Health Secretary Sajid Javid and Finance minister Rishi Sunak resign, leaving PM Boris Johnson’s gov’t in chaos. Two of Britain’s most senior Cabinet ministers have quit, a move that could spell the
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Once more, Russia advances. Once more, Ukraine pulls back. The fierce and protracted battle that had been predicted for Lysychansk was avoided, according to the regional governor, by a strategic withdrawal. Serhiy
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The US says the bullet that killed a Palestinian-American journalist was too badly damaged to reach a definitive conclusion about whether the origin was Israeli or Palestinian gunfire. However, findings from both
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A Chinese attack on Taiwan is not imminent, the top US general says, but the US is watching “very closely”. China is clearly developing the capability to attack at some point, but
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Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz took his first Formula 1 victory at the end of an extraordinary British Grand Prix packed full of incident and drama. The Spaniard benefited from questionable strategy calls from
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Several people have been shot in a shopping centre in the Danish capital Copenhagen, police say. Armed officers were sent to the Field’s mall, in the south of the city. It is
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“Poverty and desperation” led to the deaths of at least 50 migrants abandoned in a Texas lorry, Mexico’s president has said. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador blamed trafficking and “a lack of control”
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The Taliban is trying to establish its control over Afghanistan’s institutions, but there is a big grey area. Most of the country’s 70 or so diplomatic missions still functioning are doing so
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President Rashad al-Alimi has toured the Gulf looking for more funds for the country’s war-damaged economy. A truce between Yemen’s internationally recognised government and the Houthi rebels has helped bring a semblance
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Rohingya refugees living in squalid conditions in Bangladesh are demanding to go home to Myanmar. Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh staged demonstrations to demand repatriation back to Myanmar, where they fled
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