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A SNCF railway worker carries cable wires at the site where vandals targeted France's high-speed train network with a series of coordinated actions that brought major disruption, ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony, in Croisilles, northern France on July 26, 2024. — Reuters pic

France suspects far-left involvement in rail sabotage, minister reveals

Turkiye’s President Tayyip Erdogan, who has been a fierce critic of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, started discussing that war during a speech praising his country’s defence industry. —

Erdogan, fierce critic of Israeli offensive in Gaza, says Turkiye might enter Israel to help Palestinians

File picture of US President Joe Biden heading to a trilateral meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (right) and Filipino President Ferdinand Marcos Jr at the White House in Washington, DC, on April 11, 2024. — AFP pic

US, Japan take a swipe at China and its ‘unlawful maritime claims in South China Sea’, deepen defence ties

An animal right activist wearing a mask looks on during a demonstration to protect stray dogs and cats in Istanbul on July 27, 2024. — AFP pic

Turkiye debates fate of millions of stray dogs amid fears of mass culling

Police reported that the dogs survived by eating the left leg of their owner, Attapol Charoenpithak, 62, whose body was discovered in his bedroom on the second floor of the house in the Khlong Sam Wa district, according to The Nation Thailand/Asia News Network as reported by The Star yesterday. 

In Bangkok, 28 starving dogs found eating dead owner’s leg (VIDEO)

US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign fundraising event at the Colonial Theater in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on July 27, 2024. — AFP pic

US election enters final 100 days as Kamala Harris campaign raises US$200m in one week

Palestinians mourn a relative killed in an Israeli strike, amid Israel-Hamas conflict, at Nasser hospital, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip July 28, 2024. — Reuters pic

Deadly Israeli strike at Gaza school kills 30, rocket kills 12 in Israeli-annexed Golan

Mourners carry coffins, during the funeral of children who were killed at a football pitch by a rocket fired from Lebanon, in Majdal Shams, a Druze village in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, July 28, 2024. — Reuters pic

Hezbollah evacuates positions ahead of expected Israel raids, says source close to group

Israeli Minister of Defence Yoav Gallant (centre) visits the site where a reported strike from Lebanon fell in Majdal Shams village in the Israeli-annexed Golan area on July 28, 2024. — AFP pic

Israel vows to ‘hit the enemy hard’ after rocket kills 12 youths in Golan

Rescuer Vitaly (R), 29, does hair to his wife Kateryna (L), 30, as she holds there daughter Dasha who was born 9 days before, in the ward of the Perinatal centre of Pokrovsk, Donetsk region on July 20, 2024, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine. — AFP pic

Births amongst bombs in east Ukraine's last maternity hospital

People look at the damage after rockets were launched across Lebanon's border with Israel which, according to Israel's ambulance services killed people, at a soccer pitch in Majdal Shams, a Druze village in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, July 27, 2024. — Reuters pic

Explainer: Is the Hezbollah-Israel conflict about to spiral?

Tickets sold out for Shanghai Museum's first 'cat night' at its ancient Egypt exhibition, which saw customers allowed to bring their pet cats to enjoy the show. — AFP pic

Shanghai museum dazzles with sold-out ancient Egypt night for pampered felines

A woman reacts, as she looks through a window, on the day of the funeral of children who were killed at a soccer pitch by a rocket fired from Lebanon, in Majdal Shams, a Druze village in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, July 28, 2024. — Reuters pic

War with Israel would deepen Lebanon’s myriad crises

Pictures is an explosion of a shot-down Russian drone in Ukraine’s Kherson region on July 26, 2024. Russia said three oil tanks in its Kursk region caught fire after a Ukraine drone strike on July 28, 2024. — Reuters pic

Russia says its oil depot in Kursk region on fire after Ukraine drone attack, no casualties reported

Waves crash on the coast of Sansha town in Ningde, Fujian province as Typhoon Gaemi nears China in July 2024. — Reuters pic

Tail end of Typhoon Gaemi causes landslide in southern China, claims 12 lives

A demonstrator in Copenhagen, Denmark holds up a placard in solidarity with university students in Bangladesh protesting a public sector quota hiring system. — AFP pic

Bangladesh restores internet lines after blackout to contain student-led protests