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A Thai political party that came second in this month's vote filed a criminal complaint against the nation's election commissioners, accusing them of violating election laws

Thai runner-up party seeks criminal case against election officials

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaking at a military parade marking a rare congress of the nation's ruling Workers' Party.

Mounting speculation

North Korea's Kim shuns South but could 'get along' with US

Morning Roundup

Teenager stabbed at a Luxembourg City school, Clintons testify in Epstein investigation, and new bike lanes in the capital

Australia's prime minister has apologised after saying sexual assualt survivor 'difficult'

Misinterpreted?

Australian PM sorry after saying sexual assault survivor 'difficult'

Files indicate Jeffrey Epstein built close ties with leading figures in Africa

From Senegal to Ivory Coast

Epstein files reveal links to cash, women, power in Africa

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has called the Geneva talks with the US 'a historic opportunity'

Amid massive military build-up

US presses missile issue as new Iran talks to open in Geneva

Several new parties and alliances have emerged in Nepal, with young candidates leading the charge in the upcoming election

Between two giants

Post-uprising polls won't shake Nepal's delicate India-China balance

Former Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull reacts during an interview in Sydney on February 26, 2026. Australia ditching the British monarchy is "more important than ever" and voters would likely back a head of state elected by its parliament, he told AFP.

Three decades after referendum

Australian ex-PM says 'more important than ever' to ditch UK monarchy

This picture taken on February 25, 2026 and released by North Korea's North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his daughter Kim Ju Ae attend a military parade to mark the end of the ruling Workers' Party congress.

Dressed for succession? Kim Jong Un, daughter fuel speculation with matching coats

This undated photo released by the US Justice Department on January 30, 2026 as part of the Jeffrey Epstein files shows Epstein with Donald Trump in an unidentified location

FBI records withheld?

US government accused of major 'cover-up' over Trump sex abuse claims

EVs are driving global demand for lithium

IMmediate effect

Export ban sparks rush to process lithium in Zimbabwe

Sculptor Ehtisham Jadoon spray paints a model of Optimus Prime, a film character from Transformers, made from scrap metal at his studio

Pakistani sculptor turns scrap into colossal metal artworks

Racks of GPUs (graphics processing units) with a closed-loop liquid cooling system inside an operational Microsoft data centre

Where AI lives: Southeast Asia's data centre boom

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un addresses a rare congress of the nation's ruling Workers' Party.

Overtures ignored

Kim Jong Un spurns olive branch from 'hostile' South Korea

The back-up supply in Biletsky's block meant the lift -- unlike in many places -- was still shuttling up and down

Kyiv residents pool together for solar panels and batteries amid Russian strikes

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio gives a thumbs up as he attends a Caribbean Community (CARICOM) plenary session in Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Kitts and Nevis

US eases Cuba oil embargo but demands 'dramatic' change

DRC's forests are prized by buyers of forest concessions -- some for logging, others for contested carbon-offset programmes

Deadly violence

DR Congo sanctuary resists bloody forest sell-off

North Korea have won back-to-back titles at the Women's U-17 World Cup

'Sport diplomacy'

North Korea looking to replicate youth success at Women's Asian Cup

Lawyers expect that US trading partners have not pushed back on new tariffs as they want to maintain sector-specific duty exemptions that they secured

Amid Supreme Court setbacks

Deal or no deal: What's the state of Trump's tariffs?

Under President Donald Trump, the United States has struck opaque deals with countries around the world to take in deportees

'Congratulations'

African migrants won legal protections - then Trump deported them

Summers (2-L), who ran the US Treasury under President Bill Clinton (L), was revealed in the Epstein files released by the US Department of Justice to have had extensive exchanges with the now deceased financier

Close communication

Ex-US Treasury chief Summers quits Harvard over Epstein ties

USA's Kendall Coyne (L) and Hilary Knight (R) celebrate after winning Olympic women's ice hockey gold in Milan

Achievements overshadowed

US women's ice hockey captain responds to 'distasteful' Trump remark

A banner against racism was hung at the Santiago Bernabeu ahead of the second leg of the Champions League clash against Benfica

After first-leg incident

Real Madrid victory for 'everyone against racism': Tchouameni

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet conceded online scam centres had indirectly boosted some business activities and provided jobs in the country, but denied Cambodia had profited from the crime rings

Scam centres 'destroying' Cambodia's economy, PM tells AFP

Rescue teams remove debris in search of victims of a landslide caused by heavy rains in the Barrio Parque Jardim Burnier neighbourhood in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais State, Brazil

Families despair

Hope fades in search for missing after Brazil rains kill 46

IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva notes the rise in US public debt remains a concern

Amid wide-ranging tariffs

IMF urges US to work with partners to ease trade restrictions

The ACT Brumbies have made a winning start to the Super Rugby season

Brumbies not getting carried away by emphatic Super Rugby start

Wallabies skipper Harry Wilson (L) will miss the start of the Super Rugby season after minor knee surgery

Wallabies skipper Wilson back from injury in clash of heavyweight coaches

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