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The charismatic anti-corruption campaigner who has declared his intention to run in a presidential election next March to unseat Putin is hoping to see protests in some 80 Russian cities with the main rallies in Putin's hometown of Saint Petersburg and th...

The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) warned of possible "hurricane conditions" by Friday night on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, home to Cancun and other Caribbean resorts.

Pharmacist Zameer Ghumra, believed to be of Arabic origin, reportedly told the children they should kill anyone who insulted Islam and instructed them to make only Muslim friends.

During a visit to a struggling company in the south-west of France, President Emmanuel Macron was caught on video discussing clashes outside between the police and workers protesting his economic policies.

The sentencing was only reported by Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency, which is believed to be close to Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, a hard-line force answerable only to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

If Putin decides to run, he is widely expected to win a landslide victory in the first round of the vote, because he will face no strong challenge.

The concert rampage by Stephen Paddock killed 59 and injured more than 500 people. Paddock, 64, killed himself as authorities closed in on him in his hotel room.

"I hate to tell you, Puerto Rico, but you've thrown our budget a little out of whack because we've spent a lot of money on Puerto Rico," Donald Trump said. "And that's fine. We've saved a lot of lives."

An official with Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) said he had died in Germany where he was undergoing medical treatment.

One lawsuit, filed on Monday in US District Court for the Southern District of Maryland on behalf of the Iranian Alliance Across Borders and six individuals, argues that restricting travel for citizens of predominantly Muslim countries violates the US Con...

The Malaysia Airlines jet with 239 people on board disappeared in March 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, sparking a massive underwater search in the remote southern Indian Ocean which ended in January.

Police have expressed scepticism at the ISIS claim, saying there were no links between Paddock and any foreign terror groups.

At least 50 people have been killed and more than 200 injured in the shooting at a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip.

Catalonia's leader Carles Puigdemont said the region won the right to break away from Spain, with his government claiming that 90 percent of voters backed independence in a banned referendum marred by clashes.

The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Abu Ghaith's argument that the evidence did not support his conviction for conspiring to murder Americans.

The US space agency said earlier this year that it was exploring a programme called the Deep Space Gateway, a multi-stage project to push further into the solar system.