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While the Vatican reports improvements in Pope Francis's health, prayers are still being said around the world for the pontiff

Optimistic statements

Pope rests as Vatican reports new improvement

China's leadership will convene to hammer out plans to shield the ailing economy from tariffs and trade threats

Glimpse into leadership's priorities

China's leaders gather to hash out Trump tariff battle plans

Extraordinary turnaround

Zelensky, Trump to sign minerals deal at White House

Morning Roundup

Google to open Luxembourg office, agreement on biodiversity, and tram to airport opens this weekend

China drew Russia deeper into its orbit as Moscow faced international isolation over the Ukraine war

Analyst opinion

Trump's Russia pivot keeps China guessing on Ukraine

Andrew Tate has been under judicial supervision in Romania

First time since 2022 arrest

Avowed misogynist Andrew Tate in US despite rape charges in Romania

Vietnam's ruling Communist Party is slashing one in five public sector jobs

Radical cost-cutting drive

Worry, confusion as Vietnam slashes public jobs

US President Donald Trump recently posted on Truth Social a quote attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte:

Aggressive right wing agenda

Constitutional crisis looms as Trump admin flirts with defying the courts

Images in North Korean state media showed Kim, flanked by officials, sporting binoculars and watching a missile destroy a small building, which erupts in flames

In the Yellow Sea

N. Korea says launched cruise missiles in 'counterattack' drills

US President Donald Trump held a press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC

Ceasefire talks

Trump softens tone but Starmer leaves without Ukraine security pledges

Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s high representative for foreign affairs, speaks at the Hudson Institute in Washington

EU top diplomat rejects Trump closing NATO door to Ukraine

US President Donald Trump holds a bilateral meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in the Oval Office

Returning archipelago to Mauritius

Trump tells Starmer 'inclined' to back Chagos deal

Donald Trump holds a letter from Britain's King Charles III during a bilateral meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in the Oval Office

Hand-signed letter

King Charles III invites Trump for unprecedented second state visit

The head of the centre-right CDU/CSU alliance, Friedrich Merz, who is expected to become Germany's next chancellor, has urged speedy talks towards forging a ruling alliance

Exploratory talks

German conservatives, SPD to make first moves towards new govt

Thailand says it deported dozens of Uyghurs to China, despite warnings from human rights groups

Drawing condemnation from the UN

Thailand deports dozens of Uyghurs to China

Ukraine said it would refuse to recognise occupied territory as Russian

Russia says annexation of Ukrainian land is 'non-negotiable'

A first explosion caused panic, sending spectators attending the Bukavu meeting fleeing, before a second rang out

After M23 meeting

Explosions at M23 rally in east DR Congo kill at least 11

Une manifestation en soutien des immigrés à New York le 22 février 2025

Living with uncertainty

'So much anxiety': Trump migrant crackdown vow stirs fear in NY

A group of UN human rights experts has said the 'volunteer' force was recruited from the ranks of ex-combatants, retired soldiers and police, judges and public employees

30,000 civilians

Accused of repression, Nicaragua's Ortega swears in hooded 'volunteer' force

Graffiti of Nael Barghouti (L) and another long-serving Israeli prisoner Fakhri Barghouti, in the occupied West Bank village of Kubar on October 16, 2011

Longest-serving

After 45 years, Palestinian prisoner freed from Israeli jail in latest swap

South Korean and Western intelligence agencies have said that more than 10,000 soldiers from the reclusive state were sent to Russia last year

Scale still to be assessed

Seoul says North Korea has deployed more troops to Russia

French nuclear doctrine does not include allies

Nuclear sharing

A French-UK nuclear umbrella for Europe? Not likely, say analysts

Kurdish demonstrators carry an image of Abdullah Ocalan, who set up the Marxist-inspired Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in 1978

Icon or terrorist?

Ocalan: Kurdish PKK founder who urged his fighters to disarm

A Hong Kong court jailed former pro-democracy lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting for rioting in relatino to a mob attack in 2019

Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmaker jailed over 2019 mob attack

The Trump adminsitration's review in part targeted multi-year foreign assistance contracts awarded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID)

'America First'

US cuts overseas aid contracts by more than 90%

China has ramped up the deployment of fighter jets and naval vessels around Taiwan in recent years

Taiwan says detects 45 Chinese aircraft in 24 hours, highest this year

A man, found guilty of sexual relations with another man under the strict Islamic sharia law, is publicly flogged in Banda Aceh

Two men publicly flogged in Indonesia for gay sex

Thousands of freed scam centre workers in Myanmar are desperate to get home

'Escaping hell': Myanmar scam centre workers plead to go home

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