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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

Yoon -- since Saturday suspended from office by parliament -- faces concurrent probes over alleged insurrection

Political turmoil

South Korea's Yoon resists questioning over failed martial law bid

Bangladesh's interim leader Muhammad Yunus said general elections would be held late 2025 or in early 2026

Nobel Peace Prize winner

Bangladesh to hold elections in late 2025 or early 2026

Dubai's marina, a favourite haunt of exiled drug barons who live there

Russian-run money laundering

End of the Dubai dream for Europe's drug lords?

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks to reporters, accompanied by his wife Rosangela 'Janja' da Silva, after being discharged from Hospital Sirio-Libanes in Sao Paulo

Intracranial hemorrhage

Brazil's Lula discharged from hospital following emergency surgery

Freed Syrian prisoner Ghazi Mohammed al-Mohammed, 39, with his mother Fatima Abd al-Ghany -- 'It's like he's not my son' anymore, she says

'Wanted to die'

Assad's prisoner No 3006 tells his story

Close to a million tourists visit Fiji each year

Fiji says five patients being discharged after pina colada incident

Damascus University students stand on a toppled statue of Syria's late president Hafez al-Assad during a rally near the campus

Nations step up outreach to Syria's post-Assad rulers

Israel has occupied most of the Golan Heights, a strategic plateau, since 1967

UN-monitored buffer zone

Israel aims to 'double population' in annexed Golan: PM

The five remaining members of the Australian 'Bali Nine' drug ring, pictured standing, returned to Australia after 19 years in jail in Indonesia

19 years in jail

'Bali Nine' drug ring prisoners 'relieved' on return home

Paramedics put a wounded Palestinian woman into an ambulance in Gaza City

Including journalist and rescuers

Gaza rescuers say Israeli strikes kill 40 Palestinians

Leaders from the West African regional bloc were set to discuss the situation of three military-led governments

Impact on cooperation

W.Africa bloc gives military leaders more time to stay

Seoul police estimated at least 200,000 people had gathered outside parliament in support of removing President Yoon Suk Yeol

Political turmoil

S. Korean opposition urges swift removal of impeached President Yoon

Yoon's fate now lies with the country's Constitutional Court, which has 180 days to deliberate on the case

After declaring martial law

South Korea's Yoon impeached: what happens next?

Former prisoner Mohamed Darwish gives AFP a guided tour of the feared detention centre of the Palestine Branch of Syrian military intelligence where he was interrogated for 120 days

No light of day

Ex-prisoners back in Syria's cells 'of despair'

A queue to buy bread from a bakery in the town of Qusayr, in Homs province -- Syrians face a struggle for necessities

Diplomatic developments

US says in contact with new Syria rulers

One of Mayotte's airports was severely damaged in the storm

France fears heavy toll as Cyclone Chido batters Mayotte

Earlier this week, Zelensky visited the city of Zaporizhzhia, recently hit by a deadly Russian strike

'Significant number'

Russia using N. Korean troops in bid to reclaim Kursk: Zelensky

Protesters calling for the ouster of President Yoon Suk Yeol react after the impeachment vote outside parliament

Opposition declares 'victory of the people'

South Korea's President Yoon impeached over martial law bid

Demonstrators gathered outside parliament

Government loyalist

Georgia ruling party elects loyalist president amid constitutional crisis

Brazilian general and former defence minister Walter Braga Netto (L), seen with far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested over an alleged coup plot, according to a police source

General Walter Braga Netto

Brazil ex-defense minister arrested in coup plot investigation

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