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Trump, pictured during a 2019 visit to London during his first presidential term

'No closer ally'

Flattery and pragmatism: UK plan to stay on Trump's good side

All AU heads of state are expected at the summit at a tense time for Africa

DRC conflict overshadows African summit

The sinkhole suddenly opened up during morning rush hour an intersection north of Tokyo, swallowing the lorry

Missing for two weeks

Truck cabin found in Japan sinkhole search for driver

Women and children walk along a destroyed road in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip

Amid bilateral accusations

Israel says to resume Gaza fighting if hostages not freed Saturday

US President Donald Trump smiles at the White House

Global leadership

Gutting aid, US cedes soft power game to China

US President Donald Trump shakes hands with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a massive rally in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India in February 2020

Quick tariff concessions

Modi hopes to rekindle Trump bromance

Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk listens as US President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House on February 11, 2025

Editorial standards

AP reporter barred from White House event over 'Gulf of America'

Ukrainian soldiers fire a mortar towards Russian positions -- Both armies are trying to secure an advantage on the battlefield ahead of possible peace talks

Along with Trump backing?

Zelensky offers land swaps as Russia heartens Trump with prisoner release

US President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with King Abdullah II of Jordan during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 11, 2025.

Trump insists US to own Gaza, Jordan king pushes back

Residents say this was not the first fire in the building

No deaths reported

Dozens evacuated as fire breaks out in 50-floor building in Buenos Aires

'They may be Russian someday, or they may not be Russian someday,' Donald Trump said

Fox news interview

'Senile insanity': Ukrainians outraged at Trump's Russia comment

The Gaza Strip requires tens of billions of dollars in recovery and renovation aid after more than a year of war, according to the United Nations

'Humanitarian catastrophe'

At least $53 billion needed to rebuild Gaza, UN estimates

For more than 20 economies, a year-long pause on US aid could mean a loss of over one percent of their gross national income, the CGD said

US foreign aid halt to have major hit on poorest countries: report

The pope urged Catholics and 'all men and women of goodwill' not to 'give into narratives that discriminate' against migrants

Pope told to 'stick to Church' after Trump migrant critique

Thousands of women and children were taken and used as slaves by Islamic State fighters during a rampage through Yazidi villages in Iraq in 2014

On genocide charges

Swedish woman jailed for keeping Yazidi slaves in Syria

Trump's billionaire ally Elon Musk has boasted of feeding USAID 'through the wood-chipper'

Humanitarian sector

US funding freeze is 'bombshell' for world aid sector

Orania is an Afrikaner-only town, protected under S. Africa's constitution (the right to self-determination)

Claims without evidence

'Ridiculous and lame': South Africans mock Trump proposals

There has been a severe tightening of of media under Putin

An offence to discredit the military

Europe rights court condemns Russia for suppressing Ukraine war dissent

The North has given Moscow

Further escalation

Seoul says N. Korea has given Russia 200 long-range artillery pieces

Gruesome discovery

German police confirm body found in Moselle near Enkirch lock

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte gives a statement on impeachment complaints filed against her at her office in Metro Manila

Duterte's future in balance as Philippine election season kicks off

Yoon plunged democratic South Korea into political turmoil when he declared martial law on December 3.

Refused to shake his hand

South Korea's Yoon blames 'malicious' opposition for martial law bid

Increasingly fragile

Gaza truce under strain after Trump warning

Online disinformation about the flu-like human metapneumovirus (HMPV) is fueling anti-Beijing sentiment

Virus disinformation drives anti-China sentiment, lockdown fears

Morning Roundup

Two suspects in custody after huge drug bust, Gaza ceasefire ultimatum, and YouTube turns 20

Vance and Zelensky are set to discuss Washington's push for an end to the three-year war with Russia

Munich Security Conference

Trump floats Ukraine 'may be Russian someday' ahead of Zelensky-Vance meeting

Minimising consequences

Ukraine restricts power use over Russian attack: Kyiv energy minister

Jotham Napat, pictured meeting French President Emmanuel Macron (R) in April 2023, was a senior disaster management official before entering politics

Two months after deadly quake

Pacific nation Vanuatu elects prime minister

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