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Over half of Europeans favour expanding the EU, Eurobarometer finds

Newly elected opposition Kuomintang leader Cheng Li-wun delivers her speech during the KMT 12th National Congress in Taipei on November 1

Following US pressure

Taiwan's new opposition leader against defence spending hike

At a lavish ceremony in the historic capital of Gyeongju, Trump was presented with a replica of the

Crowns, beauty, fried chicken: Korean culture meets diplomacy at APEC

Rock climbers make their way up El Capitan at Yosemite National Park, where park rangers are in short supply due to the US government shutdown

Popular destination

Climbers test limits at Yosemite, short-staffed by US shutdown

Trump said 'thousands of Christians are being killed' in Nigeria, though experts say the violence is indiscriminate

Pushing false claims

Trump says Christians in Nigeria face 'existential threat'

Jetten could be the country's youngest PM

Postal votes still being counted

'Populists can be beaten': Dutch centrist Jetten claims election win

Lecornu expressed his 'profound disagreement' with the wealth-tax proposal

French lawmakers reject wealth tax as budget tensions mount

Prosecutors believe the May 2024 incident may have been linked to Russia

French court jails Bulgarians for up to four years for Holocaust memorial defacement

A photo released by the RSF purportedly shows its members detaining a fighter known as Abu Lulu (L) who was seen in execution videos from El-Fasher

Ongoing conflict

Sudan's RSF claims arrests as UN warns of 'horrendous' atrocities in Darfur

Britain's newspapers splashed the story on their front pages

Disgraced royal

From adored prince to outcast, Andrew's years-long fall from grace

Fire swept through the Grand Kartal Hotel in the northern mountain resort of Kartalkaya on January 21, killing 78 people and injuring 137

January tragedy

Turkish court jails 11 for life over deadly hotel inferno

Japan's new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said she raised concerns about the South China Sea, Hong Kong and Xinjiang in a

Candid first meeting

Japan PM says raised 'serious concerns' with Xi on South China Sea, Xinjiang

Chinese defence minister Dong Jun told his US counterpart Pete Hegseth that the two countries should build trust, but also cautioned Washington over Taiwan

In order to co-exist

Chinese defence minister seeks 'trust' with US but cautions over Taiwan

The border between the two countries has been closed for more than two weeks

Following failed negotiations

Pakistan, Afghanistan extend ceasefire, to hold another round of peace talks

Members of public walk near the entrance to the Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park

Monarchy under scrutiny

UK welcomes king's move to strip Andrew of royal titles

Chinese leader Xi Jinping met with Canada's premier Mark Carney, a first since 2017 for the two nations' heads

Busan, South Korea

Xi invites Canada PM to China in first meet in 8 years

Trump and Kim last met in 2019

Hoped for impromptu talk

Why emboldened Kim had little need for photo-op with Trump

Morning Roundup

Luxembourg regulates nicotine pouches, US plans to resume nuclear testing, and Prince Andrew stripped of royal titles

A mass demonstration in Jerusalem follows a recent crackdown on ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers

Exemption long-running point of contention

'Better to go to prison': Israeli ultra-Orthodox rally against army service

The first group of white Afrikaners to arrive in the United States for resettlement pose for photographers at Dulles Airport in Virginia

US to limit refugees to record low 7,500, mostly white South Africans

Placed on US Treasury's OFAC sanctions list

US sanctions cause plane refueling woes for Colombian leader

The war in Sudan has claimed tens of thousands of lives, displaced millions, and triggered the world's worst ongoing humanitarian crisis

'Catastrophic levels of human suffering'

UN warns of 'atrocities,' 'horror' in Sudan as RSF advances

In the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, the regional military administration chief said two people were killed and 23 were wounded

Captured two villages

Russia batters Ukraine energy sites with deadly aerial strikes

High number of goods sold on Temu and Shein don't conform to EU standards

Neo-Nazis were blamed for the violence at the Charlotteville riots in 2017

Accused of beating up immigrants

Swedish hate-crime trial shines light on far-right 'fitness clubs'

Visitors watch a video of a nuclear bomb test at the All-Russia Exhibition Centre (VDNH) in Moscow in December, 2023

Experts and governments baffled

Trump call for nuclear tests sows confusion

Jetten and Wilders are neck and neck

Provisional estimates

Netherlands nailbiter as far-right, centrists in election dead-heat

Albert Luthuli, pictured here with his wife, led the African National Congress from 1952 until his death

Overturning previous finding

S.Africa court rules ANC leader Luthuli was killed in apartheid 'assault'

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