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Crowd claps as funeral of Pope Francis begins at Vatican 26 Apr 2025 - 11:25 am
A general view of Pope Francis' funeral ceremony at St Peter's Square in the Vatican on April 26, 2025. (Photo by Tiziana FABI / AFP)
EU considers changing minimum corporate tax rate 26 Apr 2025 - 11:08 am
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St Peter's Basilica bells toll ahead of pope funeral 26 Apr 2025 - 11:04 am
Attendees and nuns stand in front of St Peter's Basilica as they wait for late Pope Francis' funeral ceremony at St Peter's Square in The Vatican on April 26, 2025. (Photo by JEFF PACHOUD / AFP)
Francis's funeral to be grand farewell to 'Pope of the poor' 26 Apr 2025 - 09:32 am
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Lego block: Dutch court rules mould maker can't use toy trademark 25 Apr 2025 - 11:00 pm
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Zelensky insists Crimea is Ukrainian as US envoy meets Putin 25 Apr 2025 - 10:24 pm
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky talks to the press as diplomats stands behind him near a destroyed residential building following a Russian missile attack in Kyiv on April 25, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Tetiana DZHAFAROVA / AFP)
Bayer says legal woes could force it to pull weedkiller 25 Apr 2025 - 08:35 pm
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'Crimea will stay with Russia' Trump tells TIME magazine 25 Apr 2025 - 07:19 pm
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VIDEO: US-made parts found in North Korean missile that Russia fired on Kyiv: Zelensky 25 Apr 2025 - 06:42 pm
This handout photograph taken and released by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine on April 24, 2025, shows Ukrainian rescuers operating at the site of a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Photo by Handout / State Emergency Service of Ukraine / AFP.
Ukraine may have to cede land 'temporarily' for peace: Kyiv mayor 25 Apr 2025 - 04:41 pm
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky delivers a press conference in Kyiv on April 22, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Photo by Tetiana DZHAFAROVA / AFP.
Spanish police detain mother over sale of newborn daughter 25 Apr 2025 - 03:11 pm
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Ukraine may have to cede land 'temporarily' for peace: Kyiv mayor 25 Apr 2025 - 10:46 am
Local residents take cover in an underground shelter during a Russian missile attack in Kyiv early on April 24, 2025. (Photo by Stringer / AFP)
Vatican releases details of Pope Francis's marble tomb 24 Apr 2025 - 10:01 pm
This photograph shows a view of St Peter's Basilica of The Vatican where the late Pope lies in state, taken from Rome on April 24, 2025. (Photo by Alberto Pizzoli / AFP)
'Vladimir, STOP!': Trump turns on Putin after deadly Kyiv strike 24 Apr 2025 - 07:48 pm
(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on April 24, 2025 shows, L-R, Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking in Murmansk on March 27, 2025 and US President Donald Trump outside the White House in Washington, DC, on April 23, 2025. (Photo by Olga MALTSEVA and SAUL LOEB / AFP)
Germany expects zero GDP growth this year, blames Trump tariffs 24 Apr 2025 - 06:34 pm
(FILES) US President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order after delivering remarks on reciprocal tariffs during an event in the Rose Garden entitled
Student killed, three injured in school stabbing in western France 24 Apr 2025 - 06:08 pm
Students evacuate the high school Notre-Dame de Toutes-Aides before a Police Municipal officer surrounds the scene of crime with a Police tape after a knife attack, one student was killed and three other were wounded in Nantes, western France, on April 24, 2025. (Photo by Loic VENANCE / AFP)
'Massive' Russian missile attack kills nine in Kyiv 24 Apr 2025 - 01:33 pm
Ukrainian rescuers operate at the site of a Russian missile attack in Kyiv early on April 24, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by STRINGER / AFP)
Dutch court lifts protection for foreigners who fled Ukraine 23 Apr 2025 - 05:08 pm
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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (C) speaks as Angola President Joao Lourenco (L), and Mahmoud Ali Youssouf (R), Chairperson of the African Union Commission, listen on during the closing press conference of the Second Italy-Africa Summit at the Addis International Convention Center (AICC) in Addis Ababa on February 13, 2026. (Photo by Marco Simoncelli / AFP) 'Extermination' of Palestinians must stop: African Union chair
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File photo of US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem at a press conference at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry accompanied by U.S. Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks on February 12, 2026 in Otay Mesa, California. Carlos A. Moreno/Getty Images/AFP US ends temporary protected status for Yemeni migrants
NASA astronauts Jessica Meir (C), commander, and Jack Hathaway (L), pilot, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot (R), and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev (2ndL) walk out as they prepare to travel to the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Dragon spacecraft at Space Launch Complex 40 for the Crew-12 mission at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, on February 13, 2026. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) International crew takes off for space station: NASA feed
An Ariane 6 rocket carrying 32 satellites for the Amazon Leo constellation launches at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, on the French overseas department of Guiana, on February 12, 2026. (Photo by Ronan LIETAR / AFP) Europe's most powerful rocket carries 32 satellites for Amazon Leo network into space
This photograph provided by local journalist Trent Ernst shows the middle school and high school building where a shooting took place, leaving at least nine people dead in the small town of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, on February 10, 2026. (Photo by Trent Ernst / AFP) Deadly mass shooting in Canada: What we know

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