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The prisoner exchange was the fourth one in a week, under the terms of an agreement struck between Ukraine and Russia earlier this month

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Russia and Ukraine swap 175 prisoners of war each

Denis Sassou-Nguesso is one of Africa's longest-serving leaders, after Paul Biya of Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Mbasogo

Contested elections

Congo-Brazzaville president vows to keep power as campaign kicks off

President Donald Trump maes a video address on Iran

'The hour of your freedom is at hand'

Trump says US aims to destroy Iran's military, topple government

Smoke rose above Tehran after explosions were heard

'Major combat operation'

US and Israel strike Tehran, retaliatory blasts heard across Middle East

Philip Crowther on Ukraine

'Ukrainians are proud of what they have achieved over the past four years'

Inter Miami will visit the White House in March to mark the club's 2025 MLS Cup triumph, with Argentine superstar Lionel Messi expected to attend

Following MLS Cup triumph

Messi's Inter Miami to visit White House: US media

Zimbabwe fans celebrate the victory over Australia in Colombo

'It's surreal': Zimbabwe superfans revel in unexpected ride to India

The parsonage where the Brontes lived stands between the village of Haworth and the moors

'Completely besotted'

New 'Wuthering Heights' film unleashes fresh wave of Bronte-mania

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's deal with the Pentagon comes after Trump lashed out at AI rival Anthropic over its proposed terms of use - though the deal appears to have similar safeguards the US previously balked at

OpenAI strikes Pentagon deal with 'safeguards' as Trump dumps Anthropic

Responders study the wreckage of a Bolivian military transport plane that crashed near La Paz and skidded off the runway on February 27 2026, killing at least 15 people

Veered off runway

15 dead as cash-packed military plane crashes in Bolivia

Rebeca Grynspan believes she has a high probability of winning the contest to become the UN secretary-general

'We are very optimistic'

Costa Rica's Grynspan pledges reform in bid for UN chief job

Singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka, pictured at the US Open tennis tournament in New York in September 2022, was a master songsmith whose catalog included early pop hits and easy-listening standards

Neil Sedaka, US singer and songwriter, dies age 86

David Ellison, the chairman and chief executive officer of Paramount Skydance, at the US Capitol in Washington

Still faces regulatory hurdles

Paramount acquires Warner Bros. in $110 bn mega-merger

Clinton features prominently throughout the latest Epstein files disclosures, with the former president denying any wrongdoing

'I saw nothing'

Bill Clinton denies wrongdoing at grilling on Epstein ties

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announces changes to the US Artemis lunar program

2028 goal unchanged

NASA announces overhaul of Artemis lunar program amid technical delays

At the heart of the North Dakota case against Greenpeace was the Dakota Access Pipeline, where from 2016 to 2017 the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe led one of the largest anti-fossil fuel protests in US history

'Chilling attack' on climate action

Court orders Greenpeace to pay $345 mn to US oil pipeline company

Emergency teams evacuate a body bag at the site of a tram derailment in Milan

Investigations ongoing

Two dead, dozens injured as tram derails in Milan

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has stressed that Iran must allow access to its bombed nuclear facitlities

International Atomic Energy Agency

IAEA stresses 'urgency' to verify Iran's nuclear material

UN peacekeepers are deployed in Jonglei State, South Sudan

280,000 people displaced

UN urges action to prevent full civil war in South Sudan

The news came only days after authorities said the details of 1.2 million French bank accounts had been hacked

Including sensitive information

Hackers steal medical details of 15 million in France

A worker used a pressure hose to clean the graffiti off the statue of Winston Churchill

UK police arrest man after Churchill statue sprayed with graffiti

Sarandon was in Spain to receive an honour at Spain's Goya awards for Spanish cinema

Former Hollywood star

Susan Sarandon praises Spain’s stance on Gaza

Ukraine says Russian strikes late in January damaged the Druzhba pipeline that crosses its territory

Amid Russian oil supply row

Ukrainian, Slovak leaders to meet over oil pipeline dispute

Jean-Luc Melenchon has been accused of failing to unequivocally condemn Hamas's October 7, 2023, attack on Israel

'Intolerable remarks'

French hard-left firebrand sparks row with 'antisemitic' Epstein jibe

ICRC president Mirjana Spoljaric has condemned the disregard shown for the internationally-agreed laws of war

As tensions rise

Red Cross urges Afghanistan-Pakistan 'de-escalation'

Juan Carlos left Spain in 2020 to live in exile after his reputation was tarnished by a financial scandal

'Buried with honours'

Coup role revelations revive calls for return of Spain's ex king

Security forces patrol a highway after a wave of violence in the Mexican town of Aguililla, the birthplace of drug kingpin Nemesio Oseguera, who died after a shootout

'Magnifying the chaos'

TikTok disinformation: the other weapon in Mexico violence

France's Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier moored at Malmo port

Following drone sighting

France warns of 'provocation' if Russian drone buzzed aircraft carrier

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