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Convicted US Capitol rioter Pam Hemphill turns down Trump pardon  BBC.com

Panama has complained to the United Nations over U.S. President Donald Trump’s “worrying” threat to seize the Panama Canal, even as it launched an audit of the Hong Kong-linked operator of two ports on the interoceanic waterway. In a letter

Hundreds of rescuers were searching through thick mud and debris to find survivors Wednesday after a rain-triggered landslide in Indonesia killed at least 19 people and left seven missing. Intense rainfall in a mountainous area near Pekalongan city in Central

What Is an Executive Order?  The New York Times Trump seeks to reshape US government with sweeping executive actions  CNN Everything Trump did in the first executive orders of his presidency  The Associated Press Live updates: Trump’s executive orders and Jan. 6 pardons

by Tomohiro OSAKI Teruko Nakazawa once intervened in a knife fight between an ex-offender and their mother — all in a day’s unpaid work for Japan’s army of volunteer probation officers. The 83-year-old, who jokes she is a “punk” as

President Trump continues torrid pace as Cabinet nominees Duffy, Vought face confirmation hearings  Fox News Trump seeks to reshape US government with sweeping executive actions  CNN Here Is How Trump Moved to Seal the Southern Border on Day 1  The New York Times

by Anna SMOLCHENKO The top lawyer of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in a Russian prison in February last year, told AFP she regretted not finding the right words to stop him returning to Moscow in 2021.

El Salvador’s ex-president Mauricio Funes died Tuesday at the age of 65 in Nicaragua, where he fled two years after leaving office and gained asylum following accusations of corruption in his country. Leading El Salvador from 2009 to 2014, Funes

by Simon STURDEE Masayoshi Son, the Japanese tycoon helming US President Donald Trump’s big new AI push, is the son of an immigrant pig farmer with a spectacular but also sketchy investment record. Trump’s “friend Masa” was born in Japan

by Fulya OZERKAN Turkey was preparing to bury its dead Wednesday a day after a huge fire killed 76 people at a ski resort hotel, as questions grew over safety measures at the luxury establishment. As the nation observed a