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French President Emmanuel Macron (L) and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) began the day with a homage to Indian soldiers who died in France during World War I

Fostering relationship

Macron courts Modi in quest for geopolitical 'independence'

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (L) met his British counterpart John Healey as NATO ministers gathered in Brussels for talks on defence spending and Ukraine support

Trump's defence chief lays down demands on Ukraine, NATO

The UN rights office said it had 'reasonable grounds to believe that the crimes against humanity of murder, torture, imprisonment and infliction of other inhumane acts have taken place'

Killing of protesters

UN says former Bangladesh govt behind possible 'crimes against humanity'

Cracks have appeared in the talks between the far right led by Herbert Kickl (L) and the conservatives

Disagreements over key posts

Talks to form Austria's first far-right govt stall

Fogel had been serving a 14-year sentence after being arrested in August 2021 for possessing cannabis

The US citizens held in Russian prisons

More than 250 people rescued from online scam centres in Myanmar were handed over to Thailand following a series of crackdowns

Crackdown on illegal operations

Over 250 people held at Myanmar scam centre released at Thai border

AFP journalists heard a volley of explosions ring out over the city

Kremlin not interested in peace: Zelensky

Russia rejects swapping occupied territory with Ukraine

Ivorian soldiers resting at a shooting range in Port-Bouet

Former star colony

France set to hand over sole military base in Ivory Coast

Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan inspect a guard of honour

Trade and defence

Indonesia's Prabowo, Turkey's Erdogan agree to bolster ties

Morning Roundup

Parliament adopts resolution condemning hate speech, father-son murder trial begins, and eager beavers create Czech wetland

Trump, pictured during a 2019 visit to London during his first presidential term

'No closer ally'

Flattery and pragmatism: UK plan to stay on Trump's good side

All AU heads of state are expected at the summit at a tense time for Africa

DRC conflict overshadows African summit

The sinkhole suddenly opened up during morning rush hour an intersection north of Tokyo, swallowing the lorry

Missing for two weeks

Truck cabin found in Japan sinkhole search for driver

Women and children walk along a destroyed road in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip

Amid bilateral accusations

Israel says to resume Gaza fighting if hostages not freed Saturday

US President Donald Trump smiles at the White House

Global leadership

Gutting aid, US cedes soft power game to China

US President Donald Trump shakes hands with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a massive rally in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India in February 2020

Quick tariff concessions

Modi hopes to rekindle Trump bromance

Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk listens as US President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House on February 11, 2025

Editorial standards

AP reporter barred from White House event over 'Gulf of America'

Ukrainian soldiers fire a mortar towards Russian positions -- Both armies are trying to secure an advantage on the battlefield ahead of possible peace talks

Along with Trump backing?

Zelensky offers land swaps as Russia heartens Trump with prisoner release

US President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with King Abdullah II of Jordan during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 11, 2025.

Trump insists US to own Gaza, Jordan king pushes back

Residents say this was not the first fire in the building

No deaths reported

Dozens evacuated as fire breaks out in 50-floor building in Buenos Aires

'They may be Russian someday, or they may not be Russian someday,' Donald Trump said

Fox news interview

'Senile insanity': Ukrainians outraged at Trump's Russia comment

The Gaza Strip requires tens of billions of dollars in recovery and renovation aid after more than a year of war, according to the United Nations

'Humanitarian catastrophe'

At least $53 billion needed to rebuild Gaza, UN estimates

For more than 20 economies, a year-long pause on US aid could mean a loss of over one percent of their gross national income, the CGD said

US foreign aid halt to have major hit on poorest countries: report

The pope urged Catholics and 'all men and women of goodwill' not to 'give into narratives that discriminate' against migrants

Pope told to 'stick to Church' after Trump migrant critique

Thousands of women and children were taken and used as slaves by Islamic State fighters during a rampage through Yazidi villages in Iraq in 2014

On genocide charges

Swedish woman jailed for keeping Yazidi slaves in Syria

Trump's billionaire ally Elon Musk has boasted of feeding USAID 'through the wood-chipper'

Humanitarian sector

US funding freeze is 'bombshell' for world aid sector

Orania is an Afrikaner-only town, protected under S. Africa's constitution (the right to self-determination)

Claims without evidence

'Ridiculous and lame': South Africans mock Trump proposals

There has been a severe tightening of of media under Putin

An offence to discredit the military

Europe rights court condemns Russia for suppressing Ukraine war dissent

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