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Teruko Nakazawa said she never wanted to be thanked or rewarded after decades of volunteering as an unpaid parole officer

'Love for humanity'

Low-crime Japan's unpaid parole officers

Forty percent of US container traffic travels through the Panama Canal

Territorial integrity

Panama complains to UN over Trump canal threat, starts audit

The fire began before dawn, ripping through the Grand Kartal Hotel near the northwestern town of Bolu

Concerns over safety measures

Simmering anger as Turkey begins burying 76 fire victims

Self-exiled Russian lawyer Olga Mikhailova says she does not regret taking on opposition leader Alexei Navalny as a client many years ago

Late Russian opposition figure

'Did not push hard enough': Navalny lawyer speaks of regrets

Mauricio Funes, El Salvador's ex-president, died Tuesday at the age of 65 in Nicaragua, pictured in Managua in 2016 during an interview

Mauricio Funes: journalist turned El Salvador president

A survivor is brought to an Indonesian hospital from the site of a landslide triggered by heavy rain

Amid intense rainfall

Indonesia rescuers search for survivors as landslide kills 19

Morning Roundup

Death toll in Turkish ski resort fire rises to 76, flu wave in Luxembourg, and unions sceptical of French literacy programme

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio walks with Indo-Pacific Quad ministers, Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya, Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong at the State Department

US State Secretary

Rubio, on first day, warns China with Asian partners

A Jeju Air plane crashed landed and exploded after slamming into a concrete barrier at Muan International Airport, raising questions about why the barrier was at the end of the runway

Removing concrete barricades

S. Korea to overhaul some airports after Jeju Air crash

Scenes of desperation

Huge fire guts Turkish ski resort hotel, killing 76

As night falls in the southern Chinese city of Fuzhou, lanterns -- some of them 10 metres high -- transform Hongguang Lake Park into a fantastical land

Dreamlike spectacle

Lanterns light up southern Chinese city ahead of Lunar New Year

Elise Stefanik testifies before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on January 21, 2025

Trump's UN pick blasts 'anti-Semitic rot' in world body

Army soldiers patrol in Tibu, Norte de Santander province, Colombia, on January 21, 2025, after recent clashes between rival left-wing guerrillas.

Amid massive displacement

Colombian forces edge into guerrilla strongholds

Argentine Nahuel Agustin Gallo, 33, has been held in Venezuela since December 8

Arrested in December

Partner demands release of Argentine officer held for 'terrorism' in Venezuela

For more than 150 years, the law of the land in the US has held that everyone born here is an American citizen, but Donald Trump is out to change that

Violating the constitution?

Trump's birthright citizenship move challenges US identity: analysts

Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum speaks during her daily press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City on January 21, 2025

Amid emergency declaration from Trump

Mexican president urges 'cool heads' in face of Trump threats

The US Consitution guarantees citizenship to anyone born on US soil, but Donald Trump wants to change that

Democratic coalition

States sue over Trump bid to end birthright citizenship

US President Donald Trump speaks to the press on his second day back at the White House

Rapid-fire orders

Trump tests whether bulldozer can also be peacemaker

Calin Georgescu was a surprise winner of the first round of the election

'Formalised coup d'etat'

Europe rights court rejects appeal of Romania vote annulment

Rt. Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde launched a strong criticism of President Donald Trump's policies from the pulpit

Bishop lectures stony-faced Trump in church

Friedrich Merz is the frontrunner in polls to become Germany's next chancellor

'Ready to meet'

German opposition leader Merz urges united EU stance on Trump

Admiral Linda Fagan, pictured speaking during a Senate hearing in June 2024, has been replaced as head of the US Coast Guard

Admiral Linda Fagan

Trump fires first woman to lead a US military service

Taliban authorities welcomed Afghan fighter Khan Mohammed (C) who was imprisoned in the United States, as he arrived in Jalalabad in eastern Nangarhar province

Deal brokered by Qatar

Afghan Taliban government swaps prisoners with US

The fire began before dawn, ripping through the Grand Kartal Hotel near the northwestern town of Bolu

12-storey hotel

Huge fire guts Turkish ski resort hotel, killing 66

Scammers tricked their French victim into believing she was in a relationship with Pitt

Nigerian scammers accused in AI-driven fake Brad Pitt fraud

Palestinians carry their belongings as they return to Rafah in southern Gaza, surrounded by destruction

Israel army chief resigns over October 7 'failure'

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz predicted that US President Donald Trump and his administration 'will keep the world on tenterhooks in the coming years'

Scholz vows to 'defend free trade' after Trump tariff threat

South Korean impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol is expected to appear for the first time at the Constitutional Court

Constitutional court

South Korea's suspended president attends impeachment hearing

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