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Igor Kirillov was killed when a explosive device attached to a scooter went off outside an apartment building

Claimed by Kyiv

Russia's chemical weapons chief killed in Moscow blast

Protesters staged marches at a dozen locations across the capital Tbilisi before several thousand gathered outside parliament for 20th consecutive day

Legitimacy crisis

'Game of nerves': Georgians vow to outlast govt in pro-EU protests

The father and stepmother of Sara Sharif, as well as her uncle, have been handed long prison sentences

Father, stepmother of murdered UK-Pakistani girl jailed for life

Mayotte's shantytowns never stood a chance against the cyclone

Poorest part of France

How ramshackle housing made Mayotte vulnerable to cyclone assault

The fall of the Assad regime in Syria has prompted many exiled citizens to contemplate a return

Following Assad's ouster

UN says one million Syrians may return in first half of 2025

Private welfare organisation Edhi has arranged aid flights to help residents of remote areas of Kurram district stranded by sectarian clashes

Thousands stranded

Aid reaches remote Pakistan valley hit by sectarian clashes

Details emerged last week about Prince Andrew's relationship with Yang Tengbo, a businessman and alleged spy, who had been banned from Britain

China says spying claims involving UK's Prince Andrew 'preposterous'

Protesters in Seoul are blocked by police during a demonstration calling for the ouster of South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol

Suspended from office

Yoon lawyer says to fight insurrection charge in court: Yonhap

Bolivia's former president Evo Morales has a warrant out for his arrest on suspicion of alleged 'trafficking' of a 15-year-old girl while he was in office

Arrest warrant issued

Bolivia prosecutor seeks Morales arrest over 'trafficking' of minor

A general view of the former Royal Mint, situated close to the Tower of London, a site favoured by the Chinese authorities as a home for its new embassy

Amid spy scandal

Embassy plans add to UK headaches in resetting China ties

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the US and China can achieve 'great things' together, while warning Washington over Taiwan

'Crude interference' with Taiwan

China, US can achieve 'great things', says Beijing foreign minister

A health care clinic where students were reunited with their parents after a school shooting in Madison, Wisconsin

'Shocking and unconscionable'

15-year-old girl killed two in latest US school shooting: police

German intelligence chief Thomas Haldenwang and Interior Minister Nancy Faeser are on guard against disinformation attacks targeting the democratic process

February 23 vote

Election-bound Germany braces for Russian disinformation threat

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer has voiced concerns over the extent of allegations of spying by China

UK concerned over China spying row engulfing Prince Andrew

US President-elect Donald Trump addressed reporters at his Florida residence

'Assad was a butcher'

Trump calls rebel victory in Syria 'unfriendly takeover' by Turkey

Ukraine is entering its third winter of war with Russia as its energy grid is already badly damaged

Addressing top military generals

Trump vows to speak to Zelensky and Putin to end 'carnage' of war

French lawmakers unanimously passed a law to keep tax and social security machinery running

After no-confidence vote

After budget row, French MPs pass 'special law' to keep show on the road

Former Irish republican leader Gerry Adams will defend himself at the civil trial

Former Sinn Fein

Gerry Adams to stand civil trial in 2026 over IRA bombs

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is expected to lose a confidence vote in parliament

Germany's Scholz loses confidence vote, triggering early elections

Western powers are looking to court Syria's new rulers

Wary of situation

Western powers resume contacts in Syria to prevent chaos

Anna (R), 21, and her mother (L) sit in a minivan as they wait at an evacuation point outside the city, in the eastern Donetsk region, on December 14, 2024, as Russian troops advanced close to the city.

Tales from the front-line

The last days of a Ukrainian ghost town within Russia's grasp

North Korea's Defence Minister No Kwang Chol, who has been added to an EU sanctions list, meeting Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov in November

Asset freezes and visa bans

EU sanctions Chinese firms, N. Korea minister over Ukraine war

'Restrictive measures'

EU sanctions Russian military intelligence for 'hybrid attacks'

Sri Lanka's President Anura Kumara Dissanayake (L) speaks with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Anura Kumara Dissanayake

Sri Lanka president in India in first overseas trip

Gisele Pelicot has become a feminist icon worldwide

Dominique Pelicot

Ex-husband in French rape trial asks 'forgiveness' from family

India's Gukesh Dommaraju returned to a hero's welcome in his home city on Monday

Youngest world champion

Indian chess king Gukesh returns to hero's welcome

The M1A2s are the first new tanks to be delivered to Taiwan in 30 years

38 advanced battle tanks

Taiwan receives first batch of US-made Abrams tanks

Filipina inmate on death row in Indonesia Mary Jane Veloso waves to journalists after leaving a women's prison in Yogyakarta

Moved to Jakarta

Filipina on Indonesia death row moved before transfer home

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