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Who is Australia's new PM?

Anthony Albanese: Australia's dog-loving, Tory fighting PM

Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese waves as he arrives onstage in Sydney after winning a general election

Trump may have aided Australian PM's election victory: analysts

Australia's Opposition Leader Peter Dutton waves after conceding defeat in Australia's general election

First leader to lose own seat

Right-leaning Australian opposition leader loses election, and seat

India blames Pakistan of backing the deadliest attack in years on civilians in Indian-administered Kashmir on April 22, in which 26 men were killed

After 22 April attack

India blocks Pakistani celebrities on social media

High season in the cooler climes of the Neelum Valley, the tourist centre of Pakistan administered-Kashmir, begins in May as temperatures around the rest of the country rise

Threat of attacks

India-Pakistan tensions hit tourism in Kashmiri valley

Attackers targeted prisons across France in last month's attacks

France charges 21 prison attack suspects

Turkish Cypriots march through north Nicosia in protest at the breakaway government's decision to allow pupils to wear Islamic headscarves in secondary schools.

'Erosion' of secular foundation

Turkish Cypriots protest new rule allowing hijab in school

An Indian army post near Sainth, the last village near the Line of Control in Jammu district

Fear of conflicts

Lives on hold in India's border villages with Pakistan

'Tragic incident'

Car ploughs into crowd in Stuttgart, killing one and injuring seven

US President Donald Trump, pictured speaking before Congress in his first term, will be required to live up to his image as an astute dealmaker in the next phase of his presidency

After blitz of orders

Trump's next 100 days: Now comes the hard part

Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks at a press conference in Ottawa, Ontario, on May 2, 2025

Canada election

Carney vows to transform Canada economy to withstand Trump

The election pits left-leaning incumbent Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (L) against staunchly conservative rival Peter Dutton

Five things to know about the Australian election

An aerial photo shows the Syrian presidential palace in Damascus' Mount Qasyoun on May 2, 2025

Warning for new rulers

Israel launches new Syria strikes amid Druze tensions

Newly designated terrorists

Trump team lashes out at Germany for censure of far-right group

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has designated two gangs as terror groups in Haiti, where thousands have protested the violence that has displaced more than a million people

Viv Ansanm and Gran Grif

US designates two Haitian gangs as terror groups

Prince Harry quit the royal family in 2020

Prince Harry says he would 'love' to reconcile with family

View of Puerto Williams, Chile in January 2024

Major earthquake

Chile, Argentina order evacuations over post-quake tsunami threat

Cardinal Pietro Parolin served as late Pope Francis's Secretary of State

One of the Church's top challenge

Watchdog accuses papal contenders of ignoring sex abuse

Kelly Smith (L) was found guilty of trafficking her six-year-old daughter

For 1,085 dollars

S.African mother found guilty of selling young daughter

A US freeze on international aid has hit UN staff hard

After Trump decision

'Not a commodity': UN staff rally over deep cuts

Vatican chimney installed ahead of papal conclave

World attention is on the Vatican as cardinals prepare to meet to elect the next pope

'The Church is holy, but made up of sinners'

Orgies, murder and intrigue, the demons of the Holy See

A man stands on the rubble of a building hit in an Israeli strike in the Bureij camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip

'Horrific scenes'

'Deadly blockade' leaves Gaza aid work on verge of collapse: UN, Red Cross

In Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, dozens held an anti-India rally

Following 'deadly attack'

Pakistani Kashmir orders stockpiling of food as India tensions flare

Israel's military deployed tanks in Jenin in late February

'Forced to leave'

West Bank Palestinians losing hope 100 days into Israeli assault

Trump has long had an antagonistic relationship with most mainstream news media, with the exception of the powerful conservative broadcaster Fox News

'Antagonistic relationship'

Trump signs executive order to cut NPR, PBS public funding

Unknown assailants in April attacked several jails and other facilities across France, torching cars, spraying the entrance of one prison with automatic gunfire, and leaving mysterious inscriptions

French prison attacks linked to drug traffickers, say prosecutors

Former acting president Han Duck-soo has officially announced his presidential bid

Divisive frontrunner

Fresh turmoil ahead of South Korean election

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