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Soldiers have been battling with jihadist insurgents in the area for more than a decade

Assault on military base

Jihadists kill Nigerian troops including senior brigadier general

Russia had already banned the group's operations in 2021

Russia brands Nobel Prize-winning rights group Memorial 'extremist'

The humble ham and butter sandwich has become a gourmet staple

Paris has even made a ham sandwich chic

Fireworks explode at a stadium where K-pop boy band BTS is performing in Goyang on April 9, 2026.

K-pop megastars

BTS kick off world tour with spectacular South Korea show

The red carpets look set to feature fewer American A-listers than last year

Cannes Festival promises escapism in Hollywood-lite edition

This undated handout photo by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) shows some of the 250 poodle-cross dogs rescued from one UK home

Hard to believe

UK animal charity rescues over 250 dogs from single home

The US ambassador to the European Union, Andrew Puzder, said the bloc's push for tech sovereignty should not focus on making others 'less competitive'

Wants united front against China

US envoy warns EU won't win AI race 'bringing others down'

The US ambassador to the EU, Andrew Puzder, said President Donald Trump considered Hungary's Viktor Orban to be 'a good ally'

Vocal support for Orban

Trump, Vance not 'meddling' in Hungary vote, says US envoy to EU

The war led to the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a key global shipping gateway

On top of aid cuts

Mideast war threatens Africa's supply of humanitarian medicine

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (C) is welcomed by North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui (R) upon arriving on a two-day visit at Pyongyang International Airport on April 9, 2026.

'Enhance dialogue and practical cooperation'

China FM vows deeper ties with North Korea on trip to Pyongyang

For the first time in 41 days, Muslim worshippers returned to Al-Aqsa Mosque

First time in 41 days

Believers rejoice as Jerusalem's holy sites re-open

As they scramble to agree on a 2028-2034 budget, EU lawmakers proposed some funding could come from a 'digital levy'

EU lawmakers want to tax Big Tech to fund budget

Jaderluce Anisio de Oliveira walked in on a man stabbing her 20-year-old daughter after she turned down his romantic advances

Hate speech fueling hate acts

Stabbed for saying no: Is online misogyny fueling violence in Brazil?

South African legend Gary Player hit one of the ceremonial opening tee shots at Augusta to begin the 90th Masters

Defending champion

McIlroy ready for early start as 90th Masters begins

Nepal's former prime minister KP Sharma Oli escorted by police on March 28

Nepal ex-PM Oli gives defiant message after release from custody

Dubai suspended operations after its international airport was hit

Despite Middle East truce, airlines fear long-term disruptions

Avalanche fatalities spike in 2025/26, almost doubling past years

D'Aarbechte fir den neie Festsall am Wäissen Haus

Controversial East Wing renovation

Donald Trump's White House ballroom reportedly receives ArcelorMittal steel donation

Melanie and David Moor had to move their house after discovering it was placed on the wrong plot

Australian couple moves house from wrong plot

Facing relentless attacks, Ukraine has already developed around 50 different interceptor models, an industry that barely existed a year ago

Facing daily barrages

Ukraine lets firms deploy air defences against Russian attacks

During their whip around the Moon, the four astronauts are set to become the humans who have traveled the farthest distance from Earth

Watching from afar

Artemis crew's families enthralled by messages from space

Two villages on the small island of Adonara felt the biggest impact of the 4.9-magnitude earthquake, with more than 100 houses damaged and at least 20 people injured

Shallow Indonesian quake damages houses, injures residents

Nepal's former prime minister KP Sharma Oli escorted by police on March 28

For role in deadly crackdown

Nepal ex-PM Oli released from custody after 12 days: police

Bei der Lufthansa hat die Unabhängige Flugbegleiter Organisation (UFO) das Kabinenpersonal für Freitag zum Streik aufgerufen. Grund seien die gescheiterten Verhandlungen über einen neuen Manteltarifvertrag.

Affecting Frankfurt and Munich airports

Lufthansa cabin crew called out on strike this Friday

This handout picture released on April 7, 2026, by NASA shows crescent Earth setting along the Moon's limb, as seen from the Orion spacecraft on April 6, 2026

Sight to behold

'Chills': Artemis astronauts say lunar flyby still washing over them

As rural populations decline across the region, the pastoral life that sustained the Karaman breed is fading

At remote monastery

Mountain-made: Balkan sheepdog eyes future beyond the hills

The Red Cross' head of delegation in Lebanon said Israeli strikes 'plunged the country into panic and chaos'

Lebanon strikes, gas prices plunge

War in the Middle East: latest developments

During Viktor Orban's 16-year tenure, his ruling coalition has used its supermajority to overhaul the electoral system and leverage state resources to campaign

Election on Sunday

Three ways Orban gives himself an edge in Hungary's vote

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