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A US official said that Iran's Revolutionary Guards' elite Quds Force initiated the plot in late 2024 to kill Israel's ambassador to Mexico

Tehran rejects claims

US accuses Iran in plot to kill Israeli ambassador in Mexico

The roof of the Jet Set club in the capital Santo Domingo caved in early on April 8, during a concert by merengue star Rubby Perez

236 people died

Owners of collapsed Dominican nightclub formally charged

Travelers wait in line at a security checkpoint at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois on November 7 2025

Six weeks of staff shortages

More than 1,000 flights cut in US shutdown fallout

Turkey has accused Netanyahu and senior Israeli officials of 'genocide and crimes against humanity' in Gaza

Met with Israeli rebuttal

Turkey issues genocide arrest warrant against Netanyahu

Joint Base Andrews in Maryland is home to the presidential jet, Air Force One

'No immediate threats'

Medical all-clear after anti-Trump package opened at US base

Two centuries-old manuscripts will be at the heart of talks between French President Emmanuel Macron and his Mexican counterpart Claudia Sheinbaum

Codex Borbonicus and Codex Azcatitlan

Return of centuries-old manuscripts key to France-Mexico talks

Lindsay Sandiford is wheeled out of Heathrow airport after landing at Terminal 4 as part of a repatriation agreement between Indonesia and the UK

Released on humanitarian grounds

UK grandmother on Indonesia death row arrives back in London

Thousands fleeing violence El-Fasher end up in camps in Tawila

MSF warns of missing civilians in Sudan's El-Fasher

Agnes Wanjiru's sister Rose and another relative hold a picture of the young mother, who was found dead in 2012

Diplomatic tension

Ex-British soldier fights extradition over Kenyan woman's murder

Authorities investigate the aftermath of blasts at a high school in Jakarta on November 7, 2025

Blasts at Indonesia school mosque injure more than 50

Millions of Sudanese have been driven from their homes into makeshift displacement camps during the two-and-a-half year old war between the army and a rival paramilitary faction

UN warns 'intensified hostilities' ahead in Sudan despite RSF backing truce plan

Juan Carlos was a key figure in Spain's democratic transition but left the country in disgrace in 2020

Spain's exiled king recounts history, scandals in wistful memoir

Both the McCann parents testified during the trial

Claiming to be missing child

Woman convicted in UK of harassing Maddie McCann's parents

Violent protests broke out across the east African country on election day

Post-election violence

Tanzania charges more than 100 with treason over election protests

Afghanistan and Pakistan were quick to blame each other for the border firing, after deadly shelling threatened to derail a fragile truce

Committed to negotiations, despite blame game

Afghan-Pakistan peace talks push ahead after border clashes

Former president Jair Bolsonaro was found guilty in September of attempting to oust his successor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Against 27-year sentence

Brazil court starts hearing Bolsonaro appeal

A Frenchman has been allowed to keep the gold treasure he found in his garden

Would you look at that?

Funny old world: the week's offbeat news

Surrendered to police

Man shoots gun and barricades himself near Longwy primary school

President Ahmed al-Sharaa will be Syria's first leader to visit the White House, as the former jihadist works to end his country's isolation after long years of war and sanctions

Ahmed al-Sharaa

Former jihadist Syrian leader makes unprecedented White House visit

Vietnamese authorities were still assessing the damage on Friday

Toll at 188 dead, expected to rise

Deadly Typhoon Kalmaegi ravages Vietnam, Philippines

Seoul said North Korea fired an unidentified ballistic missile towards the East Sea, referring to the body of water also known as the Sea of Japan

Towards Sea of Japan

North Korea fires unidentified ballistic missile: Seoul military

The seats of the US delegates were empty in Geneva in September after US President Donald Trump withdrew from United Nations bodies including the Human Rights Council

Mandatory Universal Periodic Review

US officials, NGOs cry foul as Washington snubs UN rights review

China's third aircraft carrier, Fujian, is named after the province facing Taiwan

'Greater combat persistence'

China's new aircraft carrier enters service in key move to modernise fleet

Morning Roundup

Inflation down, Germany to provide Belgium with counter-drone defence support, and national squad announced for World Cup qualifiers

Hours after truce agreement

Explosions heard near Sudan capital Khartoum, say witnesses

UK lawmakers have asked that the former prince Andrew testify on the record about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein

Given long-standing friendship and allegations

UK's Andrew asked to testify over Epstein as he formally loses titles

This screen grab from a video posted by US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on his X account shows what he called a deadly strike on 'narco-terrorists' in the Caribbean

Controversial anti-narcotics campaign

Three killed in new US strike on alleged drug boat, toll at 70

Russia has been plagued by manpower shortages since Russia invaded in 2022

Amid manpower shortages

Kolya, the Ukrainian teen preparing for frontline battle

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