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Train tracks in Peru: A drunken man fell asleep recently on tracks in another part of the country and was hit by a train, but survived

Dozing along the tracks

Sleeping man is struck by train in Peru but survives

'My thanks and recognition go to the state institutions upholding the rule of law...' wrote Schmidt

Previously signed by Serb leader

Bosnia top envoy backs court ruling against separatist laws

An extraordinary meeting of the the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation has adopted an Arab proposal for rebuilding the Gaza Strip

Organisation of Islamic Cooperation

Muslim nations adopt Arab alternative to Trump's Gaza plan

In Dobropillia, AFP saw charred residential buildings, flattened market stalls and evidence of cluster bomb damage

Far from cease fire

Russia claims advances in Kursk region, Zelensky demands sanctions

Before weakening into a tropical low, Cyclone Alfred battered Nobby's Beach on the Gold Coast of eastern Australia

Dangerous conditions

Troops injured as ex-cyclone batters Australia

A Pakistani man is charged with murder after allegedly shooting the administrator of a community WhatsApp group who removed him from the chat

History of violence

WhatsApp group admin shot dead for allegedly removing member

Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was released from detention after a court voided his arrest

Attempt to subvert civilian rule

South Korea's impeached President Yoon released from detention

Junta chief General Min Aung Hlaing says Myanmar will hold elections by January 2026, the first since the 2021 coup

War-torn nation

Myanmar junta chief says election to be held by January

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (3rd R) visited shipyards focused on building warships, the Korean Central News Agency reported

North Korea's Kim inspects 'nuclear-powered submarine' project

Convicted murderer Brad Sigmon, 67, was put to death by firing squad in South Carolina in the first such execution in the United States since 2010

US carries out first firing squad execution since 2010

A Venezuelan migrant waits on the beach in Panama for a boat to Colombia

US immigration policy

'Not animals': migrants shun shelters on way home to South America

Colombian security officers are served a meal after being taken hostage by a FARC dissident group, in this photo released by a community group in the Cauca region of southwest Colombia

Clashes in cocaine-growing region

FARC dissidents capture 29 Colombian soldiers, police

The OIC endorsed an Arab League counter-proposal to US President Donald Trump's controversial plan to take over Gaza and displace its residents

An Arab League counter-proposal

Muslim nations endorse alternative to Trump's Gaza takeover plan

EU leaders brief 'likeminded' allies after defence summit

Fighting between rival factions of an Ecuadoran drug trafficking gang left at least 22 people dead in the port city of Guayaquil on Thursday

Nueva Prosperina

Ecuador security forces given blanket amnesty in cartel fight

Ruben Oseguera Gonzalez, the son of Mexico's most-wanted man, Jalisco New Generation drug cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, was sentenced to life in prison

Jalisco New Generation

Son of Mexican drug lord sentenced to life in US prison

A convoy of troop reinforcements enters the Syrian coastal city of Baniyas after deadly clashes rocked the Mediterranean heartland of ousted president Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority.

Biggest challenge

Syria monitor says security forces kill 136 Alawite civilians

US President Donald Trump speaks after signing executive orders in the Oval Office on March 6, 2025

Possible military action

Trump invites Iran leader to nuclear talks -- or else

'It is inconceivable to establish European security without Turkey,' Erdogan said after Sunday's London summit

NATO's second-largest army

Faced with Russia, EU's defence must include Turkey

Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik said his Serb statelet had the means to defend itself

Into uncertaintiy

Bosnia top court suspends Serb leader's separatist laws

Poland is far ahead of its allies in terms of military expenditure, aiming to spend 4.7 percent of its GDP on defence this year

Hoping to boost defence

Poland mulls mines treaty exit, plans military training for men

The main candidates to replace Justin Trudeau as leader of Canada's Liberals, Mark Carney and Chrystia Freeland, at a February debate

Canada Liberals vote to replace Trudeau as PM

Fighting between rival factions of an Ecuadoran drug trafficking gang left at least 22 people dead in the port city of Guayaquil on Thursday

Ahead of presidential elections

Ecuador security forces given blanket amnesty in cartel fight

Lecornu will host the ministers from Europe's five main military powers on Wednesday

Coordinating action

French defence minister to host key European counterparts on Ukraine

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban (R) regularly breaks EU unity on Ukraine

Riding the coattails

Emboldened by Trump, Hungary ups anti-Kyiv disinfo: researcher

US President Donald Trump (L) is locked in a diplomatic spat with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa

'A bad place to be right now'

Trump says farmers keen to quit 'terrible' S. Africa welcome in US

The pope has not been seen in public since he was hospitalised on February 14

Amid concern and speculation

Pope marks three weeks in hospital, releases audio message

Spain has made strides in fighting gender-based violence but the government says there is more to do

20 years after pioneering law

Spain targets men's 'deafening silence' in gender violence battle

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