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Bangladeshi soldiers stand guard outside the nation’s Secretariat in Dhaka as curfew is relaxed after student-led protests over limited public sector jobs. — AFP pic

Bangladesh students vow to resume protests against govt unless its leaders freed

French Transport Minister Patrice Vergriete said security and surveillance have been beefed up after the arson attacks on the railway network on July 26, 2024. — Picture from Facebook/Olympic Council of Malaysia

France temporarily shuts Paris Olympic media centre for ‘explosion risk’ after attack on rail lines

Israel’s Anat Lelior competes in the 3rd heat of the women's surfing round 1 of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Teahupo’o in Tahiti on July 27, 2024. Israeli athletes’ data have been hacked and posted on social media sites. — AFP

French cybercrimes team acting to remove leaked Israeli Olympians’ data, including military status, from social media

Palestinians inspect the damage following an Israeli strike on the Khadija school housing displaced people in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip on July 27, 2024. — AFP pic

Hamas claims 30 dead from Israeli strike at Gaza school; Netanyahu condemns rocket attack on youths in Golan 

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Trump tells Christians they won't have to vote again after November US election

Police had initially denied that the three were taken into custody before home minister Asaduzzaman Khan confirmed it to reporters late on Friday. — AFP pic

Bangladesh claims student leaders taken into custody for their own safety after deadly riots

Displaced Palestinians from the eastern part of Khan Yunis, set up a temporary camp in the grounds of a cemetery in the western part of the city, in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 26, 2024. — AFP pic

Israeli army orders more evacuations in southern Gaza as UN reports over 180,000 Palestinians flee fierce fighting in Khan Yunis 

A high-speed train by French railway company SNCF travels on the Bordeaux-Paris route at reduced speed, at Chartres, northern France on July 26, 2024, after the resumption of high speed train services on the line between Paris and Bordeaux, following suspected acts of sabotage on the country’s rail network ahead of the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. — AFP pic

Seven out of 10 French high speed trains to run Saturday after Olympics Games sabotage

A Chinese Coast Guard vessel blocks the Philippine resupply vessel Unaizah May 4, on its way to a resupply mission at Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea, in this file picture dated March 5, 2024. — Reuters pic

Philippines completes first South China Sea resupply mission under new China deal to ease tensions with Beijing

The crew of a private company secure containers to be used in the oil spill response, at a port in Limay, Bataan, the Philippines, on July 26, 2024. — AFP pic

Philippine coast guard says oil leaking from sunken tanker into Manila Bay, urges fishing suspension

The case is the second time Hongchi Xiao, 61, has been convicted in similar circumstances, following the death of a six-year-old diabetic boy in Australia in 2015.

‘Slapping therapist’ who viewed insulin as poison convicted in death of UK diabetic woman after she attends his workshop

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi speaks during the 25th Asean Plus Three Foreign Ministers’ Meeting at the 57th Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Vientiane on July 27, 2024. — AFP pic

China’s foreign minister warns Philippines over US missile deployment amid South China Sea dispute

Divers will attempt today to inspect the hull of a Philippine tanker carrying 1.4 million litres of industrial fuel oil that sank off Manila as authorities race to avert an ecological catastrophe, the coast guard said. — AFP pic

Race against time: Divers target sunken Philippine oil tanker to prevent worst oil spill disaster

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (right) arrives to attend the 57th Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) in Vientiane on July 27, 2024. — AFP pic

US’ Blinken set for talks with Chinese foreign minister in Laos on sidelines of Asean meet 

Illinois resident Margo Gill, who brought the case against Abbott, alleged that the company failed to warn that its formula could cause a potentially deadly disease called necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) in premature babies. The jury awarded her US$95 million in compensatory damages and US$400 million in punitive damages. — Reuters pic

Abbott must pay US$495m in premature infant formula trial that caused girl to develop bowel disease, jury finds

Riyad Mansour, Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations, speaks during a UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question at the United Nations headquarters on July 26, 2024 in New York City. — Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images pic via AFP

Gaza mediators, Israel spy chief to meet in Rome in latest push for truce, says Egypt media