• Firefighters watch as flames approach a retardant line near a residential community during the Apple fire in Banning, California, US. AFP
    Firefighters watch as flames approach a retardant line near a residential community during the Apple fire in Banning, California, US. AFP
  • The 747 Supertanker makes a retardant drop on a ridge as firefighters continue to battle the Apple fire near Banning, California. AFP
    The 747 Supertanker makes a retardant drop on a ridge as firefighters continue to battle the Apple fire near Banning, California. AFP
  • Arsenal's Gabonese striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang kisses the trophy as the team celebrates victory after the English FA Cup final football match between Arsenal and Chelsea at Wembley Stadium in London, UK. Arsenal won the match 2-1. AFP
    Arsenal's Gabonese striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang kisses the trophy as the team celebrates victory after the English FA Cup final football match between Arsenal and Chelsea at Wembley Stadium in London, UK. Arsenal won the match 2-1. AFP
  • Water rich in sediment drips from ice inside the melting Longyearbreen glacier during a summer heat wave on Svalbard archipelago near Longyearbyen, Norway. Getty Images
    Water rich in sediment drips from ice inside the melting Longyearbreen glacier during a summer heat wave on Svalbard archipelago near Longyearbyen, Norway. Getty Images
  • People attend a campaign event of Belarusian opposition presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya in Baranovichi, Belarus. EPA
    People attend a campaign event of Belarusian opposition presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya in Baranovichi, Belarus. EPA
  • A trishaw driver takes a nap outside a shopping mall in Penang, Malaysia. AFP
    A trishaw driver takes a nap outside a shopping mall in Penang, Malaysia. AFP
  • Rescue workers search for a missing firefighter who was swept away in a flash flood, caused by heavy rain, in Chungju, South Korea. EPA
    Rescue workers search for a missing firefighter who was swept away in a flash flood, caused by heavy rain, in Chungju, South Korea. EPA
  • A Brown spider monkey is seen with her week-old baby in the Zoo park of Santa Fe in Medellin, Colombia. EPA
    A Brown spider monkey is seen with her week-old baby in the Zoo park of Santa Fe in Medellin, Colombia. EPA
  • Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton at the British Grand Prix in Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone, Britain, UK. Reuters
    Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton at the British Grand Prix in Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone, Britain, UK. Reuters
  • Dozens of demonstrators gather in front of the Brandenburg Gate during a protest against coronavirus pandemic regulations in Berlin, Germany. EPA
    Dozens of demonstrators gather in front of the Brandenburg Gate during a protest against coronavirus pandemic regulations in Berlin, Germany. EPA

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World in focus - best photos for August 2, 2020

Take a look at some of the best images from around the world in the past 24 hours

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August 02, 2020

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Farage on Muslim Brotherhood

Nigel Farage told Reform's annual conference that the party will proscribe the Muslim Brotherhood if he becomes Prime Minister.
"We will stop dangerous organisations with links to terrorism operating in our country," he said. "Quite why we've been so gutless about this – both Labour and Conservative – I don't know.
“All across the Middle East, countries have banned and proscribed the Muslim Brotherhood as a dangerous organisation. We will do the very same.”
It is 10 years since a ground-breaking report into the Muslim Brotherhood by Sir John Jenkins.
Among the former diplomat's findings was an assessment that “the use of extreme violence in the pursuit of the perfect Islamic society” has “never been institutionally disowned” by the movement.
The prime minister at the time, David Cameron, who commissioned the report, said membership or association with the Muslim Brotherhood was a "possible indicator of extremism" but it would not be banned.

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