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Indian troops on Wednesday guarded the site of the attack where gunmen in Kashmir killed 26 people

Tourists flee India-administered Kashmir after deadly attack

Singapore's election campaign kicked off Wednesday, with Prime Minister Lawrence Wong facing his first major test

Turbulent times

PM faces first test as Singapore election campaign kicks off

Morning Roundup

Housing minister discloses real estate figures, Pope funeral set for Saturday, and Britain hosts Ukraine peace talks

Members of the M23 movement stand at the gate of the local government offices in Bukavu in this March 2025 photo

Deserted by the government

At night, crime and fear stalk DR Congo's M23-run areas

The late pope's remains will be on display for three days in Saint Peter's Basilica

Embalming and make-up: Pope's body prepared for lying-in-state

US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania will be among the guests at the pope's funeral on Saturday

Royals and politicians

The world leaders set to attend Pope Francis's funeral

A fighter loyal to Sudan's army patrols a market area in the capital Khartoum

Amid communications blackout

'No one else will': Sudan's journalists risk all to report the war

US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an Oval Office meeting

West Bank annexation

Trump's return boosts Israel's pro-settlement right: experts

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) will undergo scrutiny for its work, including distribution of food and aid as seen here in Gaza City in April 2025

'Complex environment'

UN appoints envoy to assess aid for Palestinians

Paramedics and police personnel carry a wounded tourist at a hospital in Anantnag, after the attack in Kashmir

Worst attack on civilians in years

Gunmen kill dozens of civilians in Kashmir tourist hotspot

Top US diplomat Marco Rubio billed the plan as a major shake-up in the State Department

'Bloated' organisation

US State Department to cut positions, rights offices

Tidjane Thiam, the head of Ivory Coast's main opposition party, has been barred from the country's presidential election after a court ruled his nationality was invalid

Citizenship row

I.Coast opposition leader Thiam barred from presidential election

Moscow's forces occupy around a fifth of Ukrainian territory

'Not worth setting any rigid time frames'

Ukraine ready for direct talks with Russia only after ceasefire: Zelensky

Faithful pray in memory of the late Pope Francis at St Mary’s Cathedral in Yangon

The only Catholic church chief to visit Myanmar

Myanmar Catholics mourn pope who remembered their plight

Italy's President Sergio Mattarella and his daughter Laura pay respects in front of the coffin of the late Pope Francis in the Chapel of Santa Marta in The Vatican

'An atmosphere of contemplation and prayer'

Pope's Vatican 'family' pay tearful respects

Paramedics assist an injured tourist at a hospital in Anantnag, south of Srinagar

No group has claimed responsibility for attack

'Like a storm': Witnesses describe deadly Kashmir attack

Top US diplomat Marco Rubio billed the plan as a major shake-up in the State Department

Rubio to cut positions, rights offices at US State Department

US President Donald Trump said he was united with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

'The call went very well'

Trump says 'on the same side of every issue' with Netanyahu after call

Israel continued to strike the Gaza Strip on Tuesday as negotiators sought again to secure a new ceasefire

Discussing 'new ideas'

Hamas team heads to Cairo for Gaza talks as Israel strikes kill 26

US Vice President JD Vance visited the Indian city of Jaipur on Tuesday

First tranche of a trade deal

US VP Vance says 'progress' in India trade talks

Trump's war against universities has seen him threaten to cut federal funding over policies meant to encourage diversity among students and staff

From Princeton to Brown

US universities issue letter condemning Trump's 'political interference'

The flag of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) raised on a welcome arch in Lashio on April 9

Beijing-brokered deal

Myanmar rebels prepare to hand key city back to junta, China says

Pakistan launched a campaign to evict by the end of April more than 800,000 Afghans who have had their residence permits cancelled, including some who lived there for decades

Mass displacement

Fleeing Pakistan, Afghans rebuild from nothing

A bad apple in every bunch

EU assistant of Luxembourg MEP speaks out after French National Rally scandal

Morning Roundup

World mourns death of Pope Francis, smartphone ban in schools takes effect today, and PM Frieden in Japan

A nun visits the Mexico-US border fence in Tijuana

From South America to northern Mexico

Migrants mourn pope who fought for their rights

Pope Francis walks along with US President Donald Trump and US First Lady Melania Trump at the Vatican in May 2017

With Pope Francis death, Trump loses top moral critic

Pope Francis died aged 88

Collective grief

'Like orphans': Argentina mourns loss of papal son

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