Issued on: 07/03/2020 – 22:05Modified: 07/03/2020 – 22:05
About 30 people remained trapped early o..
US President Donald Trump has replaced his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, whose departure had..
FAO, IFAD and WFP mark International Womens Day
6 March 2020, Rome – The three United Nations’ Rome-..
A US publishing house has cancelled plans to publish a memoir by Woody Allen, the award-winning film..
The death toll from the new coronavirus in Italy has risen to 197 after the largest daily increase i..
One of America's most famous music festivals, South by Southwest, has been cancelled due to cor..
Three senior members of Saudi Arabia's royal family, including the king's brother, have be..
A cruise ship carrying 3,500 people is waiting off the coast of California while tests for coronavir..
A 27-year-old Ukrainian chess champion and his girlfriend, 18, have been found dead in their Moscow ..
Doctors on Malta are threatening to take industrial action if a cruise ship is allowed to dock in sp..
The best friend of Sheikha Latifa had said a court judgement which ruled that the princess was abduc..
The head of the first budget travel agency to North Korea, Troy Collings, has died of a heart attack..
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Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of French cardinal..
Iraq's health ministry has announced its first two confirmed deaths related to the new coronavi..
Iran is limiting travel between its major cities as it tries to halt the spread of the coronavirus, ..
The White House has acknowledged the nation does not have enough coronavirus test kits as cases of t..
An investigation of alleged war crimes by the US and others in the Afghan conflict can go ahead, the..
Files discovered in Argentina reveal the names of 12,000 Nazis who lived there in the 1930s and many..
Abduction, forced return, torture and a campaign of intimidation. On Thursday the damning allegation..
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Senator Elizabeth Warren has ended her presidential ca..
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Turkey says it is deploying 1,000 police officers to i..
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California has declared a state of emergency after ann..
The International Monetary Fund has announced $50bn (£39bn) of support for countries hit by the coro..
The stampede at the Lanterna Azzurra (Blue Lantern) club was a tragedy that traumatised Italy in Dec..
Former UN chief and Peruvian Prime Minister Javier Pérez de Cuéllar has died aged 100.
Mr Pérez de..
Issued on: 05/03/2020 – 12:14Modified: 05/03/2020 – 12:14
Judges at the International Criminal Cou..
Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg has rebuked the EU's plan for tackling climate change, tel..
Italy has confirmed that it will shut all schools from Thursday for 10 days as it battles to contain..
Scientists have published the first assessment quantifying the role of climate change in the recent ..
The US military has conducted an air strike against Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, just hours afte..
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Michael Bloomberg has ended his bid for the White Hous..
Issued on: 04/03/2020 – 11:21Modified: 04/03/2020 – 11:21
IN THE PAPERS – Wednesday, 04.03.2020: W..
The World Bank has committed $12bn (£9.4bn) in aid for developing countries grappling with the sprea..
Antarctica recorded a record high temperature earlier last month of more than 20C.
This is bad news..
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Joe Biden has won eight of the 14 states that voted to..
Iran has temporarily released more than 54,000 prisoners in an effort to combat the spread of the ne..
The head of the European Commission has sent a strong message of support to Greece in its attempts t..
The US central bank has slashed interest rates in response to mounting concerns about the economic i..
Issued on: 03/03/2020 – 18:27
Millions of voters from Maine to California are headed to the polls ..
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Americans from 14 states head to the polls in Super Tuesday ..
Voters across America are preparing to take part in the biggest day of the 2020 election so far.
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US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has picked up three endorsements from former rivals o..
Issued on: 03/03/2020 – 11:37Modified: 03/03/2020 – 11:37
French officials have closed about 120 s..
Travellers from countries with severe coronavirus outbreaks who arrive in some parts of China will h..
Russian President Vladimir Putin wants marriage to be defined as the union of a man and woman in a r..
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed victory in Israel's general election, after exit ..
Issued on: 03/03/2020 – 04:50Modified: 03/03/2020 – 04:50
The world has entered uncharted territor..
Twitter has told its employees to work from home to help stop the spread of the coronavirus.
In a b..
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The Turkish president has warned that "millions" of mi..
Issued on: 02/03/2020 – 20:33Modified: 02/03/2020 – 20:33
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar ended her D..