A new round of extreme heat is tightening its grip on Europe from the Mediterranean to Scandinavia, setting local temperature records and fueling wildfires, violent storms and growing safety risks.

The Bangladesh National Parliament Secretariat confirmed to the media on Friday that Parliament Speaker Hafiz Uddin Ahmad has begun discharging the functions of the president in accordance with the Constitution following the resignation of Mohammed Shahabuddin Chuppu.

Zimbabwe has become a member of the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB), a move expected to expand the country's access to development financing and investment, Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion Minister Mthuli Ncube announced at the Zimbabwe Industrialization Conference and Expo

China on July 24, 2026 accused the Philippines of provoking maritime incidents near Huangyan Dao by sending a vessel and reporters, calling it a "troublemaker in the South China Sea." (Video edited by intern Liu Xinru)

China on Friday accused the Philippines of provoking a maritime incident near Huangyan Dao by sending a vessel and reporters, calling it a "troublemaker in the South China Sea."

Spain declared a national emergency over wildfires for the first time on Friday and France asked for help from the European Union to tackle a blaze on the Atlantic coast as searing heat fueled fires across Europe and forced tens of thousands of evacuations.

On Friday, the Philippine side organized seven government vessels, three coast guard ships and one fish carrier and instigated a large number of fishing boats to illegally congregate in waters under the jurisdiction of China's Huangyan Dao.

The Ebola outbreak in Congo has killed over 1,000 people, reaching the grim milestone nearly three times faster than the 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic that is considered the worst on record.

Spain’s government declared a national emergency Friday after wildfires forced the evacuation of some 20,000 people from villages near Madrid, while in southern France more than 60,000 residents fled their homes, including by boat, to escape two major blazes.

Indonesian search and rescue authorities on Friday suspended an operation for 14 people still missing after the KM Nurul Salsa passenger boat sank off South Sulawesi province.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Friday announced a major reshuffle of his cabinet, highlighted by the appointment of Nina Warken as the new Chancellery head and Carsten Linnemann as the health minister.

A Ukrainian missile strike on an enterprise in Russia's Kirov region on Friday killed six people and injured 26 others, regional Governor Alexander Sokolov said in a statement posted on social media.Sokolov said the attack targeted an enterprise in the city of Kirov, about 790 km northeast of

The Chinese Embassy in the United Kingdom on Thursday hosted a reception to celebrate the 99th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA).

One by one, solar panel factories across India are falling silent. Production lines have ground to a halt. Companies are waiting months for domestic cells that never seem to arrive.

Chinese mathematicians Deng Yu and Wang Hong were awarded the Fields Medals at the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians on Thursday, marking the first time Chinese mathematicians have won the prestigious honor.

Iraq on Friday denied a foreign media report claiming its prime minister Ali al-Zaidi had delivered a U.S. ceasefire proposal to Tehran, dismissing the report as "entirely unfounded."