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Shin Bet director Ronen Bar (C) is flanked by the then armed forces chief and the head of the Mossad intelligence agency in the situation room during an exchange of hostages for Palestinian prisoners in January.

Accusations of threats, blackmail...

Israel PM, security agency fight it out in public

Large numbers of civilians were detained in areas that came under Russian control, said the report

Disappearances and torture

Russia 'committed crimes against humanity' in Ukraine: UN probe

US President Donald Trump said there had been 'very good and productive' talks with Russia

'Cautiously optimistic'

Trump hails 'productive' truce talks with Russia, urges Putin to spare Ukrainians

Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, shown holding a rifle in 2018, faces charges over his drug war

Crimes against humanity

Duterte follows ICC hearing over drug war case via videolink

US President Donald Trump has cut overseas aid funding, sparking protests and concern

Over 200 people

UN migration agency laying off around 20% of HQ staff amid US aid cuts: sources

UN chief Antonio Guterres met with Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar

Persecuted minority

UN chief promises to do "everything" to avoid food cuts to Rohingyas in Bangladesh

Elephants are considered a national treasure in Sri Lanka partly due to their significance in Buddhist culture

Wildlife and railway authorities

Sri Lanka adjusts train timings to tackle elephant deaths

Druze are seen in the village of Majdal Shams, in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, as they wait for the arrival of a delegation from the Syrian side of the Golan

Syrian Druze cross armistice line for pilgrimage to Israel

The United States withdrew from the landmark deal with Iran, which had imposed curbs on Tehran's nuclear programme

Restart long-stalled negotiations

China urges end to 'illegal' sanctions as it hosts Iran nuclear talks

A woman pictured before the Turkmenistan flag in the capital, Ashgabat

Reclusive Central Asian state

Driving ban puts brakes on young women in Turkmenistan

Morning Roundup

Football coach faces manslaughter charges, child struck by police car and Trump targets EU booze

Johns Hopkins University is cutting jobs in the United States as well as 44 other countries

Reduction in foreign aid funds.

Renowned US health research hub Johns Hopkins to slash 2,000 jobs

Pedro Castillo was ousted from Peru's presidency in 2022 and replaced by his vice-president Dina Boluarte, who has clung to power despite numerous protests demanding she step down and call early elections

After attempt to dissolve Congress

Peru ex-president Castillo hospitalized on Day 4 of hunger strike

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is a federal agency within the US Department of Health and Human Services

White House withdraws vaccine-skeptic nominee to lead US health agency

Brazil's supreme court will examine on March 25 whether to try former president Jair Bolsonaro for an attempted coup

Far-right former president

Brazil top court to consider Bolsonaro 'coup' case on March 25

Philippine former president Rodrigo Duterte, pictured in 2018, is due in court Friday, three days after his arrest at Manila's international airport

Shocking arrest

ICC arrest, impeachment leave Duterte clan's political future in doubt

Two Japanese tourists in their 20s were detained for two weeks in China then deported for taking photos showing exposed buttocks at the Great Wall

Against the law

China deports Japanese tourists over Great Wall buttocks pic: reports

Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa signs a new constitutional declaration, which will regulate the country's transitional period

Five-year transitional period

Syria leader signs constitutional declaration, hailing 'new history'

Trump's administration

US deportation flights to Venezuela set to resume

A deal to normalise ties would be a major breakthrough after decades of tensions

Following decades-long conflict

Azerbaijan, Armenia say peace deal ready for signing

The M23 has seized swathes of the DRC's mineral-rich east

Direct negotiations

Rwanda-backed M23 welcomes talks to end DR Congo conflict

Tens of thousands of federal employees have been fired since Donald Trump re-took the White House

Thousands concerned

US judge orders federal agencies to rehire fired workers

A member of the new Syrian administration's security forces stands guard at the site of an Israeli strike in a Damascus area where, a war monitor said, Palestinian leaders are known to reside

Attacked 'terrorist command centre'

Israel defence minister confirms air strike in Damascus

President Donald Trump hosts NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte

Critical for transatlantic alliance

NATO's 'Trump whisperer' treads carefully on Greenland and defense

The pope, a former archbishop of Buenos Aires, is more at home with his flock than with the cardinals of the Roman Curia

Increasingly fragile

Pope marks 12 years in job in hospital - with cake - but future uncertain

The court is under fire from all sides

'Important moment in time'

Duterte case seen as a 'gift' for embattled ICC

Urfan Sharif, Beinash Batool and Faisal Malik were jailed last December

Prosecutors seeking harsher sentence

Court upholds jail terms for relatives of murdered UK-Pakistani girl

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan had already met with Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus in December

Traveled to Damascus

Turkey insists foreign fighters be expelled from Syria: source

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