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Most Gazans have been displaced at least once by the war

Finally there's hope

Displaced Gazans awaiting truce so they can go home

This combination of pictures created on January 17, 2025 shows China's President Xi Jinping in Macau on December 19, 2024 and US President-elect Donald Trump in Washington on November 13, 2024

State media report

US president-elect Trump holds phone talks with Chinese leader Xi

French marines inspect an ATL2 Atlantique-2 airplane in 2023

'Intimidation attempt'

French patrol aircraft threatened by Russian military: minister

Former Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan during an interview with AFP at his residence in Lahore on May 18, 2023

Held in custody since 2023

Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan sentenced to 14 years in graft case

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas met Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Mustafa in Brussels after a ceasefire deal to end Israel's war in the territory

Monitoring mission

EU 'ready' to restart Gaza border mission after ceasefire deal

A border post marks the boundary between Derby Line in the US state of Vermont and its twin town of Stanstead in the Canadian province of Quebec

Expecting the worst

Residents of Canada, US border towns fear Trump creating divisions

Cappe said the court ruling made her 'very happy'

Pet boar gets to stay with French owner, for now: court

A vehicle carrying impeached South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol leaves the complex building housing the Corruption Investigation Office

After arrest warrant

South Korea investigators seek to extend President Yoon's detention

Tehran and Moscow have boosted their military and political cooperation in recent years

World's most sanctioned countries

Russia, Iran to harden military, trade ties in new pact

Morning Roundup

Rise in business bankruptcies, confirmation of female wolf in Luxembourg, and Luxair cancels Rotterdam route

More than 900 inmates are working alongside firefighters in the battle to tame wildfires in Los Angeles

Inmates battling LA wildfires see chance for redemption

A wave of AI porn scandals has rocked schools across US states, from California to New Jersey

Dozens of girls possibly targeted

'Damaging' AI porn scandal at US school scars victims

Labour's Keir Starmer was elected on a platform that included fixing the NHS

Patients dying in corridors as UK hospital standards 'collapse': report

People in southern Gaza celebrate the announcement of a deal to end the 15-month war with Israel

To take effect on Sunday

Israeli cabinet to meet on ceasefire after PM says hostage deal finalised

China ended its strict 'one-child policy', imposed in the 1980s amid overpopulation fears, in 2016 and started letting couples have three children in 2021

National Bureau of Statistics

China says population fell for third year in a row in 2024

President-elect Donald Trump said the Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement would not have been reached without pressure from his team

No me, no deal!

Trump says ceasefire 'would've never happened' without his team

North Korea regularly condemns the South's joint military exercises, decrying them as rehearsals for invasion

Right to self-defence

North Korea warns of stronger action over South's drills with US, Japan

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (L) arrived in Kyiv on an unannounced visit to shore up support for Ukraine after nearly three years of war

Repelled drone attack

Blasts in Kyiv as UK's Starmer inks 'landmark' 100-year accord

Mark Carney (L) pitches himself as an outsider and an unconventional politician with strong economic chops

Race for the top

Canada ex-central banker Mark Carney launches PM bid

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou managed to see off the first no-confidence challenge of his premiership

French PM survives first no-confidence vote in parliament

Sudan's army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan gestures to people waiting to greet him along a street in Port Sudan on January 14, 2025

US blacklists Sudan army chief as Blinken regrets failure to end war

Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro is staring down multiple criminal charges from investigations launched after his razor-thin election loss

'A flight risk'

Brazil's Bolsonaro denied passport for Trump inauguration

'Mulholland Drive' and 'Twin Peaks' director David Lynch dies at 78

First indicted president

Trump replicates viral mug shot in official presidential photo

Slovak police have detained the attacker, identified as an 18-year-old student

Teen kills fellow student, teacher at Slovak school

Much of Gaza has been reduced to rubble by the Israeli military offensive, with Human Rights Watch saying there had been 'crimes against humanity' committed by that country's forces

Crimes against humanity

'Heinous crimes' in Gaza conflict must be punished, regardless of truce: HRW

Investigators suspect one act of sabotage was carried out by the Eagle S

'Impossible' to protect all undersea infrastructure: NATO commander

Cooper said local inquiries could investigate in more detail 'than a lengthy nationwide inquiry can provide'

UK plans local inquiries into sexual grooming gangs

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