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Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan reacts during a press conference at the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands June 25, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Piroschka Van De Wouw/File Photo

NATO allies have grown silent on rights concerns in Turkey

Some critics of Erdogan's government believe the relative Western silence encourages its authoritarian slide, isolates Turkey's opposition and ignores NATO's founding principles of...

A cyclist cools off at a fountain at Madrid Rio park during the second day of the heatwave, in Madrid, Spain, July 25, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Ana Beltran/File Photo

Which European countries are running out of water?

Packs of clothing are pictured at a garment factory for Shein in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China April 1, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Casey Hall

EU slaps €3 fee on cheap ecommerce parcels in blow to Shein, Temu, AliExpress

A Singapore Airline passenger jet flies over Windsor Castle on its way to Heathrow airport, in Windsor, west London March 25, 2012. Photo: REUTERS/Paul Hackett

Asian airlines' Europe windfall fades as Gulf rivals rebound

A man rides a bicycle along empty Red Square near St. Basil's Cathedral in central Moscow, Russia May 1, 2020. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov/File Photo

Russia says downed 419 Ukrainian drones

People play in a fountain at the Andre Citroen park as temperatures rise in Paris during a second heatwave affecting a large part of France, June 21, 2026. Photo: REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier

France blames US for deadly heatwave

File photo. Photo: Collected

150 million people living under extreme heat: WHO chief

A serviceman of the consolidated Brigade 'Khyzhak' of the Ukrainian Patrol Police Department walks along a road near anti-drone nets and destroyed military vehicles as he takes part in a mission to protect a road from Russian drones between frontline towns of Druzhkivka and Kostiantynivka, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Donetsk region, Ukraine June 24, 2026. Photo: REUTERS/Anatolii Stepanov

Russia pounds on the gates of Ukraine's 'fortress belt'

British new Member of Parliament (MP) for Makerfield, Andy Burnham, attends his swearing-in ceremony at the House of Commons, in London, Britain, June 22, 2026. Photo: House of Commons/Handout via REUTERS

UK's likely next leader Burnham to unveil plan to shift power from London

British Defence Secretary Dan Jarvis walks on Downing Street before a cabinet meeting after British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced a timeline for his resignation, in London, Britain, June 23, 2026. Photo: REUTERS/Toby Melville

UK scraps plans to replace destroyers with focus on drone warships

Rescuers work at a site of a Russian air strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine in this handout picture released June 28, 2026. Photo: Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Zaporizhzhia region/Handout via REUTERS

Russian attacks kill five in Ukraine: Local officials

People sit on the banks of the Bassin de la Villette during a storm, as lightning strikes behind them amid a heatwave in Paris, France, June 27, 2026. REUTERS/Tom Nicholson

Record heatwave disrupts Europe as France warns death toll to rise

People play in a fountain at the Andre Citroen park as temperatures rise in Paris during a second heatwave affecting a large part of France, June 21, 2026. Photo: REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier

Record heatwave in France tied to around 1,000 deaths