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The Vienna leg of a tour by US mega-star Taylor Swift has been cancelled after Austria arrested an Islamic State sympathiser in connection with an attack plot, the organisers said yesterday. — AFP pic

Concerts in the crosshairs: Five major attacks that shook music worldwide

Swift’s three concerts in Vienna, expected to draw 195,000 people, were cancelled late yesterday after the government flagged a planned attack. — AFP pic

Austria finds chemicals in house of suspected Taylor Swift concert attack plotter

People gather against an an anti-immigration protest in London August 7, 2024. — Reuters pic

UK rioters thwarted by ‘show of unity’ by communities, says police chief

The 53-year-old had pleaded guilty to 63 charges relating to bestiality, animal cruelty and possessing child abuse material.

UK croc expert Adam Britton gets 10 years for ‘unspeakable’ rape, torture of dogs in Australia

Authorities issued advisories for a one-metre high tsunami for the Pacific coast of the western islands of Kyushu and Shikoku.

Japan’s Kyushu shaken by dual quakes, tsunami alerts issued

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, who was recommended by Bangladeshi student leaders as the head of the interim government in Bangladesh, walks at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport in Roissy-en-France August 7, 2024. — Reuters pic

Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus to be sworn in as Bangladesh’s interim chief today

Japan sweltered through its hottest July since records began 126 years ago, as extreme heatwaves fuelled by climate change engulfed many parts of the globe. — AFP pic

EU climate monitor: 2024 on track to sizzle as hottest year ever

A Palestinian man sits outside houses damaged in an Israeli strike, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, August 7, 2024. — Reuters pic

EU, France, UK slam Israeli minister’s ‘justified starvation’ comment on Gaza crisis

Adam Kelwick, Imam of the Abdullah Quilliam Mosque, poses in front of a ‘welcome’ sign, amid rioting across the country in which mosques and Muslims have been targets, in Liverpool August 6, 2024. — Reuters pic

‘Doesn’t feel like home’: Liverpool’s Muslims shocked by UK riots

WCK said the Palestinian staff member was killed near Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza. — Reuters pic

World Central Kitchen says Palestinian staff member killed in Gaza

Walz went to China to teach English and US history in 1989. He and his wife later started a company that organised trips to China for US students. He has been to China more than 30 times. — Reuters pic

Harris’ VP pick Tim Walz’s long history with China raises eyebrows in Beijing

Biden said yesterday, ‘Trump means what he says. We don’t take him seriously. He means it. All this stuff about if we lose there’d be a bloodbath.’ — Reuters pic

Biden ‘not confident’ of peaceful power transition if Trump loses US presidential election

Supporters listen to the speech of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, during a commemorative ceremony marking the first week since the killing of Hezbollah’s top commander Fuad Shukr, in the southern suburbs of Beirut August 6, 2024. — Reuters pic

MH17’s shadow: UK, Egypt airlines shun Iranian, Lebanese airspace as risks of military conflict rise 

A demonstrator holds up a poster of assassinated Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh during a protest to show solidarity with Palestinian prisoners, outside the United Nations offices in Sanaa, Yemen, August 3, 2024. — Reuters pic

OIC condemns Israel for Ismail Haniyeh assassination, labels act as ‘crime of aggression’

A protester holds a placard reading ‘Racists not welcome here’ during a counter demonstration against an anti-immigration protest called by far-right activists in the Walthamstow suburb of London August 7, 2024. — AFP pic

Cheers, claps as anti-racism protesters flood north-east London, outnumbering far-right rally

Servicemen of 24th Mechanized brigade named after King Danylo of the Ukrainian Armed Forces fire a SPG-9 anti-tank grenade launcher towards Russian troops at a front line, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, near the town of Chasiv Yar in Donetsk region, Ukraine August 6, 2024. — Reuters pic

Ukraine pierces Russian border, triggering fierce clashes