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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

South Korean and Western intelligence agencies have said that more than 10,000 soldiers from the reclusive state were sent to Russia last year

Scale still to be assessed

Seoul says North Korea has deployed more troops to Russia

French nuclear doctrine does not include allies

Nuclear sharing

A French-UK nuclear umbrella for Europe? Not likely, say analysts

Kurdish demonstrators carry an image of Abdullah Ocalan, who set up the Marxist-inspired Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in 1978

Icon or terrorist?

Ocalan: Kurdish PKK founder who urged his fighters to disarm

A Hong Kong court jailed former pro-democracy lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting for rioting in relatino to a mob attack in 2019

Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmaker jailed over 2019 mob attack

The Trump adminsitration's review in part targeted multi-year foreign assistance contracts awarded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID)

'America First'

US cuts overseas aid contracts by more than 90%

China has ramped up the deployment of fighter jets and naval vessels around Taiwan in recent years

Taiwan says detects 45 Chinese aircraft in 24 hours, highest this year

A man, found guilty of sexual relations with another man under the strict Islamic sharia law, is publicly flogged in Banda Aceh

Two men publicly flogged in Indonesia for gay sex

Thousands of freed scam centre workers in Myanmar are desperate to get home

'Escaping hell': Myanmar scam centre workers plead to go home

Palestinian prisoners freed by Israel were greeted by loved ones in the West Bank and Gaza after the latest hostage-inmate swap

'A lot of progress'

Israel frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners after body handover

Morning Roundup

Drama in Luxembourg courtroom, Gaza ceasefire holds, and new Trier train stops

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will be seeking security guarantees for Ukraine

Putin's ambitions 'pretty obvious'

Starmer pushes Trump for Ukraine guarantees against Putin

News of the natural resources deal between Ukraine and the United States has frustrated some Ukrainians

Hours after drone attack

Zelensky set to meet Trump Friday with Ukraine minerals on table

President Cyril Ramaphosa warned that global stability was threatened by an 'erosion of multilateralism'

G20 finance meeting

G20 leaders warn declining cooperation threat to global stability

A protester waves a flag bearing a portrait of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan during a demonstration in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli in Syria

Decade-long insurgency

Turkey's pro-Kurd party teases 'historic' news from PKK leader

Dodik was convicted of flouting the country's peace deal and court system

Bosnia Serb leader Dodik found guilty of defying peace envoy

'We must resist any normalisation of unlawful conduct,' said Volk

UN rejects 'annexation' proposals for Palestinian territories

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum delivers a speech during a military ceremony

Claudia Sheinbaum

Mexican security cabinet heads to US seeking to avert tariffs

Taiwanese air force Indigenous Defense Fighter aircraft taxi for take-off during a scramble as part of a combat readiness exercise at an air base in Taichung in January

'Blatant provocation'

Taiwan sends forces in response to China 'live-fire' drills off island

The sister of late Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas, Dana Silberman-Sitton, sits in the front as other family members greet mourners awaiting the Bibas' funeral convoy in kibbutz Nir Oz

Symbols of grief

'Sorry I couldn't protect you': Israel mourns Bibas mother, sons

Nicolas Zepeda, here seen in 2022, has repeatedly claimed he is innocent

2016 in Besancon

France court orders retrial of Chilean over alleged murder of ex-girlfriend

Le Scouarnec's then wife knew what he was doing but 'did nothing', the surgeon's brother said

Shocking new information

French paedophile surgeon's wife knew and 'did nothing', his brother tells court

'Probably a natural cause'

Report points to possible underground cavity as cause of Villerupt sinkhole

US President Donald Trump speaks to the press after signing an Executive Order at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington

Furious about new tell-all book

Trump threatens to sue authors and media who use anonymous sources

South Korea's statistics office earlier in the day announced that the country's fertility rate, or the average number of babies a woman is expected to have in her lifetime, was 0.75 last year

Demographic decline

'Joyful' South Koreans hope rising births will continue

People crowd inside a bus during a Chile's worst blackout in well over a decade

State of emergency

Power restored, curfew lifted after Chile's massive blackout

A voter casts his ballot at a polling station during Bhutan's general elections in January 2024

Despite authoritarians solidifying grip

Rights decline but bright spots in South Asia: Freedom House

Baba Mondi is leader of the Bektashi order of Sufi Islam

Sufi leader plans for Vatican-like state in Albania

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