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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

President-elect Donald Trump said the Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement would not have been reached without pressure from his team

No me, no deal!

Trump says ceasefire 'would've never happened' without his team

North Korea regularly condemns the South's joint military exercises, decrying them as rehearsals for invasion

Right to self-defence

North Korea warns of stronger action over South's drills with US, Japan

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (L) arrived in Kyiv on an unannounced visit to shore up support for Ukraine after nearly three years of war

Repelled drone attack

Blasts in Kyiv as UK's Starmer inks 'landmark' 100-year accord

Mark Carney (L) pitches himself as an outsider and an unconventional politician with strong economic chops

Race for the top

Canada ex-central banker Mark Carney launches PM bid

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou managed to see off the first no-confidence challenge of his premiership

French PM survives first no-confidence vote in parliament

Sudan's army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan gestures to people waiting to greet him along a street in Port Sudan on January 14, 2025

US blacklists Sudan army chief as Blinken regrets failure to end war

Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro is staring down multiple criminal charges from investigations launched after his razor-thin election loss

'A flight risk'

Brazil's Bolsonaro denied passport for Trump inauguration

'Mulholland Drive' and 'Twin Peaks' director David Lynch dies at 78

First indicted president

Trump replicates viral mug shot in official presidential photo

Slovak police have detained the attacker, identified as an 18-year-old student

Teen kills fellow student, teacher at Slovak school

Much of Gaza has been reduced to rubble by the Israeli military offensive, with Human Rights Watch saying there had been 'crimes against humanity' committed by that country's forces

Crimes against humanity

'Heinous crimes' in Gaza conflict must be punished, regardless of truce: HRW

Investigators suspect one act of sabotage was carried out by the Eagle S

'Impossible' to protect all undersea infrastructure: NATO commander

Cooper said local inquiries could investigate in more detail 'than a lengthy nationwide inquiry can provide'

UK plans local inquiries into sexual grooming gangs

Carlos Correa, directeur d'une ONG réputée de défense des droits humains et de la liberté d'expression au Venezuela, photo non datée diffusée le 8 janvier 2025 par son ONG, Espacio Publico

After nine days

Venezuela releases detained free-speech advocate

Celebration gave way to anguish after a night of strikes

Columns of smoke

Air strikes in Gaza crush joy of ceasefire deal

Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides (L) met United States President Joe Biden in October, 2024, further solidifying his country's more pro-American stance

Traditionally aligned with Russia

Cyprus hails new access to US defence goods

The 88-year-old has been in increasingly fragile health

Santa Marta house

Pope Francis bruises arm in fall at Vatican

Humanitarian organisations have repeatedly urged safe and unhindered aid access in Gaza

EU announces 120 mn euros in Gaza aid after ceasefire

Jimmy Lai during a court appearance in December 2020

Hong Kong mogul Jimmy Lai grilled over US, Taiwan ties

Spain's Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares (L) shakes hands with an official outside Madrid's reopened embassy in Damascus

Following Assad ousting

Spain raises flag at Damascus embassy after 12-year closure

Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol (C) is seen inside a vehicle as he leaves the complex housing investigators

Insurrection charges

South Korea's Yoon avoids fresh questioning after dramatic arrest

South Korean impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol arrives at the Corruption Investigation Office

South Korea's president arrest: what happens next?

Morning Roundup

Bettel reacts to Gaza ceasefire, tram to airport starts in March, and website for autistic students launched

The Bauhaus movement follow the principle that 'form follows function'

'Degenerate art'

German far-right AfD takes aim at Bauhaus movement

Japan aims to attract a yearly 60 million tourists by 2030

'Bucket list' destination

Record 36.8 million tourists visited Japan in 2024

Naftali Furst survived Auschwitz and is determined to keep speaking out about anti-Semitism

Eighty years on

Life after the unthinkable: Shoah survivors who began again in Israel

A 7.3-magnitude earthquake rumbled through Vanuatu on December 17, rupturing roads and toppling buildings

Unfortunate timing

Quake-stricken Vanuatu heads to polls in snap election

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