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US Republican Presidential nominee former President Donald Trump leaves the stage after speaking during a rally at Herb Brooks National Hockey Center on July 27, 2024 in St Cloud, Minnesota. — Stephen Maturen/Getty Images North America/Getty Images pic via AFP

Trump says Olympic opening ceremony ‘a disgrace’ after Catholic groups, French bishops slam ‘Last Supper’ depiction 

Sources said Harris took a break from the campaign trail this weekend and held private conversations with several vice-presidential candidates. — Reuters pic

Kamala Harris vice-president race narrows with Cooper, Whitmer out

Students detained over rallying against quotas in government jobs, look out from a prison van following their arrest by Bangladesh police personnel, along the street in Dhaka July 29, 2024. — AFP pic

Bangladesh protests resume after ultimatum for apology over 205 killed ignored

Police officers stand guard on Hart Street in Southport, northwest England, on July 29, 2024, following a knife attack. — AFP pic

Knife attack at Taylor Swift-themed dance class in UK leaves two children dead, 11 injured

Portraits of the children and youngsters who were killed two days ago, hang on the football stadium fence where a rocket landed, in the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Israel annexed Golan Heights on July 29, 2024, amid ongoing cross-border clashes between Israeli troops and Hezbollah fighters. — AFP pic

Lebanon on alert as Israel vows ‘severe’ response to rocket deaths

Druze elders and mourners surround the coffins of 10 of the 12 people killed in a rocket strike from Lebanon a day earlier, during a mass funeral in the Druze town of Majdal Shams in the Israel-annexed Golan Heights, on July 28, 2024. — AFP pic

How might Israel retaliate against Hezbollah for Golan strike?

Demonstrators set a barricade on fire during a protest against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government in Valencia July 29, 2024, a day after the Venezuelan presidential election. — AFP pic

‘It’s going to fall, this govt is going to fall!’: Protests erupt in Venezuela’s Caracas against Maduro’s disputed election win

Edwards was the BBC’s lead presenter on key events, such as the death and funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, but was suspended in July 2023 when allegations first emerged.

Ex-BBC presenter Huw Edwards charged with making indecent images of children

Palestinians inspect a destroyed mosque, following an Israeli strike, amid Israel-Hamas conflict, in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, July 27, 2024. — Reuters pic

As fighting rages, displaced Gazans struggle with disease and lack of shelter

Musk has so far refused to apologise to the Harris campaign instead making a mocking reply on his X account. — Picture via Twitter/Elon Musk

After sharing deepfake Kamala Harris video, Elon Musk called out by US Democrats for spreading ‘lies’

A woman arrives with a floral tribute to pay her respects at Hart Street in Southport, northwest England, on July 29, 2024, following a knife attack. — AFP pic

Third child dies following mass stabbing in UK’s Taylor Swift-themed dance event

Police said the cables of several telecoms operators had been sabotaged in six areas of France overnight from Sunday into today but Paris was not affected. — AFP pool pic

After attacks on railways, now French internet cables sabotaged, police say

Experts measured the number of people who had died as a direct or indirect result of Covid and found the excess mortality rate was still higher than pre-pandemic levels. — Reuters pic

Covid-19 drives high mortality rate in Australia, even higher than pre-pandemic

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (right) had met Japan's Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa (centre) during the Quad Ministerial Meeting in Tokyo, July 29, 2024. — AFP pic

‘Stop creating imaginary enemies’, Beijing warns after US and Japan condemns South China Sea aggression

Indonesia's President Joko Widodo speaks about the planned new capital Nusantara, at Ecosperity Week in Singapore June 7, 2023. Jokowi has named the Presidential Office building in the new capital city of Nusantara (IKN) Penajam Paser Utara (PPU) as Istana Garuda, while the Presidential Palace in IKN will be called Istana Negara. — Reuters file pic

Jokowi names Presidential Office in new capital Nusantara as Istana Garuda; Presidential Palace to be called Istana Negara 

While the WHO has said the risk to the public from the avian influenza virus remains low and that it is not spreading between people, they say it has the potential to cause a future pandemic because of its widespread circulation in animals. — Reuters pic

WHO: Drugmaker Sinergium to share bird flu vaccine data globally for equitable rollout during pandemic