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Kash Patel, President Donald Trump's pick to be FBI director, during a campaign rally in Arizona

FBI agents in Trump probes facing dismissal: reports

The Hostage and Missing Families Forum stated that the three captives to be released are Israeli citizen Yarden Bibas, Israeli-American Keith Seigel, and Israeli-French Ofer Kalderon

Exchange continues

Hamas, Israel set for fourth Gaza ceasefire swap

Rescuers evacuate one of the wounded after the missile attack in Odesa

'Black Sea city'

Russian missile attack hits Odesa, wounding seven

Ukraine says it found Russian army documents on captured North Korean soldiers

Potential heavy losses

N. Korean troops 'withdrawn' from Kursk front line: Ukraine

The United States leases the site holding the Guantanamo Bay prison from Cuba under a treaty dating back to 1903

'Criminal illegal aliens'

What to make of Trump's Guantanamo plan for migrants

The notorious Saydnaya prison complex 'is pretty much emptied of any documents', a UN official says

UN Commission of Inquiry

UN war crimes investigators say Syria 'rich in evidence'

CDU leader Friedrich Merz gets ready to give a statement after German MPs narrowly voted against his party's bill to restrict immigration

Flashpoint issue

German conservatives bet on far-right support but lose key vote

Volunteers line up to fight M23 fighters alongside Congolese forces at a stadium in Bukavu

Closing in on military airport

Rwanda-backed M23 advances in DRC as volunteers rally to fight back

RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo addressing his fighters at an undisclosed location, in an image grab taken from the paramilitaries' page on X on July 28, 2023

Rare appearance

Sudan paramilitary chief admits setbacks, vows to expel army from Khartoum

Istanbul's popular opposition mayor Ekrem Imamoglu denounced the lawsuits against him as 'judicial harassment'

Erdogan's main rival

Istanbul opposition mayor slams 'judicial harassment'

Child in Cologne finds €15,000 buried in schoolyard

Hayan Hadid (centre) survived the 1982 Hama massacre

40 years on, Hama survivors recall horror of Assad-era massacre

Myanmar's junta chief Min Aung Hlaing arrives to deliver a speech during a ceremony to mark the country's Armed Forces Day in Naypyidaw on March 27 last year

Four years after seizing power

Myanmar junta extends state of emergency by six months

A police boat gathers wreckage along the Potomac River after American Airlines flight 5342 collided with a US Army helicopter

Understaffed in control tower

Investigators recover plane black boxes from Washington air collision

Morning Roundup

Protests in Germany, Luxembourg threatens appeal against border controls, and stricter penalties for drink driving

EU Council

Luxembourg threatens appeal over Germany's border checks

A worker controls the traffic as rescue operations continue for a truck driver after his vehicle plunged into a sinkhole in Yashio

Japan sinkhole grows to almost Olympic pool length

Protesters holding placards shout slogans during a rally at the People Power monument in Manila

Thousands of protesters call for VP Duterte impeachment

Deep beneath the London streets lies a network of disused tunnels, once home to British spies and a secret long-distance telephone exchange

Built during WWII

Ghosts of past spies haunt London underground tunnels

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has engaged in increasingly authoritarian practices with the aid of his powerful wife Rosario Murillo

All state powers

Nicaragua legislature cements 'absolute power' of president, wife

The loss of the mines would deal a hard blow to the region

Intensifying attacks

'The region will die': Ukraine's Donbas mines within Russia's grasp

US President Donald Trump speaks to journalists in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 30, 2025.

Both nations dismiss plans

Trump insists Egypt, Jordan will take Gazans

Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa bids farewell to Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani as he departs Damascus

War-torn country

Syria's new leader pledges 'national dialogue conference'

Rescuers found nine bodies in the ruins

Russian drone attack kills nine in east Ukraine

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio greets employees upon arrival at the State Department on January 21, 2025

Tour of aggression

On first trip, Rubio to wield big stick in Latin America

In a photo released by the Israeli military, freed Israeli hostage Agam Berger is reunited with her parents after her release by Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip

Amid ongoing disputes

Israel releases Palestinian prisoners after hostages freed

Boko and Homesky were former allies of Beninese President Patrice Talon, pictured here in 2023

'Conspiracy against state'

Benin court jails two ex-allies of president for 20 years

Members of the Congolese Red Cross gather the bodies of siege victims

Conflict aftermath

New abnormal begins for east DR Congo's looted Goma after siege

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