Archives for August, 2025

German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt during a visit to a border control station in Kiefersfelden, southern Germany, on May 15, 2025

Germany to extend border controls in migration crackdown

Agence France-Presse

Egypt's Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly meets with his counterpart from Sudan Kamil Idris upon his arrival in Egypt's capital Cairo
Sudan's army-aligned prime minister arrived in Cairo on August 7 morning, for his first official foreign visit since assuming office in May, as his country remains gripped by a brutal war, now in its third year.

Sudan's PM in Egypt on first foreign visit

Agence France-Presse

FILE PHOTO: A general view shows Agdam town in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, November 24, 2020. Picture taken November 24, 2020. REUTERS/Aziz Karimov/File Photo

U.S. secures strategic transit corridor in Armenia-Azerbaijan peace deal

Reuters

FILE PHOTO: A Palestinian woman inspects the site of an overnight Israeli strike on a house, in Gaza City August 7, 2025. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas/File Photo

Israel's Netanyahu to convene security meeting on expanding Gaza war

Reuters

A view of slogans 'EL AL genocide airline' and 'Palestine will live and will win', sprayed with red paint on the entrance of the EL AL Israel Airlines offices in Paris, France August 7, 2025. REUTERS/Noemie Olive

Paris office of Israeli airline El Al vandalised

Reuters

Kuwait oil minister says OPEC monitoring market, Trump remarks on Russian oil

Reuters

Palestinians inspect the site surrounding an evacuated UNRWA clinic where displaced people were taking shelter, following an overnight Israeli strike, in Gaza City August 6, 2025. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas

Senior EU official says Gaza crisis 'looks very much' like genocide

Reuters

A Palestinian woman at the site of Israeli bombardment on the Al-Mawasi area in the southern Gaza Strip

Israeli army will 'take control' of Gaza City: PM's office

Agence France-Presse

Nadia Feyzi, 32, an Afghan artist who fled conflict in her country and migrated to Germany, rereads a page of her manuscript that she has just finished writing while sitting in a cemetery that she goes to for inspiration in Bonn, Germany, July 15, 2025. Feyzi's book is inspired by the lives of Afghan women over generations and says, "I want to do something big here. This book will say it all.” REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

A journey to belong: migrants describe ten years in Europe

Reuters

The sheer drop of the Sheeheet pit, one of four that dot Oman's Dhofar region, is ringed with slippery mud, prompting the authorities to put up a fence and warning signs.

Mind the gap: tourists drawn to Oman's giant sinkholes

Agence France-Presse

Palestinian mother Amira Muteir holds her five-month-old baby Ammar, whom she says is wasting away from malnutrition, in Gaza City, August 5, 2025. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa

Gaza father grieving loss of child to malnutrition scrambles to save siblings

Reuters

A man carries a wounded Palestinian as people walk past the rubble of houses and buildings destroyed during the war, following a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Al-Bureij in the central Gaza Strip January 20, 2025. REUTERS/Khamis Saeed/File Photo

Indonesia readies island medical facility for 2,000 wounded Gazans

Reuters

People walk next to trucks carrying humanitarian aid near the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, in Rafah, Egypt, August 6, 2025. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

EU assessment finds significant obstructive factors undermine humanitarian operations in Gaza

Reuters

Grandmother Marji Mansfield, 68, history student Zahra Ali, 18, and obstetrician Alice Clack, 49, are among those arrested for supporting Palestine Action

UK pensioner, student arrested for backing Palestine Action

Agence France-Presse

An order by US President Donald Trump raising tariffs on dozens of trading partners took effect on August 7, 2025

US partners seek relief as Trump tariffs upend global trade

Agence France-Presse

Afghan nationals, who were deported from Iran, rest with their belongings at a camp set up for returning migrants near the Islam Qala border crossing in Herat province, Afghanistan, July 23, 2025. REUTERS/Sayed Hassib

Returned and reeling: Afghans expelled from Iran struggle to start over

Reuters