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Deep beneath the London streets lies a network of disused tunnels, once home to British spies and a secret long-distance telephone exchange

Built during WWII

Ghosts of past spies haunt London underground tunnels

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has engaged in increasingly authoritarian practices with the aid of his powerful wife Rosario Murillo

All state powers

Nicaragua legislature cements 'absolute power' of president, wife

The loss of the mines would deal a hard blow to the region

Intensifying attacks

'The region will die': Ukraine's Donbas mines within Russia's grasp

US President Donald Trump speaks to journalists in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 30, 2025.

Both nations dismiss plans

Trump insists Egypt, Jordan will take Gazans

Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa bids farewell to Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani as he departs Damascus

War-torn country

Syria's new leader pledges 'national dialogue conference'

Rescuers found nine bodies in the ruins

Russian drone attack kills nine in east Ukraine

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio greets employees upon arrival at the State Department on January 21, 2025

Tour of aggression

On first trip, Rubio to wield big stick in Latin America

In a photo released by the Israeli military, freed Israeli hostage Agam Berger is reunited with her parents after her release by Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip

Amid ongoing disputes

Israel releases Palestinian prisoners after hostages freed

Boko and Homesky were former allies of Beninese President Patrice Talon, pictured here in 2023

'Conspiracy against state'

Benin court jails two ex-allies of president for 20 years

Members of the Congolese Red Cross gather the bodies of siege victims

Conflict aftermath

New abnormal begins for east DR Congo's looted Goma after siege

Angela Merkel said her successor's tactical move was 'wrong'

Collaboration with extremist party

Merkel slams successor over far-right support on immigration bill

Zakaria Zubeidi, pictured in 2007 when he returned to Jenin under an amnesty which Israeli later revoked

Zakaria Zubeidi

Top Palestinian militant freed in Israel prisoner exchange

'We will continue the march of liberation all the way to Kinshasa,' said Corneille Nangaa, head of a coalition of groups including the M23

Amid looming humanitarian crisis

Rwanda-backed M23 pledges to 'march all the way to Kinshasa'

Wiwwaeo Sriaoun weeps after hearing confirmation that her son Watchara Sriaoun was among the Thai hostages freed by Hamas

Prisoner exchange

Tears of joy for Thai hostages freed in Gaza

Part of the wreckage is seen as rescue boats search the waters of the Potomac River near Washington, on January 30, 2025

Casualty numbers pending

No survivors after helicopter collides with plane over Washington

Border Force vessel 'BF Volunteer' carrying migrants picked up attempting to cross the Channel from France

Against smuggling

UK unveils 'counter-terror style' police powers to stop migrants

Trucks carrying French army vehicles and equipment leaving the Kossei base

End of military presence

France hands over last base in Chad amid withdrawal

Swarming throngs of devotees bathed in rivers at the world's biggest religious gathering in India on Thursday

At least 30 dead

Unfazed devotees shrug off stampede at India mega-festival

Rescue efforts in Yashio have been severely hampered by unstable ground around the hole and a second, larger hole appearing

Pleading for cooperation

1.2 million in Japan told to use less water to help rescue man from sinkhole

President Ferdinand Marcos says his government will remove a US missile system from the Philippines if Beijing ends its 'coercive behaviour' in the contested South China Sea

Maritime interests

Philippines to remove US missile system if China ends 'coercive behaviour'

Wednesday marked one of the holiest days in the six-week Kumbh Mela, and authorities seemed determined not to let the deadly stampede dampen festivities

Witness testimony

Survivors of India festival stampede recount deadly crush

Morning Roundup

Washington plane crash, salary increase for civil servants, and cancer leading cause of death in Luxembourg

Prime Minister Bayrou doubled down on his remark of immigrants 'flooding' France

Between applause and outrage

Immigration 'flooding' remark row piles pressure on French PM

A new poll of the eve of the 5th anniversary of the UK's withdrawal from the European Union shows only 30 percent of Britons still believe it was the right decision

Support for Brexit sinks to lowest level in UK: poll

Update – Rescue efforts ongoing

US Army helicopter, American Eagle jet crash into Potomac after midair collision

Israel will cut ties with UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, on Thursday following accusations it provided cover for Hamas militants

Israel cuts ties with UN aid agency supporting Palestinians

Afghanistan's women cricketers on Thursday played their first game in Australia since fleeing Taliban rule three years ago

'Movement for change'

Afghan women cricketers reunite in first game after fleeing Taliban

Liset Fonseca's son Roberto Perez Fonseca is in prison in Cuba for participating in protests in 2021

'Uncertainty never ends' as deal to free Cuba prisoners unravels under Trump

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