GOVERNMENT

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is kicking off a three-nation trip to Africa that will include stops in Senegal, Niger and South Africa.

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman has been released from the hospital after a stay of more than a week following a stroke.

A highly-anticipated report into the British government’s “partygate” scandal that could determine Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s political fortunes is set to be published this week after months of delay.

Austria’s 78-year-old president says he will seek reelection later this year, following a term that has seen him pilot the Alpine country through repeated political upheaval.

A military plane carrying enough specialty infant formula for more than half a million baby bottles has arrived in Indianapolis, the first of several flights expected from Europe aimed at relieving a shortage that has sent parents scrambling to find enough to feed their children.

The much-ballyhooed World Economic Forum in the Swiss Alpine town of Davos gets underway this week after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Republican Katie Arrington’s suspended security clearance is becoming an issue in her primary campaign against incumbent South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace.

Pope Francis has expressed his spiritual closeness to Catholics in China and voiced hope that the church there operates in “freedom and tranquility.

One of the last anti-abortion Democrats in Congress is in the toughest reelection battle of his career in South Texas.

Gov. Asa Hutchinson is Arkansas' top Republican and is entering the final stretch of his term with strong approval ratings.

President Joe Biden is expected to unveil a list of countries who will joining a long anticipated Indo-Pacific trade pact, but Taiwan won’t be among them.

President Joe Biden says cases of monkeypox are “something that everybody should be concerned about.”.

Polish President Andrzej Duda has traveled to Kyiv to support Ukraine's goal of European Union membership.

Australians awoke to a new prime minister in Anthony Albanese, the center-left Labor Party leader whose ascension to the nation’s top job from being raised in social housing by a single mother on a disability pension was said to reflect the country's changed fabric.

Voters in the Thai capital are electing a new governor in a contest delayed by a military coup that still reflects a divided country with main candidates either supported by the conservative establishment or the liberal opposition.

President Joe Biden tended to both business and security interests as he wrapped up a three-day visit to South Korea on Sunday.

Rudy Giuliani, who as a lawyer for then-President Donald Trump pushed bogus legal challenges to the 2020 election, met for hours with the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

The U.S. Air Force Academy says three cadets who have refused the COVID-19 vaccine will not be commissioned as military officers but will graduate with bachelor’s degrees.

Two Republican frontrunners are hoping to clinch primary victories in Georgia.

Australia’s Prime Minister-elect Anthony Albanese is a politician molded by his humble start to life as the only child of a single mother who raised him on a pension in gritty inner-Sydney suburbia.

Scott Morrison says his conservative government had left Australia in a robust condition even as voters punished him for his handling of issues including climate change and the pandemic that gave the center-left opposition its biggest victory for almost a decade.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has discussed his objections to Sweden and Finland joining NATO with the two Nordic countries’ leaders.

North Macedonia’s fugitive former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski has been handed a 9-year prison sentence for illegally ordering the 2011 demolition a multimillion-dollar complex owned by a former political ally turned opponent.

The top U.S. military officer is challenging the next generation of Army soldiers to prepare America’s military to fight future wars that may look little like the wars of today.

A Defense Department-funded “resiliency review” finds Parris Island facing growing threats from climate change.

Russia has halted natural gas exports to neighboring Finland.

The White House is planning for what it calls “dire” contingencies that could include rationing supplies of vaccines and treatments this fall if Congress doesn’t approve more money for fighting COVID-19.

President Joe Biden has signed legislation granting Ukraine another $40 billion in U.S. support as it continues to battle a Russian invasion.

The Ukrainian forces who made a determined last stand in a Mariupol steel mill against Russian troops were a mixture of seasoned soldiers, border guards, a controversial national guard regiment and volunteers who took up arms in the weeks before Russia’s invasion.

Ukraine's ambassador to neighboring Poland says his country is grateful for the welcome that Poles have given to millions of Ukrainians, but hopes the European Union will soon release billions of euros to Poland so that helping those fleeing the war does not come “at the cost of the Polish people.”.

The former director of the Ohio state prison system has emerged as a leading contender to run the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons.

The ripple effects of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have been devastating for families of all kinds, including those who have seen their prospective adoptions put on hold.

For some female incumbents running for reelection in Congress this year, holding their seats comes with a new challenge.

Herschel Walker boasts of his charity work helping members of the military who struggle with mental health.

The Summit of the Americas is a little more than two weeks away in Los Angeles, and there's still no clear answer on which countries are going.

As the West rallies behind Ukraine in its war with Russia, Polish President Andrzej Duda has arrived in Ukraine on an unannounced visit.

U.S. President Joe Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol say after meeting that they will consider expanded joint military exercises to deter the nuclear threat from North Korea.

The first flights of infant formula from Europe, authorized by President Joe Biden to relieve a deepening U.S. shortage, will arrive in Indiana aboard military aircraft this weekend.

The Palestinian Health Ministry says Israeli troops have shot and killed a 17-year-old Palestinian militant during a raid in the occupied West Bank.

President Joe Biden has named Pentagon press secretary John Kirby to be the new National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications.

A year after they were freed from the horribly abusive home of their parents in Southern California, some of the 13 children said they felt pressure to move to a rundown apartment in a crime-ridden area by the county agency tasked with their care.

The $40 billion U.S. package of assistance for Ukraine as it tries to fend off Russia's aggression is hitching a ride on a commercial flight to South Korea so it can be signed by President Joe Biden.

Australia’s center-left opposition party has toppled the conservative government after almost a decade in power.

Judge rules COVID-19 asylum restrictions must continue on southern US border; blocks US government plan to end them.

The conservative Catholic archbishop of San Francisco says he will no longer allow U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to receive Communion because of her support for abortion rights.

Last July, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen celebrated it as a “historic day” when more than 100 nations agreed to a global minimum tax deal meant to reform and equalize the world’s economy.

Convicted California lawyer Michael Avenatti wants leniency at sentencing for defrauding former client Stormy Daniels.

Oklahoma is only days away from enacting the toughest U.S. state ban on abortion and providers are preparing to stop terminating pregnancies.

Newly discovered emails show that Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, was more deeply involved in baseless efforts to overturn the 2020 election than previously known.

A state lawmaker in Oregon is calling for a formal investigation into a ballot-printing fiasco that will delay results from Tuesday's primary by weeks in the state's third-largest county, with a key U.S. House race hanging in the balance.

Sir John Major warns about rising prices, as a minister is criticised for advocating people working more hours.

England's schools regulator says such schools are often "unsafe" and don't provide a full education.

Nowhere is the challenge of abandoning Russian oil clearer than in the refinery town, Schwedt.

Ministers had refused to make it public, arguing that it would breach legal professional privilege.

Labour wants MPs to investigate if the PM misled them - but ministers say a decision should wait.

Only £60m of £220m humanitarian aid pledged by the government was handed out by 1 April, a Labour MP says.

Hassana Adamu speaks to the BBC about feeling neglected on the eighth anniversary of the kidnappings.

French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen is alarming both Muslims and Jews in France with a pledge to regulate the ritual slaughter of animals if elected. Le Pen frames her measure as an effort to end animal suffering. She wants animals to be stunned first. But Jews and Muslims who for religious reasons eat meat from animals that aren't stunned before slaughter say they feel targeted. The issue is one of the many fault lines between Le Pen and incumbent President Emmanuel Macron and the starkly different visions of France they are presenting for next Sunday's election runoff vote.

That's 4%, plus whatever the local government may tack on, which will disappear from store receipts.

That's 4%, plus whatever the local government may tack on, which would disappear from store receipts.

“No nation is doomed for failure or destined to live in captivity,” the journalist and historian Adam Michnik says.

A man whose uncle died in the Grenfell Tower fire says he was left alone to find his missing relative.

Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning.

The House of Lords support plans to widen the documents people could use to get a ballot paper.

Charities react to the government's decision not to ban conversion therapy for trans people.

Dozens of Chinese medical journal articles published between 1980 and 2015, when the Chinese government said it would stop procuring organs from executed prisoners, describe doctors in China performing organ transplants without following standard procedures for establishing brain death, according to new research published in a top U.S. medical journal.Why it matters: "This shows, in the words of the physicians themselves, that they prioritized organ procurement over adhering to the most basic me

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Frustrations persist among tribal leaders who say their conversations with the federal government have not resulted in action on the ground.

Protestors are angry because of food, fuel and power shortages across the nation.

The council tax rebate scheme is due to come into force in April, but councils warn payments could be delayed.

The civil war has left millions needing food aid, yet none has been delivered to Tigray for months.

The UK's only two shale gas wells are set to be put permanently out of use at the end of June.

Drone footage shows destruction of Mariupol, and protesters target an oligarch's London mansion.

Train operators are talking to unions about how to address job changes in a bid to modernise the railways

"No visa for at least another week," said Misha, simply. "No-one can help us in Calais."

Ukrainians with family in the UK say the government should make more effort to provide refuge.

The UK government was too slow to offer help after it withdrew from Afghanistan, a report finds.

Nearly two million were AstraZeneca shots that advisers said should not be given to younger adults.

Boris Johnson is facing calls to accelerate moves to tackle economic crime amid the crisis in Ukraine.

U.K. students who fail math and English could be barred from taking out college loans under proposals set to be announced by the British government this week.

The proposed measure is likely to be dropped from an animal welfare bill, after ministers raised concerns.

Manufacturers call for a regulator to monitor electric car charging prices and charge point rollout.

Humza Yousaf says Scotland should be free to to set its own virus strategy, regardless of moves in England.

A Nepalese government report leaked to the BBC accuses China of interference in the country's territory.

Unions have warned London's public transport will grind to a halt without a long-term financial plan.

From cash handouts to price caps, other countries are using a variety of measures to combat soaring gas prices.

James Heappey says "people are feeling the squeeze" with many opposed to the planned National Insurance rise.

Federal prosecutors allege the former officers "wilfully deprived" George Floyd of his civil rights.

The U.K. government made the claim based on an intelligence assessment, without providing evidence to back it up.

The top U.S. diplomat will also hold discussions in Berlin and Geneva as the Biden administration warns of “massive consequences” should Moscow launch a renewed invasion of Ukraine.

Campaigners hope the outcome of review into the pre-2000 ban will entitle them to compensation.

The Austrian government on Sunday presented revised plans for its proposed COVID-19 vaccine mandate, which it said will now apply to all residents age 18 and over, rather than 14 as originally intended. The government announced nearly two months ago that it would implement a general vaccine mandate early this year, becoming the first European country to do so. Chancellor Karl Nehammer said there had been concern about teenagers being punished, hence the change in the lower age limit.

Conservationists and veterinarians are warning that plastic waste in an open landfill in eastern Sri Lanka is killing elephants, after two more were found dead over the weekend

The White House said Thursday it “strongly opposes” the measure, which it argued “would only serve to undermine unity amongst our European allies at a crucial moment” as Russia threatens Ukraine.

Some people are paying many hundreds of pounds more for domestic energy ahead of widespread price rises.

Frontline workers and vulnerable adults will get booster jabs as the country battles a spike in cases.

Three suspected pirates detained on a Danish military vessel after a fatal gunfight in November off West Africa have been released because preliminary charges of attempted murder against them have been dropped

The Czech government has decided to cut isolation restrictions for those testing positive for COVID-19 from 14 to five days, and also similarly shortened quarantine time for close contacts of infected people

The move brings Scotland into line with the rest of the UK by cutting the isolation period from 10 days to seven.

Colombian officials say at least 16 people were killed in Colombia this weekend and dozens had to flee their homes, as fighting between rebel groups intensified in the eastern state of Arauca