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People cheer as Sudan's de facto leader, armed forces chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, arrives at the market in Port Sudan

Sudan government rejects UN-backed famine declaration

While it can be expensive to hire a detective, Lentz said firms will be looking to get rid of highly unproductive workers at a time of mounting economic woes

Rising sick leave rates

For German 'sick leave detective', business is booming

Indian construction workers are part of Israel's effort to fill a void left by Palestinians barred from entering Israel since the Hamas attack in October, 2023

Indian workers replace Palestinians in Israel's building sector

Cuban president Fidel Castro (L) calls for time as former US president Jimmy Carter (R) prepares to throw out the ceremonial first pitch in a baseball game in May 2002 in Havana

'Democracy and freedom': Jimmy Carter's human rights efforts in Latin America

Jimmy Carter's 1977-1981 presidency included successes like the Camp David peace accords, but also enough controversy for US voters to see him as weak and vote him out after serving only one term

Success and controversy

Key moments in the life of Jimmy Carter

Firefighters and rescue personnel work near the wreckage of a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 aircraft after the plane crashed and burst into flames at Muan International Airport, 288 kilometres southwest of Seoul on December 29, 2024

South Korea grieves after deadliest plane crash kills 179

Then US president Jimmy Carter looks on in September 1978 as Egyptian president Anwar al-Sadat (left) shakes hands with Israeli premier Menachem Begin during negotiations at the Camp David retreat on a historic peace deal

Jimmy Carter, a transformative diplomat despite Iran

Syria's leader Ahmed al-Sharaa says 'we need to rewrite the constitution', which the UN has also called for

Wide-ranging interview

Syria's leader says elections could take 4 years: Al Arabiya interview

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said that the aeroplane that crashed in Kazakhstan was shot at over Russia

Piling on the pressure

Azerbaijan demands Russia admit to shooting at plane before crash

Desi Bouterse, ex-president and former dictator of Suriname spent years hiding in an undisclosed location following a conviction for the killing of political opponents in 1982

After years of hiding

Suriname ex-dictator died of liver failure, autopsy shows

Nomads voting in Mandelia

Boycotted by opposition

Chad votes in general election after three years of army rule

'Almost completely destroyed'

179 dead in South Korea's worst plane crash

Mikheil Kavelashvili is known for his expletive-laden parliament speeches and tirades against government critics

New man in charge

Mikheil Kavelashvili, ex-Man City striker and Georgia's disputed far-right president

Supporters of Abdullah Ocalan rallied in Cologne, Germany, in February 2024 to mark the 25th anniversary of his arrest

Jailed PKK leader says 'ready' to support Turkey peace drive

Georgia's Salome Zurabishvili was a French diplomat before entering the politics of her ancestral homeland

Former French diplomat

Salome Zurabishvili: outgoing Georgian leader defying the government

Former footballer Mikhail Kavelashvili was sworn in as Georgia's new president behind closed doors

Political turmoil

Georgia's new president sworn in amid political showdown

Zoran Milanovic casting his vote in Zagreb on Sunday

Casting ballots

Croatia elects president as incumbent looks favourite

The year's death toll from clandestine Channel crossings stands at 76

Overcrowded vessel

Three die in clandestine Channel crossing attempt

This picture taken during the period of December 23 to 27, 2024 and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on December 29 shows Kim Jong Un attending the party meeting

North Korea calls for 'toughest' US strategy at party meeting

Suriname's former leader Desi Bouterse photographed during a press conference in Paramaribo on April 9, 1987

No national mourning

Suriname rules out state funeral for ex-dictator Bouterse

Ambulances transport wounded Palestinians from Kamal Adwan Hospital to Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City

Kamal Adwan Hospital

Israeli military says Gaza hospital chief held in raid

A delegation from Turkey's main pro-Kurdish DEM party is due to visit jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, who is serving life on a prison island off Istanbul

Turkey's pro-Kurd party meets jailed PKK leader

Ambulances transport wounded Palestinians from Kamal Adwan Hospital to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City

Israel army says ends raid against 'Hamas centre' in north Gaza hospital

Russia has said its air defence was working in Grozny when an Azerbaijani Airlines flight attempted to land there before crashing

'Tragic accident'

Putin apologises to Azerbaijan without claiming responsibility in plane crash

A Guatemalan migrant deported from the United States waits at the Returnee Reception Center upon arrival at the Guatemalan Air Force Base in Guatemala City

Guatemalan Migration Institute

US deported record 61,680 Guatemalans in 2024: agency

Mass street protests gripped Georgia since November 28

Central Tbilisi

Thousands in Georgia human chain as pro-EU protests enter 2nd month

Serge Atlaoui (L) was initially sentenced to life in prison but Indonesia's Supreme Court increased the sentence to death in 2007

France asks Indonesia to transfer national on death row

A doctor in Abu Dhabi cares for a Palestinian child injured in the Gaza Strip during the war between Israel and Hamas

Gaza child amputees get new limbs but can't shake war trauma

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