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American conservative activist Steve Bannon made a gesture at a Washington conference that a French party leader said was 'alluding to Nazi ideology'

Jordan Bardella

Ex-Trump aide's 'Nazi ideology' salute sparks French party leader's protest

US President Donald Trump called Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky a 'dictator without elections'

Between diplomacy and attacks

US pushes Zelensky to sign Ukraine resources deal

Francois Bayrou sent some of his children to the Notre-Dame de Betharram school, and his wife taught religious studies there

French PM under growing pressure over Catholic school abuse claims

The incident comes two days before national elections and after a series of bloody attacks that have shocked Germany

Man badly wounded in assault at Berlin's Holocaust memorial: police

Pope Francis, 88, developed pneumonia in both lungs

Slight improvement

Pope not out of danger, doctors say, amid questions over future

Revival: Die Linke's charismatic co-leader Heidi Reichinnek

Late poll surge

German far left in surprise comeback ahead of election

South Africa's Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola said the G20 talks were robust

S.Africa wants 'inclusive' talks on ending Ukraine war, invites Zelensky

Fox faces police intervention after dispute with cat in Thuringia, Germany

German anti-fascist suspect Maja T. is accused of attacking far-right activists in Budapest

Against neo-Nazis

German anti-fascist activist on trial in Hungary over alleged assault

Bethany Haines spoke at the Paris trial of some of her murdered father's presumed jihadist jailers

Emotional testimony

Daughter of British IS victim reads last texts to him at France trial

A string of incidents involving damage to cables and other Baltic Sea infrastructure have occurred recently amid soaring tensions between the West and Russia

Suspected sabotage

Sweden investigating new Baltic Sea cable damage

French prosecutors have been investigating around 100 complaints of alleged violence, sexual assault and rape at the Notre-Dame de Betharram school in southwestern France

Accused of inaction

French PM under growing pressure over Catholic school abuse claims

Named after the Russian word for 'crosses' -- in homage to its shape -- the jail's red-brick walls loom ominously over the banks of the Neva river

Once housed revolutionaries

Russia sells famed imperial prison at auction

Posters bearing the portraits of Israeli hostages Shiri Bibas (C) and her two children Ariel (L) and Kfir (R)

Following Hamas delivering bodies

Argentina to observe two days national mourning for Bibas brothers

Large fire in industrial building near French border, caution advised

US reality television star Kim Kardashian successfully petitioned US President Donald Trump in 2018 to pardon Alice Marie Johnson

Alice Marie Johnson

Trump appoints new 'pardon czar'

The attack sparked panic in the hospital

Dressed in combat gear

Dutch court gives life sentence to Rotterdam hospital shooter

The case of Luis Rubiales' forced kiss on Jenni Hermoso thrust the spotlight on the prevalence of macho culture and sexism in sport

Fined €10,800

Hermoso will appeal Rubiales 'forced kiss' verdict

Woman stabbed 14 times in the city centre of Hayange

This handout photo taken on February 13 and released by the Australian Defence Force shows sailors onboard the Royal Australian Navy ship HMAS Arunta looking at the People's Liberation Army-Navy Fuchi-class replenishment vessel and Weishanhu Jiangkai-class frigate Hengyang in the Tasman Sea

Australia says China warned of 'live fire' drill off east coast

Alleged scam centre workers and victims from China arrive at the border checkpoint with Thailand in Myanmar's eastern Myawaddy township on February 20

Through Thailand

Myanmar returns 300 more Chinese scam centre workers

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio boards an aircraft, in Abu Dhabi on February 19

Checking whether 'situation'

Rubio defends Russia talks and criticism of Zelensky

A group of Japanese tourists pose for photographs at Sydney Harbour in 2012. Today around 17.5 percent of Japanese citizens hold valid passports

World's second strongest passport

Only one in six Japanese citizens has a passport, data shows

People gather behind posters of four Israeli hostages, hours after four bodies were handed over to Israel by the Palestinian Hamas group, during a candlelight vigil held in their honour at hostage square in Tel Aviv on February 20, 2025.

Morning Roundup

Luxair flight turns back to Dubai, Israel challenges Hamas’ identification of hostage body, and Bond gets a new boss

Election looming

'Difficult without it': EU hopes in German leadership comeback after vote

Ski wax containing the chemicals has been found to pollute remote mountain slopes

Macron signature pending

France's parliament votes to ban some uses of 'forever chemicals'

A deminer from the Cambodian Mine Action Centre examins an unexploded bomb unearthed by a worker during irrigation work in Svay Rieng province in early February 2025

Unexploded munitions

Cambodia to resume demining after US aid waiver

Venezuelan migrants deported from US Naval Station Guantanamo Bay walk down from the Venezuelan Conviasa Airlines plane as they arrive at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela on February 20, 2025

Long-feuding governments

US sends migrants from Guantanamo to Venezuela

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