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Fumio Kishida, the Japanese prime minister, sacked his justice minister on Friday for joking that people in his role were only known for authorising executions,…

Control of the US Congress hung in the balance on Thursday as ballot-counting dragged on and attention shifted to the next big election — the…

Ukrainian troops pushed forward and a battle-scarred stretch of the front fell silent on Thursday, after Moscow ordered one of the war’s biggest retreats, though…

Pakistan will not be satisfied unless UN climate summit negotiators unlock emergency cash for the country to rebuild after this year’s devastating floods, its climate…

Tens of thousands of nurses in the United Kingdom will go on strike for the first time demanding better pay as the cost of living…

China would be willing to contribute to a mechanism for compensating poorer countries for losses and damage caused by climate change, its climate envoy Xie…

An earthquake of magnitude 5.6 in Nepal early on Wednesday killed four children and two adults, seriously injured five others as several houses collapsed in…

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said his forces would not yield “a single centimetre” in battles for the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk while Russian-installed officials said…

Republicans were favoured to wrest control of the US House of Representatives away from President Joe Biden’s Democrats based on early returns in Tuesday’s midterm…

A white supremacist who killed 51 Muslim worshippers at mosques in Christchurch in March 2019, the worst mass shooting in New Zealand’s history, has filed…