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A researcher at Georgetown University in Washington has been arrested and threatened with expulsion

Faces expulsion from the US

US judge blocks expulsion of Indian researcher detained over alleged Hamas ties

EU leaders discussed efforts to bolster defence spending at a Brussels summit

As Russia looms, EU defence plans fail to quell joint borrowing calls

France's President Emmanuel Macron said leaders of the coalition backing Ukraine would meet again next week

New proposition

Macron announces fresh 'coalition of willing' meeting on Ukraine

Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during a news conference on March 14, 2025 in Ottawa

Amid US trade war

Canada PM Carney to call April 28 snap election

Congolese forces have been battling the M23 armed group, which has seized towns in the DRC's east

M23 fighters seize key DR Congo town despite ceasefire bid

Families and friends of victims of the Kocani nightclub fire gathered for their funerals

Fifty-nine dead

'A tsunami of tears': N. Macedonia buries victims of deadly nightclub fire

This photo released by Qatar's foreign ministry shows US citizen George Glezmann (C) with US official Adam Boehler (C-L), former US envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad (C-R) and Qatari diplomats in Kabul, before heading for Doha

After two years

US citizen George Glezmann released from detention in Afghanistan

White House Press Karoline Leavitt speaks to reporters outside of the West Wing of the White House in Washington, DC on March 20, 2025.

Hamas blamed for continued airstrikes

Trump 'fully supports' Israeli actions in Gaza: White House

Nicola Sturgeon was Scotland's longest-serving first minister

Partner appears in court

Ex-Scottish leader Sturgeon cleared in funds probe

Elsie was monitoring 380 HIV-positive children before Donald Trump ordered cuts to US foreign aid

Foreign aid crisis

'Some won't survive': US cuts threaten S.Africa's young HIV patients

Grondeau was arrested in 2022

Olivier Grondeau

Iran frees Frenchman after nearly 900-day prison ordeal

Palestinians gather around bodies outside the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza

As air strikes resume

Hamas fires at Tel Aviv in first riposte to deadly Israel assault

Capital Markets Union – A new name, but the same problems persist

Isaac, a transgender man, in Clermont-Ferrand in central France

'People don't understand'

Insults and acceptance: being trans in rural France

The French scientist was stopped at the US border

Smartphone read

US denies entry to French scientist over 'hateful' messages

Philippine Justice Secretary Jesus Remulla told senators the government did not coordinate last week's arrest of Rodrigo Duterte ahead of time

Detained on 11 March

Philippine officials deny coordinating Duterte arrest with ICC

A man of many parts: Eddie Jordan, F1 team owner and astute entrepreneur

Eddie Jordan, the Dublin bank clerk who gave Michael Schumacher his F1 debut

China classifies death penalty statistics as a state secret, though rights groups including Amnesty International believe thousands of people are executed in the country every year

In recent weeks

China says acted 'in accordance with the law' after 4 Canadians executed

Sinkhole in Villerupt

Little help for affected residents

Islam Khalilov, 16, (L) and Artem Donskov, 15, managed to save more than a hundred people by helping them flee the burning building

'Chills down his spine'

A year on, survivors still haunted by Russia's Crocus attack

A couple smile during the sunset in Tlajomulco de Zuniga, Mexico

World happiness report

Luxembourg drops one place to ninth, Finland remains top for eighth consecutive year

Following meeting with Swedish PM

Frieden stresses need for a 'lasting and just' peace in Ukraine

Morning Roundup

EU leaders to discuss defence spending, Amazon loses appeal on data protection fine, and Luxembourg ninth happiest country in the world

Rising food prices have sparked calla for a boycott of Sweden's main grocery chains to get them to lower prices

With industry giants

Swedish govt holds talks on countering rising food prices

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is co-leading efforts to form the 'coalition of the willing' to help Ukraine in peace

Planning a peacekeeping force

Military chiefs gather in UK to discuss Ukraine protections

US President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education

American conservative goal

Trump order to dismantle Education Dept expected Thursday: reports

Among the banners held by protesters were many calling on the government to end the war

'We are all hostages'

Israelis return to streets in anger over Netanyahu's policies

Washington authorities last week began removing a mural that said 'Black Lives Matter,' in line with the Trump administration's assault on diversity and racial justice programs

Assault on diversity

Trump's US government erases minorities from websites, policies

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