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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

Migrants deported from the US arrive at El Dorado International airport in Bogota after a blazing row between Colombia and President Donald Trump over migrant deportations

Summit cancelled

Scalded by Colombia row, Latin America treads carefully with Trump

Ahmed al-Sharaa, who was named Syria's interim president on Wednesday, has taken the helm since his Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham led a rebel offensive that toppled Bashar al-Assad last month.

'Transitional phase'

Syria authorities name Sharaa interim president: state media

Friedrich Merz of the conservative Christian Democratic Union is the election frontrunner

Controversial topic

Germany's far-right 'firewall' crumbles as migration debate flares

US President Donald Trump speaks before signing the Laken Riley Act in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, January 29, 2025

Laken Riley act

Trump unveils plan to detain 30,000 migrants at Guantanamo

Israeli supporters of the hostages, who have kept up a campaign for their negotiated release for months, demonstrate in Tel Aviv on Saturday

Fragile ceasefire

Israel says Hamas to free 11 more hostages this week

More than 280 Romanians fighting alongside Congolese forces have surrendered to M23 in the Rwandan border town of Gisenyi, accoring to Rwanda's army

After days of fighting

Romanian security contractors surrender amid DR Congo fighting

Spain's top prosecutor Alvaro Garcia Ortiz arrives to testify in the Supreme Court in Madrid

Unprecedented appearance

Spain's top prosecutor denies leaking documents against opposition

A Frenchman went on trial in Bordeaux accused of stabbing to death his former partner, who had filed repeated complaints with authorities over years of abuse

Victim filed multiple complaints

Frenchman on trial for killing ex-partner after years of alleged abuse

Unos migrantes esperan para completar sus papeles en la Comisión Mexicana de Ayuda a Refugiados en Naucalpan de Juárez, en México, el 28 de enero de 2025

Following deportation row

Latin American migration summit off as leaders tread carefully with Trump

The Pentagon says security protection will be scrapped for former general Mark Milley, who is pictured speaking during a Senate hearing in September 2021, when he was the top US military officer

Going after critics

Pentagon strips Trump foe Milley of security detail

A pre-dawn stampede at the world's largest religious gathering killed at least 15 people in India

Many more injured

At least 30 dead in India stampede at Hindu mega-festival

Up to 17,000 people passed through the border every day at the crossing

Between anti-tank spikes and concrete pyramids

Silence and suspicion on Belarus's border with Ukraine

If confirmed as health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr would take the helm of a department overseeing more than 80,000 employees and a $1.7 trillion annual budget

Contentious candidate

Trump's health sec pick RFK Jr faces critical Senate hearing

Putin said the fighting would end in 'two months' or less if the West cut its support to Kyiv

Putin says talks with Ukraine possible, but not with Zelensky

Morning Roundup

Task force planned for Gare area, air gun used in school altercation, and German parliament to debate migration

A group of women pose for photos under decorations for a temple fair ahead of Lunar New Year celebrations in Beijing

Farewell dragon

Hundreds of millions in Asia celebrate Year of the Snake

Around 140,000 people died in Hiroshima, with the United States never apologising for its use of atomic bombs against Japan

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Trump invited to Japan for 80th anniversary of A-bombs

Workers paint a mural of Hindu deity Ganesha ahead of the Kumbh Mela, which organisers expect to be attended by 400 million devotees

History of deadly incidents

India's Kumbh Mela, world's largest religious gathering

During his first term, Donald Trump had a rare series of meetings with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un

Confrontations 'inevitable'

North Korea's Kim vows nuclear programme to continue: state media

Migrants wait outside an office of the Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance near Mexico City

Change of plans

Trump crackdown spurs migrants to seek refuge in Mexico

A displaced Palestinian child playes with a kitten in a car on Salah al-Din road in Nuseirat as people make their way to the north of the Gaza Strip

After fragile ceasefire

New backlash over Trump plan to move Palestinians out of Gaza

Armed men travel in an unmarked pickup truck through the streets of Goma

Soldiers clashed with militia

Key DR Congo city on brink as pro-Rwanda forces take airport

Fighting has killed over 100 people and wounded nearly 1,000 according to an AFP tally of hospital tolls, while a mass influx of displaced people has put further pressure on medical facilities

UN warns of ethnic attacks in eastern DR Congo

President Donald Trump campaigned on remaking the US government but he is accused of a power grab

Violating the consitution?

Trump federal spending freeze sparks confusion, fury

Colombia sent two military planes with medical staff on board to fetch its nationals in the US cities of San Diego and Houston

Grueling deportation

End of 'American nightmare': Colombia brings migrants home

People waved flags from Russia, Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali at a rally to fete the withdrawal of the three Sahelian nations from the Economic Community of West African States

Economic fragmentation

Thousands rally in Burkina, Mali and Niger to cheer ECOWAS exit

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