A former ballerina who spent more than a year in a Russian jail for donating £40 to a charity supporting Ukraine has returned home to the US after being freed in a prisoner exchange.

The defence secretary has said that 2025 is "the critical year" for Ukraine as he confirmed £450m in funding for a military support package.

A recruitment video from Russia's Defense Ministry has circulated on Chinese social media, showing men leaving their jobs to fight.

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The US military said it had lost confidence in Colonel Susannah Meyers' ability to lead.

State media is warning that people weighing less than 50kg (110lbs) may be "easily blown away".

Carwin Javie Molleja remembers "the screams" as the roof of the Dominican Republic nightclub collapsed, killing 218 people.

Pope Francis visits St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, still with an oxygen tube, as he continues to recover from ill health.

An elite Mexican police officer from its so-called "Gringo Hunters" unit has been shot dead by a fugitive they were trying to arrest.

Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez spoke on the ‘unimaginable tragedy’ and said the news of the six deaths was ‘devastating’

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The US actor, who was also in Grey's Anatomy, has the most common form of motor neurone disease.

Carwin Javie Molleja remembers "the screams" as the roof of the Dominican Republic nightclub collapsed, killing 218 people.

The mother of a Palestinian killed in an IDF attack on emergency vehicles tells the BBC of her loss.

The government has said Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported because of an "administrative error", but has fought against his return to the US.

President Javier Milei has made sweeping cuts to public services since he took office 16 months ago.

The Israeli defence minister says the military is leaving Gaza "smaller" and "more isolated" to press Hamas into releasing hostages.

A family of five Spanish tourists, including three children, have been killed in a helicopter crash in New York City.

Both leaders are accompanied in public by Australian Federal Police security teams as they crisscross the country for weeks.

A flight tracker has captured the route of a helicopter that crashed in the Hudson River in New York on Thursday, 10 April.

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