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Morning Roundup

Alerts for flooding, LA wildfires out of control, and Luxembourg University to launch its first satellite

President Nicolas Maduro has claimed re-election to a third term widely dismissed as illegitemate

Dissenting voices silenced

Venezuela braces for crunch anti-Maduro protests

A member of the Kayan National Army (KNA) watches the sky for a potential drone strike from Myanmar's military

Myanmar military adopts anti-junta fighters' drone tactics

Takeshi Ebisawa boasted to an undercover officer he had access to large quantities of nuclear materials that he sought to sell

Weapons-grade plutonium

Yakuza leader pleads guilty in US court to conspiring to sell nuclear material

A 17th-century clock crafted by Balthazar Martinot, watchmaker to French king Louis XIV, was returned to the Brazilian presidential collection after being repaired in Switzerland

Art returns to presidential palace

'Democracy won', says Lula two years after Brasilia riots

Supporters of the Israeli hostages demonstrate in Tel Aviv for a deal to bring them home.

Complex operation

Israel army says body of hostage retrieved from Gaza

The Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia has been repeatedly targeted

Deadliest in weeks

Russian strike on Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia kills 13

'You have been strong,' Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, right, said in welcoming Cecilia Sala in Rome

Ongoing diplomatic spat

Italian reporter jailed in Tehran returns to Italy

Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum displays a 17th-century world map showing

Mexican president trolls Trump, suggests US renamed 'Mexican America'

UN peacekeepers patrol in southern Lebanon amid a fragile truce between Israel and Hezbollah

Fragile situation

UN peacekeepers patrol in Lebanon as truce deadline nears

'Summary executions constitute a war crime,' said Nashif

Human Rights Council

UN denounces spike in Russian executions of Ukrainian PoWs

US President Joe Biden said he warned Donald Trump not to go after his enemies

Outgoing president

Biden says he could have defeated Trump

Illustrative image

Is your car affected?

Millions of vehicles recalled over airbag defect

Lebanon's army chief Joseph Aoun (left) could fill the vacancy left by former president Michel Aoun (right)

Chasing consensus

Lebanon leaders in talks for new bid to elect president

Supporters of impeached South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol queue up for food outside his home

Barricaded president

Hundreds rally for South Korea's Yoon as new arrest bid beckons

Philippine Nobel laureate Maria Ressa warns of 'dangerous times ahead' after social media giant Meta ended its US fact-checking program on Facebook and Instagram

'This is about safety'

Nobel winner Ressa tells AFP 'dangerous times' ahead after Meta ends US fact-checking

Catherine, Princess of Wales has become a central figure in Britain's royal family

Set to make more appearances in 2025

UK's Catherine turns 43 hoping for better year

Houses in Tibet's Shigatse were collapsed by Tuesday's earthquake

North of Mount Everest

Rescuers search for survivors after quake in China's Tibet kills at least 126

Ahmad al-Awdeh's forces don't belive in dissolving, a spokesman has said

Defying new rulers

South Syria fighters reluctant to give up weapons: spokesman

Britain's anti-corruption minister Tulip Siddiq (shown in 2019) is the niece of Bangladesh's ex-PM Sheikh Hasina, whose family is being probed over alleged $5 billion embezzlement

Cooperation wanted

Bangladesh orders banks to assist UK minister graft probe

Morning Roundup

Alert for snow, Trump tells NATO members to raise defence spending, and Meta ends fact-checking

Supporters of President Nicolas Maduro walk past the headquarters of the 'Catedral Combativa,' a pro-government group known as a 'colectivo,' in downtown Caracas

Armed civilians

Venezuela's 'colectivos' ready to pounce as opposition plans protest

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

Thai police hunt suspect over Cambodian politician shooting

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro at a meeting with members of the armed forces days before his swearing-in

'Unpredictable' situation

Venezuela on tenterhooks ahead of rival protests, Maduro swearing-in

A man watches the presidential residence of impeached South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol from a hill in Seoul

Barbed wires, vehicle blockades

S. Korea's impeached President Yoon holds out in capital 'fortress'

In a rambling press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, Trump threatened Canada, Panama and Greenland

Headline-grabbing remarks

Trump's provocative, often confusing, US foreign policy is back

Weapons seized by Mexican security forces are pictured at a military headquarters before being destroyed

Disarmament programme

Mexicans offered $1,300 to hand in a machine gun

Years of protests and US sanctions imposed over previous elections tainted by fraud allegations have failed to dislodge Nicolas Maduro, who has the support of the military

Unspecified crimes

Venezuela arrests two Americans, five other 'mercenaries'

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