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Kampala, Uganda | URN | Amnesty International has criticised plans by five European Union member states to establish “return hubs” in Uganda and Rwanda for migrants facing deportation from Europe, warning that the arrangements could expose them to serious human rights violations. The criticism comes as Austria, Denmark, Germany, Greece …

  WASHINGTON | Xinhua | U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that the U.S. military may soon strike Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain — a fortified site near Iran’s Natanz enrichment facility — while trying to downplay the conflict with Iran as “small potatoes.” “We may hit Pickaxe very soon,” Trump told …

  Parton, who died last week aged 80, launched the philanthropic effort in 1995 to honour her father – whose difficult Appalachian upbringing never allowed him to finish school or learn to read and write.   NEWS ANALYSIS | AGENCIES | One child in Denver called her “The Book Queen”. Another …

      Xi says China, Egypt set example of friendship, solidarity between developing countries   Cairo, Egypt | XINHUA |  Chinese President Xi Jinping said Tuesday that China and Egypt set an example of friendship, solidarity and coordination between developing countries, with strong political mutual trust, fruitful mutually beneficial cooperation, …

  Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers an important speech during the 26th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Sept. 1, 2026. (Xinhua/Zhai Jianlan)   BISHKEK | Xinhua | Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that China is ready …

Kabul, Afghanistan | Xinhua | An infant, still hungry and unaware that his mother had been killed, reached for her breast after a U.S. overnight bombardment in Bala Buluk district of Afghanistan’s western Farah province in 2009. The haunting scene is described in the newly released English edition of a …

  NUWAKOT, Nepal | Xinhua | For Santosh Thapa, his family was lucky when a devastating mudslide hit Devighat in Nuwakot in central Nepal; all his relatives managed to escape the disaster, leaving their belongings behind as mud gushed down. It was a narrow escape, Thapa said. Although he was …

  LONDON | TASS |  The number of incidents in which AI agents ignored instructions and lied to users, employing malicious methods to achieve their goals, reached a record high in July, exceeding 330 incidents in a single month, The Guardian reported, citing a study by the UK-based AI Safety Institute (AISI). …

LONDON | Xinhua |  There is a long tradition of Britons complaining about the grey, rainy summers. However, that reality is now changing, as an extended spell of extreme heat and drought has swept across the country. FARMING UNDER PRESSURE In the fields of Leicestershire in England, heat scorched the …

  Here is why the latest chokehold could threaten a critical harvest and global food security   COMMENT | IRYNA SKUBII | While the world’s attention is fixated on the US blockade of Iranian ports and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, Russia has been subjecting Ukraine to a blockade …