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Hamada Shaqura, a former food blogger, distributes food after cooking a meal for displaced Palestinians in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza

Humanitarian assistance

Aid agencies ready Gaza push but warn of mammoth obstacles

People in southern Gaza celebrate the announcement of a deal to end the 15-month war with Israel

Israeli government approves Gaza ceasefire deal

A member of Colombia's National Liberation Army (ELN) guerilla group near the Baudo river in Choco province on October 26, 2023

Paused peace negotiations

39 dead in Colombia guerilla violence, govt suspends peace talks

Washington offered an expansion of the Lobito Corridor into eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo as a way of prodding the DRC and Rwanda toward a peace deal

Expansion of Lobito railway

US offered infrastructure incentive for DRC-Rwanda peace deal: official

People in southern Gaza celebrate the announcement of a deal to end the 15-month war with Israel

Israeli cabinet convenes to vote on Gaza ceasefire deal

Igor Sergunin, Alexei Liptser and Vadim Kobzev at their sentencing on Friday

During Ukraine offensive

Russia sentences Navalny lawyers to years behind bars

Now inside: A dress rehearsal ahead of the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump

Freezing temperatures

Trump inauguration to be moved indoors due to cold

President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of non-violent drug offenses, the largest single-day act of clemency in US history

Commuted sentences

Biden grants clemency to 2,500 people, most ever in a day

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is sworn in during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on her nomination to be Secretary of Homeland Security, on Capitol Hill in Washington on January 17, 2025

Immigration crackdown

Trump homeland security pick calls border 'number one' threat

Some 150,000 people have been displaced in the Masisi and Lubero territories in North Kivu province

Humanitarian crisis

Over 230,000 flee eastern DR Congo violence since January 1: UN

Starting on Sunday

US Supreme Court upholds law banning TikTok

France's President Emmanuel Macron was in Beirut to support his new-elected Lebanese counterpart Joseph Aoun

To offer support

Macron announces aid conference to rebuild Lebanon

Ilya Yashin was one of several Russian political prisoners freed in a historic swap with the West last summer

Organised anti-war protests

Parents of Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin interrogated

Most Gazans have been displaced at least once by the war

Finally there's hope

Displaced Gazans awaiting truce so they can go home

This combination of pictures created on January 17, 2025 shows China's President Xi Jinping in Macau on December 19, 2024 and US President-elect Donald Trump in Washington on November 13, 2024

State media report

US president-elect Trump holds phone talks with Chinese leader Xi

French marines inspect an ATL2 Atlantique-2 airplane in 2023

'Intimidation attempt'

French patrol aircraft threatened by Russian military: minister

Former Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan during an interview with AFP at his residence in Lahore on May 18, 2023

Held in custody since 2023

Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan sentenced to 14 years in graft case

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas met Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Mustafa in Brussels after a ceasefire deal to end Israel's war in the territory

Monitoring mission

EU 'ready' to restart Gaza border mission after ceasefire deal

A border post marks the boundary between Derby Line in the US state of Vermont and its twin town of Stanstead in the Canadian province of Quebec

Expecting the worst

Residents of Canada, US border towns fear Trump creating divisions

Cappe said the court ruling made her 'very happy'

Pet boar gets to stay with French owner, for now: court

A vehicle carrying impeached South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol leaves the complex building housing the Corruption Investigation Office

After arrest warrant

South Korea investigators seek to extend President Yoon's detention

Tehran and Moscow have boosted their military and political cooperation in recent years

World's most sanctioned countries

Russia, Iran to harden military, trade ties in new pact

Morning Roundup

Rise in business bankruptcies, confirmation of female wolf in Luxembourg, and Luxair cancels Rotterdam route

More than 900 inmates are working alongside firefighters in the battle to tame wildfires in Los Angeles

Inmates battling LA wildfires see chance for redemption

A wave of AI porn scandals has rocked schools across US states, from California to New Jersey

Dozens of girls possibly targeted

'Damaging' AI porn scandal at US school scars victims

Labour's Keir Starmer was elected on a platform that included fixing the NHS

Patients dying in corridors as UK hospital standards 'collapse': report

People in southern Gaza celebrate the announcement of a deal to end the 15-month war with Israel

To take effect on Sunday

Israeli cabinet to meet on ceasefire after PM says hostage deal finalised

China ended its strict 'one-child policy', imposed in the 1980s amid overpopulation fears, in 2016 and started letting couples have three children in 2021

National Bureau of Statistics

China says population fell for third year in a row in 2024

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