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Democratic Republic of Congo received its first batch of mpox vaccines on Thursday (September 5), which health authorities hope will help curb an outbreak that has prompted the U.N. to declare a global public health emergency. Kristy Kilburn reports.

Fishermen from a northern French town were ‘shocked’ after recovering bodies of shipwrecked migrants who died on Tuesday (September 3) attempting to reach the UK. At least 12 of the people who were on the migrant boat lost their lives. Emma Jehle reports.

The leader of Canada's opposition New Democratic Party, Jagmeet Singh, said on Thursday (September 5) an election was now more likely after he tore up a deal to help keep Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in power.

Democratic Republic of Congo received its first batch of mpox vaccines on Thursday (September 5), which health authorities hope will help curb an outbreak that has prompted the U.N. to declare a global public health emergency.

A central Budapest district is holding a two-week referendum on a possible ban on short-term rentals, which would be the first of its kind in one of Europe's most popular tourist destinations. Kristy Kilburn reports.

French President Emmanuel Macron appointed Michel Barnier, the European Union's former Brexit negotiator, as his new prime minister on Thursday (September 5), in a bid to put an end to political paralysis following an inconclusive snap election. Sean Hogan reports.

Hong Kong residents piled sandbags and taped up windows on Thursday (September 5) in preparation for the approaching Super Typhoon Yagi.

‘’I can say we are still in shock, and we are in pain," runner Milcah Chemos-Cheywa told Reuters on Thursday, after the death of Ugandan Olympic marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei, four days after she was attacked by her boyfriend in Kenya.

Firefighters in the Spanish northwestern region of Galicia battled a wildfire on Thursday (September 5) which had burnt at least 300 hectares (741,316 acres) by 1500GMT, authorities said.

The Ecuadorian capital of Quito was blanketed in thick smoke and ash on Wednesday (September 4) as volunteers struggled to douse wildfires raging on in the city.

Gaza's schools lie in ruins or have been turned into shelters for families displaced by a war that has killed tens of thousands. Yet teacher Israa Abu Mustafa refuses to let death and destruction deprive traumatized children of an education.

Pope Francis drew more than 80,000 fans to a Catholic Mass at Indonesia's national stadium, filling the seats in the world's largest Muslim-majority nation.

German police shot said they dead a man in an exchange of fire near the Israeli consulate and a Nazi history museum in Munich on Thursday. Zachary Goelman produced this report.

Chinese-founded e-commerce retailer Shein has divided opinion with its first physical pop-up store in South Africa that has lured bargain-hunters and spurred a tax change after rivals said the competition was unfair. Fiona Jones reports.

The death of Ugandan Olympic marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei has been described as a stark reminder that more needs to be done to tackle gender-based violence, after the 33-year-old was doused with petrol and set on fire by her boyfriend. David Doyle has more.

Crowds of Palestinians gathered at medical centers in the south of the embattled Gaza Strip on Thursday (September 5) to have their children vaccinated against polio in the second stage of the campaign. The U.N. Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA said the campaign, which has so far seen 187,000 youngsters inoculated, was facilitated by Hamas and Israel agreeing on limited pauses in their fighting.

Officers shot dead a man in an exchange of fire near the Israeli consulate and a Nazi history museum in Munich on Thursday, the state Interior Minister said. Munich police spokesperson Andreas Franken said there were no indications of other suspects or incidents in the Bavarian state capital.

A 14-year-old boy killed two fellow students and two teachers and wounded nine others in a shooting at a Georgia high school on Wednesday, jolting the United States with the first mass campus shooting since the start of the school year. Gabe Singer reports.

China's southern provinces of Hainan and Guangdong began to prepare on Thursday (September 5) for the arrival of super typhoon Yagi. Fishing boats returned to the harbor and shelters were prepared ahead of its expected landfall along Hainan's tropical coast, in what could be the most powerful storm to hit in nearly a decade.

Firefighters succeeded on Wednesday in reducing the extent of a massive wildfire that blazed for two days and destroyed 20% of a forest in the Brazilian capital, cloaking the city in clouds of gray-white smoke, according to officials, who suspect that it may have been started by arsonists. Laila Shahrokhshahi reports.

A new Maori Queen was anointed Thursday (September 5), taking on the role at a time when New Zealand is facing some of the biggest challenges to race relations in two decades.

A 14-year-old boy killed two fellow students and two teachers and wounded nine others in a shooting at a Georgia high school on Wednesday, jolting the United States with the first mass campus shooting since the start of the school year.

People came together to hold a vigil after a 14-year-old student killed two fellow students and two teachers, while wounding nine others, in a shooting at a Georgia high school on Wednesday (August 4).

The scale of a massive wildfire that has been raging for two consecutive days and destroyed 20% of a forest outside the Brazilian capital, was captured by drone footage on Wednesday (September 4).

Khaled, a young migrant from Eritrea, recounts his near-death experience when he and his two older sisters joined some 80 migrants in northern France on Tuesday (September 3) in an attempt to cross the English Channel in a small boat. Kristy Kilburn has more.