya, a nurse holds a USAID-labeled box containing antiretroviral medicine in April, as US funding cuts ripple through the local health system.
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    The Trump administration has halted funds for global HIV/AIDS programs. No one knows how big the impact is
  • South Sudan’s vice president charged with treason and murder
  • Ethiopia opens Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam to Egyptian protest
  • ICC opens war crimes case against Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony

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  • DORAL, FLORIDA - FEBRUARY 03:  Far-right former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro speaks during the Turning Point USA event at the Trump National Doral Miami resort on February 03, 2023 in Doral, Florida. Bolsonaro has been staying in Orlando since leaving Brazil two days before the inauguration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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    Brazil’s ex-president Bolsonaro taken to hospital after feeling unwell, son says
  • Why do so many Latin American leaders have legal troubles?
  • How Bad Bunny made Puerto Rico’s economy boom during hurricane season
  • MAGA sees Brazil as a harbinger for Trump’s US – Bolsonaro’s trial proves them wrong

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  • A low-cost autonomous cruise missile is displayed during the Taipei Aerospace & Defense Technology Exhibition in Taipei on September 17, 2025.
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    Taiwan unveils first missile jointly developed with American arms company
  • Exercises show Washington keeping alliances strong as Pacific adversaries bring new threats
  • South Korean workers detained by ICE return home after saga that has rattled close US friendship
  • ‘Inconvenient,’ ‘retrograde’ and more popular than ever: The rise of instax cameras

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    Beautiful and haunting images from the Ocean Photographer of the Year competition
  • Machu Picchu is at risk of losing its ‘credibility’ as one of the New 7 Wonders of the World. What’s happening?
  • Fall equinox: Why the first day of fall isn’t as equal as you might think
  • Some American travelers are ‘flag jacking’ and Canadians are livid
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    ‘Scourged Back’ exposed the horror of slavery. Now it’s embroiled in America’s censorship debate
  • Look of the Week: At Windsor Castle, Melania Trump was utterly inscrutable — until she wasn’t
  • See what the stars are wearing at New York Fashion Week
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  • No, Mount St. Helens isn’t erupting again. It’s just stirring up leftover ash 45 years after ‘the big one’
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    Building a modern metropolis using a centuries-old technique
  • Wind turbines are tough to recycle. These architects are transforming them into micro homes
  • Amid growing climate threat, Vietnam’s architects turn to tradition
  • This New York skyscraper had a 1-in-16 chance of collapse. Only one man knew
  • Singapore’s most famous landmark is undergoing an $8 billion expansion

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  • TAMPA, FLORIDA - AUGUST 2: Clayton Kershaw #22 of the Los Angeles Dodgers smiles in the dugout prior to a game against the Tampa Bay Rays at George M. Steinbrenner Field on August 2, 2025 in Tampa, Florida. (Photo by Kelly Gavin/Getty Images)
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    Los Angeles Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw to retire at end of season
  • Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone wins women’s 400m World Championship gold in second-fastest time ever
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  • The sample of an Intel chip is displayed at the Computex event in Taipei, Taiwan, on June 4, 2024.
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    Nvidia will take a $5 billion stake in Intel, joining the US government as a major shareholder
  • Here’s what it’s like to use Meta’s new Ray-Ban Display glasses
  • Samsung’s biggest new phone in years may launch in the US this year
  • Mark Zuckerberg unveils Meta’s newest AI-powered smart glasses
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