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The opposition in Trinidad and Tobago won Monday's parliamentary elections, returning former prime minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar to office

Amid economic slump, gang violence

Opposition wins Trinidad and Tobago election, returning Persad-Bissessar as PM

Morning Roundup

Shooting near Luxembourg border, power returns to Spain and Portugal, and Mark Carney wins Canadian election

A Jaish al-Islam flag found in one of the group's alleged prisons in Eastern Ghouta

Charged with complicity

France tries Syrian Islamist rebel ex-spokesman on war crime charges

Tawern, Germany

Woman severely injured, suspect dead after shooting near Luxembourg border

MQ-9 Reaper drones cost around $30 million apiece

$30 million apiece

US lost seven multi-million-dollar drones in Yemen area since March

Amnesty said 90 percent of Gaza's population was displaced

Deliberate human catastrophe

Amnesty accuses Israel of 'live-streamed genocide' against Gaza Palestinians

U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to sign the anti-revenge porn legislation endorsed by first lady Melania Trump

Protecting the dignity and privacy

Congress passes 'revenge porn' ban, sending it to Trump

People marched in memory of the Malian stabbed to death in a mosque in an Islamophobic attack

French mosque murder suspect, 21, surrenders in Italy

Venezuela said it believed that the girl's father -- accused of being a member of the Tren de Aragua gang -- was sent to a notorious El Salvador prison

Bilateral accusations

Venezuelan president slams US over little girl's 'abduction'

Canada's new prime minister, Mark Carney, attends a hockey watch party in Ottawa in February 2025

Canada's Carney: political newcomer who says he's best in a crisis

Terence Chia (L) and Haresh Tilani (R) interview Singaporean opposition politicians for their podcast

Unfiltered airtime

Mic check: Singapore's podcast boom amplifies opposition voices

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attended a meeting of ministers from the BRICS grouping in Rio de Janeiro

To present a united front

Calls for 'diplomacy,' 'cooperation' at BRICS summit

A traffic jam in front of Madrid's Atocha rail station as the city battles a massive power cut

Personal experiences of those involved

No power, no phone, no transport -- Spain in a panic

Donald Trump has vowed to target undocumented migrants in his second term as US president

A crackdown on 'sanctuary cities'

Trump targets US 'sanctuary cities' in migrant crackdown

Russian President Vladimir Putin has rejected a 30-day ceasefire proposal from the United States

Trump pushing Russia to accept a ceasefire

Putin orders three-day truce amid new US warnings

The Truman is one of two US aircraft carriers currently operating in the Middle East

One sailor injured

US warplane falls off aircraft carrier into Red Sea

Yemen's Huthis also reported strikes on the capital Sanaa over the weekend

Escalating tensions

UN 'alarmed' by US strikes in Yemen that Huthis say killed 68 migrants

The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) provides life-saving food aid around the world, including in active conflict zones such as Gaza

One-third reduction in activities

UN food, refugee agencies warn of huge cuts after funding losses

Trinidad and Tobago's Prime Minister Stuart Young is seeking to remain in power, against a backdrop of rising gang violence and an economic slump

Went to the polls on Monday

Violence-weary Trinidadians vote in general election

The meeting between Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Azeri President Ilham Aliyev is a sign of thawing ties

Iranian president visits Azerbaijan as ties warm

The UN's humanitarian office said on Friday Israel's blockage of aid to Gaza was 'politically motivated starvation'

Starting off week of hearings

Palestinian official tells ICJ Israel using aid blockage as 'weapon of war'

Fragile proposal

Putin orders surprise three-day ceasefire in May

Anger is growing in Indian-administered Kashmir over sweeping detentions in the hunt for the gunmen who carried out a deadly attack last week that India blames on Pakistan

Massacre fallout

India Kashmir crackdown sparks anger as Pakistan tensions escalate

Ama Dablam is a popular training peak for mountaineers preparing for Everest

64-year-old man

Austrian climber dies on Nepal mountain

Thick black smoke still billows two days after a deadly blast at Iran's Shahid Rajaee Port, in a photo provided by the Iranian Red Crescent

Country's largest commercial port

Fires rage 2 days after Iran port blast killed 46

President Emmanuel Macron has vowed the attackers would be

Following coordinated attacks

France arrests 25 in police raids after prison attacks

Issam al-Buwaydani, leader of Syria's Jaish al-Islam group that fought against Bashar al-Assad, pictured on December 26, 2015

Head of Jaish al-Islam

Syria group says military chief arrested in UAE

Johann Wadephul will serve as Germany's next top diplomat

Former soldier, trained lawyer, and conservative MP

Putin critic Johann Wadephul, Germany's incoming foreign minister

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