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The UN's humanitarian office said on Friday Israel's blockage of aid to Gaza was 'politically motivated starvation'

Starting off week of hearings

Palestinian official tells ICJ Israel using aid blockage as 'weapon of war'

Fragile proposal

Putin orders surprise three-day ceasefire in May

Anger is growing in Indian-administered Kashmir over sweeping detentions in the hunt for the gunmen who carried out a deadly attack last week that India blames on Pakistan

Massacre fallout

India Kashmir crackdown sparks anger as Pakistan tensions escalate

Ama Dablam is a popular training peak for mountaineers preparing for Everest

64-year-old man

Austrian climber dies on Nepal mountain

Thick black smoke still billows two days after a deadly blast at Iran's Shahid Rajaee Port, in a photo provided by the Iranian Red Crescent

Country's largest commercial port

Fires rage 2 days after Iran port blast killed 46

President Emmanuel Macron has vowed the attackers would be

Following coordinated attacks

France arrests 25 in police raids after prison attacks

Issam al-Buwaydani, leader of Syria's Jaish al-Islam group that fought against Bashar al-Assad, pictured on December 26, 2015

Head of Jaish al-Islam

Syria group says military chief arrested in UAE

Johann Wadephul will serve as Germany's next top diplomat

Former soldier, trained lawyer, and conservative MP

Putin critic Johann Wadephul, Germany's incoming foreign minister

Members of the Philippine Coast Guard unfurl the national flag during a trip to a disputed reef that Chinese media had reported was under Beijing's control

'Implemented maritime control'

China, Philippines trade barbs over disputed reef

North Korea confirmed for the first time it had deployed troops to Russia, with state news agency KCNA reporting that soldiers helped reclaim territory in Kursk

For the first time

North Korea confirms troop deployment to Russia's Kursk

Members of the Philippine Coast Guard unfurl the national flag during a trip to a disputed reef that Chinese media had reported was under Beijing's control

Status quo 'unchanged'

Philippines denies 'irresponsible' Chinese report on disputed reef

Mount Fuji, an active volcano and Japan's highest peak, is covered in snow for most of the year

All for forgotten phone

Man rescued from Mount Fuji twice in one week: reports

Morning Roundup

Airport Park & Ride opens, Canada election, and Ettelbruck are national basketball champions

'No option but to hand himself in'

Mosque murder suspect arrested in Italy: French prosecutor

Cardinals from around the world will vote to elect Pope Francis's successor

Cardinals set to pick conclave date to elect new pope

US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force One upon departure at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, New Jersey, on April 27, 2025. Trump is returning to Washington, DC, from his residence in Bedminster, New Jersey, after traveling to Rome for the funeral of Pope Francis.

Huge concession

Trump thinks Zelensky ready to give up Crimea to Russia

Canadian Prime Minister and Liberal leader Mark Carney is favored to win the election, but the race has tightened

30-year-old man arrested

Last day of Canada election campaign jolted by Vancouver attack

Top US officials have slammed the eastern European country after it annulled last year's presidential vote

Romania presidential election re-run under Trump shadow

The next leader of the Catholic Church will be chosen by 135 cardinals

'Anxiety' around successor

Crowds flock to tomb of Pope Francis, as eyes turn to conclave

Military spending rose worldwide with particularly large increases in Europe

Conflicts spur 'unprecedented' rise in military spending

A US military photo shows an F/A-18 Super Hornet warplane taking off from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier on March 16, 2025

Near-daily air strikes

US says it struck 800 targets in Yemen, killed 100s of Huthis since March 15

The photo of Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky meeting at St Peter's Basilica was everywhere on social media

Ceasefire hopes

Can Trump-Zelensky Vatican talks bring Ukraine peace?

US President Donald Trump promised on the campaign trail to end the war in Ukraine within a day of taking office, but his efforts have so far not yielded results

Diplomatic offensive

Trump tells Putin to 'stop shooting' and make a deal

Heavy smoke rises from the scene of a deadly port blast and fire a day earlier, a picture provided by the media office of the Iranian presidency shows

Massive explosion

Iran's Khamenei orders probe into port blast that killed 40

Lebanese emergency teams cordon off the blazing rubble of a building hit by an Israeli air strike in south Beirut. perimeter of a fire at the site of Israeli strikes following evacuation orders, in Beirut's southern suburb on April 27, 2025.

Called on US and France

Israel strikes south Beirut, prompting Lebanese appeal to ceasefire guarantors

People in India protest following the deadly attack on tourists in Pahalgam

India and Pakistan troops exchange fire in Kashmir

More than 50,000 people died at the Bergen-Belsen camp, including the diarist Anne Frank

Germany marks liberation of Bergen-Belsen Nazi camp

Zelensky denied Russia had forced Ukraine's army out of Kursk

Despite competing claims

Zelensky says Ukraine not kicked out of Russia's Kursk

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