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US President Donald Trump (L) and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (R)

Trump accuses Zelensky of treating US envoy 'rudely'

Morning Roundup

Frieden declares 'Europe's hour', brawl in Cloche d'Or shopping centre, and concern rises on Pope's health

Executions in Iran have surged in recent years

Highest toll since 2008

Iran executed 975 people in 'horrifying' 2024 escalation: rights groups

Authorities Tajikistan, a secular Muslim-majority nation in Central Asia, maintain strict control over society

Tightening the rules

Tajikistan to publish new dress 'guidelines' for women

CDU leader Friedrich Merz before a slogan that reads 'Forward Again', at an election rally in Halle, eastern German on February 18, 2025

Bitter campaign

Conservative Merz leads Germany's turbulent election race

A fireball and thick plumes of black smoke engulfed the plane as it skidded to a halt on its roof

'No strings attached'

Delta offers $30,000 each to Toronto plane crash passengers

Antiquities ministry pictures showing the location and entrance to the tomb

Egypt unveils first ancient royal tomb since Tutankhamun

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, on the left, and his conservative rival Friedrich Merz in a WELT TV studio in Berlin

Avoiding right-wing populism

Germany's Merz vows tough migrant policy to stall AfD's rise

A giant portait of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah (R) and his heir apparent Hashem Safieddine watches over Beirut's airport highway ahead of their funeral on Sunday.

Killed in Beirut

Hezbollah readies massive funeral for slain leader Nasrallah

A truck burns in the Mexican cartel stronghold of Culiacan, which has been hit by gang infighting, murders and arson

Potential military intervention

Could 'terrorist' designation lead to US strikes on drug cartels?

New York City Mayor Eric Adams departs after attending a court hearing on the Justice Department's motion to drop criminal charges against him

Amid mass resignations

No immediate ruling on 'unusual' move to drop New York mayor corruption case

Milorad Dodik, the hardline nationalist leader of the Bosnian Serb statelet, Republika Srpska

For defying peace accord overseer

Call for 'maximum' sentence for Bosnian Serb leader

A demonstrator in Tel Aviv holds placards bearing pictures of members of the Bibas family

Heartbreaking day ahead for Israel, says Netanyahu

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

Latin America's 'terrorist' cartels in Trump's sights

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) and US President Donald Trump are in the middle of a heated personal rift

No war-time elections

Trump brands Zelensky 'a dictator'

The pope had part of a lung removed as a young man.

'Holding up well'

Pope's tests show improvement, Italy PM visits

As tensions soar between Kyiv and Washington, US President Donald Trump called Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky a

Trump brands Zelensky a 'dictator' as clash deepens

Syrian-American Rabbi Youssef Hamra leads the first Jewish group prayer in Syria since the 1990s, in the Ifrange Synagogue in the Jewish quarter of Damascus's Old City.

Return to public worship

Syrian Jews say held first group prayer in decades in Damascus synagogue

The Rwanda-backed M23 movement has taken two cities in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Raising defences

Burundi, Uganda manoeuvre as DR Congo violence spreads

French President Emmanuel Macron (C) planned to take part in an 'informal video conference meeting' with European heads of state and government

'Existential threat'

Macron holds new emergency talks on Ukraine

Pushing through: Pope Francis at a mass in Brussels in September 2024

No fan of doctors

Ailing pope's obstinacy a blessing or a curse?

Influencer Andrew Tate is pictured inside the court of appeal in Bucharest as he faces allegations of trafficking and sexual exploitation

Charged with rape, trafficking minors, money laundering

UK accusers of influencer Tate urge US to stay away from case

Ghanaians from the capital Accra to the rural north are feeling the bite of cuts to US foreign aid

Bracing for the worst

Ghana scrambles to fill $156 million shortfall after USAID freeze

'No peace deal will work without us,' says EU foreign policy chief Kallas

From troops to sanctions

Does Europe hold any cards in Ukraine talks?

The approval rating of Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky is at 57 percent, according to a poll released hours after US President Donald Trump said Zelensky was at four percent

Poll gives Zelensky 57% approval rating despite Trump claims

Scholz (left) and his conservative rival Merz have clashed over migration and how to deal with the far right

Germany's Scholz, Merz to clash in final pre-election debate

'We are committed to keep up the pressure on the Kremlin,' said von der Leyen

Amid US peace push

EU keeps up 'pressure' on Russia with new sanctions

(L to R) Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud, National Security Advisor Mosaad bin Mohammad al-Aiban, the Russian president's foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov, and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attend a meeting with the US Middle East envoy, Secretary of State, and National Security Advisor together at Riyadh's Diriyah Palace on 18 February 2025.

Morning Roundup

Zelensky criticises US-Russia talks, Pope has double pneumonia, and Luxembourg low on blood donations

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