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Protesters have stormed the office of Sri Lanka’s prime minister as police use tear gas on crowds. A nationwide state of emergency has been...

Thailand could soon introduce chemical castration in return for a reduced prison sentence for sex offenders. The bill, which the lower house passed in...

Japan has said farewell to its country’s its longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe, who was shot dead at a campaign rally last week. Long...

People swimming in the president of Sri Lanka’s pool say they will remain at the official residence in Colombo until Gotabaya Rajapaksa finally leaves...

The Kagarlytskyi family narrowly escaped Russian occupation in the Kyiv suburb of Irpin. After three months on the run, moving from one place to...

Sri Lankans are roaming through the ransacked presidential palace a day after it was stormed by thousands of people angry at the country’s worst...

Gunmen have shot dead 15 people and injured nine others in a tavern in the South African township of Soweto, police said. Armed with...

Thousands of protesters in Sri Lanka have broken through police barricades and stormed the president’s official residence. In one of the biggest anti-government marches...

Shinzo Abe’s body is being brought back to Japan’s capital after the former prime minister was murdered during a campaign speech. Mr Abe, 67,...

Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has died after being shot while giving a speech in the western city of Nara, state broadcaster NHK...

Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has been while giving a speech in the western city of Nara, according to reports. Public broadcaster NHK...

Weapons supplied by the West are starting to have an impact on the war in Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said. Ukrainian fighters are making...

The heads of MI5 and the FBI have used an unprecedented joint speech to warn that China is their biggest “game-changing challenge”, with the UK...

Beijing will introduce a vaccine mandate for certain venues – the first of its kind in China since the start of the pandemic, as...

Rescuers have found body parts in the search for hikers missing after a powerful avalanche killed at least seven people in Italy. Officials initially...

Whenever Oleksiy was planning a trip from his home in the occupied region of Kherson, he would come prepared with a “legend” for the...

Increasing number of pictures are appearing on Ukrainian social media showing a US-made rocket launcher being used against Russian targets. At the start of...

Russian troops are ratcheting up their efforts to secure full control of the entire Donbas area in eastern Ukraine – and from what we...

At least two people are reported to have been killed in a shooting at a July Fourth parade in a Chicago suburb, with witnesses describing...