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FIFA President Gianni Infantino has developed close personal ties with President Trump

'Platform for abusive policies '

Human Rights Watch warns of 'exclusion and fear' at World Cup

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in Ottawa earlier this month

Public and private investment

Carney launches $18 billion Canada sovereign wealth fund

From 2027 onwards

Cash payments of €10,000 or more to be banned across EU

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Saint Petersburg

Oil prices, rates and talks

War in the Middle East: latest developments

Bangladesh's Tawhid Hridoy and Shamim Hossain led a record run chase at home to beat New Zealand by six wickets in the first T20 international cricket match in Chittagong

T20 international

Hridoy, Shamim pull off record home chase for Bangladesh against NZ

Schengen Agreement violation

Koblenz court rules German border checks with Luxembourg illegal

Appenzell Innerrhoden citizens vote by raising their right hand during the Landsgemeinde open-air assembly

Tradition dating back to 15th century

Swiss canton votes with centuries-old show of hands

A health ministry worker showing vaccine doses for an immunisation campaign in Guatemala

World Health Organisation

Final talks begin on missing piece for pandemic treaty

Egyptian-born businessman Mohamed Al Fayed, who died in 2023 aged 94, has been accused by more than 150 women

Frustrated by British Police

US woman speaks of ordeal in France Al-Fayed trafficking probe

The French teenager is on a student pass and is studying in Singapore, according to court records

Mischief and public nuisance

French teen faces jail in Singapore for licking vending machine straw

An Afghan parkour athlete performs a stunt on the back of a vehicle in the sandy mountainside at Reg-e-Rawan

Off limits to women and girls

Steep mountainside offers respite for daring Afghans

Chronic kidney disease is common among older cats, affecting up to 40 percent of felines aged more than 10, and 80 percent of those over 15

Common affliction

Japan startup seeks approval of cat kidney disease treatment

Crowds are expected from around the world to see Shakira perform a free concert at Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach on May 2

On Copacabana beach

Technician dies installing stage for Shakira concert in Rio

Three Luxembourgers involved

Global Sumud Flotilla heads towards Gaza with aid supplies

Muscovites are trying to reconnect with their folk roots amid the war in Ukraine

Facing deepening isolation

Cut off from the West, Muscovites rediscover Russian 'roots'

Morning Roundup

Luxembourg activists join Gaza aid flotilla, sports museum inquiry, and historic marathon world record

Colombia is hosting the first global conference on the transition away from fossil fuels in the coastal city of Santa Marta.

Attended by 60 nations

Nations backing fossil fuel exit 'a new power': conference host Colombia

US President Donald Trump said the Strait of Hormuxz would be fully open by Friday

International news ticker

Trump says Strait of Hormuz will be 'completely open' Friday

This photo obtained by AFP from the Iranian news agency Tasnim shows an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) boat allegedly taking part in an operation to seize ships attempting to cross the Strait of Hormuz, on April 21, 2026

Iran foreign minister arrives in Russia as US talks remain stalled

A strengthening euro could push down inflation in the eurozone

Amid global energy shock

ECB set to hold rates steady with eye on Iran crisis

Bayern Munich forward Harry Kane has played fewer Bundesliga minutes as his club is chasing Champions League glory.

Golden ball front-runner

Team-first Kane propelling Bayern to glory as PSG showdown looms

World champion Tadej Pogacar (L) expects teenage French sensation Paul Seixas (R) to one day 'destroy' all the competition

Pogacar vows to keep going until Seixas 'destroys' him

Engineer-turned-mortician Ali Gebbai estimates he and his team of volunteers have buried around 7,000 people in Khartoum in three years of war

Dealing with the dead in the ruins of Sudan's war

In the wild, orangutans are found only on Sumatra and the nearby island of Borneo, which is shared between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei

Conservation group initiative

Orangutan uses Indonesia canopy bridge in 'world first': NGO

Two women sit at a cafe table with drinks in Tehran

Strict dress rules

As some hijabs come off in Iran, restrictions still in place

Russian Defence Minister Andrey Belousov and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a meeting in Pyongyang

Vowing to aid Moscow

North Korea's Kim reaffirms support for Russia's 'sacred' Ukraine war

People watch a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test at a Seoul train station after Pyongyang's latest test launch

Global security landscape

North Korea strengthens nuclear push as US flails in Middle East

Trump was attending the annual press gala for the time as president, having skipped it throughout his first term and last year

Suspect in shooting at Trump press dinner to appear in court

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