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EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas helped introduce the white paper

Spain and Italy contest

ReArm Europe? EU re-thinks name after objections

Following working visit to Kyiv

Yuriko Backes: the people of Ukraine 'are still motivated to fight for their country'

White House visit: Conor McGregor (L) wants to be Irish president

Running for president

Conor McGregor appeals rape case as he begins election bid

Attempted manslaughter

Prostitute attacked in car park on B51 near Bitburg

Eco-friendly and fast rail transport might be solution for A31 motorway

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, 72, who is Namibia's first woman president, is a stalwart of the ruling SWAPO party

Namibia inaugurates its first woman president

A firefighter fumigating an area of La Reunion in 2018

Gaining traction

Mosquito-borne chikungunya kills two in France's La Reunion

The number of British people who received medical treatment abroad almost doubled between 2021 and 2023

International Health Tourism Expo

Turkish clinics vie for UK medical tourists' custom in London

Morning Roundup

EU ramps up defence readiness, Heathrow airport closed, and Red Lions face Sweden

Update – Flights set to resume later on Friday

Counter-terror police probe fire that shut London Heathrow

The newspaper is experimenting with using ChatGPT to write entire editions

Italian paper prints fully-AI edition, but not to 'kill' journalism

US President Donald Trump holds up an executive order dismantling the Education Department after signing it in the East Room of the White House

'Overhaul of government'

Trump signs order to 'eliminate' US Education Department

Former Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar incurred the wrath of the country's right-wing for the positions he took

Sacked on Friday

Ronen Bar: ex-Shin Bet chief who incurred right-wing wrath

Taiwan faces a growing threat from its own people spying for China, experts warn, as the government seeks to toughen measures to stop Beijing's infiltration efforts

Infiltration efforts

Taiwan's existential battle against Chinese spies

US President Donald Trump speaks before signing an executive order in the East Room of the White House

Constitutional showdown

Trump pressures courts after reprimand on deportations

Palestinians gather around bodies outside the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza

Commercial hub targeted

Israel expands Gaza ground operation as missiles intercepted

Netanyahu cited an

Israel government sacks Shin Bet intelligence chief

As night fell, Turkish riot police clashed with students marching to City Hall to protest the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu

Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu

Thousands protest for second night over Istanbul mayor's arrest

A researcher at Georgetown University in Washington has been arrested and threatened with expulsion

Faces expulsion from the US

US judge blocks expulsion of Indian researcher detained over alleged Hamas ties

EU leaders discussed efforts to bolster defence spending at a Brussels summit

As Russia looms, EU defence plans fail to quell joint borrowing calls

France's President Emmanuel Macron said leaders of the coalition backing Ukraine would meet again next week

New proposition

Macron announces fresh 'coalition of willing' meeting on Ukraine

Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during a news conference on March 14, 2025 in Ottawa

Amid US trade war

Canada PM Carney to call April 28 snap election

Congolese forces have been battling the M23 armed group, which has seized towns in the DRC's east

M23 fighters seize key DR Congo town despite ceasefire bid

Families and friends of victims of the Kocani nightclub fire gathered for their funerals

Fifty-nine dead

'A tsunami of tears': N. Macedonia buries victims of deadly nightclub fire

This photo released by Qatar's foreign ministry shows US citizen George Glezmann (C) with US official Adam Boehler (C-L), former US envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad (C-R) and Qatari diplomats in Kabul, before heading for Doha

After two years

US citizen George Glezmann released from detention in Afghanistan

White House Press Karoline Leavitt speaks to reporters outside of the West Wing of the White House in Washington, DC on March 20, 2025.

Hamas blamed for continued airstrikes

Trump 'fully supports' Israeli actions in Gaza: White House

Nicola Sturgeon was Scotland's longest-serving first minister

Partner appears in court

Ex-Scottish leader Sturgeon cleared in funds probe

Elsie was monitoring 380 HIV-positive children before Donald Trump ordered cuts to US foreign aid

Foreign aid crisis

'Some won't survive': US cuts threaten S.Africa's young HIV patients

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