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Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and his wife Yoshiko Nakamura attend a ceremony in Jakarta

Bilateral priorities

Japan to give Indonesia high-speed patrol boats in security deal

A protester walks with a portrait of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol

Ongoing standoff

Thousands of South Koreans protest as president digs heels in

Police tape at the scene where a former Cambodian MP was shot dead in Bangkok

Motive to be determined

Thai suspect confesses to killing Cambodian ex-lawmaker

Members of the National Guard take a break along California's Pacific Coast Highway while assisting with various fires on January 10, 2025

Accountability and reforms

As LA burns, criticisms and questions about response arise

Students travel home from a community school in Abdullah Goth village on the outskirts of Karachi

Amid international summit

'Education apartheid': schooling in crisis in Pakistan

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai (2R) returns to her native Pakistan to attend a summit on girls' education

Girls' education summit

Malala Yousafzai 'overwhelmed and happy' to be back in Pakistan

Police tape at the site where Lim Kimya was gunned down in Bangkok

Gunned down on Tuesday

Cambodia sends suspect in ex-politician killing to Thailand

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro with First Lady Cilia Flores ahead of his swearing-in for a third six-year term

In office since 2013

Venezuela's Maduro sworn in as opponents decry 'coup,' US hikes bounty

People in Caracas, Venezuela rest on stairs featuring a mosaic portraying the eyes of the country's late president Hugo Chavez during the inauguration of his successor, President Nicolas Maduro, for a third term

Inauguration of Venezuela's Maduro draws international condemnation

Retailleau said Algeria was crossing a line

France warns Algeria against escalation of influencers showdown

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro waves to supporters after his swearing-in ceremony

'Clearly lost' election

US hikes reward for Maduro arrest after 'illegitimate' swearing-in

Brazilian Ambassador Eduardo Saboia, head of the BRICS summit in July 2025, says the bloc of developing economies has no plans to undercut the US dollar

Tense global mood

BRICS aims to 'build' global ties as Trump takes office: Brazil

Trump attended his sentencing virtually, with the judge, lawyers and media packed into the scruffy Manhattan courtroom

Payments to a porn star

US judge spares Trump jail, fine for hush money conviction

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya with a photo of her jailed husband, Sergei Tikhanovsky

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya

Belarus opposition leader eyes 'opportunity' for change

Ten-year-old Palestinian girl Batoul Bsharat mourns for her younger brother Reda, who was killed along with two of their cousins in an Israeli drone strike on Wednesday.

Occupied West Bank

Palestinian family wants justice for children killed in Israel strike

Sudanese children play on a street in Tokar, in Red Sea State, following heavy flooding in October, 2024

UN says 3 million Sudan children facing acute malnutrition

Newly elected Lebanese President Joseph Aoun poses for a photograph at the presidential palace

Status quo shift

Weakening of Hezbollah allowed Lebanon to fill vacant presidency

Last month, Syrian Kurds had to flee an onslaught by Ankara-backed groups

Diplomatic tension

Turkey raps France, says US only counterpart in northeast Syria

Near Franco-Luxembourg border

Man arrested for smuggling 6,284 bottles of Luxembourg-bought spirits into France

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai will attend a summit on girls' education hosted by her native Pakistan

A true inspiration

Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to visit native Pakistan for girls' summit

Two members of the Bedouin Arab Zayadna family had been freed by their Palestinian captors during a November 2023 truce and the family had held out hope until this week that Youssef and Hamza would be released too.

As mediators make a renewed push

Body of Israeli hostage identified, two days after father's: army

The UK's first official consumption room for illegal drugs opens in Scotland next week

After a years-long battle

Scots leader hails opening of UK's first drug consumption facility

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani (2nd L) visits the eighth-century Umayyad Mosque in the old city of Damascus

Italian FM meets Syria's new leader in Damascus

Tran Dinh Trien was sentenced to three years in jail for posts he made on Facebook

Prominent figure

Vietnam jails ex-lawyer over Facebook posts

The three lawyers face up to six years in prison

Crackdown against the Kremlin critics

Navalny lawyers face long sentences in Russian 'extremism' trial

Head of Presidential Security Service Park Chong-jun arrives outside the National Office of Investigation in Seoul

Following failed martial law

Security chief of South Korea's impeached President Yoon resigns

New research estimates the death toll in Gaza from the Israel-Hamas war has been underestimated by some 40 percent

Shocking numbers

Lancet study estimates Gaza death toll 40% higher than recorded

Nicolas Maduro is set to be sworn in for a third six-year term in office

In office since 2013

Nicolas Maduro: Venezuela's iron-fisted 'worker president'

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