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Aler Baldomero Samayoa, alleged leader of the Los Huistas drug cartel, waits in a courthouse jail in Guatemala City

Facing US extradition

One of Guatemala's most wanted drug suspects caught in Mexico

The defence ministers of Poalnd, Germany, France, Italy and Britain acknowledged challenges posed by Trump's administration

Continent united

'Very broad consensus' emerging among Europeans on Ukraine: France

US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 12

Trump says negotiators headed to Russia 'right now'

Charlevoix, Quebec

Ukraine truce dominates G7 talks clouded by Trump's Canada threats

Pope Francis has still not been seen in public since his admission on February 14

Possible discharge ahead?

What we know about the health of Pope Francis

Jens-Frederik Nielsen's Democrats party won the vote but did not secure enough to govern outright

Against backdrop of Trump threats

Greenland to get new govt to lead independence process

Protesters rally outside the New York courthouse where a preliminary hearing over Mahmoud Khalil's deportation was held

Leader of US student protests

Detained pro-Palestinian activist denied legal calls, lawyer tells US court

Pakistani security forces have freed more than 340 passengers on a train who had been taken hostage by Balochistan separatists

Update – Militant attack

All hostages freed after 30-hour Pakistan train siege: source

UK police arrested a man after the Solong cargo ship slammed into the US-flagged Stena Immaculate

Questions still linger

Captain of cargo ship in North Sea crash is Russian

Newly sworn in Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Infrastructure and Communities Dominic LeBlanc speaks during a press conference in Ottawa, Canada on October 26, 2021.

Against American levies

Canada announces additional tariffs on $20.7 billion of US goods

Abdel Fattah, 28, said he was detained near Gaza City's Al Shifa hospital where he worked as a nurse

'Dismissed as a waste of time'

'Humiliated': Palestinian victims of Israel sexual abuse testify at UN

UK police arrested a man after the Solong cargo ship slammed into the US-flagged Stena Immaculate

Suspicion of manslaughter

Captain of cargo ship in North Sea crash is Russian: vessel owner

Prosecutors accused Saakashvili of misspending budgetary funds

From six to nine years

Georgia court extends ex-president Saakashvili's jail term

Unjustified and regrettable

EU says to respond to US steel tariffs with 'countermeasures' from April 1

Conflict-of-interest accusations

Portugal government loses confidence vote, possibly setting up new elections

Surachate Hakparn, who served as the kingdom's deputy police chief, pictured here in 2023, has been sacked

Thailand sacks senior cop over illicit gambling, fraud

Morning Roundup

Luxembourgers lose trust in US, Ukraine backs US ceasefire proposal, and Spanish PM visits today

A protester in New York holds a sign calling for the release of pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil

Arrest of pro-Palestinian activist sparks outrage, Trump says 'first of many'

Crews begin work to remove the

'Bigger fish to fry'

US capital scraps Black Lives Matter mural after Trump pressure

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks with the media following meetings with a Ukrainian delegation in Jeddah on March 11, 2025

'Existential challenge'

Rubio heads to Canada as Trump wages trade war

Syrians in the northeastern city of Qamishli protested the wave of sectarian killings in western Syria

Following mass killings

Syria determined to 'prevent unlawful revenge' says fact-finding committee

This handout photo taken and released by Rodrigo Duterte's PDP Laban party shows the former Philippine president (C) inside the Villamor Air Base in Manila

Alleged war crimes

Ex-Philippine leader Duterte bound for Hague over ICC drug war case

French President Emmanuel Macron has sought to rally a European response to Washington's shock policy shift in US-Russia relations

European security

Macron urges allies to plan 'credible security guarantees' for Ukraine

Tuesday's ruling cannot be further appealed in Romania

Amid public protests

Far-right Romania politician loses appeal against presidential vote ban

Pakistani soldiers secure Mach railway station after armed militants ambushed a train in the remote mountainous area nearby

Claimed by separatist group

Over 100 hostages freed in deadly Pakistan train siege

Pope Francis could be discharged from Gemelli Hospital (pictured here) in several days' time

Condition remains complex

Pope 'stable', out of imminent danger as talk turns to return home

UN peacekeepers carry out a patrol in the south Lebanon village of Ramia.

Series of strikes

Israel kills senior Hezbollah militant, frees four Lebanese prisoners

Finnish soldiers ride a Leopard 2 German main battle tank as part of a NATO exercise

Facing Trump and Putin, are the EU's defence plans enough?

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