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Media tycoon Jimmy Lai was the founder of Apple Daily, a now-shuttered newspaper that championed Hong Kong's 2019 democracy protests

Pro-democracy activist

US lawmakers seek to rename street for Hong Kong's jailed Jimmy Lai

Donald Trump has attacked Democratic-backed candidate Susan Crawford, accusing her of being a 'radical left liberal'

Judiciary 'not for sale'

Trump faces first electoral setback after Wisconsin Supreme Court vote

Morning Roundup

Trump to unleash tariffs, police to start wearing body cams, and Luxembourg sees sunniest March on record

Cory Booker spoke to journalists after finishing his Senate floor endurance feat

Marathon protest

US senator smashes record with 25-hour anti-Trump speech

Rio garbage collector Samuel da Silva dos Santos wants to adopt a newborn baby girl he found in a box next to a dumpster on his garbage route

Between joy and indignation

Brazil binman finds newborn baby on garbage route

US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz is facing more allegations he discussed military positions and weapons systems on non-governmental communications platforms

Washington Post report

Trump advisor Waltz faces new pressure over Gmail usage

General Abdourahamane Tiani, former head of the presidential guard, came to power in Niger in a 2023 coup

Former president still incarcerated

Niger junta frees ministers of overthrown government

The verdict against Le Pen has shaken France

Five takeaways from Marine Le Pen verdict

Warren Stephens, an Arkansas-based investment banker and political donor to Trump is the president's nominee for US ambassador to London

Export suspension reversal

Trump nominee says to press UK on Israel arms

Wanted man: Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik

A complex issue

The battle to control assets behind Bosnia crisis

Emergency workers in Myanmar rescued a woman who had been trapped for more than 90 hours after an earthquake

Rescue efforts ongoing

Myanmar quake toll passes 2,700, nation halts to honour victims

The guidance would require a pre-sentence report examining a defendant's circumstances before handing down punishment to someone who belongs to an ethnic, cultural or religious minority

'Perception of preferential treatment'

UK govt moves to block sentencing guidelines for minority defendants

Turkey is gripped by its biggest street demonstrations in 12 years, and authorities have cracked down on protesters and journalists

Detained on terrorism charges

Swedish journalist jailed in Turkey kept 'isolated': employer

Marine Le Pen was given a prison term and fine after being convicted of a fake jobs scheme at the EU parliament

Denying all charges

Defiant French far right insists 'we will win' despite Le Pen ban

Israel's embattled security chief Ronen Bar has been in the government's sights since he blamed it for Hamas's October 2023 attack and oversaw an investigation into alleged covert payments from Qatar to an aide to the premier.

Drawing mass protests

Israel PM drops security chief nominee under fire from Trump ally

Finland's parliament needs to approve the decision to withdraw from the treaty banning the use of anti-personnel mines

Response to Russian threat

Finland to withdraw from anti-personnel mine ban treaty

The strike on the south Beirut building damaged its top floors

Multi-storey building hit

Hezbollah official among four dead in Israeli strike on Beirut

A worker transports the body of an earthquake victim for cremation at a facility on the outskirts of Mandalay, Myanmar on March 31, 2025

'Too young to be named'

'Noble work' of Buddhist cremations after Myanmar quake

Several canine teams have been deployed to help search and rescue at the site of a Bangkok building collapse

Thailand rescue dogs double as emotional support

The Chinese aircraft carrier Shandong sails in waters off Taiwan on March 31, 2025

Practising blockade

China holds large-scale military drills around Taiwan

This frame grab from video taken on March 31, 2025 and released by the Taiwan Defence Ministry on April 1, 2025 shows Chinese military vessels in waters off Taiwan

Contended territory

The Taiwan Strait: crucial waterway and military flashpoint

Hundreds of thousands of South Koreans have been rallying for and against Yoon every weekend in central Seoul

Possibly triggering new elections

South Korea court to rule Friday on president impeachment

Kenyan President William Ruto says people who oppose church donations 'don't believe in God'

Corruption fuel

Kenya president still handing cash to churches despite his own ban

Washington's sweeping foreign aid cuts have heightened fears of a deepening crisis for the stateless Rohingya

Temporary shelters

Desperate Rohingya mark Eid in Indonesia limbo

Far-right and nationalist figures voiced their support for Marine Le Pen

Claiming failure of democracy

Far-right leaders rally around France's Le Pen after poll ban

Marine Le Pen was defiant in a television interview

Alleged fake jobs scam

France's Le Pen defiant after five-year election ban

Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa delivers a speech in Damascus on March 29, 2025

Aiming for consensus

Syria president says new authorities can't satisfy everyone

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the US was threatening 'mischief' after Trump's comments

After Trump threat

Iran will have 'no choice' but to acquire nukes if attacked: Khamenei adviser

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