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News from around the world covering politics, society, and current affairs.

Morning Roundup

Wage indexation expected in May, Bettel calls on Europe to face tariffs in unison, and daylight stabbing in Munsbach

South Korea will hold a presidential election on June 3, the country's acting president said Tuesday, after Seoul's former leader Yoon Suk Yeol was removed from office

Leadership void

South Korea sets new presidential election for June 3

President Donald Trump had asked the Supreme Court to allow deportations using the 1798 Alien Enemies Act

US Supreme Court lifts order barring deportations using wartime law

A 'major fire' in northern Paris sent smoke billowing across part of the French capital

Through the night

200 firefighters battle major Paris inferno

Inmates inside the Center for Terrorism Confinement (CECOT) in El Salvador where Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being held

'Administrative' mistake

US Supreme Court pauses order for return of Salvadoran deported in error

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (R) walks with French President Emmanuel Macron prior to their talks dominated by the Gaza war

Strongly opposed

France, Egypt, Jordan say Palestinian Authority must head post-war Gaza

Thousands of Afghans have returned from Pakistan in recent days ahead of a deadline to leave set by Islamabad

Early April deadline for 800,000 Afghans

Thousands of Afghans depart Pakistan under repatriation pressure

US President Donald Trump (L) has voiced growing frustration at the lack of progress towards a ceasefire and last month he expressed his annoyance with Russian President Vladimir Putin (R)

Many 'questions'

Russia, accused of stalling, wants answers before truce

The royal couple offered flowers at a memorial for the war dead in Iwo Jima

Japan emperor visits World War II battleground Iwo Jima

Britain's King Charles III had been scheduled to meet Pope Francis

King Charles III shrugs off health scare to begin Italy visit

At 102, Jacques Moalic still vividly remembers when American troops arrived to liberate Buchenwald in 1945

Former journalist

Buchenwald camp survivor recounts liberation, 80 years on

Railway accident

One dead after train strikes person near Metz

Western Sahara's disputed status has created legal issues for flights to the former Spanish colony

Conflict between rebel group and Morocco

European airlines hit turbulence over Western Sahara flights

Morning Roundup

EU meeting on US trade tariffs, first case of rabbit fever in Luxembourg, and train disruptions over Easter holidays

Impeached Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte had travelled to The Hague after her father was arrested

'My job here is done'

Sara Duterte back in Philippines after month with detained father

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu comes to Washington direct from a visit to Hungary

First visit since 'Liberation Day'

Netanyahu and Trump to talk tariffs, Iran and Gaza

A young boy looks on as Palestinians stand amid the devastation in the al-Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City on April 4

Military offensive

Gaza rescuers say Israeli strikes kill 44

US envoy Morgan Ortagus in Beirut on Saturday, on a visit to discuss Hezbollah and economic reforms

Israel targets Hezbollah in south Lebanon as US envoy visits

In Kyiv, explosions were heard overnight and a dark plume of smoke rose up from the city early Sunday

'We are waiting'

Zelensky slams US lack of response to Putin truce rejection

Former French national football player works at Intersport

Westerwald, Germany

Three bodies found in house, presumed perpetrator on the run

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu despite an International Criminal Court arrest warrant

Israel's Netanyahu ends Hungary visit, heads to US

Participants take part in the 31st Pyongyang International Marathon at Kim Il Sung Stadium in Pyongyang on April 6, 2025, as part of celebrations marking the birth of North Korea's founding leader Kim Il Sung in 1912. The last edition of the Pyongyang Marathon was held in 2019 before the pandemic, during which the nuclear-armed state sealed its borders in an effort to contain the virus.

Rare opportunity

Foreigners run in N.Korea's first Pyongyang Marathon for six years

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer says that he is prepared to use direct state intervention to protect certain sectors

UK readies to protect industry as US tariffs upend old order: Starmer

An image grab from a handout video reportedly recovered from the cellphone of an aid worker killed in Gaza alongside other rescuers

Humanitarian personnel killed

Video shows last minutes before Gaza aid workers' deaths, Red Crescent says

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake (4R) and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (4L) visited the Sri Maha Bodhi temple in Anuradhapura

Sacred Buddhist tree

India's Modi praises close Sri Lanka ties at holy tree

The 7.7-magnitude quake struck Myanmar on March 28, razing buildings, cutting off power and destroying bridges and roads across the country

7.7-magnitude quake

Rain complicates recovery in quake-hit Myanmar as death toll rises

Thousands of people gathered on Washington's National Mall in the largest protests since Donald Trump's return to the White House

'Hands Off!' Anti-Trump Americans flood Washington

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