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Former US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said Democrats might have fared better in Tuesday's election if President Joe Biden had exited the race sooner.Pelosi - one of the most powerful politicians in Washington - told the New York Times that "had the president gotten out...
China has unveiled new measures aimed at boosting its flagging economy, as it braces for a second Donald Trump presidency.The country plans to tackle tens of billions of dollars of local government debt to prevent it being a drag on growth.Trump won the US election on a platform that promised steep ...
The most prominent Islamic scholar in Gaza has issued a rare, powerful fatwa condemning Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack on Israel, which triggered the devastating war in the Palestinian territory.Professor Dr Salman al-Dayah, a former dean of the Faculty of Sharia and Law at the Hamas-affiliated...
New floods have hit the region of Girona in north-eastern Spain, sweeping away around 30 cars in the town of Cadaqués, according to Spanish media reports.Videos posted by a local journalist showed a torrent of water gushing down the street and a pile of cars blocking a bridge early on Friday....
At least 40 people were killed in Israeli air strikes in eastern Lebanon on Wednesday, according to the Lebanese health ministry.The Israeli military said the strikes, in the governorates of Baalbek and Bekaa, hit operatives and infrastructure of the Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah.Lebanon's c...
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Australia's government says it will introduce "world-leading" legislation to ban children under 16 from social media.Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the proposed laws, to be tabled in parliament next week, were aimed at mitigating the "harm" social media was inflicting o...
Republican Donald Trump will be the next US president - after a decisive victory that will send him back to the White House.His defeated opponent, Democrat Kamala Harris, urged her supporters to accept Trump's win, and insisted there must be a peaceful transfer of power.He will be the first...
Protests have erupted in Israel after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired the country's Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.Netanyahu said a "crisis of trust" between the two leaders led to his decision, adding that his trust in Gallant had "eroded" in recent months and Foreign...
Zimbabwe's government has banned "with immediate effect" police officers from using mobile phones while working.The ban is contained in a memo, ordering police officers to abandon their private communication gadgets while on duty.All officers are required to surrender their mobile phon...
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It's home to vast, open steppes and an ancient nomadic culture, but as the nation rapidly urbanises, can the landlocked nation hold onto its roots?With its thrilling horse races, ancient nomadic culture and a pulsating modern capital, Mongolia is increasingly luring adventurous travellers eager ...
A 13-year-old girl has been stabbed and six teenagers arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.Humberside Police said she was found at the side of the A63 dual carriageway in Hessle at about 07:00 GMT on Friday.She suffered "lacerations" to her neck, chest and abdomen and her injuries are...
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Millions of Indians are celebrating Diwali, the festival of lights and one of the most important events in the Hindu calendar.The annual festival tends to fall between October and November, but the exact date varies each year as the Hindu calendar is based on the Moon.This year, Diwali is being cele...
Typhoon Kong-rey, the biggest typhoon to directly hit Taiwan in nearly 30 years, has made landfall on the island's eastern coast.Schools and workplaces across Taiwan were closed on Thursday and supermarkets were stripped bare, as millions of residents braced for the storm which hit at about 13:4...
North Korea has fired an intercontinental ballistic missile, which flew for 86 minutes - the longest flight recorded yet - before falling into waters off its east, South Korea and Japan said.The ICBM was fired at a sharply-raised angle and reached as high as 7,000km (4,350 miles). This means that it...
A Chinese spacecraft with a three-person crew, including the country's first female space engineer, has docked after a journey of more than six hours.The crew will use the homegrown space station as a base for six months to conduct experiments and carry out spacewalks as Beijing gathers experien...
Ukraine is planning to draft another 160,000 troops into its military as Russia gains ground in the east.Russia has been advancing in the eastern Donetsk region and on Tuesday said it had fully captured the mining town of Selydove.It also comes amid reports that a number of North Korean troops have ...
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Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is set to fall short of a single-party majority after a close-run snap election, exit polls suggest.The LDP is projected to win from 153 to 219 lower house seats, broadcaster NHK said. The Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP) is projected to win f...
A senior UN official in Sudan says she is deeply troubled by reports of "atrocious crimes" in the central Gezira state, including the mass killing of civilians by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).Clementine Nkweta-Salami's comments came after an activist group said that at l...
Commonwealth leaders have agreed the "time has come" for a conversation about reparations for the slave trade, despite the UK's desire to keep the subject off the agenda at a two-day summit in Samoa.A document signed by 56 heads of government, including UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starm...
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