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US President Donald Trump (L) and First Lady Melania Trump arrive for the Liberty inaugural ball in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP)

Morning Roundup

Fire at Goodyear factory, update on city knife attack, and Trump's first actions as US President

Hundreds of LGBTQ couples are set to marry in Thailand on Thursday, as the kingdom becomes the biggest nation in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage

Thailand's same-sex marriage milestone

Supporters of Donald Trump gathered outside the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, before violently storming the building / © GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File

Immediate release from prison

Trump pardons sentences related to 6 January, 2021 events

US President Donald Trump said he was not confident a ceasefire deal could hold in Gaza

Trump 'not confident' Gaza deal will hold

Trum's executive order directing the United States to withdraw from the World Health Organization is the second time he has tried to sever ties with the international group

'World Health ripped us off'

Trump signs order to pull US from WHO, citing funding disparities

Donald Trump's return to the White House drew reactions from around the world

International reactions

'Dear friend': Nations react to Trump inauguration

Nguyen Thi Hiep is joining a wave of workers rejecting Ho Chi Minh City for a quieter life back home

Working all day long

'Too hard': Vietnam's factory workers return to country life

A resident in Tainan shows damage to his home after a 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit Taiwan

'No major damage'

6.0-magnitude earthquake shakes Taiwan

US President Donald Trump took aim at Panama in his inaugural address

In first hours back

Trump vows to take Panama Canal, urges Putin to make Ukraine deal

The European Parliament in Strasbourg, France

EU meeting Tuesday

Facing Trump and Musk, EU lawmakers seek sure footing

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, leaves Britain's High Court with his Barrister David Sherborne after testifying in June that he had suffered lifelong press invasion

Alleged unlawful media tactics

Prince Harry's battle against Murdoch UK tabloids goes to trial

Marco Rubio will immediately have the task of executing the potentially erratic foreign policy of Donald Trump

First cabinet nominee confirmed

Rubio wins unanimous nod to be top US diplomat

Pockets of Colombia are still controlled by assorted left-wing guerrillas, right-wing paramilitaries and drug cartels

Conflict outbreaks

Colombia vows 'war' as guerrilla violence kills 100

President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal migration devastated some migrants at the US-Mexico border

'Criminal aliens'

'Please let us in': Trump crackdown leaves migrants in tears

Donald Trump repeatedly criticized the number of people crossing the US-Mexico border during his presidential campaign

Setting sights on immigration

Trump says to declare national emergency at border, use military

On the campaign trail Trump railed against diversity, equity and inclusion policies

Executive orders

Trump says 'only two genders', will end diversity programs

US First Lady Melania Trump stands for a benediction after President Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th US President in the US Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025

‘International woman of mystery’

Melania Trump brings steely fashion game back to Washington

Axel Rudakubana, 18, admitted killing three young girls in Southport last year

Most violent riots in a decade

UK teen pleads guilty to girls' murders that sparked riots

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump takes the oath of office as Melania Trump, Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump look on during inauguration ceremonies in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Donald Trump takes office for his second term as the 47th president of the United States.

47th president of the United States

Trump sworn in as US president, promises 'golden age'

In the northern area of Jabalia, hundreds headed back to an apocalyptic landscape piled with rubble and destroyed buildings

Israel-Hamas truce holding after first hostage-prisoner swap

The woman faces life in prison if convicted

Charged with torture

French mother on trial accused of starving teen daughter to death

President Yoon Suk Yeol is being held in a cell at Seoul Detention Center after being arrested on charges of insurrection

First night in jail

A mug shot and a solitary cell for S. Korea's impeached president

Pardoned to protect them from Trump's revenge -- retired general Mark Milley, US Representative Adam Schiff, Anthony Fauci and US Representative Liz Cheney

Extraordinary move

Biden pre-emptively pardons Trump foes

There were about 30 people in the building when the fire broke out

Fire at Belgrade retirement home kills eight

The rape and murder of the doctor sparked protests and highlighted the chronic issue of violence against women in the world's most populous country

Indian rapist murderer of doctor sentenced to life in prison

Debra Tice, mother of missing US journalist Austin Tice who disappeared while reporting in Syria in 2012, speaks to journalists in Damascus

Missing US journalist's mother says new Syria leaders 'determined' to find son

Floral tributes were left for the victims of a stabbing attack in Southport, northwest England on July 31, 2024

Axel Rudakubana

Trial into stabbing spree that sparked UK far-right riots to open

The proposed bill would make sex education mandatory in Philippine schools and is intended to help address a high rate of teen pregnancies

Mandatory in schools

Marcos denounces 'woke' sex education bill in Catholic Philippines

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