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Lebanese soldiers at the site near a burnt-out vehicle in Ghaziyeh, near Sidon -- the health ministry said an Israeli strike killed one person

Consecutive attacks

Lebanon says two killed in Israeli strikes in south

US President Donald Trump speaks during a swearing-In Ceremony for the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Mehmet Oz at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on April 18, 2025.

Following up on Secretary of State's comment

Trump says US will soon 'take a pass' if no Ukraine deal

One person is brain-dead after a cryotherapy accident in Paris that also killed one person

A turn for the worse

Client brain-dead after Paris cryotherapy session goes wrong

Change of tone: the new Holocaust rooms at the Memorial de Caen museum in northern France

Debating graphic imagery

Museums rethink how the Holocaust should be shown

The US has been trying to press Moscow into a ceasefire, without success

US officials split on Ukraine truce prospects

The Israeli military has intensified its aerial bombardments and expanded ground operations in the Gaza Strip since resuming its offensive

Attacks continue in absence of deal

Gaza rescuers say Israeli strikes kill 24 after Hamas rejects truce proposal

Hungary's Viktor Orban, left -- Moscow's closest friend in the EU -- has not hid his hostility to the bid by Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky to join the bloc

Hard opposition

'Really stuck': Ukraine's EU accession drive stumbles

People transport from the bed of a truck the remains of a victim killed in Israeli bombardment on Jabalia, northern Gaza

Following UN warning

Hamas calls for pressure to end Israel's aid block on Gaza

The Good Friday flagellation tradition draws thousands of Catholic devotees to the Philippines every Easter

Polarising tradition

Bloody Philippine passion play sees final performance of veteran 'Jesus'

United States ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee places a note given to him by US President Donald Trump in the cracks of the Western Wall, in Jerusalem's Old City

Hand written letter

New US envoy prays, delivers Trump 'peace' message at Western Wall

30-day moratorium over

Putin's order not to hit Ukraine energy targets has 'expired': Kremlin

Nerves are not far below the surface in Sumy following a deadly Russian strike

Tears and defiance in Sumy as Russia batters Ukraine border city

Five people wounded

Two killed as police officer's son opens fire at US university

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio leaves the Quai d'Orsay, France's Minister of Foreign Affairs after a bilateral meeting with his French counterpart in Paris on April 17, 2025.

Amid stumbling negotiations

US threatens to withdraw from Ukraine talks if no progress

AFP journalist Abdelmoneim Abu Idris Ali in his ransacked home in Khartoum

Once-peaceful capital

'War has taken everything': AFP reporter returns home to Khartoum

Italy cable-car crash leaves four dead

Buddhist devotees are flocking to the city of Kandy for a rare glimpse of a Buddhist relic on displace for the first time in 16 years

First showing in 16 years

Sri Lankans throng to Kandy for rare display of Buddhist relic

Morning Roundup

Spuerkeess ATM warning, Coque reaching its limit, and Canadian PM under fire

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and Canadian Prime Minister and Liberal Party chief Mark Carney shake hands following an election debate in Montreal on April 17

Faced sustained attacks

Under fire at debate, Canada PM Carney tries to focus on Trump

US Senator Chris Van Hollen (R) meets with Salvadoran migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia on April 17, 2025 in a photo posted on Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's X account

No evidence of being gang member

US senator meets wrongfully deported Salvadoran migrant

The father of Abir Srour carries the shrouded body of his daughter, killed in an Israeli strike, during her funeral at the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza

18-month-long war

Hamas signals rejection of Israel's latest truce proposal

Children gather near a destroyed makeshift shelter following an Israeli strike in Beit Lahia

Can no longer turn 'blind eye'

Members of UK Jewish group launch broadside on Gaza war

Children wait for food at a shelter for families displaced by gang violence in Port-au-Prince on February 10, 2025

Due to chronic violence

One million Haitian children face 'critical' food shortage: UN

US President Donald Trump struck a softer tone on Ukraine in comments alongside Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in the Oval Office

'I'm not blaming him'

Trump softens on Zelensky, says mineral deal coming 'soon'

US Senator Chris Van Hollen has been barred from accessing wrongfully deported migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador

Man wrongfully deported

Salvadoran soldiers stop US senator near prison holding expelled migrant

The father of Abir Srour carries the shrouded body of his daughter, killed in an Israeli strike, during her funeral at the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza

Civilian encampments

Gaza rescuers say 40 mostly displaced people killed in Israeli strikes

The Supreme Court ruling has stirred deep concerns for some about whether the rights of trans women will be rolled back

Upcoming changes

UK mulls impact of landmark gender ruling

All 176 people on the Ukrainian International Airlines plane were killed, with a memorial set up at the time at the Kyiv airport. Tehran said its shooting down of the aircraft was 'unintentional'

Contesting jurisdiction

Iran challenges four countries in UN court over jet it downed in 2020

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