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The Pacific island will resettle up to 354 former detainees Canberra says have ‘no legal right to remain in Australia’.

The Australian government has agreed to pay the small Pacific island nation of Nauru some $1.6bn to resettle former detainees who have “no legal right to remain in Australia”, in the latest iteration of Australia’s controversial offshore detention policies.

Both governments signed a secretive deal last week under which Nauru will…

Osaka returns to semis for the first time since 2020, while Amanda Anisimova gets Wimbledon revenge against Iga Swiatek.

Naomi Osaka returned to the US Open semifinals on Wednesday with a 6-4 7-6(3) win over Karolina Muchova, as the four-time Grand Slam champion delivered a battling display to underline her resurgence on the sport’s biggest stage.

Four years after winning the last of her four major titles, the Japanese 23rd seed, who returned last season…

Niger State emergency rescue officials said the overloaded vessel sunk after striking a submerged tree stump.

At least 60 people have died and dozens more have been rescued after a boat carrying more than 100 passengers capsized in Nigeria’s north-central Niger State, according to local officials.

The vessel departed from the town of Tungan Sule in Malale district at about 11am local time (10:00 GMT) on Tuesday morning, and was heading towards the town of…

Here are the key events on day 1,288 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Here is how things stand on Thursday, September 4:

Fighting

• Russian forces launched 408 attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region, killing a 62-year-old man in the Polohy district, Regional Governor Ivan Fedorov said.
• A man was killed in a Russian attack on the Khmelnytskyi region in western Ukraine, the region’s governor, Serhii Tiurin, said.
• Russian attacks injured at least 35 people across…

At least 15 people were killed when Lisbon’s Gloria funicular railcar derailed and crashed, emergency services said.

Portugal’s President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa shared his condolences with the families affected by what he described as a tragedy.

The Portuguese government has announced a day of national mourning, while officials in Lisbon have declared three days of mourning in the capital city.

What happened in Lisbon?

At about 6:15pm local time (17:15 GMT), a carriage on Lisbon’s…

Survivors who endured abuse at the hands of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein gathered on the steps of the United States Capitol in Washington, DC, to demand greater transparency from the federal government.

Their appearance came as a bipartisan group of legislators pushed to pass the Epstein Files Transparency Act, a bill that would force Attorney General Pam Bondi to publish all unclassified information about the Epstein case.

On Wednesday, those legislators appeared side by side with…

Hamas has urged the United Nations and the wider international community to intervene immediately to stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza, as the Israeli army escalated its brutal assaults on Gaza City and elsewhere in the enclave.

At least 73 Palestinians, including several aid seekers, were killed in relentless Israeli bombardments across Gaza on Wednesday, among them 43 in Gaza City alone.

Entire families are being killed together in their tents and shelters as the Israeli forces are targeting…