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A husband and wife have been charged with unlawful use..
France has made face masks compulsory in all enclosed public spaces amid a fresh bout of Covid-19 ou..
By Helen Briggs and Victoria Gill Science and environment correspondents, BBC News
Polar bears wil..
EU talks aimed at reaching an agreement on a huge post-coronavirus recovery fund have stretched into..
Kanye West has officially launched his campaign for the 2020 US presidential election, with an unort..
The sudden death in Gaza of youth activist, Suleiman al-Ajuri, has shone a spotlight on the issue of..
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The United Arab Emirates' historic first mission ..
The mayor of Portland in Oregon has renewed his call for federal troops to leave the US city, accusi..
EU leaders have gathered for a third day of discussions over a massive post-coronavirus economic rec..
The attorney general for the US state of Oregon has filed a lawsuit against the federal government, ..
China's ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, has denied reports that China is carrying out a pro..
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A fast-rising rising tide of new coronavirus cases is flooding emerg..
A "wartime state" has been declared in Urumqi, the capital of China's western Xinjiang region, ..
The number of new cases of coronavirus rose by almost 260,000 in 24 hours – the largest single-day i..
Issued on: 18/07/2020 – 13:49
President Hassan Rouhani said Saturday that 35 million Iranians may ..
Spain's north-eastern Catalonia region has again recorded a daily Covid-19 infection figure of ..
Russia's ambassador to the UK has rejected allegations that his country's intelligence ser..
A fire at the cathedral in the French city of Nantes is believed to have been started deliberately, ..
Rep John Lewis, a leader in the civil rights movement and later US congressman, has died at the age ..
Twitter has confirmed hackers made use of tools that were supposed to have only been available to it..
A man has been charged with the murder of leading tech entrepreneur Fahim Saleh who was found dead i..
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has been taken to hospital after testing positive for Covid-19 earlier this w..
US President Donald Trump has vowed not to order Americans to wear masks to contain the spread of co..
Oregon Governor Kate Brown has accused federal agents in unmarked cars who apparently detained prote..
A Michigan judge's decision to send a 15-year-old girl to juvenile detention for violating her ..
Twitter says 130 accounts were targeted in a major cyber-attack of celebrity accounts two days ago.
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US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has said she is undergoing chemotherapy for a recurrenc..
German police have arrested a suspected gunman nicknamed "Rambo" after a five-day manhunt in the Bla..
India added a record number of Covid-19 cases – nearly 35,000 – in the last 24 hours, breaching the ..
Huge waves have pummelled the Australian state of New South Wales, eroding some coastal areas and pu..
Brazil's coronavirus outbreak has been one of the world's most severe, with more than 2m c..
The FBI has launched an investigation after hackers hijacked Twitter accounts of a number of high-pr..
The United Nations is making an appeal for $10.3 billion (£8.2 billion) to help fight the coronaviru..
US rapper Megan Thee Stallion has said she's "grateful to be alive" after being shot, but has g..
Millions of people around the world could be exposed to dangerous levels of heat stress – a dangerou..
Johnny Depp's ex-partner Winona Ryder has said it is "impossible to believe" allegations from h..
Facing a tough re-election battle, US President Donald Trump has replaced his campaign manager.
Mr ..
China's economy grew 3.2% in the second quarter following a record slump.
The world's sec..
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The European Unions top court ruled Thursday that an agreement that ..
US infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci has described recent efforts by the Trump administrati..
Billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates are among many prominent US figures targeted by ha..
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China has vowed to retaliate after the US ended Hong K..
At least 50 people have been killed and more than two million affected by heavy monsoon flooding in ..
A statue of British imperialist Cecil Rhodes has been decapitated in Cape Town in South Africa.
The..
US President Donald Trump's government has dropped its plans to deport international students w..
US President Donald Trump has signed an order to end preferential treatment for Hong Kong, as his ad..
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France is honouring its health workers at scaled-down ..
Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite and ex-girlfriend of the late convicted sex offender Jeffre..
Iran says it has executed a former defence ministry employee convicted of selling information to the..