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Australian police are searching for heavily-armed gunman Dezi Freeman who is on the run after allegedly killing two officers

Police search Australian bush for gunman after two officers killed

France's Emmanuel Macron, Poland's Donald Tusk and Germany's Friedrich Merz are to join Moldova's independence day celebrations

Ahead of parliamentary elections

French, German, Polish leaders to visit Moldova in show of force in face of Russia

The statue of the powerful 16th-century warlord and samurai outside a shopping arcade in Japan has been beheaded

Ongoing vandalism

Feudal warlord statue beheaded in Japan

Morning Roundup

Bettel visits Odessa, Israeli protestors demand hostage deal, and Venezuela deploys warships

This is the first time France has returned human remains under the law passed in 2023

Colonial trophy

France returns skull of beheaded king to Madagascar

Tens of thousands have taken to Israel's streets in recent weeks calling for an end to the war in Gaza and the return of hostages

Renewed negotiations

Israeli protesters demand hostage deal as cabinet meets

Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, who is under house arrest while awaiting the verdict in his coup-plotting trial, has been placed under round-the-clock watch lest he try flee the country

Brazil's Bolsonaro placed under 24-hour watch ahead of coup trial verdict

US President Donald Trump is deploying three warships off the coast of Venezuela -- like those seen here in the Red Sea in 2022 -- as part of efforts to curb drug trafficking

Tensions intensifying

Venezuela deploys warships, drones as US destroyers draw near

'We stand with Ukraine'

FM Bettel visits strategic port city Odessa with Belgian and Dutch counterparts

Supporters of Sri Lanka's jailed former president Ranil Wickremesinghe protested before his bail hearing

Four days after arrest

Sri Lanka's jailed ex-president granted bail

The Iranian national flag flies over the country's embassy building in Canberra on Tuesday

Two cases of arson

Australia expels Iran ambassador over antisemitic attacks

Carl Skau, World Food Programme COO, told AFP it was crucial that aid reach the most vulnerable 'if we want to avoid a full-scale catastrophe'

2.1 million people affected

Aid to famine-struck Gaza still 'drop in the ocean': WFP

New details revealed

Saarland police officer shot six times in deadly petrol station robbery

China has a near-monopoly on mining in the DRC

Risky El Dorado

US bids to trump China in DR Congo mining rush

Morning Roundup

Grand Ducal portraits unveiled, journalists killed in Gaza, and Trump removes bank governor

A voter leaves after casting her ballot in Mumbai

Supposed impartial guardian

India's Election Commission under fire from opposition

SpaceX's Starship rocket is key to founder Elon Musk's dreams of colonizing Mars and NASA's plans to return astronauts to the Moon

SpaceX scrubs latest Starship launch due to bad weather

US President Donald Trump speaks with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in the Oval Office

Extraordinary social media attack

Trump says he wants to meet North Korea's Kim again

Undated images of drug trafficking leader Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada, provided by Mexican prosecutors in August 2003

Cofounder of Sinaloa drug cartel

Mexican drug lord faces life in prison after pleading guilty in US court

Kilmar Abrego Garcia (C) arrives at the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore, Maryland, where he was arrested

Facing deportation once more

US judge temporarily blocks deportation of Salvadoran man in immigration row

In a letter to French President Emmanuel Macron Charles Kushner expressed his 'deep concern over the dramatic rise of antisemitism in France'

'Unacceptable' allegations

US backs ambassador to France in antisemitism row

AFP footage from the immediate aftermath of the attack showed smoke filling the air and debris from the blast on the floor outside the hospital

Five journalists among 20 killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza hospital

Bayrou does not have a majority in parliament's lower house, the National Assembly

Seeking parliamentary backing

French PM's job on line with call for confidence vote

Poland's President Karol Nawrocki has vetoed legislation that would extend rights being given to Ukrainians in Poland

Only to those 'committed to working in Poland'

Polish president blocks law extending Ukrainian refugees' rights

Post-Brexit agreement

Gibraltar-Spain border crossing to be removed in 2026

French researcher Laurent Vinatier is already serving a three-year prison sentence

Facing decades in prison

Russia holds secretive espionage hearing against French researcher

Ahead of key elections

Bettel leads Benelux delegation to support Moldova's EU aspirations

The 40-year-old was detained in Paris in 2024

Russian-born enrepreneur

Telegram's Durov blasts French probe one year after arrest

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