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France's government is working hard to contain a national panic over bedbugs, as a Paris school becomes the latest building hit by a reported infestation.Senior officials from the health, economy and transport ministries are meeting on Friday at the prime minister's office to co-ordinate a p...
An American tourist has been arrested for allegedly smashing sculptures in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.Images shared by Israeli police show the two ancient Roman statues, dating from the 2nd Century, lying broken on the floor of the museum.Police say the man damaged the statues because ...
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President Joe Biden is under fire from both Republicans and Democrats after his administration announced new border wall construction in Texas.Mr Biden said he was unable to stop the work because the funding was signed off while Donald Trump was president.Members of his Democratic Party said walls d...
US President Joe Biden's administration is to build a section of border wall in southern Texas in an effort to stop rising levels of immigration.Around 20 miles (32km) will be built in Starr County along its border with Mexico, where officials report high numbers of crossings.Building a border w...
Nancy Pelosi has said she was ordered to leave her office in the US Capitol by the new interim House Speaker Patrick McHenry.The request came just hours after Mr McHenry was appointed acting Speaker. His Republican ally Kevin McCarthy was ousted from the role on Tuesday.Mrs Pelosi criticised the mov...
Kevin McCarthy has been toppled in a right-wing revolt - the first time ever that a US House of Representatives Speaker has lost a no-confidence vote. The final tally was 216-210 to remove the congressman as leader of the Republican majority in the lower chamber of Congress.Hardliners in his pa...
At least 21 people including several children have died after a bus crashed off a flyover near Venice and burst into flames, officials say.The electric bus broke through a barrier and plunged almost 15m (50ft) near railway tracks in Mestre, which is connected to Venice by a bridge.Five Ukrainians, o...
Pakistan's government has ordered all unauthorised Afghan asylum seekers - an estimated 1.7 million people - to leave the country by November.A spike in militant attacks along the two countries' border this year has escalated tensions.Pakistan has blamed border crossing attacks on Afghanista...
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Apple has blamed a bug in its operating system and updates to apps such as Instagram for its new iPhone 15 overheating.Since the latest model of the smartphone went on sale in September, some users have complained the devices are getting too hot to touch.Apple said there was a bug when updating iOS ...
Jupiter-sized "planets" free-floating in space, unconnected to any star, have been spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).What's intriguing about the discovery is that these objects appear to be moving in pairs. Astronomers are currently struggling to explain them.The telesco...
A cheap malaria vaccine that can be produced on a massive scale has been recommended for use by the World Health Organization.The vaccine has been developed by the University of Oxford and is only the second malaria vaccine to be developed.Malaria kills mostly babies and infants, and has been one of...
Ukraine is fighting Russia on many fronts. And just as progress on the battlefield is hard won, so too these days are its diplomatic gains.Since Russia's war last year, Western support for Kyiv has remained largely strong. But cracks are beginning to form in the pro-Ukraine alliance.The United S...
Egypt's health ministry says 38 people have been injured in a huge fire at a police complex in Ismailia.Twenty-four people have been treated in hospital for smoke inhalation along with two for burns.The interior minister has ordered an investigation into the fire, along with a "structural s...
Britain's biggest defence firm, BAE Systems, has won a £3.95bn ($4.82bn) contract to build a new generation of submarines as the security pact between the US, UK and Australia moves ahead.In March, the three countries announced details of the so-called Aukus pact to provide Australia with ...
A pro-China candidate has won presidential elections in the Maldives, defeating an incumbent who had strengthened relations with India.President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih accepted defeat in the run-off poll, congratulating his rival Mohamed Muizzu who won 54% of the vote. Mr Muizzu, mayor of the capital...
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The US government has avoided a federal shutdown after both House and Senate agreed on a short-term funding deal.A bill ensuring funding until 17 November received overwhelming support, and was signed into law by President Joe Biden minutes before a deadline.However, it excludes any new aid for Ukra...
The US government is on the brink of another shutdown with Congress poised to miss a Saturday midnight deadline to fund federal agencies.The fourth shutdown to occur over the past decade, it could significantly affect everything from air travel to national parks and marriage licenses.Most government...
Many astronomers are no longer asking whether there is life elsewhere in the Universe.The question on their minds is instead: when will we find it?Many are optimistic of detecting life signs on a faraway world within our lifetimes - possibly in the next few years.And one scientist, leading a mission...
A man in the US has been charged with leaking the tax returns of a "high-ranking government official" who is understood to be Donald Trump.Prosecutors said Charles Littlejohn, a contractor for the IRS - the US-wide tax body - stole the information and passed it on to a news organisation.He...
More than 100,000 people have fled the Nagorno-Karabakh region, Armenia says.It means that that almost the entire population of the ethnic Armenian enclave has left since Azerbaijan seized the region last week.Azerbaijan has said it wants to reintegrate the area and treat its residents as equals, bu...
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