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The war has disproportionately affected Ukraine's seniors

Peaceful retirement upended

As war grinds on, Ukraine's seniors suffer

Less than a month after his release from Rome's Gemelli hospital, Pope Francis is likely to sit out the bulk of the week's events

After Pneumonia battle

Pope leaves faithful guessing over Easter appearances

US President Donald Trump's order aims to foster a more competitive prescription drug market

'Meaningful relief'

Trump signs order aimed at lowering drug prices

Sergei Karelin, Konstantin Gabov, Antonina Kravtsova and Artem Kriger were charged with 'participating in an extremist group'

Sent to penal colony

Russia jails four journalists who covered Navalny

Morning Roundup

Wolf sighted in Luxembourg, US embassy could face closure, and Grand Duke turns 70

Sudanese who fled the Zamzam displacement camp after it fell under paramilitary control queue for food near Tawila in war-torn Sudan's western Darfur region

No sign of peace

Paramilitaries declare rival government as Sudan war hits two-year mark

The scene in Santo Domingo resembled the aftermath of an earthquake, with a gaping hole where the roof of the Jet Set club had been

Fatal negligence

Family seeks homicide charges against owners of collapsed Dominican nightclub

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele said he would not send Abrego Garcia back to the United States as he met Donald Trump in the Oval Office

Wrongly deported migrant

Trump showdown with courts in spotlight at migrant hearing

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio would have to sign off on any cuts before they were considered by Congress

Including reduction of international presence

Trump eyes slashing State Department by 50 percent: US media

Peruvian ex-president Ollanta Humala has been sentenced to 15 years in prison in a corruption case linked to construction giant Odebrecht

Global corruption scandal

Peru court sentences ex-president Humala to 15 years for graft

US President Donald Trump meets with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office, where they discussed the deportation of people from the United States to El Salvador

'Homegrown criminals'

Trump says would 'love' to send US citizens to El Salvador jail

Maryna Chudesa, 43, and her mother Lyudmyla Sergiyenko, 64, were killed by a Russian ballistic missile attack

Daily civilian toll

Sumy buries mother and daughter victims of Russian double strike

Several forces worked together on the raids

Against organised crime

'Unprecedented' Europe raids net 200 arrests, drugs haul

More than one million people have been displaced by the violence in Haiti, according to the UN

UN migration agency

IOM chief urges world to step up aid for Haiti

Daniel Noboa became the youngest leader in Ecuador's history in 2023

Set for confirmation

Ecuador electoral council rejects claims of fraud in presidential vote

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte met Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky in Odesa

Facing Russian agression

NATO's Rutte says US-led Ukraine peace talks 'not easy'

Activists from the Baloch Unity Committee hold portraits of Mahrang Baloch, one of Pakistan's most prominent human rights advocates

Detained following March protest

Pakistan court refuses to hear Baloch activist case: lawyers

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses government officials in Tehran on April 15, 2025

Potentially fruitless

Khamenei says Iran-US talks going well but may lead nowhere

Several French prisons were targeted in what the government suspects is in response to its anti-drug policies

Linked to anti-drug policies

French prisons targeted with arson, gunfire: ministry

Afghan refugee children board a truck loaded with their belongings as they wait for their deportation to Afghanistan, at a holding centre near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Chaman on April 15, 2025

Deportation campaign

Nearly 60,000 Afghans return from Pakistan in two weeks: IOM

Tuti island was once a popular getaway for residents of Sudan's capital

Scarred by conflict

Sudan war drains life from once-thriving island in capital's heart

The attack was the deadliest of 2025 in Ukraine

Deadliest attack of 2025

Ukraine's Sumy prepares to bury victims of 'bloody Sunday'

US Vice President JD Vance says European nations must show greater independence from the US

Conciliatory tone

Vance urges Europe not to be US 'vassal'

Singaporeans vote on May 3 in an election that will test Prime Minister Lawrence Wong's leadership

Precarious times

'Tough' Singapore election expected for non-Lee leader

Sudanese refugees fled the Zamzam displacement camp after it fell under RSF control

The 'forgotten' conflict

London hosts talks to find 'pathway' to end Sudan war

Morning Roundup

Bettel speaks on aid for Palestine, Harvard refuses Trump demands, and Weinstein retrial begins

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is scheduled to visit Moscow to discuss ongoing nuclear talks with the United States

Cautious optimism

Iran's top diplomat to visit Russia after US nuclear talks

The idea of disarming Hezbollah is no longer inconceivable, as the US presses Lebanon to act in the wake of the group's war with Israel

Amid power vacuum

Disarming Lebanon's Hezbollah no longer inconceivable: analysts

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