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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

Containers being loaded in Japan are now part of a global tariff war launched by US President Donald Trump

'National security' issue

US opens door to tariffs on pharma, semiconductors

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot was received by Algeria's President Abdelmadjid Tebboune in Algiers on April 6

Tensions flare as Algeria expels 12 French officials

With Gaza under an Israeli aid block, Palestinians wait in front of a free food distribution point to receive a hot meal at Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza

'Urgent' ceasefire

Israel demands hostage release for Gaza ceasefire: Hamas

Mahmoud Khalil -- a prominent face of the protest movement that erupted in response to Israel's war in Gaza -- was arrested and taken to Louisiana

Constitutional crackdown

Palestinian student detained at US citizenship interview

Trump gave a warm welcome in the Oval Office to 43-year-old Bukele -- the self-proclaimed 'world's coolest dictator'

Pioneer of controversial prison

El Salvador's Bukele rules out returning migrant, in love-fest with Trump

The strike on Sumy was one of the deadliest of the entire war

'Human shield' accusations

Ukrainians mourn Sumy strike victims as Russia denies targeting civilians

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

Continues to grow

Death toll from Dominican nightclub disaster rises to 231: minister

Sudanese who fled the Zamzam camp for the internally displaced after it fell under paramilitary control, queue for food rations in a makeshift encampment in an open field near the town of Tawila

Between fighting and famine

13 million displaced as Sudan war enters third year: UN

US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, April 14, 2025.

Deepening tensions

Trump blames Zelensky for 'millions' of deaths in Russian invasion

A Blue Origin rocket carrying singer Katy Perry, among others, blasts off for space

In Blue Origin rocket

Katy Perry roars into space on all-woman flight

A young woman preparing to be immersed in water during a baptism ceremony at the Vie et Lumière evangelical gathering on a former airfield in Grostenquin, in 2023.

Grostenquin, Moselle

Representatives of Moselle department oppose annual evangelical gathering of Roma Travellers

French public hospital workers have long said they were burning out

'Deadly working conditions'

French hospital staff, relatives sue ministers over work-related suicides

Supporters gather as police stand guard for the arrival of former president Yoon Suk Yeol's car (centre L) outside the Central District Court in Seoul

'Legally unfounded'

South Korea's ex-president denies insurrection at criminal trial

Vast repository: the Arolsen Archives contain millions of documents on victims of the Nazis

Reuniting families

German archive where victims of the Nazis come back to life

The constitutional amendment echoes moves on gender by US President Donald Trump

LGBTQ community affected

Hungary set to restrict constitutional rights in 'Easter cleanup'

Post Malone performed a headliner set at Coachella 2025

Scorching temperatures

Post Malone wraps Coachella with genre-fluid performance

Tragic incident

Five killed in fire at unauthorised hostel in southern Poland

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