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Emergency order

US judge blocks Musk's cost-cutting team from Treasury data

Hamas, Israel complete hostage-prisoner swap under Gaza deal, Hamas accuses Israel of 'slow-killing' hostages

Rwandan President Paul Kagame (L) and DRC counterpart Felix Tshisekedi were to meet on Saturday

Deadly conflict

Rwandan and Congolese leaders join summit on eastern DRC conflict

Pope Francis has taken numerous measures to tackle abuse but victims' rights groups say much more is needed

Silencing still strong

Italy Church abuse group highlights toll on families

Alaskan state senators voted unanimously to call on Donald Trump to reverse course on his plan to rename a mountain known locally as Denali

Plan to ditch the Indigenous name

Alaska lawmakers push back on Trump's mountain name change

US President Donald Trump says he wants to close USAID and the Education Department

Dismantling government

Trump revokes Biden's security clearance, escalates foreign aid crackdown

A woman and her baby in a tent at the Atme camp for displaced people in northwest Syria

No quick resettlement

Syrians stuck in camps after finding homes destroyed

A soldier stands guard outside the National Electoral Council (CNE) in Quito on February 7, 2025

Optimistic about the future

A 50-year crisis -- Ecuador's next president faces a stern test

This handout photo released by the US Department of Homeland Security shows federal officials boarding detained migrants onto a flight to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, from an undisclosed location in the United States

Notorious military base

Handcuffs and beach clean-ups: a Cuban migrant's seven months in Guantanamo Bay

US President Donald Trump shakes hands with with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 7, 2025.

Joining the club

Japan PM, Trump play nice despite tariff threat

Brazilian migrants deported from the United States walk to board a bus upon arrival at the Pinto Martins International Airport

Handcuffed and shackled

Brazil receives second plane of deported migrants after row with US

A hostages campaign group has called on Israel to complete its ceasefire agreement with Hamas ahead of the next planned swap

Following explosive Trump comments

Hamas to free three Israeli hostages in latest Gaza swap

Faye Nemer, CEO of the MENA American Chamber of Commerce talks about President Donald Trump's comments on Gaza in her office in Dearborn, Michigan on February 8, 2025

'Red line': Arab-Americans oppose Trump's Gaza takeover plan

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gives opening remarks at an economic summit on February 7, 2025 in Toronto, Canada

Not kidding around

Trudeau says Trump's Canada annexation threat 'a real thing'

A supporter carries a human size cardboard of Ecuadoran President Daniel Noboa

Amid narco threats and economic struggles

Campaigning ends as violence-weary Ecuadorans eye Sunday vote

An M23 fighter at a stadium in Goma, the biggest city in eastern DRC, which the Rwanda-backed armed group has seized

'Worst may be yet to come'

DR Congo conflict advances as UN warns of regional escalation

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) will head to Washington to meet US President Donald Trump (L) at the White House

With India-US deal in mind

India PM Modi to meet Trump in US visit next week: foreign ministry

US officials place a 'seized' sign on a Venezuelan government airplane in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Washington renews hard line

Venezuela brands Rubio a 'thief' over US jet seizure

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun (R) meets with US deputy special envoy to the Middle East Morgan Ortagus in Beirut on Friday

Preemptive threats

US envoy says Hezbollah 'defeated', must not be in Lebanon government

ICC prosecutor Karim Khan has several US citizens in his top team

Trumping justice

'Existential threat': What next for the ICC after US sanctions?

'You don't end the war by supporting a war,' said Ishman Martino

Calls to cut support

'Irresponsible' or 'antiwar': US fighters in Ukraine grapple with Trump

US President Donald Trump signed an order imposing sanctions on the ICC

'Abused its power'

Trump sanctions ICC for 'illegitimate' Israel, US probes

Ecuador's presidential candidate for the Citizen Revolution Movement (Movimiento Revolución Ciudadana), Luisa González, waves to supporters during her campaign closing rally in Guayaquil, Guayas province, Ecuador on February 6, 2025.

Bitter campaign

Ecuador presidential candidates sprint to campaign finish

Activists want Biarritz officials to rename the La Negresse district as well as one of the city's streets, rue de la Negresse

Seaside city of Biarritz

Court orders French city to drop 'La Negresse' place name

Morning Roundup

Pandemic and Ukraine war cost Luxembourg billions, Superbowl weekend, and Decathlon accused of using forced labour

Much of Gaza was levelled by the 15-month Israel-Hamas war

Following Trump proposal

Israel orders army to plan to let Palestinians leave Gaza

While Taiwan calls itself a sovereign nation, China claims the island as part of its territory and has threatened to use force to bring it under its control

Outside threats

Taiwan says detects six Chinese balloons near island

Elon Musk is aiming to cut over a trillion dollars in US federal spending and pledged to push the legal limits of executive power to do so

Gut the government

Judge pauses Musk plan for mass cull of US govt workers

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