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North Korea says it will open its biggest political convention in decades in Pyongyang on May 6

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Naz Shah "wholeheartedly apologises" for anti-Semitic comments after the PM called for her to be suspended from the Labour party.

The director of US National Intelligence James Clapper says there are Brussels-style terror cells operating in England.

Salah Abdeslam's lawyer also said he has "the intelligence of an empty ashtray."

Kim Jong Un has been intensifying his efforts to develop a long-range nuclear strike capability since the beginning of 2016. The more vulnerable he feels atop a weakening North Korea, the more he seeks a silver bullet to...

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The country has already been hit by four suicide bombings this year

Lions rescued from circuses and zoos in Latin America will get cargo plane ride to South Africa and live out their days in sanctuary park Thirty-three lions rescued from circuses in Peru and Colombia are being flown back...

Greece on Wednesday returned 12 Syrians, including a woman and her four children, to Turkey as part of a European Union-Turkey agreement aiming to stop the flow of refugees and migrants across the Aegean to Europe's more...

Venezuelan cities cleaned up from a night of looting and fiery protests Wednesday as government offices closed their doors for the rest of the week in the face of a worsening energy crisis that is causing daily blackouts...

Georgia is preparing to execute a man convicted in the 1998 killings of a central Georgia trucking company owner and his two children

Thailand's military government on Wednesday turned up the pressure on its opponents, filing a legal complaint against critics of a proposed new constitution and detaining 10 people in connection with social media posting...

Finding wild foods may be fashionable, but 'gangs' of commercial pickers are said to be making foraging unsustainable Poor old Sonata Sliuzaite only went to the woods to pick some mushrooms, an expedition that this week ...

The European Union's police mission in Kosovo conducted a major operation against an Albanian-Serb organized crime ring on Wednesday, officials said. Six people were arrested and authorities were hunting for a governing ...

The schools watchdog says private schools are ignoring legislation brought in two years ago, with segregation still happening.

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At least five people including a pregnant woman were killed and more than 10 injured early Wednesday on the front line in eastern Ukraine in the worst civilian loss of life there in months, separatist officials said. …...

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Melissa Reid, 22, was jailed for cocaine smuggling in 2013 and has been seeking to serve the rest of her sentence in the UK.

Opponents say the legislation discriminates against LGBT people