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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the latest weapons test

Precise weapons

NKorea test-fires sea-to-surface strategic cruise missile: KCNA

US tech billionaire Elon Musk has rattled European politics with his support for far-right parties

Across the country

Tens of thousands protest Germany's far right as Musk backs AfD

Relatives and friends of Israeli hostages watch the release of four women soldiers from captivity in Gaza, on a screen at 'Hostage Square' in Tel Aviv

Peaceful handover

Tearful reunions as Hamas, Israel complete second swap under Gaza truce

The four Israeli hostages, all soldiers, emerged to whistles, cheers and shouts from the crowd as Hamas camera crews and photographers swarmed around them.

Hundreds gathered to watch

Hamas parades Israeli hostages at slick ceremony before release

Musk told AfD supporters that their party was 'the best hope for the future of Germany'

Elon Musk addresses German far-right rally by video link

Auschwitz was the most notorious of Nazi Germany's extermination camps

No politician speeches

Survivors centre stage for 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation

Freed Palestinians still wearing their grey prison tracksuits wave to well-wishers as they arrive in the West Bank city of Ramallah for a health check.

Emotional reunion

Crowds cheer, families hug as Palestinian prisoners released

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke at a press conference with Moldova's president in Kyiv

Different possibilities

Zelensky says allies should work on 'format' for any talks with Russia

Sandu and Zelensky held a press conference in Kyiv

Moldovan breakaway region

Zelensky offers Ukrainian coal to ease energy crisis in Transnistria

Scores of prisoners were reunited with their families

Getting back on US terror blacklist

Yemen rebels in Trump's sights free 150 war prisoners

Members of a crowd gathered in Tel Aviv react during the livestreamed release of four women soldiers held hostage in Gaza

'Bring them home'

Israelis rejoice at emotional release of second group of hostages

The four freed Israeli hostages (L to R): Liri Albag, Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa and Naama Levy

After 15 months in captivity

The four Israeli women hostages freed on Saturday

The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has plunged the country into political crisis

Prosecutors under pressure

Seoul court rejects second request to extend Yoon detention

Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy (CR) visits the Border Bridge in Adre, Chad, where thousands of refugees from Sudan's war-torn Darfur have been crossing

Last 'surgical capacity still standing'

30 killed in drone attack on hospital in Sudan's Darfur: medical source

After viral infection

Albanian Orthodox Church head Archbishop Anastasios, 95, dies in Greek hospital

Wind turbine near Luxembourg border erupts in spectacular fire

Hun Sen, a former Khmer Rouge cadre himself, previously introduced a law punishing those who deny atrocities committed by the movement

Up to five years in prison

Cambodia approves draft law punishing Khmer Rouge genocide denial

Pete Hegseth -- pictured during a confirmation hearing on January 14, 2025 -- has been confirmed by the US Senate as secretary of defense

Secretary of defence

US Senate confirms former Fox News co-host as Pentagon chief

During the 40-day period over the holiday, nine billion interprovincial passenger trips, on all forms of transport combined, are expected to be made

Annual migration

China travel peaks as millions head home for Lunar New Year

US President Donald Trump said in North Carolina the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) had

Presidential power

Trump threatens aid cutoff on US disaster zone visits

Migrants were sent by US military transport back to Guatemala as part of deportations ordered by Donald Trump

US migrant deportation flights arrive in Latin America

DR Congo soldiers clashed with M23 fighters near the eastern city of Goma

After failed peace talks

DR Congo battles intensify, Western nations ask citizens to leave Goma

Sandra Ramos plays with her daughterat an improvised shack built with the help of the US Agency for the International Development (USAID) following hurricanes in in La Lima, Honduras, in July 2022

'America first'

US freezes almost all aid except for Israel, Egypt arms: memo

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (C) is a long-time China hawk

Top US diplomat

Rubio clashes with China FM on Taiwan

The four Israeli hostages to be released on Saturday (L to R): Liri Albag, Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa and Naama Levy.

The four Israeli women hostages to be freed on Saturday

Thousands of young people took to the streets in Belgrade against perceived corruption

Government under pressure

Serbians strike in protest over fatal roof collapse

Sudanese army soldiers patrol an area in Khartoum North on November 3, 2024

Khartoum region

Sudan army breaks paramilitary siege on Khartoum HQ, reclaims oil refinery

Four more hostages are due to be released on Saturday as part of the second exchange of the Gaza ceasefire deal

As part of ceasefire agreement

Hamas says four women soldiers to be freed in next swap with Israel

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