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Colombian president Gustavo Petro (L) met with Portuguese counterpart Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa (R) during his May 2023 visit to Lisbon, seen here at the Belem Palace -- and spent some down time at a strip club per newly revealed financial records

Also accused of drug trafficking

Colombia's Petro in hot water as records reveal Lisbon strip club visit

South Africa will host the G20 summit at the weekend

Reversing initial snub

US denies ending South Africa G20 boycott

Qatar said Israel's strikes on the Gaza Strip were a 'dangerous escalation'

Four people killed

Israel launches fresh strikes on Gaza as Qatar fears for truce

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt defended the 'good' Ukraine war plan

Rejecting pro-Moscow concerns

US peace plan 'good' for Russia, Ukraine: White House

The San Jose was owned by the Spanish crown when it was sunk, laden with treasure, off Colombia's coast in June 1708

Brought to surface

Colombia shows first treasures recovered from 300-year-old shipwreck

Dick Cheney, pictured delivering a lecture to the Federalist Society in 2006, loomed over US politics for half a century

US honors conservative titan Cheney, with Trump off guest list

Donald Trump has gone from calling Volodymyr Zelensky a dictator to urging Kyiv to try to reclaim all captured territory

Echoing several Moscow demands

Ukraine 'ready' to work with US on plan to end war

Christmas markets are a beloved tradition in nearly every small town in Germany

German Christmas market opens year after deadly car attack

The verdict was handed in Kanu's absence

Decade-long court case

Nigeria convicts Biafran separatist leader Kanu for 'terrorism'

US strikes in June left craters at Iran's Fordo uranium enrichment site after

International Atomic Energy Agency

UN nuclear watchdog demands Iran open up bombed nuclear sites

Alice Guo, a former mayor of a Philippine town who was later found to be a Chinese national, was found guilty of human trafficking

Sentenced to life in prison

Chinese woman who faked nationality to become Philippine mayor jailed for trafficking

Morning Roundup

One in four Luxembourg children at risk of poverty, new US peace plan for Ukraine, and security is top concern for Gare residents

A Bangladesh police officer wears the new grey and brown uniform in Dhaka, but critics doubt whether the change in colours will mend the force's shattered reputation

'How can a new uniform change their attitude?'

Bangladesh police hope new uniform repairs broken image

Nigeria's security situation has come under the international spotlight

Security forces placed on high alert

Nigeria searches for abducted schoolgirls as gunmen attack church

Rescuers carry a passenger from a ferry that run aground in South Korea

All passengers and crew safely brought to nearby port

South Korea ferry runs aground after officer distracted by phone: coast guard

US President Donald Trump and his allies spent years pushing theories about powerful Democrats being protected over involvement with Jeffrey Epstein

Signed into law on Wednesday

Trump signs bill requiring Epstein files release

The surprise peace proposal comes as Russian missiles hit the western city of Ternopil

New US peace proposal

US presses Ukraine to cede land as Russian strikes kill 26

US President Donald Trump said Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had asked him to help end the Sudan war

At the request of Saudi Arabia's crown prince

Trump vows to end Sudan war, in sudden pivot

Argentine ex-president Cristina Kirchner is serving a six-year graft sentence under house arrest

Currently serving six-year sentence

Argentine court orders $500 mn forfeiture in ex-pres. Kirchner graft case

US President Donald Trump said Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had asked him to help end the Sudan war

Ending the conflict

Trump says will work to end Sudan war at Saudi prince's request

Tensions between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have repeatedly flared in recent years

Inflamed tensions

UN nuclear head renews call for Iran to allow inspections at key sites

Corruption case

Argentine court orders assets worth $500 mn seized in ex-president Kirchner graft case

A nursing home in the northeastern French village of Kunheim bought a liquor license and opened a bar to foster social connections

'Fantastic': nursing home pub lifts spirits in France

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer published a video letter to his son to mark International Men's Day

Inspired by "Adolescence" on Netflix

UK PM posts heartfelt video letter to son on International Men's Day

The US-Saudi relationship is undergoing a striking upgrade

Absolved of criticism

Trump's embrace of crown prince ushers in new era in US-Saudi ties

President Donald Trump joked about hand shakes and fist pumps with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during a meeting in the Oval Office

Signing defense and nuclear deals

Trump says Saudi prince 'knew nothing' about journalist's murder

Over a dozen people have been killed this year in Marseille in drug-related shootings

Fuelling a crime wave

Macron slams 'bourgeois' drug users as French activist says won't be silenced

The sale was suspended afer a last minute court ruling

Export unauthorised

Christie's suspends Paris sale of world's 'first calculator'

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