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<p>Israeli hostages Karina Ariev, Naama Levy, Liri Albag and Daniela Gilboa</p>
Middle East

Hamas names next four Gaza hostages to be released back to Israel

Not on the list is Arbel Yehoud – the last female civilian hostage being held in Gaza – who Israeli officials had briefed they expected to be released this weekend

<p>A fire burns following reports of an air attack in Bryansk in Russia </p>
Europe

Ukraine launches massive drone attack across Russia

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India

Hindu god paintings by ‘Picasso of India’ seized for being ‘offensive’

<p>Bank of Japan governor Kazuo Ueda speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on 24 January 2025</p>
Japan

Bank of Japan hikes interest rates to highest level in 17 years

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<p>Chinese actor Wang Xing, right, talks with Thai police officers in Mae Sot district, in Thai-Myanmar border</p>
China

China detains suspect involved in kidnapping of Chinese actor

<p>Robot sprints to finish line at 2024 Beijing E-Town Half Marathon</p>
Tech

China to pit humans and humanoid robots in first-of-its kind foot race

<p>File: Paramilitary soldiers stand guard along roadside to ensure security in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, 27 Nov 2024</p>
South Asia

At least 6 killed in gas tanker explosion in Pakistan’s Multan

<p>Huang Ping now regrets his decision not to move</p>
China

Motorway built around grandfather’s house after stubborn refusal

<p>People in face masks in Bangkok </p>
Southeast Asia

Asian capital makes public transport completely free to combat smog

<p>Supporters of Yoon Suk Yeol at the prison in Uiwang</p>
East Asia

South Korean prosecutors indict president Yoon for insurrection

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East Asia

Cash reward as public asked to help mass cull of iguanas in Taiwan

<p>Supporters of South Korea’s impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol attend a rally in Seoul</p>
East Asia

Prosecutors file again to extend Yoon’s detention after court denial

<p>Volodymyr Zelensky has made a demand for Kyiv to be included in talks to end Russia’s war in Ukraine that he believes could happen under Donald Trump’s presidency</p>
LiveEurope

Ukraine war: Putin’s forces claim capture of strategic town

LiveEurope

Ukraine war: Putin’s forces claim capture of strategic town

<p>Volodymyr Zelensky has made a demand for Kyiv to be included in talks to end Russia’s war in Ukraine that he believes could happen under Donald Trump’s presidency</p>
<p>The north of spain and Western France have had heavy rain and wind during Storm Herminia (file photo)</p>
Europe

Urgent search for Briton missing at sea after empty life raft found

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Europe

Watch live: Holocaust survivors return to Auschwitz for memorial

<p>Thieves use explosives to blow up museum door and steal historical gold artefacts in Netherlands.</p>
News

Thieves use explosives to blow up museum door and steal gold artefacts

<p>Volodymyr Zelensky has stated his belief that a deal to end Russia’s war in Ukraine could be made under Donald Trump’s presidency but demanded Kyiv be included in any peace talks</p>
Europe

Zelensky believes Trump could end war but only if Ukraine is in talks

<p>Volodymyr Zelensky has stated his belief that a deal to end Russia’s war in Ukraine could be made under Donald Trump’s presidency but demanded Kyiv be included in any peace talks</p>
Europe

Zelensky believes Trump could end war but only if Ukraine is in talks

<p>Ukrainian people’s deputy David Arakhamia</p>
Europe

Ukraine’s plan to convince Trump to support war against Putin

<p>Tech billionaire Elon Musk speaks live via a video transmission during the election campaign launch rally of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) political party on Saturday </p>
Europe

Elon Musk makes surprise appearance for Germany’s AfD election event

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Middle East

<p>President Donald Trump (pictured with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2020) called for Jordan, Egypt and other Arab nations to increase the number of Palestinian refugees they are accepting after the Hamas-Israel war. Trump said he wants enough take so ‘we can just clean out’ Gaza </p>
US politics

Trump says he wants to ‘clean out’ Gaza and move Palestinians

News

Families of released Israeli hostages thank Donald Trump

<p>Palestinians gather near a roadblock on the al Rashid Street as they wait to return to their destroyed homes in northern Gaza on 26 January 2025</p>
Middle East

Palestinians start returning home to destroyed northern Gaza

<p>Thousands of Palestinians have been gathering as they wait to be allowed home to northern Gaza </p>
Middle East

Deal made to release Israeli hostage and allow Palestinians home

<p>Relatives, friends and supporters of the hostages gather in Hostage Square on Saturday </p>
Middle East

Gaza hostage families say ceasefire only chance to get relatives home

<p>IDF soldiers walk ahead of Palestinians displaced by an Israeli military operation and evacuating from the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank on Thursday 23 January 2025 </p>
Middle East

Gaza has a ceasefire – but war could be starting in the West Bank

<p>Thousands of Palestinians have been gathering as they wait to be allowed home to northern Gaza </p>
Middle East

Deal made to release Israeli hostage and allow Palestinians home

<p>Relatives, friends and supporters of the hostages gather in Hostage Square on Saturday </p>
Middle East

Gaza hostage families say ceasefire only chance to get relatives home

<p>IDF soldiers walk ahead of Palestinians displaced by an Israeli military operation and evacuating from the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank on Thursday 23 January 2025 </p>
Middle East

Gaza has a ceasefire – but war could be starting in the West Bank

<p>Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been blocked from returning to Gaza after Israel accused Hamas of breaching the fragile week-old ceasefire</p>
Middle East

Israel claims Hamas breaches truce as Palestinians blocked from Gaza

Middle East

Israel claims Hamas breaches truce as Palestinians blocked from Gaza

<p>Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been blocked from returning to Gaza after Israel accused Hamas of breaching the fragile week-old ceasefire</p>
<p>Hamas has handed over four female Israeli soldiers held in Gaza in the second release of a fragile ceasefire</p>
Middle East

Four female Israeli soldier hostages released by Hamas under ceasefire

<p>Protesters calling for the return of hostages held in the Gaza Strip react after a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal was reached</p>
Middle East

Who are remaining Israeli hostages and when might they be freed?

<p>Tens of thousands have been killed inside Gaza following Israel’s siege of the strip</p>
Middle East

How a year of war in Gaza has unfolded as hostages released

<p>Israeli military activity in the southern Lebanese village of Kfarkila on Friday</p>
Middle East

Israel will not withdraw troops from Lebanon by ceasefire deadline

<p>Israeli military activity in the southern Lebanese village of Kfarkila on Friday</p>
Middle East

Israel will not withdraw troops from Lebanon by ceasefire deadline

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News

IDF claims to find vehicle loaded with explosives under Lebanon mosque

Middle East

The desperate search for loved ones buried under the rubble in Gaza

US

<p>Trump expected to make a decision on Mandelson this week </p>
UK Politics

Trump expected to make decision on Mandelson as ambassador this week

<p>U.S. President Donald Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro</p>
LiveUS politics

Trump tariff threat put on hold after Colombia agrees to take migrants

<p>Staff at Number 10 Downing Street say Donald Trump’s phone calls with British leaders were ‘hilarious’ </p>
US politics

Trump calls with UK leaders reportedly left staff crying from laughter

News

Immigration officers raid Colorado nightclub in Trump deportation plan

<p>Elon Musk’s estranged daughter Vivian Wilson responded to the controversy</p>
US politics

Elon Musk’s daughter gives fiery response to ‘Nazi salute’ accusations

<p>President Donald Trump has targeted Colombia after the country refused flights of people being deported from the U.S. </p>
US politics

Trump tariffs on hold as Colombia agrees to take deported migrants

LiveAmericas

LA fires live updates: New threats target residents after rain

<p>A new four-part Netflix docuseries <em>American Manhunt: O.J. Simpson</em> reexamines one of the biggest true crime stories in history</p>
US Crime News

American Manhunt: OJ Simpson — New doc spotlights bombshell case

<p>Mr Trump has given TikTok more time to find a buyer for its US business (AP)</p>
US politics

Does TikTok have a US buyer? Trump advises on new bid

US politics

Does TikTok have a US buyer? Trump advises on new bid

<p>Mr Trump has given TikTok more time to find a buyer for its US business (AP)</p>
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Americas

US, Colombia clash over deportations and raise tariffs in show of Trump's pledge to limit migration

<p>Donald Trump signed a deluge of executive orders in his first week back in office, including some that directly impact federal workers. Now, some federal workers are contemplating quitting </p>
US politics

Inside federal agencies where workers fear for jobs under Trump 2.0

<p>Secessionists in the Golden State have cleared a major hurdle in their quest to become an independent nation</p>
US politics

California secessionists get go-ahead for next steps toward ‘Calexit’

<p>A frozen freighter is on the move after getting stuck for days in ice on Lake Erie </p>
Americas

Frozen freighter on the move after getting stuck in Lake Erie ice

<p>A frozen freighter is on the move after getting stuck for days in ice on Lake Erie </p>
Americas

Frozen freighter on the move after getting stuck in Lake Erie ice

<p>Paul Adolphus poses with his sister Chelsea Adolphus, who was pronounced dead after being found on top of the roof of a Waukegan hospital days after she was admitted</p>
US Crime News

Patient found dead on the roof of a Chicago hospital in freezing cold

<p>A homeless man was killed when a city truck ran over his tent </p>
Americas

Atlanta looks to pause homeless camp removals after man was killed

Europe

<p>Russian president Vladimir Putin </p>
Europe

Russian spy ships are coming into our waters and we must respond

Premium
Germany Stabbing
Europe

German officials, residents attend commemoration of 2 people killed in knife attack

<p>Alicia Ortstad first started feeling pain in her left knee in summer 2023</p>
Europe

Student dismissed by doctors later found to have rare bone cancer

<p>Vladimir Putin has emphasised that he is open for talks with Donald Trump </p>
Europe

Putin ‘open for talks’ with Trump on Ukraine war and calls for meeting

<p>Just two North Koreans soldiers have been captured alive by the Ukrainians</p>
Europe

The extremes North Korean soldiers will go to avoid capture in Ukraine

Vatican Peru
Europe

Opus Dei cardinal acknowledges Vatican sanctioned him after abuse allegation but denies wrongdoing

<p>Greenland Explainer</p>
US politics

Trump tells Denmark he wants Greenland in ‘fiery’ call

Nigeria Militants
Europe

Nigerian soldiers killed 79 militants and suspected kidnappers in the past week, army says

Teddy Swims Portrait Session
Europe

Teddy Swims is elated about 2 babies: his upcoming child and 'Part 2' album

Europe

Teddy Swims is elated about 2 babies: his upcoming child and 'Part 2' album

Teddy Swims Portrait Session
France Spurs Pacers Basketball
Europe

The ties between soccer and the NBA are real, and they're still growing

<p>Trump says Ukraine should have surrendered to Russia and blames Zelensky for war</p>
US politics

Trump says Ukraine should have surrendered and blames Zelensky for war

<p>The deepfake AI image of the Pope in a puffer jacket shared on social media</p>
Europe

Pope decries 'crisis of truth' in AI after his own deepfake image

<p>The European Court of Human Rights ruled the French courts had violated the woman's right to respect for private and family life</p>
Europe

Divorcee who stopped having sex with husband wins appeal

<p>The European Court of Human Rights ruled the French courts had violated the woman's right to respect for private and family life</p>
Europe

Divorcee who stopped having sex with husband wins appeal

<p>Friends and relatives attend the funeral of Turkish journalist Nedim Turkmen and his family in Istanbul, Turkey, 22 January 2025. Turkish journalist Nedim Turkmen, his wife, and their two children died in a fire that broke out in a hotel at Kartalkaya ski resort, northwestern Turkey</p>
Europe

Turkey ski resort fire: Waitress who jumped from window is 78th victim

<p>Spain is a member of Nato, along with the US, and of the European Union</p>
Europe

Trump seems to confuse Spain with South Africa: ‘You’ll figure it out’

Africa

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Africa

Congo severs ties with Rwanda as rebels close in on Goma

Africa

Congo severs ties with Rwanda as rebels close in on Goma

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<p>FILE PHOTO: Plumes of smoke rise during clashes between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the army in Khartoum, Sudan</p>
Africa

Drone attack on hospital in Sudan’s Darfur kills at least 70

<p>David Lammy with UN officials at the Adre crossing between Sudan and Chad</p>
Africa

Lammy warns against hierarchy of suffering as Sudan crisis forgotten

<p>Employees walk after work, outside the new building of Egypt’s Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in the New Administrative Capital (NAC), east of Cairo, Egypt</p>
Africa

Fears new law will force doctors to leave Egypt

<p>Reconstruction of Tameryraptor markgrafi </p>
Science

Giant dinosaur discovered in Egypt after fossils destroyed in WW2

<p>Reconstruction of Tameryraptor markgrafi </p>
Science

Giant dinosaur discovered in Egypt after fossils destroyed in WW2

<p>File: World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus addresses a press conference on the Marburg virus outbreak at the Kigali Convention Center in Kigali, Rwanda</p>
Africa

Tanzania confirms outbreak of highly infectious Ebola-like virus

<p>An abandoned gold mine, where miners were rescued from below ground, in Stilfontein, South Africa</p>
Africa

Hunt for gang leader ‘Tiger’ who escaped South African death mine

<p>South Africa Miners Horrors</p>
Africa

Miner describes horrors as people starved to death underground

<p>Forensic workers at the site of the abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, on Wednesday</p>
Africa

What did 87 people die trapped in South Africa goldmine?

<p>File. A medical worker carries a meal to an isolation tent housing a man being quarantined after coming into contact in Uganda with a carrier of the Marburg virus</p>
Africa

Bleeding eye disease kills eight after outbreak in new country

<p>Families of miners and activist protest as South Africa's Police minister Senzo Mchunu visit the gold mine</p>
Africa

78 dead in illegal South Africa gold mine, with hundreds still trapped

<p> The government of the Republic of South Africa launch a rescue operation to extract the illegal workers at the abandoned Stilfontein mine in North West, South Africa</p>
Africa

Hundreds of miners were stuck underground. Police blocked their supply

<p>A miner is assisted by rescue workers after being pulled from below ground</p>
Africa

Rescuers pull survivors from South Africa mine as hundreds trapped

<p> Police officers and private security personnel stand by the opening of a reformed gold mineshaft</p>
Africa

Hundreds dead gold mine as urgent rescue mission launched

<p>An aerial view of a mine shaft where illegal miners were trapped</p>
Africa

At least 100 die after becoming trapped deep underground

Asia

<p>File. Saif Ali Khan with wife Kareena Kapoor Khan in 2022</p>
India

Father of Bollywood stabbing suspect plans to fight ‘false arrest’

<p>A poster of Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada is seen along a road in Kabul </p>
South Asia

Taliban leaders could face ICC arrest warrant for persecuting women

<p>Police officers patrol near the Jiangsu Suzhou Intermediate People’s Court in Suzhou, west of Shanghai, China</p>
China

Chinese man sentenced to death for attack near Japanese school

<p>File. Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un talk before a meeting in the Demilitarized Zone, Korea, on 30 June 2019</p>
East Asia

Trump says he will try to reengage ‘smart guy’ Kim Jong Un

<p>A Taliban fighter stands guard as women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group in Kabul, Afghanistan</p>
South Asia

International Criminal Court prosecutor wants Taliban arrest warrants

<p>Nina Chetniphat Chuadkhunthod, a transgender woman, and her husband have been together for 22 years, and were finally allowed to get married legally in Thailand on Thursday</p>
Southeast Asia

Hundreds marry as Thailand legalises same-sex marriage

<p>File. Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un talk before a meeting in the Demilitarized Zone, Korea, on 30 June 2019</p>
East Asia

Trump says he will try to reengage ‘smart guy’ Kim Jong Un

<p>A Taliban fighter stands guard as women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group in Kabul, Afghanistan</p>
South Asia

International Criminal Court prosecutor wants Taliban arrest warrants

<p>Nina Chetniphat Chuadkhunthod, a transgender woman, and her husband have been together for 22 years, and were finally allowed to get married legally in Thailand on Thursday</p>
Southeast Asia

Hundreds marry as Thailand legalises same-sex marriage

<p>Commuters make their way along a street amid smoggy conditions in New Delhi</p>
India

Air pollution crisis finally in focus ahead of tight Delhi election

<p>A couple poses for pictures at a marriage registration event at Paragon shopping mall in Bangkok on 23 January 2025. A high-profile gay couple married in Thailand on 23 January as the kingdom’s same-sex marriage law went into effect, an AFP journalist saw, among the first of hundreds expected to do so</p>
Southeast Asia

Hundreds wed in Thailand on historic first day for same-sex marriage

<p>Taliban soldier stands guard at the entrance gate of Mes Aynak valley, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, March 2, 2022</p>
South Asia

Chinese mine worker killed in attack claimed by Isis in Afghanistan

<p>Masahiro Nakai </p>
Japan

Japan’s Masahiro Nakai retires after sexual misconduct allegations

<p>File. Two Indian trains after a collision in 2009 </p>
India

12 dead after false fire rumours cause passengers to leap from train

<p>US President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room at the White House</p>
South Asia

Will Trump be able to retrieve US military equipment from the Taliban?

<p>Police officers at the scene of the stabbing attack in front of the JR Nagano Station in central Japan</p>
Japan

Three people stabbed in random attack near Japan ski resort

<p>A sketch, published in a graphic book in 1880, shows British people playing tennis in India, during the British Raj, while a male waiter serves them tea</p>
India

Britain told to give India its artefacts in lieu of £52trn reparations

Australasia

<p>Graffitti is seen on England's King George V statue</p>
Australasia

Multiple monuments in Australia defaced to protest national day

Australasia

Multiple monuments in Australia defaced to protest national day

<p>Graffitti is seen on England's King George V statue</p>
<p>Representative image. A doctor measuring a Botox injection</p>
Australasia

Three people hospitalised in Sydney with suspected botulism

<p>US president Donald Trump and his wife, first lady Melania Trump, attend the commander in chief ball in Washington, US, 20 January 2025</p>
Australasia

The Donald Trump lie that upset New Zealanders the most

<p>The explorer paved the way for the British to send its First Fleet to the island in 1788 </p>
Australasia

Captain Cook statue disfigured and painted red ahead of Australia Day

<p>The new funnel-web spider dubbed ‘Big Boy’ or Atrax christenseni</p>
Australasia

Scientists discover new species of one of world’s deadliest spiders

<p>The new funnel-web spider dubbed ‘Big Boy’ or Atrax christenseni</p>
Australasia

Scientists discover new species of one of world’s deadliest spiders

<p>Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has announced her upcoming memoir which she hopes will help “anyone who ever doubted themselves”</p>
Australasia

Ardern says memoir is for ‘anyone who has ever doubted themselves’

<p>Margo Neas holds her cat Mittens at her home in Melbourne</p>
News & Advice

Mittens the cat takes three flights after being forgotten on plane

<p>Aerial view of Sunbury Ring G</p>
Archaeology

Origin of Australia’s 1,400-year-old mystery rings finally revealed

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Tennis

Djokovic explains why he boycotted Australian Open interview

<p>Gauff frequently has posted on TikTok, often mimicking popular trends</p>
Tennis

Coco Gauff writes ‘RIP TikTok USA’ on TV camera at Australian Open

The woman was arrested south of Brisbane, Australia on Thursday
Australasia

Australian influencer charged with poisoning her baby girl

<p>File. Anthony Albanese</p>
Australasia

Australia calls Russian ambassador over video of captive Melbourne man

Australasia

Mysterious marble-sized balls wash up on Sydney beaches

<p>General view of Southern Sydney Synagogue in Allawah, Sydney</p>
Australasia

Counterterror police take over probe into Sydney synagogue vandalism

<p>General view of the Southern Sydney Synagogue, in Allawah, Sydney</p>
Australasia

Sydney synagogue attack condemned as ‘massive escalation’

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