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Iranian security forces fired tear gas near a girls’ school in Tehran on Monday, according to videos posted on social media, after a dispute between authorities and students over their ...

At least three people died from destruction caused by intense rainfall unleashed by Storm Roslyn, which provoked flooding along Mexico’s Pacific coast when it made landfall as a powerful ...

Well-known Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif was shot dead in Nairobi when police hunting car thieves opened fire on the vehicle he was travelling in as it drove through their roadblock ...

Germany is ready to continue practice drills on protection of critical infrastructure in Estonia, the German military said on Monday, as a first such exercise dubbed “Baltic Tiger” was about ...

A gunman opened fire at a St. Louis high school on Monday morning, killing at least two people and wounding six others before officers fatally shot the suspect, the city’...

Many Indians are delighted at the prospect of Rishi Sunak becoming the first person of Indian origin to become British prime minister, just as Hindus like him celebrated Diwali across ...

Rishi Sunak will become Britain’s first prime minister of colour on Tuesday after he won the race to lead the Conservative Party, tasked with steering a deeply divided country ...

L’Oreal has been sued by a Missouri woman who alleges she developed uterine cancer as a result of using the French cosmetic company’s hair-straightening products. The lawsuit, filed ...

The European Union and Britain need to work together to face shared challenges, the bloc’s chairman said on Monday after Rishi Sunak became Britain’s new prime minister. Britain ...

Western countries accused Russia on Monday of plotting to use a threat of a “dirty bomb” laced with nuclear material as a pretext for escalation in Ukraine, as Moscow evacuated ...

European Union countries agreed on Monday to raise their target to curb greenhouse gas emissions under the Paris climate agreement next year, as the bloc attempts to rally ambition among ...

Western countries accused Russia of plotting to use a threat of a bomb laced with nuclear material as a pretext for escalation in Ukraine, while Moscow evacuated civilians from a ...

Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Monday that it had prepared its forces to work in conditions of radioactive contamination, after Moscow accused Ukraine of planning to detonate a “dirty ...

An air strike killed at least 50 people at a concert in Myanmar held by an ethnic minority group in conflict with the ruling military, opposition groups and media said on ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday called on Israel to join the fight against Russia and repeated a request for Israeli air defence systems. “Isn’t it time for your ...

Britain’s main equity indexes closed higher on Monday as Rishi Sunak looked set to become the next prime minister after other candidates quit the race, offering investors some relief ...

Hundreds of people paid their respect on Monday at the funeral of a 12-year-old girl whose battered body was found stuffed in a suitcase outside her Paris home. The case ...

Oil prices slid 2 per cent on Monday after Chinese data showed that demand from the world’s largest crude importer remained lacklustre in September as strict COVID-19 policies and fuel ...

French President Emmanuel Macron and Pope Francis held talks on Monday, with the crisis in Ukraine and prospects for peace there expected to have been their main topic of discussion. ...

Elected for the first time to parliament in 2015, Rishi Sunak became Britain’s youngest prime minister in more than 200 years on Monday, tasked with steering the country through an economic ...

Real Madrid forward Vinicius Jr believes that fans found guilty of racist abuse should be banned for life from attending games. The 22-year-old Brazilian was a victim of abuse in ...

Argentina’s self-styled “first fan” Marcelo Martinez is so keen to see Lionel Messi and team mates at the World Cup that he arrived in Qatar six months early. The ...

North and South Korea exchanged warning shots off the west coast on Monday, accusing each other of breaching their maritime borders amid heightened military tension. The South’s Joint Chiefs ...

Israeli missiles hit targets near the Syrian capital Damascus on Monday in a rare daytime attack, a Syrian military source said. Israel has conducted strikes for years against what it ...