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Retailleau said Algeria was crossing a line

France warns Algeria against escalation of influencers showdown

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro waves to supporters after his swearing-in ceremony

'Clearly lost' election

US hikes reward for Maduro arrest after 'illegitimate' swearing-in

Brazilian Ambassador Eduardo Saboia, head of the BRICS summit in July 2025, says the bloc of developing economies has no plans to undercut the US dollar

Tense global mood

BRICS aims to 'build' global ties as Trump takes office: Brazil

Trump attended his sentencing virtually, with the judge, lawyers and media packed into the scruffy Manhattan courtroom

Payments to a porn star

US judge spares Trump jail, fine for hush money conviction

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya with a photo of her jailed husband, Sergei Tikhanovsky

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya

Belarus opposition leader eyes 'opportunity' for change

Ten-year-old Palestinian girl Batoul Bsharat mourns for her younger brother Reda, who was killed along with two of their cousins in an Israeli drone strike on Wednesday.

Occupied West Bank

Palestinian family wants justice for children killed in Israel strike

Sudanese children play on a street in Tokar, in Red Sea State, following heavy flooding in October, 2024

UN says 3 million Sudan children facing acute malnutrition

Newly elected Lebanese President Joseph Aoun poses for a photograph at the presidential palace

Status quo shift

Weakening of Hezbollah allowed Lebanon to fill vacant presidency

Last month, Syrian Kurds had to flee an onslaught by Ankara-backed groups

Diplomatic tension

Turkey raps France, says US only counterpart in northeast Syria

Near Franco-Luxembourg border

Man arrested for smuggling 6,284 bottles of Luxembourg-bought spirits into France

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai will attend a summit on girls' education hosted by her native Pakistan

A true inspiration

Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to visit native Pakistan for girls' summit

Two members of the Bedouin Arab Zayadna family had been freed by their Palestinian captors during a November 2023 truce and the family had held out hope until this week that Youssef and Hamza would be released too.

As mediators make a renewed push

Body of Israeli hostage identified, two days after father's: army

The UK's first official consumption room for illegal drugs opens in Scotland next week

After a years-long battle

Scots leader hails opening of UK's first drug consumption facility

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani (2nd L) visits the eighth-century Umayyad Mosque in the old city of Damascus

Italian FM meets Syria's new leader in Damascus

Tran Dinh Trien was sentenced to three years in jail for posts he made on Facebook

Prominent figure

Vietnam jails ex-lawyer over Facebook posts

The three lawyers face up to six years in prison

Crackdown against the Kremlin critics

Navalny lawyers face long sentences in Russian 'extremism' trial

Head of Presidential Security Service Park Chong-jun arrives outside the National Office of Investigation in Seoul

Following failed martial law

Security chief of South Korea's impeached President Yoon resigns

New research estimates the death toll in Gaza from the Israel-Hamas war has been underestimated by some 40 percent

Shocking numbers

Lancet study estimates Gaza death toll 40% higher than recorded

Nicolas Maduro is set to be sworn in for a third six-year term in office

In office since 2013

Nicolas Maduro: Venezuela's iron-fisted 'worker president'

The 'Anne of Kyiv' brigade was launched with pomp by France and Ukraine but has been hit by scandals

The 'Anne of Kyiv'

Ukraine's French-trained brigade rocked by scandal

Death toll rises to at least 11

Los Angeles fires rage on as National Guard called in

Morning Roundup

River levels start to normalise, Los Angeles fires rage on, and 2024 hottest year on record

Contested election results

Venezuela opposition claims elusive leader briefly detained in Caracas protest

Many sadhus, or Hindu holy men, walk for weeks through India to reach the site of Kumbh Mela, the world's largest gathering

Largest gathering of humanity

India readies for mammoth Hindu festival of 400 million pilgrims

Zoran Milanovic (L) is hoping to defeat Dragan Primorac (R) to secure a second term as Croatia's president

Presidential race

Croatia's populist president tipped for re-election

Under a hardline policy introduced in 2012, Australia sent thousands of migrants to 'offshore processing' centres, including one on the Pacific island of Nauru

Island of Nauru

UN watchdog says Australia violated asylum seekers' rights

Police are setting up checkpoints to control who goes in and out of areas affected by the major fires burning around Los Angeles

Despicable acts

Survivors patrol as looters prey on fire-wrecked Los Angeles

A bogus conspiracy theory falsely claimed Comet Ping Pong, a Washington pizza restaurant, was a hub for a child sex trafficking ring involving then US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton

US 'Pizzagate' conspiracy theory gunman killed by police: media

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