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US Congress temporarily extends controversial surveillance power under FISA 

17 April 2026

News|Privacy The United States Congress has temporarily extended a controversial surveillance law which allows federal i...

Fifteen South American people deported from the US arrive in DR Congo 

17 April 2026

News|Migration Fifteen people who were deported from the United States have arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

What has Trump said ahead of possible US-Iran talks and what could it mean? 

17 April 2026

Washington, DC – United States President Donald Trump has posted a series of rapid-fire messages on the US-Israeli war...

Record number of Rohingya refugees died at sea last year, UNHCR says 

17 April 2026

News|Refugees The United Nations refugee agency has revealed that nearly 900 Rohingya refugees were reported dead or mis...

Can Pakistan secure Iran-US nuclear compromise, as Trump says deal ‘close’? 

17 April 2026

Islamabad, Pakistan – Standing on the South Lawn of the White House before boarding his helicopter for Las Vegas on T...

Controversy as Lebanese banker Sehnaoui is praised for supporting Israel 

17 April 2026

Even as Israel was attacking his home country of Lebanon, killing hundreds, and occupying territory within the country�...

Iran foreign minister says Strait of Hormuz ‘completely open’ 

17 April 2026

News|US-Israel war on Iran The Strait of Hormuz is “completely open” for all commercial vessels and will remain so d...

Bulgaria elections: Who’s running and what’s at stake? 

17 April 2026

Bulgaria ⁠will hold a snap parliamentary election on Sunday, April 19, amid a political crisis in which weak coalition...

Pope Leo calls on Cameroonians to reject violence as 120,000 join Mass 

17 April 2026

News|Religion Pope Leo XIV has addressed a massive crowd in Cameroon, using one of the biggest stages of his Africa tour...

Can Hungary wean itself off Russian energy, as its new leader has promised? 

17 April 2026

Hungary’s newly elected leader, Peter Magyar, stormed to power last weekend after campaigning to, among other things, ...