A mother has gone on trial accused of kidnapping and selling her young daughter in South Africa.

An inquiry into the deadliest Channel crossing in history has heard that, despite multiple distress calls from people on board the boat, "no-one came to their rescue".

The American president has moved to align his Ukraine policy more with Russia than with the rest of the democratic world

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President Donald Trump was poised to impose 25% taxes on imports from Canada and Mexico Tuesday and to double to 20% his levies on Chinese products

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Prosecutors say she organised her daughter’s abduction in exchange for payment

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Witnesses said they saw the knifeman running out of the fast food joint trying to stab people

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Rashaan Wallace, 30, is in jail on a $50,000 bond

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Outraged parents complained after children came home with tattoos like ‘I heart my lord’ in Greenville, Texas

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Kroger said the alleged misconduct had nothing to do with its financials and did not involve any other Kroger employees

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Concern grows after Israel said it would block aid to Gaza unless Hamas accepted a new US proposal.

The trial of Robert E. Crimo III, 23, began February 24 and had been expected to last about a month with testimony from survivors and police

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Wien Hauptbahnhof was cleared while Austrian police investigated

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European leaders reaffirmed their support for Zelensky after tense Trump meeting

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Share prices rose nearly 20 per cent in Britain’s biggest weapons maker, BAE systems, mid European push to support possible Ukraine peace deal

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Tanya Zuvers has prayed someone ‘would cure her broken heart’

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Spokesperson for the Kremlin confirmed Trump’s position ‘aligns’ with the Kremlin’s

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‘CNN provided live coverage of President Trump’s Butler, PA rally in anticipation of news about his pick for Vice President,’ a CNN spokesperson told The Independent. ‘Any suggestion contrary to that fact is completely false.’

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At least one person has died and more than 80 buildings have been damaged in the blaze.

Howard Lutnick says the president's threat of blanket import taxes on his neighbours will proceed as planned.

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