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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is a federal agency within the US Department of Health and Human Services

White House withdraws vaccine-skeptic nominee to lead US health agency

Brazil's supreme court will examine on March 25 whether to try former president Jair Bolsonaro for an attempted coup

Far-right former president

Brazil top court to consider Bolsonaro 'coup' case on March 25

Philippine former president Rodrigo Duterte, pictured in 2018, is due in court Friday, three days after his arrest at Manila's international airport

Shocking arrest

ICC arrest, impeachment leave Duterte clan's political future in doubt

Two Japanese tourists in their 20s were detained for two weeks in China then deported for taking photos showing exposed buttocks at the Great Wall

Against the law

China deports Japanese tourists over Great Wall buttocks pic: reports

Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa signs a new constitutional declaration, which will regulate the country's transitional period

Five-year transitional period

Syria leader signs constitutional declaration, hailing 'new history'

Trump's administration

US deportation flights to Venezuela set to resume

A deal to normalise ties would be a major breakthrough after decades of tensions

Following decades-long conflict

Azerbaijan, Armenia say peace deal ready for signing

The M23 has seized swathes of the DRC's mineral-rich east

Direct negotiations

Rwanda-backed M23 welcomes talks to end DR Congo conflict

Tens of thousands of federal employees have been fired since Donald Trump re-took the White House

Thousands concerned

US judge orders federal agencies to rehire fired workers

A member of the new Syrian administration's security forces stands guard at the site of an Israeli strike in a Damascus area where, a war monitor said, Palestinian leaders are known to reside

Attacked 'terrorist command centre'

Israel defence minister confirms air strike in Damascus

President Donald Trump hosts NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte

Critical for transatlantic alliance

NATO's 'Trump whisperer' treads carefully on Greenland and defense

The pope, a former archbishop of Buenos Aires, is more at home with his flock than with the cardinals of the Roman Curia

Increasingly fragile

Pope marks 12 years in job in hospital - with cake - but future uncertain

The court is under fire from all sides

'Important moment in time'

Duterte case seen as a 'gift' for embattled ICC

Urfan Sharif, Beinash Batool and Faisal Malik were jailed last December

Prosecutors seeking harsher sentence

Court upholds jail terms for relatives of murdered UK-Pakistani girl

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan had already met with Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus in December

Traveled to Damascus

Turkey insists foreign fighters be expelled from Syria: source

US envoy Steve Witkoff could meet with President Vladimir Putin while he is in Moscow, a Kremlin aide said

Plan for 30-day truce

US envoy in Moscow to present Ukraine truce plan

The UN commission found that Israeli authorities carried out 'systematic' destruction of reproductive facilities in Gaza

'Intentionally attacked'

Israel attack on Gaza IVF clinic a 'genocidal act': UN probe

Authorities began retrieving bodies from a train siege in southwest Pakistan, where separatist gunmen killed at least 21 hostages, officials said

Including 21 hostages

At least 25 bodies retrieved from Pakistan train siege

Donald Trump has been condemned by Jewish and Muslim groups for calling top Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer a 'Palestinian,' saying the US president used the term as a slur

By Jewish and Muslim groups

Trump slammed for using 'Palestinian' as slur against top Democrat

Infighting between rival factions in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray has raised the spectre of a fresh war

Spectre of fresh war

Fears grow of renewed conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said he plans to reinstate military judges to hear Chinese espionage cases and other offences

Treason accusations

Taiwan plans to reinstate military judges for China spy cases

The United States withdrew from a landmark deal that had imposed curbs on Iran's nuclear programme in return for sanctions relief during President Donald Trump's first term, which ended in 2021

Trilateral talks

China urges 'diplomatic' Iran nuclear solution ahead of Beijing talks

Reviewing military mission

Southern Africa leaders open virtual summit on DRCongo conflict

In Micay Canyon, a lush mountain-fringed valley in southwest Colombia, the self-styled Estado Mayor Central (Central General Staff) are the law

New levels of insight

Cocaine Canyon: Inside Colombia's guerrilla-run micro-state

United States Special Envoy Steve Witkoff is expected to lead peace talks with Russia.

Morning Roundup

Luxembourg debates defence spending, Ukraine peace talks in Moscow, and winter weather returns

Authorities began retrieving bodies from a train siege in southwest Pakistan, where separatist gunmen killed at least 21 hostages, officials said

After two-day rescue operation

At least 25 bodies retrieved from Pakistan train siege

President Donald Trump in the Oval Office as he announces that US negotiators are heading for Moscow to propose a Ukraine war ceasefire

Kremlin 'awaiting details'

Trump optimistic about potential Ukraine ceasefire

A patrol car and garbage cans were set on fire and several streets barricaded with debris at a protest march in support of Argentine pensioners

Argentine football fans clash with police at pensions march

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