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Former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe received the maximum possible sentence after being found guilty of witness tampering

Witness tampering

Colombian ex-president Uribe sentenced to 12 years house arrest

Ghislaine Maxwell, 63, is the only former associate of Jeffrey Epstein convicted in connection with his activities

Epstein accomplice Maxwell moved to minimum security Texas prison

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele has won the right to seek unlimited reelection

Victims allege torture

Nayib Bukele, El Salvador's unapologetic 'dictator'

Palestinians carry bags of flour from aid trucks in the northern Gaza Strip

Accusations of 'regular bloodbaths'

US promises Gaza food plan after envoy visit

Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki spewed a column of molten ash topped with volcanic lighnting into the Flores' night sky

Dozens of flight cancellations

Indonesia volcano belches six-mile ash tower

If eventually charged and convicted for the alleged offence, he could spend up to a year in prison

Official faces prison

Budapest mayor questioned as a suspect over Pride march

Contraceptives reportedly worth $9.7 million have been stored in a Belgian warehouse while waiting to be destroyed

Soon incinerated?

Outrage grows in France over US plan to destroy contraceptives

South Korea's former president Yoon Suk Yeol resisted prosecutors' attempts to interrogate him by lying down on the floor in his underwear

Former president stayed in cell

South Korea's Yoon resists questioning by lying in underwear

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele will be allowed to run for election again, indefinitely

Positioned secured

El Salvador abolishes presidential term limits, allowing another Bukele run

Wrong-way driver

Intoxicated motorist triggers major police operation on German motorway near Wittlich

New scanners to ease liquid restrictions in hand luggage

Escalating demands

Zelensky warns Russian threat will persist without regime change

Morning Roundup

Trump sets new tariffs, origin of Post cyberattack still unknown and national football league games live on RTL

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele will be allowed to run for election again, indefinitely

El Salvador parliament adopts reform to allow Bukele to run indefinitely

U.S. President Donald Trump hosts foreign dignitaries in a freshly gold-splashed Oval Office at the White House

Lavish spending

Trump to build huge $200mn ballroom at White House

Palestinians facing deadly shortages in Gaza gather to recover food from aid convoys

To discuss ending crisis in Gaza

Trump envoy to inspect Gaza aid as pressure mounts on Israel

Russian strikes on Kyiv killed 16 people

Zelensky urges allies to seek 'regime change' in Russia

A demonstrator holds a Peruvian flag and wears a shirt that reads

Rights violation

Peru's president rejects court order on police amnesty

Analysts predict junta chief Min Aung Hlaing will keep a role as either president or armed forces chief following the election

Myanmar junta ends state of emergency in election run-up

Germany's Laura Dahlmeier poses during the medal ceremony for the women's 7,5 km sprint event at the IBU Biathlon World Championships in Ostersund, Sweden, on March 8, 2019. Dahlmeier was confirmed dead on Wednesday after she was seriously injured by a rockfall on a Pakistani mountain.

Mountaineering accident

Authorities abandon recovery of German Olympian killed in Pakistan

Afghanistan's Taliban authorities struck a deal with Qatar to recruit 3,100 workers from Afghanistan

More than 15,500 expected to register for 3,100 jobs

Thousands of Afghans scramble for chance to work in Qatar

Krayem is serving long prison sentences for his role in the Paris and Brussels attacks in 2015 and 2016

No empathy or remorse shown

Sweden jihadist jailed for life over Jordan pilot burned alive

Demonstrators gathered in central Kyiv to urge lawmakers to back the vote

Reversing changes that had sparked protests

Zelensky signs bill ensuring anti-graft agencies' 'independence'

Omar Ayub Khan was sentenced to 10 years in prison by a Pakistan court

'Bad for democracy'

Pakistan opposition leader given 10 years for Imran Khan protests

Former ambassador to Luxembourg

Austria's top EU diplomat resigns after sex blog scandal

Au Kam-san, a primary school teacher who became one of Macau's longest-serving pro-democracy legislators, poses for a photo in 2024

Chinese casino hub

Macau ex-lawmaker arrested in city's first national security law action

Belgian border region

Child steals farm vehicle, causes multiple accidents in Durbuy

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney exits a press conference after announcing plans to recognize a Palestinian state

Immediately rejected by Israel

Canada intends to recognize Palestinian state at UN General Assembly: Carney

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