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Onlookers gather after a suicide blast during Friday prayers at Dar-ul-Uloom Haqqania school in Akora Khattak, east of Peshawar Friday

After Friday prayers

Suicide blast at Taliban religious school in Pakistan kills six

Two Russian divers were found dead, one in the jaws of a shark, in a popular Philippine scuba spot

One in jaws of shark

Russian divers found dead near popular Philippines resort

The Kurds, an ethnic minority with a distinct culture and language, have long fought for their own homeland

Potentially seismic shift

Joy and fear among Kurds in Iraq, Syria after Ocalan's call to disarm

A Palestinian steers his donkey cart past market stalls in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip

Hamas wants pressure on Israel to start next phase of Gaza truce

Possible retaliation

US issues Thailand security alert after Uyghur deportations

Katy Perry, at Windsor on 7 May 2023

Baby, you're a firework!

Katy Perry to blast off into space

Tokyo's Skytree is the world's tallest tower, offering views of Mount Fuji on a clear day

634 metres tall

Tokyo's all-seeing Skytree tower

Shevkunov has been described in media reports as 'Putin's confessor'

Thwarted by security service

Russia says foiled Ukrainian plot to kill Putin-linked bishop

While the Vatican reports improvements in Pope Francis's health, prayers are still being said around the world for the pontiff

Optimistic statements

Pope rests as Vatican reports new improvement

China's leadership will convene to hammer out plans to shield the ailing economy from tariffs and trade threats

Glimpse into leadership's priorities

China's leaders gather to hash out Trump tariff battle plans

Extraordinary turnaround

Zelensky, Trump to sign minerals deal at White House

Morning Roundup

Google to open Luxembourg office, agreement on biodiversity, and tram to airport opens this weekend

China drew Russia deeper into its orbit as Moscow faced international isolation over the Ukraine war

Analyst opinion

Trump's Russia pivot keeps China guessing on Ukraine

Andrew Tate has been under judicial supervision in Romania

First time since 2022 arrest

Avowed misogynist Andrew Tate in US despite rape charges in Romania

Vietnam's ruling Communist Party is slashing one in five public sector jobs

Radical cost-cutting drive

Worry, confusion as Vietnam slashes public jobs

US President Donald Trump recently posted on Truth Social a quote attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte:

Aggressive right wing agenda

Constitutional crisis looms as Trump admin flirts with defying the courts

Images in North Korean state media showed Kim, flanked by officials, sporting binoculars and watching a missile destroy a small building, which erupts in flames

In the Yellow Sea

N. Korea says launched cruise missiles in 'counterattack' drills

US President Donald Trump held a press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC

Ceasefire talks

Trump softens tone but Starmer leaves without Ukraine security pledges

Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s high representative for foreign affairs, speaks at the Hudson Institute in Washington

EU top diplomat rejects Trump closing NATO door to Ukraine

US President Donald Trump holds a bilateral meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in the Oval Office

Returning archipelago to Mauritius

Trump tells Starmer 'inclined' to back Chagos deal

Donald Trump holds a letter from Britain's King Charles III during a bilateral meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in the Oval Office

Hand-signed letter

King Charles III invites Trump for unprecedented second state visit

The head of the centre-right CDU/CSU alliance, Friedrich Merz, who is expected to become Germany's next chancellor, has urged speedy talks towards forging a ruling alliance

Exploratory talks

German conservatives, SPD to make first moves towards new govt

Thailand says it deported dozens of Uyghurs to China, despite warnings from human rights groups

Drawing condemnation from the UN

Thailand deports dozens of Uyghurs to China

Ukraine said it would refuse to recognise occupied territory as Russian

Russia says annexation of Ukrainian land is 'non-negotiable'

A first explosion caused panic, sending spectators attending the Bukavu meeting fleeing, before a second rang out

After M23 meeting

Explosions at M23 rally in east DR Congo kill at least 11

Une manifestation en soutien des immigrés à New York le 22 février 2025

Living with uncertainty

'So much anxiety': Trump migrant crackdown vow stirs fear in NY

A group of UN human rights experts has said the 'volunteer' force was recruited from the ranks of ex-combatants, retired soldiers and police, judges and public employees

30,000 civilians

Accused of repression, Nicaragua's Ortega swears in hooded 'volunteer' force

Graffiti of Nael Barghouti (L) and another long-serving Israeli prisoner Fakhri Barghouti, in the occupied West Bank village of Kubar on October 16, 2011

Longest-serving

After 45 years, Palestinian prisoner freed from Israeli jail in latest swap

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