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Watching from a safehouse near the frontline in the Donetsk region, a group of Ukrainian soldiers took a break from their duties to watch Ukraine play its first Euro 2024 match. "Lyubchuk," a 39-year-old gunner, said the game helped them relax, despite being on standby and ready to get back to work at any moment. Romania beat Ukraine 3-0 in the Group E opener in Munich.

Surveillance footage shot on Sunday (June 16) showed the moment a person in China's Guangdong province narrowly escaped from a bridge that collapsed under the force of severe floods.

Britain's royals attended the annual service for the Order of the Garter ceremony in Windsor Castle on Monday (June 17).

In the Paris suburb where footballer Kylian Mbappe grew up, 22-year-old Leana Aggoune said that she agrees with the French striker's call on young people to vote in the upcoming French parliamentary elections later this month. Olivia Zollino has more.

Muslim pilgrims in Saudi Arabia hurled pebbles at giant walls in a symbolic stoning of the devil for a second day on Monday (June 17). The pilgrims are participating in the haj, a once-in-a-lifetime duty for every able-bodied Muslim who can afford it.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dissolved the six-member war cabinet, an Israeli official said on Monday, in a widely expected move that came after the departure from government of the centrist former general Benny Gantz. Alex Cohen has more.

An Indian man suspected by the U.S. of involvement in an unsuccessful Indian government-backed plot to kill a Sikh separatist on American soil pleaded not guilty on Monday to murder-for-hire conspiracy charges in federal court in Manhattan. Zachary Goelman produced this report.

Villagers in western India's Nashik district crowded around a drying-up water well on Sunday (June 16) as they faced a severe water crisis caused by a shortage of rain in the region.

The United Nations refugee agency on Monday (June 17) named British actor Theo James as a global goodwill ambassador.

Former Ukraine striker Andriy Shevchenko presented the shell-blasted seats of a Kharkiv stadium built for Euro 2012 in Munich on Monday (June 17), as cheering Ukraine fans vowed to keep fighting the Russian invasion.

Beijing has launched an anti-dumping investigation into imported pork from the European Union five days after Brussels announced curbs on China's electric vehicle exports. Fiona Jones reports.

A Russian missile attack on Ukraine's east-central Poltava region on Monday (June 17) injured at least twelve people and damaged power lines, knocking out electricity for over 55,000 consumers.

Soccer fever at Euro 2024 in Germany is being felt not only inside packed stadiums, raucous bars and heaving city squares - but also in the more rarefied atmosphere of an opera house. Olivia Chan has more.

Australia and China will take steps to improve military communication to avoid incidents, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said after meeting Premier Li Qiang on Monday (June 17), in the first visit to the country by a Chinese premier in seven years. Sean Hogan reports.

Jacob Zuma's uMkhonto we Sizwe party will join an opposition alliance, including the radical left Economic Freedom Fighters, as it takes on what the former president called a "white-led unholy alliance" in South Africa's new coalition government. David Doyle has more.

On a stifling summer evening in the Greek capital of Athens, actors take to a stage like no other: a grassy courtyard enclosed by towering prison walls, topped with barbed wire and lit by a floodlight. The performers are inmates, as are the audience that observe them. Lauren Anthony has more.

Over a dozen people have died and others have been injured in a train collision in the east Indian state of West Bengal, police said. Fiona Jones reports.

At least four people have died and two are missing as torrential rain triggered landslides in China's Fujian province, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Monday (June 17). Video showed rescuers evacuating civilians from flooded homes, and helping people cross a river with the help of ropes.

As South Korea resumes the use of loudspeakers to wage psychological warfare against the North, experts explore the questions surrounding their effectiveness, with one North Korean defector explaining to Reuters why he still tries to broadcast messages to his homeland. Diane To reports.

Soccer star Kylian Mbappe found himself at the center of his country's political turmoil on the eve of France's opening game at Euro 2024 on Sunday (June 16), describing the tumultuous events back home as a pivotal moment for French history.

Ukrainian soldiers on the frontlines are asking the country's soccer team to show "the spirit of Ukraine" at Euro 2024, said manager Serhiy Rebrov, adding that players have felt an extra sense of duty ever since the Russian invasion.

Thailand faces a critical week of court cases – involving the country's most powerful politicians – that could trigger a political crisis in Southeast Asia's second-largest economy. Gabe Singer explains.

Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Chinese Premier Li Qiang met on Monday (June 17) in the first visit to the country by a Chinese premier in seven years, with trade ties, regional security and a jailed Australian writer on the host's agenda.

A freight train smashed into the rear of a stationary passenger train in India's West Bengal state on Monday (June 17), killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens, police said, in an accident that railway authorities blamed on a disregarded signal.

"The Outsiders," a musical based on S.E. Hinton's coming-of-age novel, snagged the coveted Tony Award for best musical Sunday, while a celebrated revival of a Stephen Sondheim classic and a tale of a 1970s rock band also won big. Laila Shahrokhshahi reports.