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During the 2024 election campaign Donald Trump repeatedly promised to build a version of Israel's Iron Dome system for the United States

Signed executive order

Trump orders planning for 'Iron Dome' missile shield for US

In parts of Goma, M23 fighters were welcomed by celebrating locals

Clashes kill 17 in DR Congo's Goma as pro-Rwandan forces enter city

US President Donald Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro levied tariff threats against each other less than a week after the former took office

How Donald Trump weaponized tariffs

Republican enmity to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) is premised on the suspicion that the people it rewards do not merit their success, while also depriving more deserving candidates from opportunities because they are not in a minority

Shifting US electorate

Do or DEI: Trump's assault on diversity divides America

US President Donald Trump has clashed with Colombian President Gustavo Petro over deportations

Mass expulsions

Colombia sends plane for migrants after Trump clash

A number of Justice Department officials who were involved in the prosecution of President Donald Trump have been fired

'Could not be trusted'

US Justice Dept officials involved in Trump prosecutions fired

Some 10,000 members of the security forces have been deployed to put an end to the violence in northeast Colombia

State of emergency declared

More deaths as Colombian guerrilla violence displaces nearly 50,000

A US Army veteran who went to Lebanon and Syria to try to join Hezbollah has been indicted for attempting to support a terrorist organization

17-year-old boy

Nigerian extradited, charged over sextortion that led to US teen's death

People walk along a road torn up by a bulldozer during an Israeli raid on the Jenin camp for Palestinian refugees

Began two days after truce

Israel says 'eliminated' 15 Palestinians in Jenin raid

Women stage a protest against femicide in front of Paris city hall in 2021

Frenchman goes on trial for murdering ex-partner after years of abuse

Svitlana Rudokvas, 51, shows a destroyed restaurant in the heavily village of Novopavlivka

'A psychological border'

'A bad dream': Russian troops threaten Dnipropetrovsk

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban helped launch Patriots for Europe last year

With Orban and Le Pen

EU's largest far-right bloc to rally in Madrid next week

Activists are troubled by a surge in executions in Iran

People's Mujahedin

Two Iranian dissidents at 'imminent risk' of execution: activists

Mette Frederiksen said her regional counterparts 'shared the gravity of the situation'

Severe situation

Danish PM says Nordics united as Trump ratchets up Greenland bid

By a frozen lake dotted with ice skaters in Beijing's historic centre, people expressed optimism about the Year of the Snake

'Complex and severe situations'

China's Xi strikes bullish tone in speech to mark Lunar New Year

A man walks past a World War II monument featuring a Soviet-era tank in Gomel, a Belarus city near the Ukraine border

A call for peace

Belarusians near Ukraine border long for end to war

Palestinians return to north Gaza after breakthrough in hostage diplomacy

Auschwitz was the largest of Nazi Germany's extermination camps and has become a symbol of the genocide of six million European Jews

Honoring memory of millions

World marks 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation

Impeached South Korean President Yoon Seok Yeol was indicted Sunday over his martial law declaration that plunged the country into political turmoil

South Korea president's indictment: what happens next?

Morning Roundup

EU chief in Luxembourg, 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation, and Laura Thorn is off to Eurovision

Investigators are still probing the cause of the deadly Jeju Air crash

Preliminary investigation reveals

Bird feathers and bloodstains found in Jeju jet engines: report

A firefighters vehicle is parked next to the townhall of the 12th district of Paris, on January 27, 2025, after it was hit by a spectacular fire which engulfed its 30-meter-high campanile without causin any casualties. The fire was “under control” shortly before 7:00 a.m., a spokesman for the Paris fire department told AFP, which was alerted at around 3:20 a.m. and engaged some 60 fire engines and 150 firefighters to fight the blaze. (Photo by Bertrand GUAY / AFP)

Update – 153 firefighters mobilised

Huge fire in Paris town hall tower now under control

US President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown has put him at odds with Colombian President Gustavo Petro (R)

Disregard for basic rights

Colombia caves on deportations after Trump threats

Syrian activist Wafa Mustafa has scoured prisons, morgues and hospitals, hoping to glean any information about her long lost father

Bittersweet return for Syrians with killed, missing relatives

Latvian Prime Minister Evika Silina said they were working with Sweden to 'assess the damage and its reason'

A suspected vessel

Sweden seizes ship suspected of Baltic Sea cable 'sabotage'

Displaced Palestinians wait along the Salah al-Din road in Nuseirat near the blocked Netzarim corridor, to cross to the northern part of the Gaza Strip

Three-stage deal

Israel says Gazans can return home as more hostage releases agreed

Residents fly Hezbollah flags near an Israeli military vehicle as people gather on the road to Kfar Kila in southern Lebanon

Lebanon says will extend ceasefire despite Israel's failure to withdraw troops

In Sunday's election victory he won more of the vote than in 2020, when he won 81.04 percent

Lukashenko extends three-decade Belarus rule, West denounces vote

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