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..
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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..
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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..
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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..
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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 ..
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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..
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Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar ended her D..
Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar will abandon her candidacy for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomi..
Shincheonji Church is at the epicentre of South Korea's coronavirus outbreak, with a vast major..
Hundreds of thousands of people fall victim to scams in the UK every year.
Many are run from crimin..
Pete Buttigieg, the former Indiana mayor who made an ambitious run for president, is to end his camp..
The number of people killed worldwide by the coronavirus has exceeded 3,000, as China reported 42 mo..
Share prices in Asia have reversed early losses after Japan's central bank promised to support ..
The leader of a religious sect in South Korea could face a homicide investigation over some of the c..
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Greece says it has stopped nearly 10,000 migrants cros..
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani says his government has not pledged to free Taliban prisoners, as stat..
Turkey shot down two Syrian fighter jets on Sunday as it intensified military action in northern Syr..