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Donald Trump has shown little sign of changing his bombastic style in his second term

Trump unbound: America braces for wild, dark comeback

Evacuees have become increasingly nervous about looters roaming empty neighborhoods and poluice have stepped up patrols in a bid to deter criminals

Nine charged over looting in LA fires: prosecutor

Iranian officials met with counterparts from Britain, France and Germany

Tehran's nuclear programme

Iran, European powers hold 'constructive' nuclear talks

Lebanese lawmakers broke a two-year deadlock to appoint Joseph Aoun president

Major challenges

Lebanon's president names ICJ judge Nawaf Salam prime minister

The war in Gaza continued to rage despite talk of a ceasefire deal being close

Heavy fighting rocks Gaza amid rising hope for truce deal

US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan speaks during the daily press briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 13, 2025.

US says Gaza deal 'can get done this week'

Tourist information centres are thing of the past in Paris

Due to digital services

Last tourist information centre in Paris closes

Luxembourg drunk driver causes accident after phone distraction

Police said more than a million members of an influential religious sect gathered in the Philippine capital on Monday

Iglesia ni Cristo

Philippine sect gathers to oppose VP Duterte impeachment

South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul (R) met Japanese counterpart Takeshi Iwaya (L) for talks in Seoul

Strengthening ties

Japan FM in South Korea for talks before Trump takes office

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Kyiv had captured two North Korean soldiers

Seoul says 300 North Korean soldiers killed fighting Ukraine

Morning Roundup

Nationwide strike in Belgium, US Ambassador gives goodbye interview, and sing along to LSC songs

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Artificial intelligence

Viral images of Hollywood sign on fire are fake

The storm came as France's poorest territory was still reeling from a deadly cyclone from mid-December

Cyclone-battered region sees storm Dikeledi leave Mayotte for Mozambique

Malala Yousafzai has made only a handful of public visits to Pakistan since her evacuation to Britain after being shot in the head by a Pakistan Taliban militant

Education activist Malala returns to a region in crisis

Young women and supporters of liberal causes like the LGBTQ+ community, climate justice and labour rights are calling for the impeached president's immediate detention

A gender conflict

South Korea's Gen-Z divided over political crisis

The millennia-old Kumbh Mela, a show of religious piety and ritual bathing, is held at the site where the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers meet

India opens giant Hindu festival for 400 million pilgrims

Wind-fanned wildfires have killed at least 24 people in Los Angeles, consuming communities and destroying homes

'A desperate battle'

Australian mum says son killed in LA fires as water ran out

Zoran Milanovic voting in Zagreb on Sunday

Croatia populist president re-elected in landslide

President William Ruto has faced mounting criticism over the wave of abductions

Maria Sarungi Tsehai

Tanzania rights activist latest abduction victim in Kenya

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan (R) welcomes his Syrian counterpart Asaad al-Shaibani (C) before attending the talks

After fall of Bashar al-Assad

Saudi Arabia urges Syria sanctions relief at talks with regional, EU diplomats

Alice Weidel, co-leader of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, addresses delegates during a party congress in Riesa

International boost

German far right emboldened by Austria

The collision occurred near Strasbourg's main train station, one of the busiest in France outside of Paris

Toll from French tram crash rises to 68 injured

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai is attending a summit on girls' education in Muslim nations being held in Pakistan's capital Islamabad

Malala Yousafzai tells Muslim leaders not to 'legitimise' Taliban

German far-right leader Alice Weidel lives in Switzerland with her female partner from Sri Lanka

Alice Weidel, German far right's unlikely hope for chancellor

A photograph from Zelensky's Telegram account shows an alleged North Korean soldier at an undisclosed location in Ukraine

On Russian territory

Seoul confirms Ukraine captured two North Korean soldiers

A handout photo taken on January 11 and released on January 12 by the Philippine Coast Guard shows a Chinese Coast Guard ship reportedly 60 nautical miles (111 kilometres) west of the main Philippine island of Luzon

Disputed South China Sea

Manila deploys coast guard ship to counter China patrols

Hailing from the former communist East Germany, Wagenknecht has spoken with nostalgia about the vanished state

A lifetime in opposition

Sahra Wagenknecht, Germany's combative 'left-wing conservative'

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