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Venezuela releases dozens of political prisoners as election calls grow (opens the original)
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Venezuelan authorities have released a slew of political prisoners, human rights groups say, days after the nation's interim leader met US President Donald Trump in New York. Among those released in the early hours of Saturday morning was Wilder Vasquez, who was handed a five-year sentence in 2018 over claims he was plotting to kill former President Nicolás Maduro. Opposition figures have renewed calls for free elections after interim President Delcy Rodriguez held talks with Trump, who captured
Tenth woman's body found in South Africa suburb as police probe killings (opens the original)
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Police in South Africa say that they have found a woman's body in a Johannesburg suburb, the tenth in recent months. The body was found on Saturday morning and identified by the friend with whom she had been at a bar the previous evening. The local police commissioner said his force could not rule out the possibility that there was a serial killer on the loose, noting similarities across the 10 deaths in Ekurhuleni, as well as another in Soweto. The deaths have sparked a national outcry about th
Tenth woman's body found in Ekurhuleni as South Africa police probe killings (opens the original)
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Police in South Africa say they have discovered another body in Ekurhuleni, to the east of Johannesburg, bringing the number of women found dead there in recent months to 10. The body was found on Saturday morning and was identified by the friend with whom she had been at a bar the previous evening. The local police commissioner said his force could not rule out the possibility that there was a serial killer on the loose, noting similarities across the 10 deaths in Ekurhuleni, as well as another
Eight German state premiers back Merz amid speculation over his future (opens the original)
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The leaders of eight German states have backed the nation's chancellor amid growing speculation about his political future. The premiers - all of whom are part of Friedrich Merz's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) - wrote that restoring trust in their party lay in "listening and taking political action, not in debates over personnel". Merz, who has only held the post for 16 months, is facing poor approval ratings while the anti-immigration, far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is surgi
Esther Rantzen says she is too fragile to travel to Switzerland to end life (opens the original)
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Dame Esther Rantzen has said she is now "too physically fragile" to travel to Switzerland to end her life at an assisted suicide clinic. The veteran broadcaster, 86, said she would have to fly to the country, where the practice is legal, alone, which she could only have done before her life became "unbearable" and before she was ready to end her life. The Childline founder, who is terminally ill with cancer, first revealed in December 2023 that she had joined the Dignitas clinic. Dame Esther use
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