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New Zealand Defence Minister Judith Collins (L) and Philippine Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro (R) sign a visiting forces pact on Wednesday as President Ferdinand Marcos (C) looks on

In face of Chinese threat

New Zealand, Phillippines sign troops deal in 'deteriorating' strategic environment

Sex workers in Belgium can, since December, access legal protections and labour rights

Access to legal protections, labour rights

Belgium's green light for red light workers

Morning Roundup

Wage indexation in May, new shooting in Sweden, and Trump marks 100 days

A local resident walks past a destroyed house in the town of Lyman, near the frontline in the Donetsk region in Ukraine

Growing impatience

US threatens to quit Russia-Ukraine effort unless 'concrete proposals'

Doug Emhoff, pictured with his wife, former US vice president Kamala Harris, campaigned against anti-Semitism while he was second gentleman

Politicised remembrance

Trump fires Kamala Harris's husband from Holocaust board

Former president Yoon Suk Yeol was stripped of all power and privileges by the Constitutional Court over his disastrous December 3 martial law declaration

Former first lady involved

S. Korea prosecutors raid ex-president's house over shaman probe: Yonhap

Cardinal Luis Tagle attending a rosary prayer at Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica in Rome on April 24, 2025

Charismatic and moderate

Filipino cardinal, the 'Asian Francis', is papal contender

Cardinal Pietro Parolin (C) played a key role in mediating a thaw between the United States and Cuba, as well as making a key Vatican agreement with China

Secretary of state

Pietro Parolin, career diplomat leading race to be pope

Former US president Joe Biden (C) participates in a 2023 AUKUS summit with then-British PM Rishi Sunak (R) and Australia's Anthony Albanese (L)

US alliance in doubt

Nuclear submarine deal lurks below surface of Australian election

US President Donald Trump delivers a speech marking his 100th day in office

Vocal opponents vs loyal base

Trump celebrates 100 days in office with campaign-style rally

Turkey was shaken by massive street protests in March sparked by the arrest and jailing of Istanbul's opposition mayor

Facing three years in prison

Swedish journalist's trial opens in Turkey

Former Trinidadian prime minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is set to return to power after her center-right party won parliamentary elections

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

Opposition leader confirmed winner of Trinidad elections

Swedish police sealed off a hair salon in the city of Uppsala where three people were killed in a shootout

Three confirmed deaths

Sweden stunned by new deadly gun attack

Russia's GRU intelligence service 'has been carrying out cyberattacks against France for several years', French foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot said

Over last decade

France accuses Russian military intelligence over cyberattacks

Cuban opposition leader Jose Daniel Ferrer was detained during major anti-government protests that rocked towns and cities across the island nation in July 2021

Alleged probation violations

Top Cuban dissidents detained after court revokes parole

Vietnamese gather on the streets of Ho Chi Minh City, preparing to sleep out overnight ahead of the start of a parade marking the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon

Including Chinese troops

Grand Vietnam parade 50 years after the fall of Saigon

Haitian women are being rounded up at Dominican hospitals

Targeting undocumented migrants

'Cruel measure': Dominican crackdown on Haitian hospitals

Pakistan says it shot down an Indian drone and India says there was more gunfire across the Line of Control separating the two countries overnight

Escalating tensions

India gives army 'operational freedom' to respond to Kashmir attack

A private vehicle with curtains drawn carrying pro-democracy activist Claudia Mo is seen leaving Hong Kong's Lo Wu Correctional Institution just before sunrise on April 29, 2025

After four years in prison

Hong Kong releases former opposition lawmakers jailed for subversion

Three confirmed dead

Multiple victims in shooting in Uppsala, Sweden

Prime Minister Mark Carney pledged to beat the United States in Donald Trump's trade war after winning Canada's election

Carney's Liberals win Canada election defined by Trump

High-voltage pylons carry electricity from Spain to Portugal

Interconnectivity: the cornerstone of the European electricity network

Canada's Prime Minister and Liberal Party leader Mark Carney waves to supporters at a victory party in Ottawa

'Short honeymoon'

Multiple challenges await Canada's Carney

Malta said it would abide by the ruling, but regarded past 'golden passports' as still valid

Commercialised citizenship

EU top court rules 'golden passport' schemes are illegal

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos (R) and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba met Tuesday at the presidential palace in Manila

Amid disputes with China

Japan, Philippines leaders vow to deepen security ties

Hanouna has built a wide following

French right-wing TV host fans talk of presidential bid

From across the world

'Closest of allies': Leaders salute Canada Liberals' vote win

Nigel Farage's Reform UK party hopes to make big gains at the local elections

Two-party disenchantment

Hard-right upstarts eye big gains in local UK polls

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