Tributes have been paid to singer who had a string of hits in South Korea including a cover of Craig David’s Insomnia

The South Korean singer Wheesung has died aged 43, with police reportedly planning to conduct an autopsy to determine his cause of death.

The singer, whose name was Choi Whee-sung, was found unconscious in his apartment on Monday night by emergency responders after his mother called for help, local media reported.

MPs prepare to debate a motion of confidence that looks likely to topple centre-right government

Portugal is bracing for its third snap general election in as many years as MPs prepare to debate a motion of confidence that looks set to topple the centre-right government and trigger a return to the polls in May.

Luís Montenegro, the prime minister, who heads the Democratic Alliance (AD) platform that has governed Portugal since its narrow victory in last year’s election, called the vote of confidence, which is due to take place on Tuesday, in response to growing questions over his family’s business activities.

Surviving aid to be administered by state department in radical narrowing of definition of US national interest

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The Trump administration has taken an axe to US foreign aid, eliminating 83% of programs run by the US Agency for International Development (USAid) in a sweeping six-week purge that has done away with entire categories of development work that took decades to build up.

Secretary of state Marco Rubio announced the massive cuts on Monday, posting that roughly 5,200 of USAid’s 6,200 global programs have been terminated. The surviving initiatives – less than a fifth of America’s previous aid portfolio – will be absorbed by the state department.

Premier Doug Ford says province ‘won’t back down’ until US president retracts duties on Canada

The Canadian province of Ontario is imposing a 25% surcharge on electricity exports to the states of New York, Michigan and Minnesota in protest against Donald Trump’s tariffs, the premier, Doug Ford, said on Monday.

“President Trump’s tariffs are a disaster for the US economy. They’re making life more expensive for American families and businesses,” Ford said in a statement.

Two-time central banker has no cabinet experience but some analysts say his experience of financial crises such as Brexit may be just what Canada needs

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Mark Carney, soon to become Canada’s new prime minister, is a two-time central banker and crisis fighter about to face his biggest challenge of all: steering Canada through Donald Trump’s tariffs.

The 59-year-old will be the first person to become Canadian prime minister without having been an MP or having any cabinet experience.

More people were killed in the 1945 attack than the atomic bombing of Nagasaki a few months later, but there is no national memorial, accurate death toll or compensation for survivors

Not even the passage of eight decades has dimmed Shizuko Nishio’s memory of the night American bomber planes killed tens of thousands of people in the space of a few hours and turned her city to ash.

In the early hours of 10 March 1945, around 300 B-29 Superfortress bombers dropped 330,000 incendiary devices on Tokyo and killed an estimated 100,000 civilians, in an attack that cost more lives than the atomic bombing, months later, of Nagasaki.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy says ‘realistic proposals on the table’ in talks; Donald Trump hints US may be close to lifting intelligence pause. What we know on day 1,111

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Top Ukrainian officials are due in Saudi Arabia to meet the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and other Trump aides who were departing for Jeddah on Sunday. Andriy Yermak, the head of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Ukrainian presidential office, is expected to lead Kyiv’s delegation. Zelenskyy is also expected to arrive in Saudi Arabia, on Monday, to meet with its crown prince. Zelenskyy said Ukraine was “fully committed” to a constructive dialogue in Saudi Arabia. “Realistic proposals are on the table. The key is to move quickly and effectively.” In February, US officials met about the war with Russian officials in Saudi Arabia without Ukrainian representatives present.

Donald Trump said on Sunday that he expected good results from the talks. He told reporters that his administration had “just about” lifted an intelligence pause on Ukraine, and was looking at a lot of things with respect to tariffs on Russia. Trump said he thought Ukraine would sign a minerals agreement with the US. “I want them to want peace,” Trump said.

A large warehouse was on fire in Russia’s Samara region after a Ukrainian drone attack, Russian authorities said on Monday morning. Reports also emerged of an attack targeting the Novokuibyshevsk oil refinery, citing reports of drone flights and an explosion from the refinery’s direction.

Zelenskyy said Russia had carried out “hundreds of attacks” against Ukrainians last week. About 1,200 guided aerial bombs, nearly 870 attack drones and more than 80 missiles of different types had been used.

There were mixed reports about the outcome after Russian special forces sneaked through a disused gas pipeline to attack Ukrainian units holding territory in Russia’s Kursk region. Ukraine’s military general staff confirmed on Saturday evening that Russian “sabotage and assault groups” used the pipeline in a bid to gain a foothold outside Sudzha. They were attacked with rockets and artillery after being “detected in a timely manner … The enemy’s losses in Sudzha are very high”. Russian Telegram channels showed photos of what they said were special forces wearing gas masks and moving along what looked like the inside of a large pipe. Other videos showed what were said to be the Russians being observed from the air and attacked. The footage could not be verified.

Russia on Sunday announced it had captured territory in Ukraine’s Sumy region, across the border from Kursk, for the first time since 2022 in a cross-border offensive. Russia’s defence ministry also said on Sunday that its troops had taken four villages north and north-west of Sudzha, the closest 12km (7.5 miles) from its centre. The claim came a day after the reported the Russian capture of three other villages near Sudzha.

Ukrainian drones targeted oil infrastructure in southern and central Russia overnight into early Sunday, Russian officials and Telegram channels said. A drone struck an oil depot in Cheboksary, a Russian city on the Volga River about 1,000km (620 miles) from the border, the local governor said. Footage online showed what appeared to be a fire at or near one of Russia’s largest oil refineries, in the southern city of Ryazan. Shot, a news channel on Telegram, said residents heard explosions near the refinery. The local governor, Pavel Malkov, confirmed a Ukrainian drone attack in the area.

France said on Sunday that it would use profits from frozen Russian assets to finance an additional €195m ($212m) in arms for Ukraine, the latest in a series of military aid deliveries funded through the assets. In an interview with the La Tribune Dimanche newspaper, the French foreign minister, Sébastien Lecornu, said Paris would send more 155mm artillery shells and glide bombs for the Mirage 2000 fighter jets it gave to Ukraine.

Zelenskyy made a quip on Sunday as he gave a speech at an awards ceremony: “Sorry I’m not in a suit.” It brought smiles and applause. The president was dressed in a black outfit with Ukraine’s trident symbol similar to what he wore during his acrimonious exchange with the US president at the White House in February.

Five people onboard survived small plane crash near Lancaster but officials say no details of their condition

A small airplane with five people onboard crashed in a parking lot near Lancaster airport in Manheim Township, Pennsylvania, on Sunday afternoon, authorities said.

The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed the single-engine plane was a Beechcraft Bonanza, and the incident happened around 3pm in Lancaster county.

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Myles Garrett is set to become the highest-paid non-quarterback in NFL history after reportedly signing a four-year contract extension with the Cleveland Browns.

The deal is understood to include $122.8m in guaranteed money, an average annual salary of $40m and a total value of $204.8m.

Art lovers catch last glimpse of prestigious art collection before gallery shuts for five years for major revamp

Visitors from around the world have been flocking to the Pompidou Centre in Paris this weekend, seizing the last opportunity to enjoy Europe’s largest temple of modern and contemporary art before it closes its doors for a five-year overhaul.

In one of the most complex closures of its kind, the task of removing the museum’s 2,000-strong permanent collection will start on Monday. The Pompidou’s Chagalls, Giacomettis and myriad other treasures will be relocated to other sites in Paris and museums elsewhere in France and around the world.

Both supporters of Yoon Suk Yeol and those who backed his impeachment rallied in Seoul ahead of his release

South Korea’s impeached conservative president, Yoon Suk Yeol, has been released from prison, a day after a Seoul court cancelled his arrest to allow him to stand trial for insurrection without being detained.

After walking out of a detention centre near Seoul on Saturday, Yoon waved, clenched his fists and bowed deeply to his supporters who were shouting his name and waving South Korean and US flags. Yoon climbed into a black van headed to his presidential residence in the capital.

President Slava Kir appeals for calm while analysts say escalating tensions could lead to full-blown conflict

A South Sudanese general and dozens of soldiers have been killed after a United Nations helicopter trying to evacuate them from the northern town of Nasir came under attack, the government has said.

The UN said Friday’s incident, which could deal a blow to an already fragile peace process, was “utterly abhorrent” and a possible war crime.

PM Donald Tusk says country needs army of 500,000 and backs withdrawal from treaty banning landmines

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Poland’s prime minister, Donald Tusk, has said his government is working on a plan to prepare large-scale military training for every adult male in response to the changing security situation in Europe.

He said there was a need for an army of 500,000 soldiers, which would include reservists.

Chiefs from Coinbase, Ripple and Robinhood to strategize with president on how to make US ‘crypto capital of world’

Cryptocurrency industry elite met with Donald Trump at the White House on Friday to discuss how the government will enact Trump’s vision of making the country the “crypto capital of the world”. During the round-table summit, which had more than a dozen attendees, the president thanked each of his guests.

“High-IQ individuals around this table, high-IQ,” Trump said. “We feel like pioneers.”

Unexploded device found near Gare du Nord, France’s busiest train terminal, halting Eurostar and other services

A second world war bomb found on rail tracks north of Paris was successfully defused on Friday after a day of transport chaos in which the Gare du Nord, used by Eurostar trains from London as well as other high-speed and local services, was shut, roads were closed and dozens of residents were evacuated in the suburb of St-Denis.

The unexploded bomb weighing 500kg was found in the middle of a set of tracks during maintenance work in the early hours of Friday morning in the Parisian suburb, about 1.5 miles (2.5km) from the major station.

US country singer says If You Hadn’t Been There is tribute to her husband of nearly 60 years, who died this week

Dolly Parton has dedicated her new song If You Hadn’t Been There to her husband, Carl Dean, who died this week aged 82.

The songwriter shared the tribute on Instagram earlier today, posting a picture of the couple in their youth, Parton with her arms wrapped around Dean.

Trump and Musk appear to make parallel efforts to distance tech billionaire from radical job slashing in government

Elon Musk is telling Republican lawmakers in private meetings that he is not to blame for the mass firings of federal workers that are causing uproar across the country, while Donald Trump reportedly told his cabinet secretaries on Thursday that they are ultimately in charge of hiring and firings at their agencies – not billionaire aide Musk.

The two powerful figures appeared to be making parallel efforts to distance Musk from radical job slashing made over the last two months. This is despite the tech entrepreneur boasting about cuts, recommending the US “delete entire agencies” and taking questions on the issue alongside the US president, then wielding a chainsaw at an event to symbolize his efforts – all amid legal challenges and skepticism from experts.

Back-to-back mishaps indicate big setbacks for program to launch satellites and send humans to the moon and Mars

SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft exploded on Thursday minutes after lifting off from Texas, dooming an attempt to deploy mock satellites in the second consecutive failure this year for Elon Musk’s Mars rocket program.

Several videos on social media showed fiery debris streaking through the dusk skies near south Florida and the Bahamas after Starship’s breakup in space, which occurred shortly after it began to spin uncontrollably with its engines cut off, a SpaceX livestream of the mission showed.

Person from Lea county had been unvaccinated and did not seek care but virus not yet confirmed as cause of death

An adult who was infected with measles has died in New Mexico, state health officials announced Thursday, though the virus has not been confirmed as the cause of death.

The person who died had been unvaccinated and did not seek medical care, a state health department spokesperson said in a statement. The person’s exact age and other details were not immediately released.

Extremists linked to Reichsbürger movement also planned to kidnap health minister and create conditions for civil war

A German court has jailed five members of an extremist group linked to the Reichsbürger (Reich Citizens) movement for plotting a coup and to kidnap the health minister.

The defendants, four men, aged 46 to 58, and a 77-year-old woman, who belonged to the self-styled “United Patriots” group, were sentenced to between five years and nine months and eight years’ jail by the Koblenz higher regional court on Thursday.

PostNord says it will stop service at end of year and cut a third of staff to focus on parcels business

The Danish postal service has said it will deliver its last letter at the end of this year, instead focusing on packages to respond to changing forms of communication.

PostNord said on Thursday it would cut 1,500 jobs in Denmark and remove 1,500 red postboxes, citing the “increasing digitalisation” of society.

Air force apologises and wishes a swift recovery to the civilians injured after eight bombs ‘abnormally released’

South Korea’s air force has apologised after one of its fighter jets accidentally dropped eight bombs in the wrong place during a training exercise on Thursday, injuring 15 civilians and damaging several buildings.

“Eight MK-82 general purpose bombs were abnormally released from an air force KF-16 aircraft, landing outside the designated firing range,” the air force said, adding that the bombs weighed about 225kg each.

Two killed and 28 injured in Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s home city; Ukrainian president to join EU leaders in Brussels, with shared nuclear deterrence on the agenda

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State senate passes bill as its sponsor suggests shooting someone is more effective and humane than other methods

Firing squads could become Idaho’s primary execution method under a bill headed to the governor’s desk this week.

The Idaho senate passed the bill on Wednesday, and if signed by governor Brad Little, it will take effect next year.

Pontiff, 88, remains stable and received communion in hospital as Catholics marked beginning of Lent

Pope Francis remained in a stable condition on his 20th day in hospital with pneumonia, sitting in an armchair to do some work and receiving communion and an Ash Wednesday cross on his forehead as Catholics around the world marked the beginning of Lent.

In its latest update, the Vatican said the 88-year-old pontiff had not suffered any new respiratory crises and had been given oxygen through a nasal tube. It said that after the Ash Wednesday rites, Francis had set to work and made his usual call to the parish priest of Gaza.