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Promising change: Nepal's rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah

Following the 77 deaths

Nepal's PM-to-be delivers first post-election message in rap, urges unity

Paul McCartney, pictured here in Paris earlier this month, said he wondered if he was just writing about the past -- but 'then I think how can you write about anything else?'

'A lot of memories of Liverpool'

Paul McCartney recalls Yesterday with first album in five years

Infographic showing the key points of global maritime transport

Gateway to Red Sea

Bab al-Mandeb Strait: another key shipping route under threat

Abdul Hai Hamidi was searching for the son-in-law of his brother

Pakistani strike

Families of Kabul bombing victims still search for answers

Senegal have lodged an appeal with the CAS against the CAF's decision to overturn the result of the AFCON final

Appealing initial decision

Senegal victims of 'most blatant scam' in football history: federation

Africa's cotton industry is in focus at the WTO ministerial conference

Africa sets out stall for cotton at the WTO

Attendees wear shirts spelling out “TRUMP” during the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center, in Grapevine, Texas

Mostly bought-in

Trump's Iran war tests MAGA 'America First' creed

US President Donald Trump has sent mixed messages

What we know so far

What's happening with Iran-US 'talks'?

The European Parliament will vote on whether to cut EU tariffs on some US imports

EU parliament backs Trump tariff deal -- with conditions

A young student uses her mobile phone at a public school in Planaltina, Brasilia

'Status quo isn't good enough'

UK PM 'very keen' to curb addictive social media after US ruling

The EU on Monday announced a probe into Elon Musk's Grok over the generation of sexualised deepfake images

Non-consensual nudes

EU moves closer to ban sexualised AI deepfakes

Lionel Jospin, who introduced the 35-hour work week and civil partnerships for gay couples when he was head of government from 1997 to 2002, died on Sunday aged 88

National tribute

France bids farewell to ex-PM Jospin who 'modernised' nation

This frame grab taken from video footage posted on the Telegram account pul_1 and received via AFPTV on March 26, 2026 shows Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko (R) watching as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un holds a rifle gifted to him by Lukashenko in Pyongyang

'In case enemies appear'

Belarus' Lukashenko gifts automatic rifle to North Korea's Kim

Chinese AI giant

ByteDance quietly rolls out Seedance 2.0 globally

Prosecutors had dropped an investigation into the allegations against Jean-Michel di Falco in 2002

$200,000 in damages

French court orders ex-bishop to pay over 1970s child sex abuse

Iranians waved national flags and portraits of supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei as they march in support of the country's armed forces in the capital Tehran

'Our policy is the continuation of resistance'

Iran may believe it has the upper hand as Trump seeks talks

The European Parliament's trade committee had been due to approve the EU-US deal on Tuesday

EU urged to broadly restrict 'forever chemicals'

(FILES) Swiss actress Ursula Andress arrives for the screening of "Biutiful" presented in competition at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival on May 17, 2010 in Cannes.

Italy seizes millions 'embezzled' from Ursula Andress

WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala addressed the opening of the global trade body's 14th ministerial conference

Yaounde conference

Global trading system hit by 'worst disruptions in the past 80 years': WTO chief

Remnants of an missile that landed in the Israeli-occupied West Bank village of Beitin on March 26, 2026

As strikes continue

War in the Middle East: latest developments

Migrants off the coast of France in March 2026

Harsher penalties

'Return hubs' for migrants clear EU parliament hurdle

Meta has already axed third-party fact checking in the US

Misleading notes, lack of independent journalism...

Meta watchdog says grassroots fact checks risk harm to users

France's Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Noel Barrot warned against Israeli ground operations in south Lebanon

Seven nations meet

G7 meets in France to mend transatlantic rupture on Iran

The women's football championship was created in 2024, and initially involved only 80 players

'Things are improving'

Somalia football slowly becomes a women's game

Belarusian state media showed Kim and Lukashenko hugging at a lavish welcome programme on Wednesday involving an artillery salute and goose-stepping soldiers before a large flag-waving crowd at Kim Il Sung Square

'A fundamentally new phase'

North Korea, Belarus sign 'friendship' treaty during Lukashenko visit

Venezuela has the largest known oil reserves in the world, but years of underinvestment, lack of maintenance and US sanctions have hammered oil production

Outdated infrastructure

Venezuela oil reserves both entice and repel energy giants

Myanmar's ancient capital Mandalay bore the brunt of damage in the 7.7-magnitude quake

March 2025 tremor

Myanmar's rebuild stutters year after deadly quake

Trump, whose daily statements have swung wildly from threatening to conciliatory, said talks to end the war were ongoing with Iran

'We seek an end to the war on our own terms'

Israel strikes Iran as Trump says Tehran wants deal to end war

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