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If conservative Friedrich Merz triumphs in Germany's polls, he has vowed a strong shift to the right

Challenging coalition prospects

Conservative leads German election race in shadow of far right

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed European policymakers in Munich

Status quo upended

European allies seek united Ukraine front as US backing wavers

UN chief Antonio Guterres and outgoing AU Commission chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat discussed the DR Congo crisis at the summit

African Union summit

UN chief warns against regional war over DR Congo at Africa summit

Firefighters extinguish a burning UNIFIL vehicle on the road leading to Beirut's international airport on Friday night

Emergency meeting on Saturday

Lebanon says 25 arrested after attack on UN peacekeepers

Protesters waved flags marked with bloody handprints while one held a placard reading 'Love'

Student-led movement

Thousands mark Serbian Statehood Day with anti-corruption protest

Ahead of his hospitalisation, Francis -- seen here in December -- had been breathless while reading speeches

Ongoing bronchitis

Pope Francis won't say Angelus prayer Sunday, needs 'absolute rest': Vatican

Mahmoud Ali Youssouf was elected AU commission chief at a summit in Addis Ababa

To represent 1.5 billion Africans

Mahmoud Ali Youssouf: outsider elected to head African Union commission

Thousands marched in London against Trump's proposal to turn Gaza into the 'Riviera of the Middle East'

'Hands off Gaza'

Thousands of pro-Palestinians march in UK against Trump's Gaza plan

In chancellor mode

German election favourite Merz sets out foreign policy plans

The couple is currently being held in Kerman, a city and province in southeast Iran, their family said in a statement issued by the British foreign ministry

British couple detained in Iran named

A cheering crowd hoisted freed Palestinian prisoners onto their shoulders after they arrived in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah

To cheering crowds

Bus carrying freed Palestinian prisoners arrives in Ramallah

Demonstrators rally against the removal of references to transgender and queer people on the website for the national monument marking the Stonewall riots

Step back in human rights

Protests in NY as 'transgender' and 'queer' scrubbed from rights website

Israeli-Argentinian hostage Yair Horn (L) and Israeli-Russian Sasha Trupanov (R) stand on stage next to Palestinian militatns during their handover over to a Red Cross team in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on February 15, 2025, as part of the sixth hostage-prisoner exchange.

Ceasefire holds

Hamas, Israel complete sixth hostage-prisoner swap under Gaza truce

The army pledged to take firm action against those behind the torching of the vehicle

UN peacekeeping commander wounded as Hezbollah supporters protest near Beirut

Dismantling the water storage tanks is a crucial step in the decades-long project to decommission the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant

14 years after disaster

TEPCO takes on challenge of making space for Fukushima nuclear debris

An Ecuadoran air force colonel has become the latest victim of the war between drug gangs

Hitmen mow down cartel-busting colonel in violence-torn Ecuador

Tun Khin, president of the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) has welcomed the ruling

Crimes against humanity

Argentine court issues warrants for Myanmar officials accused of Rohingya 'genocide'

A crane removes wreckage from the Potomac River of American Eagle Flight 5342, which collided with a US Army helicopter near Ronald Reagan National Airport

Worst air disaster in US history

Washington air disaster probe uncovers instrument, comms issues

JD Vance criticised attempts by mainstream parties to isolate the far right

'Unacceptable', says German Defence Minister

'New sheriff in town': Vance lambasts Europe in Munich speech

Palestinian militants are due to release three Israeli hostages on Saturday -- (L to R) Sagui Dekel-Chen, who also has US citizenship, Sasha Trupanov who also has Russian nationality and Yair Horn, an Argentinian dual national.

Due on Saturday

Three Gaza hostages set for release after ceasefire crisis abates

Natalia reads poems to her dead husband in Lviv

Ukranians mark Valentine's Day with tears

Congolese troops headed to Bukavu after M23 fighters seized the airport serving the city

M23 fighters, Rwandan troops enter DR Congo's Bukavu: Sources

Pope Francis met Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico before going to hospital on Friday

Latest in series of health issues

Pope Francis, 88, hospitalised with bronchitis

The current Israeli raid in the north of the occupied West Bank has been the longest continuous one in two decades

Continued destruction

'Bulldozer tore everything apart': Israeli raid expands in West Bank

The car ramming attack in Munich has inflamed an already heated debate on immigration in Germany

Islamist motive suspected after Munich car ramming

Peru has a high incidence of bus crashes and traffic accidents

Tragic accident

Two dead, dozens injured as bridge collapses, bus crashes into river in Peru

Members of the Ecuadoran armed forces patrol the Jambeli Archipelago in the province of El Oro

Ecuador's wild west shows limits of Noboa's 'iron fist'

Guns seized by the Mexican security forces are seen in the border city of Tijuana

Firearms trafficking

Mexico threatens US gunmakers with fresh legal action

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