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Thailand's jailed former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra will be released early from prison next month, the corrections department said

Early release confirmed

Thai ex-PM Thaksin to be released from prison next month

De Michael Adams op der Pressekonferenz vu CARE Lëtzebuerg

400,000 children displaced

Aid group CARE warns of worsening humanitarian crisis in Lebanon

Meta was this year found in breach of EU competition rules

Digital Services Act

EU finds Meta failing to keep under-13s off Facebook, Instagram

A French teen will be allowed to temporarily leave Singapore as he faces charges over a straw licking stunt

French teen in straw licking case allowed to leave Singapore

Supporters of South Korea's impeached former president Yoon Suk Yeol gather in front of the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul on February 19, 2026

South Korean court hikes ex-president's sentence for obstructing justice

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Russia was imposing a 'digital Iron Curtain' on its people

Kremlin internet restrictions

EU chief says Kremlin imposing 'digital Iron Curtain' on Russians

Shammi Silva (L) at a press conference in 2023

Government intervention

Sri Lanka government 'temporarily' takes over cricket board

Family members of opiod overdose victims protest outside the US District Court for the District of New Jersey

Due to role in opioid crisis

US judge orders Purdue Pharma to pay billions ahead of bankruptcy

Sam Neill won international fame after starring as Dr Alan Grant in the 1993 blockbuster 'Jurassic Park' and has more recently appeared in 'Peaky Blinders'

'Jurassic Park' star Sam Neill says cancer-free after gene therapy

Some 40 victims of the US opioid crisis and their families attended the hearing on OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma

'I hope you feel guilty'

US opioid crisis victims testify at emotional Purdue Pharma hearing

Australian Oliver Foran is seeking to break the record for a "sea to summit" ascent of Mount Everest

'I wanted to do it in a special way'

Australian climber on record sea-to-summit Everest bid

Indian opposition leader slammed a proposed $9 billion Nicobar megaport plan as 'destruction'

Indian opposition slams Nicobar megaport plan as 'destruction'

A woman walks past a giant billboard in Tehran that reads 'the Strait of Hormuz remains closed.'

Pentagon chief to testify on Iran war, peace efforts stall

Inflatable punching bags with pictures of Elon Musk and Sam Altman are seen outside the courthouse

Anxiety, resentment around AI spur violence against tech's figureheads

Doctor Saniya Jafri conducts an online consultation, alongside her daughter

Going online helps Pakistan's women doctors back to work

Fires fuelled by climate change have become a 'dangerous new normal', according to researchers

Environmental efforts

Tropical forest loss eases after record year: researchers

Adoption of alternatives to diesel trucks in the world's second-largest economy has noticeably accelerated in recent years

'All about speed'

Cheaper, cleaner electric trucks overhaul China's logistics

The Andon Cafe in Stockholm is entirely run by "Mona", an AI chatbot

Powered by Google Gemini

An experimental cafe run by AI opens in Stockholm

Japan forced up to 200,000 women from Korea, China and southeast Asia into sexual slavery from 1932 until 1945 and the issue remains a sore point in Tokyo's relations with its neighbours

'This was a difficult decision'

New Zealand officials reject statue remembering Japan's sex slaves

Britain's King Charles III shared a toast with US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump as Queen Camilla looks on during a State Dinner in the East Room of the White House

King Charles, Trump toast ties despite Iran tensions

Dry-cleaning professional Masakazu Shimura brushes a soft toy at the facility of Cleaning Yonmarusan in Fuefuki city of Yamanashi Prefecture on April 27, 2026

Booming business

Japan cleaner goes viral with spa-like service for plushies

Gulf Cooperation Council leaders met in-person in for the first time since the war in Iran began

US mulls Iran proposal

War in the Middle East: latest developments

Mostafa Ahmed Mostafa is the heir to generations of groundskeepers in his family who have guarded Sudan's pyramids of Meroe

'It's our history, it's who we are'

The loyal, lonely keepers of Sudan's pyramids

Switzerland's glaciers, which are disproportionately impacted by climate change, have shed a quarter of their mass in the past decade alone, a study warns

Worrying findings

Europe climate report signals rising extremes

UN agencies and aid groups said sexual violence in Sudan is causing a massive mental health crisis

'A lot of suicide is happening'

Sexual violence in Sudan triggers mental health crisis: UN

Colombia is hosting the first global conference on the transition away from fossil fuels.

Reflects growing impatience

Exiting fossil fuels key to energy security: nations at Colombia talks

US President Donald Trump (L) has often clashed with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell (R), insulting him and criticizing his monetary policy decisions

Powell's final meeting

Jerome Powell: Fed chair who stood up to Trump set to finish tenure on top

There are few modern precedents anywhere in the world, let alone in a democracy, of sitting leaders' pictures appearing in passports

Democratic criticism

Trump to put his picture in US passports

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