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US President Donald Trump speaks to the press as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on February 4, 2025

'Demolition site'

Trump says Palestinians would 'love' to leave Gaza

Darren Beattie is an influential figure in President Donald Trump's

Influential MAGA figure

Trump ally known for racist comments gets top State Dept job

(COMBO) Combinación de foto de Daniel Noboa y de Luisa González, creada el 13 de enero de 2025.

Top candidates want second chance

Election rematch for Ecuador's president, main rival

The reduction would affect around 12 million workers, notably in retailing, hospitality and agriculture

Still facing uphill battle

Spain moves to slash working week to 37.5 hours

Greece's Santorini island is known for its spectacular cliffside views

Some 7,000 people

Thousands leave as fresh tremors shake Greece's Santorini

Lake Chad basin

Battling insurgency since 2009

Lack of regional cooperation hampering Lake Chad jihadist fight

A police helicopter above a school in Örebro, Sweden, on 4 February 2025.

Large operation

Suspected assailant supposedly among the dead in Sweden school shooting, 10 dead: police

People embark a ferry at the port on the Greek Island of Santorini on February 3, 2025, to leave in the wake of recurring earthquakes.

Thousands leave as fresh tremors shake Greece's Santorini

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is visiting Washington this week for his first face-to-face meeting with President Donald Trump

'If circumstances permit'

Japan PM to meet Trump on Feb 6-8 US trip

Deathrow Frenchman leaves Indonesia jail for transfer home: prison officials

Morning Roundup

Frieden supports European-made arms, refugee numbers down last year, and the best stargazing spots in Luxembourg

USAID managed more than $40 billion in 2023

World's largest provider of official development aid

USAID freeze calls into question billions in support for poorest countries

'Protect trans futures' and 'Don't capitulate to hate' read slogans on some of the banners held by crowds of protesters in New York

'Protecting trans future'

Hundreds march in New York against Trump's trans policy

Close to Luxembourg border

House fire on Wallendorf bridge in Germany on Monday evening

Cargo shipping containers sit on the Evergreen Ever Fame container ship docked at a container terminal at the Port of Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California on February 3, 2025.

China slaps tariffs on US energy, vehicles in trade war sparring, announces probe into Google

Members of the Congolese Red Cross and the Civil Protection bury dozens of bodies in a cemetery in Goma, eastern DRC

Promises military response

DR Congo, Rwanda leaders to join summit on crisis in war-torn east

The Turkish-backed Syrian National Army has been battling Kurdish-led forces

Syria leader heads to Turkey to discuss rebuilding, Kurds

EU leaders, the prime minister and the head of NATO were meeting on ways to ramp up European defence spending -- a key demand of President Donald Trump

First-ever dedicated talks on defence

Trump trade threats overshadow European defence meet

US government sites were unavailable amid the Trump administration's controversial drive to shrink the government.

More than 350 unavailable

Hundreds of US government sites go offline

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his meeting with Donald Trump will discuss 'victory over Hamas' and countering Iran

Second phase of ceasefire deal

Trump says 'no guarantees' Gaza truce will hold ahead of Netanyahu visit

Europol warns against online purchase of counterfeit medicine

Santorini is one of Greece's most popular islands with tourists

Hundreds of tremors

Greek PM calls for calm amid 'very intense' Santorini tremors

Luis Rubiales has called the kiss an innocuous 'peck between friends celebrating' and denied any coercion

Huge controversy

Spain ex-football chief's kiss wrong 'in any social or work setting': Hermoso

Former Ethiopian health and foreign minister Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has led the WHO since 2017

Urging to reconsider

WHO chief counters Trump criticisms behind US pullout

Russia has been hit by a string of mysterious assassinations since launching its Ukraine offensive in 2022

East Ukrainian crime boss killed in Moscow blast: Russian media

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa rejected Donald Trump's accusation that his country was 'confiscating' land

Pending an investigation

Trump accuses South Africa of 'confiscating' land, cuts funding

Polio can easily be prevented by the oral administration of a few drops of vaccine, but scores of vaccination workers and their escorts have been killed over the years

'Targeted attack'

Pakistan Taliban kill police polio escort as vaccination drive starts

Anna Adamova says that a social worker threatened to take away her fourth child if she declined sterilisation

'Ruined my life': Sterilised Czech Roma await compensation

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