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The attack sparked panic in the hospital

Dressed in combat gear

Dutch court gives life sentence to Rotterdam hospital shooter

The case of Luis Rubiales' forced kiss on Jenni Hermoso thrust the spotlight on the prevalence of macho culture and sexism in sport

Fined €10,800

Hermoso will appeal Rubiales 'forced kiss' verdict

Woman stabbed 14 times in the city centre of Hayange

This handout photo taken on February 13 and released by the Australian Defence Force shows sailors onboard the Royal Australian Navy ship HMAS Arunta looking at the People's Liberation Army-Navy Fuchi-class replenishment vessel and Weishanhu Jiangkai-class frigate Hengyang in the Tasman Sea

Australia says China warned of 'live fire' drill off east coast

Alleged scam centre workers and victims from China arrive at the border checkpoint with Thailand in Myanmar's eastern Myawaddy township on February 20

Through Thailand

Myanmar returns 300 more Chinese scam centre workers

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio boards an aircraft, in Abu Dhabi on February 19

Checking whether 'situation'

Rubio defends Russia talks and criticism of Zelensky

A group of Japanese tourists pose for photographs at Sydney Harbour in 2012. Today around 17.5 percent of Japanese citizens hold valid passports

World's second strongest passport

Only one in six Japanese citizens has a passport, data shows

People gather behind posters of four Israeli hostages, hours after four bodies were handed over to Israel by the Palestinian Hamas group, during a candlelight vigil held in their honour at hostage square in Tel Aviv on February 20, 2025.

Morning Roundup

Luxair flight turns back to Dubai, Israel challenges Hamas’ identification of hostage body, and Bond gets a new boss

Election looming

'Difficult without it': EU hopes in German leadership comeback after vote

Ski wax containing the chemicals has been found to pollute remote mountain slopes

Macron signature pending

France's parliament votes to ban some uses of 'forever chemicals'

A deminer from the Cambodian Mine Action Centre examins an unexploded bomb unearthed by a worker during irrigation work in Svay Rieng province in early February 2025

Unexploded munitions

Cambodia to resume demining after US aid waiver

Venezuelan migrants deported from US Naval Station Guantanamo Bay walk down from the Venezuelan Conviasa Airlines plane as they arrive at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela on February 20, 2025

Long-feuding governments

US sends migrants from Guantanamo to Venezuela

The initials of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) are seen on a bullet-riddled wall in Mexico's Michoacan state

Legal action against gunmakers

Mexico says won't accept US 'invasion' in fight against cartels

Security forces and bomb disposal units are deployed to the scene of a bus explosion in Bat Yam

Three devices detonated

Netanyahu orders 'intensive' West Bank operations after Israel bus blasts

Mourners in Tel Aviv observe a moment of silence in memory of four dead hostages whose bodies were handed over to Israel by Hamas on Thursday

Symbol of grief

Israel says hostage body returned by Hamas not Bibas mother

Elon Musk holds a chainsaw reading

Return to power

Chainsaw-wielding Musk savors Trump's return to White House

Evo Morales was Bolivia's first Indigenous president

Pending criminal charges

Bolivia's Morales launches 4th presidential bid, defying term limit

South Africa is holding the G20 presidency this year

Africa's first G20 meeting opens with call for 'cooperation'

US President Donald Trump has goaded Canada over its sovereignty, trade and hockey

Soaring tensions

Trump goads '51st state' Canada ahead of hockey grudge match

Analysts say security has deteriorated significantly in Colombia under President Gustavo Petro's peace efforts, which has seen a relaxation in the state's military offensive against armed groups

Guerrilla fighters

Curfew imposed after bomb attacks in Colombia injure six

Congolese refugees displaced by clashes in Democratic Republic of Congo arrived at a refugee camp in Burundi on February 17

'Thousands every day'

Burundi forces flee DR Congo as conflict sparks refugee wave

'Military courts have a key role in deciding on criminal cases with a terrorist direction,' Putin told judges

1,075 people sentenced

Putin hails Russia's huge number of 'terror' convictions

Czech police outside the cordonned off store

'An incomprehensible, horrendous act'

Teenager kills two women in knife attack at Czech shop

Denmark's Minister Denmark's Minister of Foreign Affairs Lars Lokke Rasmussen (right) standing next to a submarine in Copenhagen

'Very, very critical period'

Danish FM says Europe must massively rearm

Yoon has been behind bars since he was arrested last month on the insurrection charges, for which he could be sentenced to life in prison

South Korea's ousted PM says he tried to stop martial law decree

Surrounded: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Ukraine's fate in the balance

Pressured by Putin and Trump, walls close in on Zelensky

China has arranged 16 flights over to ferry 600 of its nationals home from Mae Sot

Coordinated crackdown

Chinese workers from Myanmar scam centres start arriving home via Thailand

A Singapore court has stayed the execution of a Malaysian man hours before he was due to be hanged for drug trafficking

Avoiding the noose

Singapore stays execution of Malaysian for second time

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