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Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai will attend a summit on girls' education hosted by her native Pakistan

A true inspiration

Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to visit native Pakistan for girls' summit

Two members of the Bedouin Arab Zayadna family had been freed by their Palestinian captors during a November 2023 truce and the family had held out hope until this week that Youssef and Hamza would be released too.

As mediators make a renewed push

Body of Israeli hostage identified, two days after father's: army

The UK's first official consumption room for illegal drugs opens in Scotland next week

After a years-long battle

Scots leader hails opening of UK's first drug consumption facility

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani (2nd L) visits the eighth-century Umayyad Mosque in the old city of Damascus

Italian FM meets Syria's new leader in Damascus

Tran Dinh Trien was sentenced to three years in jail for posts he made on Facebook

Prominent figure

Vietnam jails ex-lawyer over Facebook posts

The three lawyers face up to six years in prison

Crackdown against the Kremlin critics

Navalny lawyers face long sentences in Russian 'extremism' trial

Head of Presidential Security Service Park Chong-jun arrives outside the National Office of Investigation in Seoul

Following failed martial law

Security chief of South Korea's impeached President Yoon resigns

New research estimates the death toll in Gaza from the Israel-Hamas war has been underestimated by some 40 percent

Shocking numbers

Lancet study estimates Gaza death toll 40% higher than recorded

Nicolas Maduro is set to be sworn in for a third six-year term in office

In office since 2013

Nicolas Maduro: Venezuela's iron-fisted 'worker president'

The 'Anne of Kyiv' brigade was launched with pomp by France and Ukraine but has been hit by scandals

The 'Anne of Kyiv'

Ukraine's French-trained brigade rocked by scandal

Death toll rises to at least 11

Los Angeles fires rage on as National Guard called in

Morning Roundup

River levels start to normalise, Los Angeles fires rage on, and 2024 hottest year on record

Contested election results

Venezuela opposition claims elusive leader briefly detained in Caracas protest

Many sadhus, or Hindu holy men, walk for weeks through India to reach the site of Kumbh Mela, the world's largest gathering

Largest gathering of humanity

India readies for mammoth Hindu festival of 400 million pilgrims

Zoran Milanovic (L) is hoping to defeat Dragan Primorac (R) to secure a second term as Croatia's president

Presidential race

Croatia's populist president tipped for re-election

Under a hardline policy introduced in 2012, Australia sent thousands of migrants to 'offshore processing' centres, including one on the Pacific island of Nauru

Island of Nauru

UN watchdog says Australia violated asylum seekers' rights

Police are setting up checkpoints to control who goes in and out of areas affected by the major fires burning around Los Angeles

Despicable acts

Survivors patrol as looters prey on fire-wrecked Los Angeles

A bogus conspiracy theory falsely claimed Comet Ping Pong, a Washington pizza restaurant, was a hub for a child sex trafficking ring involving then US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton

US 'Pizzagate' conspiracy theory gunman killed by police: media

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken talks to Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy ahead of a meeting at Villa Madama in Rome on Syria

Blinken seeks to avert Syria turmoil with Europeans on final trip

Elon Musk has called on Germans to vote for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD)

During livestream

Musk promotes German far-right leader in latest European intervention

Members of the clergy pray over the casket of former US president Jimmy Carter during his state funeral at Washington National Cathedral, as all five living US presidents look on

Former president's final journey

Jimmy Carter briefly unites US as presidents attend funeral

Newly elected Lebanese President Joseph Aoun faces the daunting tasks of overseeing a ceasefire with Israel and naming a prime minister

Lebanon army chief Aoun becomes president after two-year vacancy

'I see this as a time of opportunities,' said Zelensky

Ramstein Air Base

Ukraine's leader calls for support as Trump's return opens 'new chapter'

Duda wants Tusk 'to ensure that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is able to participate'

Liberation anniversary

Poland to grant Israeli officials 'free' access to Auschwitz ceremony

Supporters of the Israeli hostages demonstrate in Tel Aviv for a deal to bring them home.

State of the negotiations

What do we know about latest Gaza talks?

France urged Lebanon to form a strong government following Aoun's election

Opportunity for reform

Macron welcomes 'crucial election' of new Lebanon president

Mozambique opposition leader Venancio Mondlane arrived at Maputo International Airport after more than two months in an unknown location

Return from exile

Clashes as crowds welcome Mozambique opposition leader home from exile

France charged the founder of an adult website used to commit sexual offences, including by a French man who recruited dozens of strangers to rape his heavily sedated wife

France charges founder of adult website linked to mass rape trial: prosecutors

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