In pictures: Eclipse craze grips Spain, Iceland

Spain deployed a massive police contingent and set up special viewing spots across rural areas that offered the best views of the spectacle.
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Trump's spokesperson Karoline Leavitt to step down

Leavitt, 28, the youngest ever US presidential top spokesperson, has been a fiercely loyal Trump defender
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After Trump's Turkey ruse, a look at past secret presidential trips

Closed aircraft window shades. A ballcap pulled low to hide the president's face. Seized cellphones. These are all hallmarks of secret trips made by US presidents
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Colombia president says earthquake death toll hits 265

Colombia's president declared an economic emergency and vowed the country would rebuild after a massive earthquake
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Erdogan eyes expansion, courts Egypt

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday he hoped more countries would join a defence agreement signed last week between Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan aimed at stabilising a region wracked by conflict.
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Border peace key to ties with China: India

India’s foreign ministry said peace along its disputed border with China is critical to ties between the Asian neighbours, amid reports of renewed military tensions between the two countries’ troops in a remote corner of the Himalayas.
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Putin threatens to seize EU vessels if bloc targets Russia’s

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday said that Russia will respond in kind if European countries start to seize Russian merchant vessels and the commander of Russia’s Pacific Fleet said his forces were ready to “inspect and detain” foreign vessels.
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Ex-Chinese PM Zhu Rongji dies aged 97

Former Chinese premier Zhu Rongji, whose market reforms helped drive the country’s extraordinary economic rise, died yesterday at the age of 97.
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Colombia declares three days mourning for quake victims

Colombia on Wednesday declared three days of mourning for victims of an earthquake that demolished buildings in the west of the country, killing more than 200 people.
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Half of Afghan women rarely leave home: UN

Half of Afghan women now leave their homes only once or twice a month as Taliban-imposed restrictions curtail their freedom of movement and participation in public life, according to data released by U.N. Women on Wednesday.
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Toyota ex-chief Okuda, pioneer of the Prius, dead at 93

Okuda took the reins of the struggling firm in 1995 as the first person from outside the founding family in decades, and pushed innovative products such as the RAV4 and Prius.
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Pakistan interior minister in Iran to discuss regional security

Pakistan's interior minister is visiting Iran to discuss regional security, stability and other developments, the foreign office said on Wednesday.
12 August 2026

New attacks on shipping as Iran war talks hit fresh impasse

Four crew members killed in suspected Houthi attack on cargo vessel, sources say
12 August 2026

Colombians dig through rubble as quake death toll surpasses 240

In Pereira and Cali, families slept in parks as aftershocks rattled damaged neighborhoods where entire blocks had been reduced to rubble.
12 August 2026

Trump's secret plane swap triggers questions and confusion

The US president covertly exited the presidential plane while it was on the ground in Turkey on July 8.
12 August 2026

Trump secretly flew out of Turkey on smaller plane: report

US President Donald Trump secretly flew out of Turkey last month on a smaller plane than previously known due to an assassination threat from Iran, the Washington Post reported Monday.
12 August 2026

Russian barrage on Ukraine kills 9, wounds dozens

Russian attacks across Ukraine killed at least nine people overnight and wounded dozens, authorities said yesterday, after Kyiv warned that Moscow had received more ballistic missiles from North Korea.
12 August 2026

Trump ‘used a catering truck to sneak off Air Force One’

US President Donald Trump took a secret military flight from Turkey last month in an operation that involved him being moved between aircraft in a catering truck, an extraordinary deception prompted by an Iranian assassination threat, the Washington Post reported.
12 August 2026

School Shooting: Thai PM suspends firearm purchase licences

Thailand’s prime minister said yesterday he had suspended firearms licences after last week’s deadly school shooting, as the bodies of the teenage assailant and the grandparents he killed were cremated.
12 August 2026

US has ‘begged for talks’

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said yesterday the US had ‘’begged’’ Tehran for negotiations, as President Donald Trump claimed the Navy had cleared the Strait of Hormuz of mines and now hold ‘’100%’’ control of the waterway.
12 August 2026