Sri Lanka’s Ranil Wickremesinghe has been sworn in as president, amid hopes that he will pull the country out of its economic suffering. The 73-year-old took his oath at the tightly-guarded parliament
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A congressional panel investigating last year’s Capitol riot is expected to argue that Donald Trump did nothing to reign in the mob of his supporters over 187 perilous minutes. The upcoming primetime
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US President Joe Biden has tested positive for Covid-19 and is isolating at the White House. The 79-year-old, who is fully-vaccinated and has twice received booster jabs, is experiencing “very mild symptoms”
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President Volodymyr Zelensky has suspended the head of Ukraine’s spy agency (SBU) and the prosecutor general, citing many cases of treason in the two powerful organisations. He said more than 60 former
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The Met Office says we could see Britain’s hottest recorded temperature within hours, an extraordinary milestone. So why are we seeing such brutal temperatures? Most climate scientists say the answer is climate
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All eight crew members are killed as a plane carrying military goods en route from Serbia to Bangladesh crashes near Kavala. All eight crew members were killed when a Ukrainian-operated cargo plane
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France has evacuated more than 14,000 people threatened by wildfires in the south-west, as fires also spread in Spain, Croatia and Greece. Authorities in France’s Gironde, a popular tourist region, have evacuated
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President Joe Biden says the US will remain an active and engaged partner in the Middle East, focusing on regional ties. The United States “will not walk away” from the Middle East
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It was a striking photograph. The US president and the man he’d called a pariah, bumping fists in the gilded splendour of Jeddah’s royal palace. Saudi Arabia was always going to be
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Thousands of firefighters are battling wildfires in Portugal, Spain and southwestern France, in the grip of a heatwave that shows no sign of easing. In northern Portugal, a pilot died when his
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