The UK has signed a long-awaited deal to hand control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed.

4-4 decision effectively blocks Oklahoma’s plans for nation’s first-ever publicly funded religious school

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Yaron Lischinsky, 30, was just days away from proposing to Sarah Milgrim, 26, who grew up in Kansas

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The woman was shot just before 4 a.m. outside the CIA’s gated entrance in McLean, Virginia.

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Police said the little girl was ‘manhandled by her father’

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‘My case was specifically politicized by the Biden administration,’ Jack Teixeira said, adding: ‘I think that I was used as a sacrificial lamb, and I was crucified to be made of as an example’

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A top court in Romania has unanimously rejected a request to annul the country's presidential election by the far-right losing candidate. 

Melania Trump unveiled an AI-narrated audiobook of her memoir “Melania” on Thursday, calling it “the future of publishing.”

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‘It's one more example of health care that they're trying to rip away,’ Rep. Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender member of Congress, tells The Independent

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President Trump made a series of claims about the killing of white farmers in South Africa, some of which are demonstrably false.

The US president had said the crosses were evidence of attacks on white farmers in South Africa.

The two people shot dead in Washington DC on Wednesday were Israeli embassy workers who were planning to get engaged in Jerusalem next week, it has since emerged.

One resident recalled the moment he rescued a pensioner from a car being swept away by floodwater after thunderstorms in Var, southeast France

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Western leaders have this week heavily criticised Israel’s ‘egregious’ actions in the Gaza Strip

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Conservationists warn that the charcoal boom is coming at a steep ecological cost.

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Exclusive: Cuts to spending will leave at least a million women and children at increased risk of violence, charities say

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The rock star and the president are both guys in their 70s with homes in New Jersey - but the similarities end there

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The two people shot and killed outside a Jewish museum in Washington were young staffers at the Israeli Embassy who were soon to be engaged

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The US sportswear giant says its price increases are part of "seasonal planning".

Twenty-seven rebels are reported to have been killed in a gunfight with security forces in Chhattisgarh.