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US law enforcement said they detained the sole shooter who charged a glitzy media gala attended by President Donald Trump

Expressing shock

World leaders react to Washington gala shooting

Under threat again

Chernobyl, 40 years since disaster: five things to know

US President Donald Trump speaks during a press briefing in the Brady Briefing Room

'I've studied assassinations': Trump muses on reasons for latest shooting

Trump evacuated as shooter opens fire at Washington gala

India has ramped up purchases of Russian oil and revived alternate supplies from Africa, Iran and Venezuela to blunt a sharp crude shortfall from the Middle East.

Ramping up purchases

India plugs oil gap as Middle East supplies sink

Buddhist monks prepare to cast their ballots at a polling station in Dharamsala in India durin the first round of voting on February 1, 2026

Outside Chinese control

Exiled Tibetans to elect government in vote condemned by China

A woman cycles past two vending machines next to a clock shop in Tokyo's Bunkyo district on April 14, 2026

Rethinking the business

Japan inflation cools demand for vending machine drinks

Amnesty International says 300 human rights defenders were targeted with intimidation and violence in Indonesia in 2025

Vicious attacks

Acid attacks highlight growing danger for Indonesian activists

The refinery on the outskirts of the port city of Le Havre is France's largest and is key to supplying the capital

Keeping planes flying

TotalEnergies refinery working full tilt to keep France fuelled

Austrian-Hungarian singer Benjamin Gedeon, aka Cosmo, will represent Austria at the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest

Threatening geopolitics

Eurovision, venerable institution where art meets politics

The war between Sudan's army and the RSF has killed tens of thousands of people

'Abandoned' by the world

The rescuers of Khartoum: How to keep a city alive in war

Video posted online showed armed jihadists moving in Kati, hometown of Mali's military ruler General Assimi Goita

Security crisis

Jihadists, Tuareg rebels, claim attacks across Mali

People stand next to vehicles destroyed in a deadly bomb attack on a highway in Cauca department in southwestern Colombia

Conflict-ridden region

Bomb attack on Colombia highway kills 14 ahead of election

Signal has long been a go-to messaging service for users especially concerned about communications secrecy

Encrypted messaging app

What is Signal and is it secure?

Washington's Reflecting Pool is getting a new, swimming pool-style surface

Lincoln Memorial

Trump orders new, blue surface for Washington's Reflecting Pool

Pat Cummins was back in action for the first time since playing for Australia in the third Ashes Test against England last December

Cummins back as Hyderabad overcome Sooryavanshi's IPL century

The deadly strike on the building in Dnipro was one of several overnight across Ukraine

In Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia

Russia pounds Ukraine's Dnipro for 20 hours straight, killing eight

Electoral workers begin the count after voting closed in Deir el-Balah in Gaza

Municipal councils

Palestinians vote in first elections since Gaza war

Poor chances of survival

New rescue attempt planned for humpback whale 'Timmy' in Germany

North Korea's developing nuclear arsenal could be a deal-breaker

'It is obvious that trust is eroding'

Crunch nuclear proliferation meeting at UN amid raging global wars

Nikolay Solovyov points to photograph depicting him in the control room in the nineties

'It felt like an earthquake'

From radiation to invasion: a Chernobyl worker's two wars

The cyberattacks had allegedly targeted MPs from several parties

Investigation launched

Germany blames Russia for Signal phishing attacks on MPs

Fighting was also heard in the northern Malian city of Gao, seen here in a file picture

Junta's grip under threat

Gunfire rocks Mali districts, including junta stronghold: witnesses

From 1 May onwards

Germany cuts fuel tax by 17 cents per litre

The Australian Football League, or Aussie Rules, is the country's most popular spectator sport

'We will not accept, excuse or normalise'

Aussie Rules fires appeals chair over ruling on anti-gay slur

Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally is a former nurse and married with two children

63-year-old former nurse

First female Archbishop of Canterbury to meet Pope Leo

More than 1,300 firefighters supported by a dozen helicopters are being deployed to battle the forest fires near Otsuchi

3,200 people urged to evacuate

Hundreds of firefighters battle Japan forest blazes

By the time the NHL playoffs started, the ornate Cathedral of St John the Evangelist in Quebec was ready to host

'Hockey is religion': Montreal fans pack church for playoff push

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