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Efforts have resumed to free the container ship blocking the Suez Canal, as fears it could take “weeks” force trapped boats to consider turning...

North Korea has fired an unidentified projectile off the east coast into the sea, South Korea says. Earlier, Japan said Pyongyang might have fired...

AstraZeneca has hit back after claims of a stockpile of 29 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine at a factory near Rome, saying the...

Benjamin Netanyahu has failed to secure a majority in Israel’s elections, leaving his future as prime minister uncertain. Mr Netanyahu fell short of the...

For the past five months the head of the Ethiopian government has adamantly denied the existence of Eritrean troops, together with their military hardware,...

Four Chinese officials will be sanctioned by the UK over “appalling violations” of human rights against Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang province, the foreign secretary...

Four Kenyan policemen will stand trial for murder after a judge ruled they have a case to answer in the death of British aristocrat...

Hundreds of people have been rescued and around 18,000 evacuated as record rain brought more extreme flooding to Australia’s east coast. Emergency services fear...

We’d been asked into the clinic of a camp called Al Hol to meet a young woman. Seventeen years old, we were told, and...

A strong earthquake has hit areas of Japan devastated by the tsunami 10 years ago, that saw thousands lose their lives. The quake hit...

The Tsehaye Elementary School in Shire, Ethiopia, offers some sort of sanctuary, a place of refuge for people on the run. But there is...

She had just come to collect her things.   It was January 2020. Vera Pekhteleva, a 23-year-old university student, had told her boyfriend their...

The co-creator of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine has said the technology behind it could soon be used to fight cancer too. While the vaccine has...

Even on a grey, drizzly day, the town hall of the third arrondissement in Paris is a fine building. Built in the 1860s, it...

Paris is among 16 regions of France facing new lockdowns from midnight tomorrow, the country’s prime minister Jean Castex has announced. He said the...

Amidst the turmoil and rancour in Brussels, there is one sure thing today – the name of AstraZeneca will be in the headlines again....

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has threatened to block vaccine exports to the UK and other countries with markedly higher rollouts of...

Companies in the UK “still cannot guarantee that their supply chains are free from forced labour” from the Uighur people in Xinjiang in China,...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging countries to continue using the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine – as global medical experts meet to discuss reports...