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A retired Nigerian army general who had been kidnapped by gunmen in the country's north-west has died while being held captive, the military has said.

President Donald Trump has said a deal to end fighting between the US and Iran is scheduled to be signed on Sunday, after Iran cast doubt on the timing.

US President Donald Trump has claimed an initial agreement aimed at ending the war with Iran is close after posting that he had cancelled strikes on the country.

US President Donald Trump has named the top federal prosecutor in New York as the nation's most senior spy chief, after lawmakers in Congress objected to his previous choice for a lack of relevant experience.

A South Korean court has sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to 30 years in jail for sending drones into North Korea.

Prosecutors argued that Yoon ordered the operation in October 2024 to provoke Pyongyang and create a pretext for his failed martial law bid later that year.

When Yoon declared martial law on 3 December, he had claimed he was protecting the country from "anti-state" forces that sympathised with North Korea. But it soon became clear he was driven by domestic troubles and he rolled back the order in the face of mass protests.

Yoon was impeached and is now serving time in prison after he was sentenced to life for insurrection over his botched martial law attempt.

On Friday, the Seoul District Court found Yoon, as well as his former defense minister Kim Yong-hyun, former head of the Defense Counterintelligence Command Yeo In-hyung and former head of Drone Operations Commands Kim Yong-dae guilty of treason and abuse of power.

Kim was sentenced to 30 years in jail, while Yeo received 15 years and Kim Yong-dae received three years in prison with a five-year suspended sentence.

"The defendants used the guise of a military operation to induce provocations from North Korea with the aim of creating a state of emergency," the court said.

It added that all three officials had "provoked North Korea", thus "increasing the risk of a military conflict", but concluded that Yoon bore the "greatest responsibility" in this event.

The US Supreme Court has denied an appeal by the state of Alabama to execute death row prisoner Jeffery Lee using nitrogen gas.

The United States Department of State has disclosed that a U.S. embassy in West Africa recently dismantled a birth tourism network involving more than 100 foreign nationals, as part of a broader global crackdown on visa fraud and abuse of the U.S. immigration system.

The United States says it’s completed a series of strikes against Iran, which has retaliated by launching drones and missiles.

NASA has named its crew for its next major Moon mission, Artemis III, though the astronauts will not walk on the Moon or go anywhere near it.

A Congolese military court has sentenced ‌an army colonel to death for taking part in a conspiracy to murder two U.N. experts in central Congo nearly a decade ago, in a case that continues to raise questions about state involvement.

More than 300 migrants heading to the UK last summer were kidnapped, tortured and threatened with forced organ removal, the BBC has learned.

A federal judge on Monday struck down a $100,000 fee U.S. President Donald Trump imposed on new H-1B visas for highly skilled ‌foreign workers, concluding that it constituted an unlawful tax Congress never authorised.

Armed bandits in northwest Nigeria abducted dozens of villagers whom they invited to a meeting about potential peace ​negotiations, authorities and residents said on Monday, highlighting ‌the region's worsening security.