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Demonstrators in Tel Aviv call for action to secure the release of hostages held in Gaza, after Palestinian groups released videos of two captives

'Appalled by footage'

Netanyahu asks Red Cross for help after 'profound shock' of Gaza hostage videos

A different kind of summer

'Holidays with the army’: Poland’s strategy to build an army of reservists

Defying EU trends

Luxembourg among few European nations with more births than deaths in 2024

In all official correspondence

German culture minister bans gender-inclusive language

During unscheduled meeting

US Senate confirms former Fox News host as district attorney

The pope took to the stage carrying a large wood cross

Dramatic entrance

Young Catholics give rock star welcome to Pope Leo at vigil

US envoy Steve Witkoff arrives to meet families of Israelis held hostage by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip

Almost two years of war

US envoy meets Israeli hostage families in Tel Aviv

Noelia Nunez (R) resigned as an MP after it emerged she claimed to have degrees she never obtained. She is seen here attending a bullfight alongside the head of her Popular Party, Alberto Nunez Feijoo (C), and a former bullfighter, Pedro Gutierrez Moya (L) on May 22

Calls for more transparency

Wave of fake credentials sparks political fallout in Spain

Medvedev has become one of Russia's most outspoken anti-Western hawks

Moderate turned hardliner

Dmitry Medvedev: Russia's hawkish ex-president

Parents abandon their son at airport to avoid missing flight

President Donald Trump has upped his war of words with Russian official Dmitry Medvedev by announcing deployment of two US nuclear submarines

Tensions escalate

Trump deploys nuclear submarines in row with Russia

The government of leftist President Gustavo Petro has seen more than 50 ministers pass through the cabinet since he took office three years ago

Cabinet reshuffle

Ex-porn actor to be Colombian equality minister

Former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe received the maximum possible sentence after being found guilty of witness tampering

Witness tampering

Colombian ex-president Uribe sentenced to 12 years house arrest

Ghislaine Maxwell, 63, is the only former associate of Jeffrey Epstein convicted in connection with his activities

Epstein accomplice Maxwell moved to minimum security Texas prison

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele has won the right to seek unlimited reelection

Victims allege torture

Nayib Bukele, El Salvador's unapologetic 'dictator'

Palestinians carry bags of flour from aid trucks in the northern Gaza Strip

Accusations of 'regular bloodbaths'

US promises Gaza food plan after envoy visit

Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki spewed a column of molten ash topped with volcanic lighnting into the Flores' night sky

Dozens of flight cancellations

Indonesia volcano belches six-mile ash tower

If eventually charged and convicted for the alleged offence, he could spend up to a year in prison

Official faces prison

Budapest mayor questioned as a suspect over Pride march

Contraceptives reportedly worth $9.7 million have been stored in a Belgian warehouse while waiting to be destroyed

Soon incinerated?

Outrage grows in France over US plan to destroy contraceptives

South Korea's former president Yoon Suk Yeol resisted prosecutors' attempts to interrogate him by lying down on the floor in his underwear

Former president stayed in cell

South Korea's Yoon resists questioning by lying in underwear

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele will be allowed to run for election again, indefinitely

Positioned secured

El Salvador abolishes presidential term limits, allowing another Bukele run

Wrong-way driver

Intoxicated motorist triggers major police operation on German motorway near Wittlich

New scanners to ease liquid restrictions in hand luggage

Escalating demands

Zelensky warns Russian threat will persist without regime change

Morning Roundup

Trump sets new tariffs, origin of Post cyberattack still unknown and national football league games live on RTL

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele will be allowed to run for election again, indefinitely

El Salvador parliament adopts reform to allow Bukele to run indefinitely

U.S. President Donald Trump hosts foreign dignitaries in a freshly gold-splashed Oval Office at the White House

Lavish spending

Trump to build huge $200mn ballroom at White House

Palestinians facing deadly shortages in Gaza gather to recover food from aid convoys

To discuss ending crisis in Gaza

Trump envoy to inspect Gaza aid as pressure mounts on Israel

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