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Middle East - LIVE - | Trump says he will open the Strait of Hormuz 'for China' and Xi Jinping will give him 'a big, fat hug'

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Comment -- Roland Oliphant: Why Putin will find it hard to replace Viktor Orban, his best friend inside the EU

13 hours ago

World News -- Donald Trump turns on Giorgia Meloni over defence of Pope and reluctance to join Iran war

10 hours ago

North America -- Former attorney general Pam Bondi faces charge of contempt after failing to testify before Epstein probe

10 hours ago

North America -- Californian Democrat and Texas Republican both quit Congress over sex allegations

10 hours ago

Europe -- The inside story of how a visit by Pope Francis helped to spark the crushing defeat of Viktor Orban

10 hours ago

Middle East -- Birkin bag maker Hermes hit as war deters shoppers from shopping hotspots Dubai and Paris

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Europe -- Ukraine 'forces Russian troops to surrender using only robots'

10 hours ago

Donald Trump posts image of himself with Jesus as his Pope Leo criticism continues

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Boy (14) opens fire at Turkish school, killing nine and wounding 13

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Two police officers charged over crash which killed pregnant woman

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World News Video -- Security measures tightened in Islamabad ahead of US-Iran talks

6 days ago

World News Video -- Israeli strikes target Beirut amid widening attacks on Lebanon

6 days ago

Irish News Video -- Pete Hegseth: 'President Trump chose mercy'

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World News -- Iran rejects latest ceasefire proposal as Trump deadline approaches

6 days ago

World News -- At least 13 people killed, 7 wounded in Israeli strikes in Lebanon

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BREAKING - | BBC to cut up to 2,000 jobs in major cost-saving revamp

4 hours ago

Ex-Nato chief says UK in peril due to lack of defence spending

10 hours ago

'It's like looking at your grandma' – Fatou, the world's oldest gorilla, celebrates her birthday

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Europe must be part of any peace deal to end Ukraine war, Friedrich Merz says

10 hours ago

Kremlin says Putin was 'never friends' with Viktor Orban after historic election defeat

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Latin America -- New trial over football legend Maradona's death begins today in Argentina

21 hours ago

Comment -- Simeon Tegel: 'We always end up electing people who betray us' – Peruvians go to polls to elect ninth president in 10 years

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Latin America -- Cuba to free more than 2,000 prisoners as a 'humanitarian gesture' amid talks with US

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Rohingya survivor recounts ordeal as 250 missing in Andaman sea tragedy

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North Korea fires multiple short-range ballistic missiles towards the sea

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One dead, four injured in shooting at Israeli consulate in Istanbul, Turkey

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Prince Harry and Meghan arrive in Australia – but petition over tour policing costs draws more than 45,000 signatures

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'Leave my family alone' – former Olympic cyclist's anger at media portrayal following wife's death in Australia

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'There's a live possum among the fake ones' – creature found nestling with cuddly toys in Australian airport shop

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Sudanese rebels using rape as a weapon of war 'in a pattern of deliberate tactics designed to humiliate and terrorise', says NGO

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Suicide bombers kill at least 23 in series of attacks in Nigeria

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Kenyans 'no longer allowed to fight for Russia' in Ukraine

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