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Pete Hegseth -- pictured during a confirmation hearing on January 14, 2025 -- has been confirmed by the US Senate as secretary of defense

Secretary of defence

US Senate confirms former Fox News co-host as Pentagon chief

During the 40-day period over the holiday, nine billion interprovincial passenger trips, on all forms of transport combined, are expected to be made

Annual migration

China travel peaks as millions head home for Lunar New Year

US President Donald Trump said in North Carolina the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) had

Presidential power

Trump threatens aid cutoff on US disaster zone visits

Migrants were sent by US military transport back to Guatemala as part of deportations ordered by Donald Trump

US migrant deportation flights arrive in Latin America

DR Congo soldiers clashed with M23 fighters near the eastern city of Goma

After failed peace talks

DR Congo battles intensify, Western nations ask citizens to leave Goma

Sandra Ramos plays with her daughterat an improvised shack built with the help of the US Agency for the International Development (USAID) following hurricanes in in La Lima, Honduras, in July 2022

'America first'

US freezes almost all aid except for Israel, Egypt arms: memo

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (C) is a long-time China hawk

Top US diplomat

Rubio clashes with China FM on Taiwan

The four Israeli hostages to be released on Saturday (L to R): Liri Albag, Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa and Naama Levy.

The four Israeli women hostages to be freed on Saturday

Thousands of young people took to the streets in Belgrade against perceived corruption

Government under pressure

Serbians strike in protest over fatal roof collapse

Sudanese army soldiers patrol an area in Khartoum North on November 3, 2024

Khartoum region

Sudan army breaks paramilitary siege on Khartoum HQ, reclaims oil refinery

Four more hostages are due to be released on Saturday as part of the second exchange of the Gaza ceasefire deal

As part of ceasefire agreement

Hamas says four women soldiers to be freed in next swap with Israel

The court in Montepellier heard that the woman had abused her daughter for years

French mother sentenced to life for daughter's starvation death

A Lebanese soldier in Naqura, south Lebanon, checks the remains of a rocket in a residential area devastated by the war between Israel and Hezbollah

Israel says Lebanon troop pullout 'will continue' beyond 60-day deadline

A Yemeni protester holds a mock rocket during an anti-Israel demonstration in the Huthi-controlled capital of Sanaa on January 22, 2025

Amid humanitarian crisis

UN says more staff detained by Huthi rebels in Yemen

The death toll from a landslide in Indonesia rose to 25 as rescuers found three more bodies on Friday

Indonesia landslide death toll rises to 25

The assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia sparked outrage around the world

Maltese businessman accused in journalist's murder granted bail

The woman faces life in prison if convicted

Charged with torture and barbarity

Life term sought for French mother in daughter's starvation death

Both Trump and Putin have said they are ready to meet for talks on Ukraine

Critical moments

Putin ready to talk to Trump, waiting for 'signals', Kremlin says

A Giambattista Valli dress from the haute couture 2018-2019 collection displayed at 'Louvre Couture'

World's most popular museum

Louvre holds first fashion exhibition, eyeing new audiences

Record wind gusts lash Ireland as violent storm hits

Serge Atlaoui (left) was initially sentenced to life in prison but Indonesia's Supreme Court increased the sentence to death in 2007

There since 2007

Frenchman on Indonesian death row to be sent home

Tourists in Hong Kong are flocking to the 300-year-old village of Kuk Po for respite from the city's frenetic pace

A different perspective

Hong Kong revives border village in alternative tourism push

Morning Roundup

Flurry of ATM explosions, flu cases on the rise, and Luxembourg Song Contest live on Saturday

Police fear knife crime is becoming normalised among young people in the UK

Deadly teen knife crisis UK's 'new normal'

French sex education guidelines have met with resistance

Syllabus reforms

France to introduce new sex education guidelines in schools

A teacher works inside an empty classroom after in-person classes were suspended due to dangerous heat in Iloilo City, central Philippines on April 2, 2024

242 mn children's schooling disrupted by climate shocks in 2024

Palestinians sometimes wait hours on their way home from work while cars are searched and IDs verified

'Living in a cage': West Bank checkpoints proliferate after Gaza truce

Holocaust survivor Esther Senot made it out of Auschwitz alive

Survivors strive to ensure young do not forget Auschwitz

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