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England goes to the polls in key local elections
Voters went to the polls in England on Thursday for a host of crunch local elections likely to ratchet up the pressure on embattle...
John Swinney announces bid to become Scotland's ne...
Scotland's former deputy first minister, John Swinney, announced on Thursday he would stand to succeed Humza Yousaf as leader of t...
Police and protesters face-off at UCLA in campus u...
Hundreds of police and protesters were in a tense stand-off early Thursday at the University of California, Los Angeles as unrest...
Paris rubbish collectors threaten Olympics strike
Paris rubbish collectors could strike over the summer, a major French union said Thursday, raising the spectre of piles of stinkin...
Doubts grow over Gaza truce plan
Doubts grew on Thursday over the fate of a Gaza truce plan that, as the week began, had raised hopes of an end to nearly seven mon...
Maersk's net profit sinks amid Red Sea attacks
Danish shipping giant Maersk posted a huge drop in net profit for the first quarter on Thursday as Yemeni rebel attacks force it t...
Arrests, evictions continue on US campuses
Police tore down a protest encampment at the University of Texas on Wednesday, arresting more than a dozen people, as unrest over...
Chad ruler's charge to vote triumph faces surprise...
General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, proclaimed head of state by Chad's army three years ago, is the favourite to win Monday's presid...
China-friendly Manele elected as Solomon Islands P...
China-friendly former foreign minister Jeremiah Manele was elected Solomon Islands' prime minister on Thursday, defeating an oppos...
Evictions surge in Arizona with housing shortage a...
Wearing a bulletproof vest and with a gun strapped to his waist, Constable Lennie McCloskey opens his folder and looks through the...
'Trump did this': US VP rages over Florida abortio...
US Vice President Kamala Harris sought to make Donald Trump the face of Florida's strict new abortion ban Wednesday as Democrats h...
Bogota cuts ties with Israel over 'genocidal' Gaza...
President Gustavo Petro said Wednesday that Colombia will sever diplomatic ties with Israel, whose leader he described as "genocid...
Police deployed on US campuses as protest unrest s...
Police deployed a heavy presence on US university campuses Wednesday after forcibly clearing away some weeks-long protests against...
Five killed by Russian strikes in eastern Ukraine
Five people were killed Wednesday as Russia struck Ukraine's eastern Kharkiv and Donetsk regions, local officials said.
Blinken urges Hamas to agree truce to help Gazans
US top diplomat Antony Blinken urged Hamas on Wednesday to accept a Gaza truce plan despite an Israeli warning that the army will...
US Federal Reserve keeps interest rates at 23-year...
The US Federal Reserve held interest rates steady for a sixth straight meeting on Wednesday, keeping the level at a 23-year high t...
Turkey police clash with May Day protesters, skirm...
Turkish police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters and arrested more than 200 people and skirmishes broke out in Franc...
Victims' families protest at new N.Ireland 'Troubl...
Families of victims of Northern Ireland's "Troubles" protested in Belfast Wednesday against a new UK law that halts coroner's inqu...
Police tackle US campus protests as Los Angeles hi...
Hundreds of people were arrested at pro-Palestinian protests on US campuses as police Wednesday extended a crackdown that included...
Istanbul police arrest 210 in clash with May Day p...
Turkish police on Wednesday fired tear gas and rubber bullets and detained more than 200 protesters after authorities banned May 1...
UK confirms first migrants held for Rwanda deporta...
The UK government confirmed Wednesday it had detained an unspecified number of migrants in recent days for deportation to Rwanda i...
Tweets or 'terrorism'?: Saudi's jailed online acti...
A Saudi court's decision to sentence fitness influencer Manahel al-Otaibi to 11 years in prison highlights what activists describe...
Jazz is about 'sharing', says music icon Herbie Ha...
Jazz icon Herbie Hancock performed this week in Tangiers at the end of a four-day jazz festival he launched more than a decade ago...
More war debris in Gaza than Ukraine: UN
The Gaza Strip is filled with more war debris and rubble than Ukraine, the head of UN demining operations for the narrow Palestini...
Istanbul police clash with May Day protesters
Turkish police on Wednesday fired tear gas and rubber bullets and detained dozens of protesters after authorities banned May 1 ra...
Georgia condemned after police crackdown on protes...
The European Union led condemnation against Georgia on Wednesday after police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at thousands of de...
Clashes at UCLA pro-Palestinian protests in US cam...
Clashes broke out on Wednesday at pro-Palestinian demonstrations on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles, as do...
Clashes at UCLA campus around pro-Palestinian prot...
Clashes broke out on Wednesday at pro-Palestinian demonstrations on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles, as do...
Dozens of Georgia pro-EU protesters arrested in vi...
Georgia arrested 63 demonstrators at a late-night rally, officials said Wednesday, after police fired tear gas and rubber bullets...
Blinken urges Hamas to agree Gaza truce as he meet...
Top US diplomat Antony Blinken urged Hamas to accept a truce in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
US novelist Paul Auster dies aged 77
Paul Auster, the prolific American novelist whose works included "The New York Trilogy," has died of complications from lung cance...
US Fed likely to keep rates steady as hopes of ear...
The US Federal Reserve is expected to hold interest rates steady for a sixth straight meeting Wednesday, with a summer start to cu...