El Nino to be ‘biggest for over a century’
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Italian scientists bet on octopus to fight crab invasion
21 August 2026
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UK PM urges ‘reflection’ after death of Cambridge professor
16 August 2026
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Europe
UK homes burnt, residents evacuated in fires
15 August 2026
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Europe
Explosion rocks ammunition factory near Rome
15 August 2026
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Europe Heatwave: More than 135m in Europe face 35°C plus
13 August 2026
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Europe
Western Europe logs hottest June–July on record
11 August 2026
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Ukrainian drone hits Belgorod
10 August 2026
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Kremlin critic Nadezhdin flees Russia for France
4 August 2026
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Spain, Morocco halt deadly rush on Spanish enclave after 49,000 cross in a day
31 July 2026
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Hitler birth house in Austria to become police station
The house where Adolf Hitler was born will be turned into a police station, Austria’s interior ministry announced Tuesday, after years of legal wrangling as the government looks to prevent the building from becoming a neo-Nazi shrine.
20 November 2019
Kamal seeks more Turkish investment in Bangladesh
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has sought more Turkish investment in Bangladesh’s various sectors as he attended the first day of the Bangladesh-Turkey Joint Economic Commission meeting in Ankara, an official release says.
20 November 2019
Hitler birth house in Austria to become police station
The house where Adolf Hitler was born will be turned into a police station, Austria's interior ministry announces, after years of legal wrangling as the government looks to prevent the building from becoming a neo-Nazi shrine.
20 November 2019
UK PM drops tax cuts to fund spending as polls nears
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said yesterday he was putting on hold further cuts in corporation tax and told voters he would pump the money into services such as health instead, addressing a central issue in the December 12 election.
18 November 2019
EU 2020 budget talks drag on because of disagreement
Talks setting the EU's budget for next year are going down to the wire because of disagreement between member states and the European Parliament, officials say.
16 November 2019
Trump helping climate fight!
Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg said Tuesday that US President Donald Trump’s climate change denialism was “so extreme” that it had helped galvanize the movement to halt long term planetary warming.
13 November 2019
Bushfire threat still high as Australia begins clean up
Australians yesterday began sifting through the ashes of hundreds of bushfires that have ravaged the country, relieved that their worst fears were unrealised -- but wary of a long and brutal summer ahead.
13 November 2019
UN chief seeks int’l accord on jihadists
UN chief Antonio Guterres yesterday called for an international accord on the fate of foreign jihadists being held in the Middle East, saying it was not up to Syria and Iraq “to solve the problem for everyone.
12 November 2019
Pneumonia deadliest child killer: aid groups
Pneumonia is the world’s deadliest child killer, with a “forgotten epidemic” claiming one young life every 39 seconds, international health and children’s agencies warned yesterday.
12 November 2019
Labour suffers ‘cyber attack’ ahead of polls
Britain’s main opposition Labour party yesterday said it had suffered a “large-scale cyber attack” which undermined some of its campaign efforts for next month’s election.
12 November 2019
Hillary slams UK for hiding report
Hillary Clinton yesterday said it was “shameful” that the British government had not published a delayed parliamentary report into possible Russian interference in British politics ahead of December elections.
12 November 2019
Macron: Global system in ‘unprecedented crisis’
French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday said that the global political system was in “unprecedented crisis”, urging new kinds of alliances and cooperation to solve the world’s problems.
12 November 2019
Morales leaves for Mexico amid unrest
Bolivia’s Evo Morales was en route to exile in Mexico yesterday, leaving behind a country in turmoil after his abrupt resignation as president.
12 November 2019
Farage withdraws Brexit threat to PM
Populist Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage yesterday withdrew his threat to challenge the governing Conservatives at every seat in next month’s election, in a boost for Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
11 November 2019
Spain’s repeat election fails to break deadlock
Spain’s Socialists faced tough talks to form a government yesterday after the party emerged on top but weakened from a repeat election which produced an even more divided parliament and propelled far-right Vox into third place.
11 November 2019
Police find 41 migrants alive in truck in Greece
Greek police found 41 migrants hiding in a refrigerated truck at a motorway in northern Greece yesterday, police officials said.
4 November 2019
US white supremacist arrested in Norway
Norwegian authorities have arrested a high-profile American white supremacist, hours before he was due to give a speech at a far-right conference in Oslo on Saturday.
4 November 2019
World in ‘colossal danger’ from nuclear weapons
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev says the world is in “colossal” danger from nuclear weapons held by global powers amid continued tensions since the end of the Cold War.
4 November 2019
UK's Johnson 'sorry' for Brexit delay
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologises for not taking Britain out of the European Union by October 31, while Brexit figurehead Nigel Farage says he will not stand in next month's general election.
3 November 2019
Chile president lifts state of emergency
Chilean President Sebastian Pinera yesterday ended a state of emergency that lasted more than a week amid mass protests, but demonstrations continued nonetheless.
28 October 2019