After Iran talks falter, will Trump escalate or negotiate?

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File photo of US Vice-President JD Vance on the phone with Donald Trump during a recent trip to Hungary

Twenty-one hours was not enough to end 47 years of hostility between Iran and the US.

The historic high-level talks in Islamabad, during a pause in weeks of grievous war, were always unlikely to end any other way.

Calling this marathon negotiating session a failure belies the scale of the challenge in narrowing wide gaps on complex issues ranging from age-old suspicion about Iran's

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Justin Bieber headlines Coachella with nostalgia-fuelled set

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Justin Bieber made a nostalgia-fuelled return to the major stage as Coachella's much-anticipated headline act.

The 32-year-old spent much of Saturday night's gig sitting in front of a laptop and singing to YouTube music videos of his older hits, such as Baby and Never say Never - delighting the crowd in an apparent tribute to the platform on which he was discovered.

He also played some of the home videos that had brought him to the industry's

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Ukraine and Russia accuse each other of hundreds of ceasefire violations

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Ukraine and Russia have each accused one another of hundreds of violations of a short ceasefire coinciding with Orthdox Easter celebrations.

The Ukrainian military said on Sunday morning that Russian forces had committed 2,299 violations since the truce began at 16:00 local time (13:00 GMT) on Saturday - including shooting four unarmed soldiers.

The Russian defence ministry, in turn, said Ukrainian forces had committed 1,971 violations, including three attempted counter-attacks in Dnipropetrovsk region.


Asha Bhosle: The sound of Bollywood dies aged 92

AFP Indian singer Asha Bhosle performs at the '75 years of Asha' concert at Carnegie Hall, New York, New York, April 17, 2008. AFP
Asha Bhosle performing in New York in 2008

Asha Bhosle, a legendary Bollywood singer who became a cultural icon, has died aged 92, her son has confirmed.

The unrivalled queen of Indian playback singing died in Mumbai, having been admitted to hospital after suffering a heart attack.

Her death marks the end of an era in Bollywood music - with her career spanning more than eight decades and encompassing more than 12,000 songs.

Bhosle's distinctive voice breathed

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At least 30 feared dead in crush at Haitian tourist site

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The incident took place at a historic fortress in the country's north (file photo)

At least 30 people are feared to have been killed in a stampede at a popular tourist site in Haiti on Saturday.

The incident took place on Saturday during an annual Easter gathering at the Laferrière Citadel, a Unesco World Heritage site, Jean Henri Petit, head of civil protection for Haiti's Nord department, said, warning the death toll could yet rise.

Prime Minister Alix Didier

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'We need real peace': Easter truce fails to lift grim mood in war-torn Ukraine

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People line up to be doused in holy water by a priest in Kharkiv

An Orthodox Easter truce agreed by Russia and Ukraine came into force on Saturday afternoon but 38 minutes later we heard air raid sirens in Kharkiv region, northeastern Ukraine.

Since then, officials and military have recorded multiple ceasefire violations along the frontline, although no long-range missile or drone strikes.

The pause in fighting is supposed to last until Easter Monday to give people a much-needed rest, more than four years after Russia launched its

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How Hungary's knife-edge election could impact the US and Russia

The BBC's Europe Editor Katya Adler reports from Prime Minister Victor Orbán's home town of Felscút.

Why this disillusioned Trump voter spends hours searching Epstein files

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Cayden McBride says the Epstein files still matter - even if headlines have recently moved on

After Cayden McBride finishes class in Rome, Georgia, the 19-year-old goes home, opens his laptop, and starts searching. For the past few months, he has been spending hours at a time combing through the Jeffrey Epstein files on the US Department of Justice (DOJ) website, and following others online who are doing the same.

Flight logs. Transcripts. Images. Videos. The

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India refuses to criminalise marital rape. This new series shines a light on it

JioHotstar Actress Prasanna Bisht plays Pooja, a survivor of marital rape, in Chiraiya JioHotstar
Actor Prasanna Bisht plays Pooja, a new bride who is raped by her husband on their wedding night

A new web series that confronts marital rape in India has put the spotlight on the grim topic in a country that has stubbornly refused to criminalise it.

Chiraiya - the Hindi word for small birds - aired on JioHotstar in March. It has already drawn an audience of millions, making it one of the network's most popular Hindi shows in months.

Praised by media critics for confronting a subject that is largely seen

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Hungarians decide whether to end 16 years of Orbán rule and elect rival

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Viktor Orbán stuck with his familiar campaign themes ahead of the vote, attacking Brussels and Ukraine

Hungarians go to the polls on Sunday in a vote that could bring down long-serving Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and have significant repercussions for the rest of Europe, the US and Russia.

Most polls favour Péter Magyar, who formed a grassroots party after splitting from the ruling Fidesz party, but the night before the vote Orbán was in defiant mood.

"We are going to achieve such

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