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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz told the conference that Europe's freedom was 'endangered'

Strained relations

Europe calls for US reset at security talks

Indian author Arundhati Roy pulled out of the Berlin Film Festival amid a row over comments on Gaza

'Shocked and disgusted'

Indian writer Roy pulls out of Berlin Film Festival over Gaza row

A fire at the Nico Lopes oil refinery in Havana

Amid US blockade

Havana refinery fire under control as Cuba battles fuel shortages

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has already branded the planned trial 'unethical'

Scientific and ethical grounds

WHO sets out concerns over US vaccine trial in G.Bissau

Arqueologists in Costa Rica dig February 4, 2026 at a site that yielded bones of a mastodon and giant sloth

Biggest find in decades

Costa Rica digs up mastodon, giant sloth bones in major archaeological find

US President Donald Trump gestures as he boards Air Force One at Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Pressure tactics

Trump says change of power in Iran would be 'best thing'

French police cordoned off the area around the Arc de Triomphe afterwards

Foiled 'terrorist attack'

Paris police shoot dead knife man at Arc de Triomphe

The water leak comes in the wake of the brazen jewellery heist at the Louvre which shocked France

Another headache

Water leak and ticket fraud charges add to Louvre woes

TRaders are awaiting US inflation data due later Friday, after a strong jobs reading earlier in the week

Stocks sluggish as AI disruption worries move to fore

Former CNN anchor Don Lemon speaks to reporters after pleading not guilty to federal civil rights charges

Ex-CNN anchor pleads not guilty to charges from US church protest

Anders Danielsen Lie stars as the legendary jazz pianist

Played by Anders Danielsen Lie

Berlin premiere for pic on jazz piano legend Bill Evans

The Kyiv-Classic Orchestra plays at the central rail station in the Ukrainian capital in a bid to lift spirits amid intense Russian attacks

Between air-raid alerts

A Friday night concert in Kyiv to 'warm souls'

ICRC president Mirjana Spoljaric has condemned the disregard shown for the internationally-agreed laws of war

Disregard for laws of war

Conflicts turning on civilians, warns Red Cross chief

Peru's interim president Jose Jeri is now facing two separate investigations by the attorney general's office

Looming impeachment vote

Peru leader under investigation for influence peddling

US consumer inflation ticked down more than expected in January, helped by lower energy costs, government data shows

'Key items are cooling off'

US consumer inflation eases more than expected to lowest since May

WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala at the WEF summit in Davos

'Not sustainable'

WTO chief urges China to shift on trade surplus

There were still widespread cuts to the power and water supplies

Over 74 thousand households affected

Madagascar cyclone death toll rises to 40, water, power still out

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairman Tarique Rahman called for all to vote

'Historic victory'

Bangladesh nationalists celebrate landslide win, Islamists cry foul

The colourful woven traditional tunic originating from northern Ghana is worn by both men and women

'This cloth is ours'

Ghana rallies round traditional tunic after foreign mockery

England captain Maro Itoje

'So far from the truth'

England rugby captain Itoje slams Ratcliffe's 'ridiculous' immigration comments

Khodorkovsky was formerly Russia's richest man

A new 'cold war'?

Europe should speak to Russia with 'one voice', Putin foe says

The opposition Democrats oppose any new funding for the Department of Homeland Security until major reforms are implemented

Beginning Saturday

US Congress impasse over immigration set to trigger partial shutdown

Protestors cheer after the High Court in London rules that a UK ban on the Palestine Action group interfered with the right to freedom of speech

Freedom of speech

Activist group Palestine Action wins legal challenge against UK ban

President Emmanuel Macron planted an oak tree in memory of Ilan Halimi, a 23-year-old French Jewish man tortured to death in 2006

Macron slams 'antisemitic hydra' as he honours 2006 Jewish murder victim

Chinese internet giant TenCent is investing in some of Ubisoft's top games

Massive esports event

Ubisoft targets new decade of 'Rainbow 6' with China expansion

Four astronauts blasts off towards the International Space Station

Aboard SpaceX rocket

International crew en route to space station

Several French hospitals and nursing homes have appealed to ordinary people to help fund urgent needs

'Citizen loans'

Cash-starved French hospitals ask public to pitch in

Astronaut Sophie Adenot has become the second French woman to fly to space

Dream come true

Sophie Adenot, the second French woman to fly to space

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