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There have been reports Trump wants to roll USAID into the State Department

Attacking US Agency

Musk brands USAID 'criminal', Trump calls its leaders 'radical lunatics'

From April 2025 onwards

EU travellers require electronic authorisation for UK entry

Washington has long accused Beijing of turning a blind eye to the deadly fentanyl trade, which US authorities estimate caused tens of thousands of deaths a year. China denies responsibility

'Turning a blind eye'

How China allegedly contributes to the deadly fentanyl crisis

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer will meet with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte before travelling for talks with the leaders of the 27 EU member states

Starmer to urge Europe to 'bear down' on Putin at landmark talks

Steven Nelson, 37, is to be executed in Texas by lethal injection for the 2011 murder of a pastor

Over a dozen years

'Breaks a little part of you every day': Texas man on Death Row

Rescuers were combing the ruins of a smouldering building in Poltava, central Ukraine, for survivors

Russia and Ukraine trade blame for attack on Kursk school

The protesters accused Germany's conservatives of having made a 'pact with the devil' by seeking far-right backing

Against collaboration with AfD

At least 160,000 rally in Berlin against far right

The US-Canada rift brought by Trump's tariffs threatens to divide inter-connected border communities

'Failing marriage': Canadian border cities dismayed by US trade rift

Marco Rubio (R) made his first trip as secretary of state to Panama

President Jose Raul Mulino

Rubio meets Panama leader on Trump demands for canal

A policeman shoots his parents before committing suicide himself

Trump has said he 'absolutely' plans to target the EU with tariffs

Will retaliate 'firmly'

EU vows firm response if Trump unleashes tariffs

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer (R) speaks with Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz during a bilateral meeting at Chequers

Ukraine on agenda

Starmer hails 'real progress' on UK-Germany ties at Scholz talks

Netanyahu has called it

Amidst fragile truce

Netanyahu heads to US for pivotal Trump talks

Excavators and rescue personnel working to construct a slope at the sinkhole site

Five households

Residents near Japan sinkhole urged to evacuate

A jubilant crowd greeted a busload of freed Palestinian prisoners in Ramallah on Saturday

Ongoing exchanges

Netanyahu to begin talks on 2nd phase of Gaza truce

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to Panama and four other small Latin American countries for an agenda focused on migration

Rubio to make debut in Panama as Trump threatens to take canal

Mothers carry boxes of porridge backed by US aid in the Mutokoarea of Zimbabwe in 2019 as drought worsened hunger

Freezing foreign assistance

For world's poorest, fears for long-term setbacks after Trump aid cut

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is serving a third six-year term widely considered as illegitimate after flawed elections

'Mutual respect'

Has Trump changed tack on Venezuela?

A woman shows off her button and pin collection during the Democratic National Committee 2023 Winter meeting

Reconnecting with voters

US Democrats anoint new leader to take on Trump for 'working people'

Sudanese paramilitary commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, seen here in 2023, vowed on Friday to push the regular army out of the capital Khartoum following its recent gains

At least 56 killed as fighting grips Sudan's capital

Protesters block a bridge in Novi Sad, Serbia on the three-month anniversary of a fatal roof collapse at the city's train station

Anti-corruption movement

Serbia protesters mark three months since deadly roof collapse

Saturday's phone call was the first between the two leaders since Trump repeatedly floated a plan to relocate Palestinians from Gaza into Jordan and Egypt

'Expressing confidence'

Egypt's Sisi tells Trump world 'counting on' him for Middle East peace

Onlookers gather near a bank set ablaze by militants at Kalat district, in Pakistan's Balochistan province -- the scene of violence that left 18 paramilitaries dead

Rising violence

Pakistan separatist militants kill 18 paramilitaries in ambush

A plume of smoke and emergency responders can be seen after a small aircraft crashed in a neighborhood in Philadephia, Pennsylvania on January 31, 2025

Tragic incident

Toll rises to 7 dead, 19 hurt in Philadelphia plane crash

University students have emerged as the leaders of the protest movement

Push into new concessions

Serbia protesters mark three-months since roof collapse with mass rally

Uganda's veteran opposition figure Kizza Besigye is being tried in a military court

Military trial of Uganda opposition leader to continue despite court ruling

'Cannot confirm any survivors'

Philadelphia plane crash marks a second US aviation disaster

Nuclear-armed India and Pakistan have fought multiple wars and remain bitter foes

Old India-Pakistan rivalry drives South Asia diplomatic reshuffle

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