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A pneumatic barrier is deployed in the water by a Spanish Guardia Civil boat near the border post to reinforce security following illegal crossings from Morocco into Ceuta

Spain says migrant crossings into Ceuta stopped overnight

Migrants gather along the fence at the site of clashes near Fnideq, on the Morocco-Spain border

Italy suspends Schengen pact with Spain over Ceuta crisis

Savannah Guthrie and mother Nancy Guthrie

Guthrie family beg for help after mother's disapperance

Miners and families gather after a coal mine collapsed in Pakistan

At least 34 killed in coal mine blast in Pakistan

A Palestinian boy juggles a ball in front of a destroyed building in Khan Younis in southern Gaza

Hamas has moved toward disarming - now it's up to Israel

Analysis and Comment

A town in France in ruins following a series of wildfires

Inside the French town hit hardest by wildfires

People search among the rubble following an Israeli strike on Gaza city

Israel must honour deal for Hamas disarmament - official

Funeral director Robert Bush pictured with a face covering

20 years jail for UK funeral boss who hoarded bodies

Vessels transit the Bab el-Mandeb Strait off the coast of southern Yemen on July 25, 2026. A spokesman for Yemen's Houthis had said on July 24 that the rebels were not blocking traffic through the strategic Bab al-Mandeb Strait, after they declared a mari

Fears Middle East war could expand as conflict reignites

Analysis and Comment

Two people watch a wildfire burning near the village of Preveli in the Rethymno region of Crete

Wildfire rages on Crete as winds hamper firefighting

Several migrants, on 30 July, 2026 in Ceuta, Spain. Hundreds of people of Maghreb origin have crossed into Ceuta from Morocco this morning, either by swimming or by climbing over the breakwater, and a crowd is waiting on the other side of the border to en

Migrants break through Spanish border, military deployed

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