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The Nigerian army is investigating allegations that soldiers tied up and killed a suspected Islamist militant before bur...

US President Donald Trump has threatened to cut federal funding for the wildfires sweeping California, in a Twitter spat...

McDonald's has fired its chief executive Steve Easterbrook after he had a relationship with an employee. The US fast food...

Air pollution in the north of India has "reached unbearable levels," the capital Delhi's Chief Minister Arvid Kejriwal s...

Saudi Aramco has confirmed it is planning to list on the Riyadh stock exchange, in what could be the world's biggest ini...

Five people have been injured in a knife attack at the site of a pro-democracy protest in Hong Kong. The attack happened ...

Protesters have blocked the main thoroughfares in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, as mass anti-government protests continue. D...

A Japanese film festival will now show a documentary on forced wartime sex workers after its earlier decision to cancel ...

A US judge has temporarily blocked a rule proposed by President Donald Trump that would require immigrants to prove they...

Nine children have been killed in a roadside blast in north-eastern Afghanistan as they made their way to school. The ch...

US President Donald Trump has ridiculed Beto O'Rourke just hours after the Democratic presidential hopeful ended his cam...

US Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O'Rourke has announced he is ending his campaign. The former Texas congressman tw...

It was the diplomatic equivalent of the EU offering a handshake and then thumbing its nose instead. North Macedonian Prim...

US presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren has offered details on funding for her healthcare plan, which is expected to co...

Five million masks are being distributed at schools in India's capital, Delhi, after pollution made the air so toxic off...

Kuwaiti authorities say they have officially summoned the owners of several social media accounts used to sell domestic ...

Thousands of people living in "abysmal" refugee camps on two Greek islands are "on the edge of catastrophe", Europe's hu...

A court in Barcelona has acquitted five men accused of gang-raping a 14 year old girl of the charge of sexual assault. Th...

US President Donald Trump has announced he will make Florida his permanent home instead of Trump Tower in New York. He sa...

A 50 kilometre-long (31 mile) wildfire is advancing across Brazil's Pantanal wetlands. The governor's office in the stat...

The US House of Representatives has passed a resolution to formally proceed with the impeachment inquiry against Preside...

At least 74 people have died after a train travelling between the Pakistani cities of Karachi and Rawalpindi caught fire...

The Islamic State (IS) group has confirmed the death of its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and named his successor. An IS...

A hungry herd of 500 goats has helped save the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library from the California wildfires. In May, ...

Just a day after the President of Chile said his country could no longer hold the world's annual climate conference, Spa...

Twitter is to ban all political advertising worldwide, saying that the reach of such messages "should be earned, not bou...

The US military has published the first footage of the raid in northern Syria in which the leader of the Islamic State (...

A fire has destroyed the main structures of Shuri Castle, a Unesco World Heritage site on Japan's southern island of Oki...

Afghan strike forces backed by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have committed abuses "amounting to war crimes",...

India has formally divided the state of Jammu and Kashmir into two new federally-administered territories. In the new arr...