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England kept their Ashes hopes alive by beating Australia by three wickets in the third Test in another nerve-shredding Headingley finale.Harry Brook hit a superb 75 but it was left to bowlers Chris Woakes and Mark Wood to drag the hosts over the line in pursuit of 251.Brook's mature knock took ...
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The Dutch government has collapsed because of a disagreement between coalition parties over asylum policies, Prime Minster Mark Rutte has said.The four parties were unable to find agreement in crisis talks chaired by Mr Rutte on Friday.The government was set up a year and a half ago but the parties ...
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The US is planning to send Ukraine a cluster munitions package to help in its counteroffensive against Russia, US media reports.Ukraine has been asking for the weapons for months amid an ammunition shortage.Cluster munitions - which are banned by more than 100 countries - are a class of weapons that...
China says it will maintain a ban on some Japanese food imports over the plan to release water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean.China's customs administration said it would also implement radiation tests on food from other parts of the country.South Korea is also maintaini...
Hong Kong police have arrested four men whom they accuse of supporting people based overseas who "endanger national security".The local arrests come two days after Hong Kong put up bounties for eight pro-democracy activists living abroad.The bounties have sparked an overseas outcry and fol...
A court in India has given 10-year jail terms to 10 men for beating a Muslim man to death four years ago.Tabrez Ansari, 24, died days after being attacked by people who accused him of stealing a motorcycle in the eastern state of Jharkhand.A video showing Ansari being forced to say chants prai&...
The love story of a Pakistani woman and an Indian man who met through popular online game PUBG has been making headlines in India after the couple landed up in jail.Seema Ghulam Haider, 27, met Sachin Meena, 22, through the virtual gaming platform a couple of years ago and recently travelled to Indi...
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The atmosphere in Jenin refugee camp feels like one I have witnessed elsewhere - in Gaza, after wars with Israel.But this is the occupied West Bank; where the dynamics are very different. Now it seems like a fast descent into something far more dangerous is already happening.The destruction in the c...
The Ministry of Defence has confirmed for the first time that UK Special Forces are at the centre of a war crimes inquiry.The MoD on Wednesday abandoned an effort to restrict any mention of Special Forces' involvement in alleged war crimes in Afghanistan.The MoD's stance had been challenged ...
A controversial plan by Japan to release treated waste water from the Fukushima nuclear plant has sparked anxiety and anger at home and abroad.Since the 2011 tsunami which severely damaged the plant, more than a million tonnes of treated waste water has accumulated there. Japan now wants to start di...
Eighty-five years after Adolf Hitler ordered the destruction of Munich's main synagogue, construction workers have found rubble from the building in a nearby river.They uncovered columns from the synagogue and a stone tablet showing some of the Ten Commandments. The Jewish community and local fi...
There have been Israeli drone strikes and gun battles between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants in Jenin, after Israel launched a major military operation in the occupied West Bank.The Israeli military says at least seven militants have been killed.Palestinian health officials say five people...
New Zealand has become the world's first country to expand its ban on plastic bags in supermarkets to thin bags, which are typically used to hold fruits or vegetables.The move, which took effect on Saturday, is part of a wider government campaign against single-use plastics.Most shoppers already...
It's 9.15 pm in San Antonio on 17 June. At this time, young children would usually be asleep and their parents enjoying a balmy summer's evening. But not this year, when temperatures have reached triple figures in parts of Texas, and extreme humidity has made it feel hotter still, even after...
An area of tropical forest the size of Switzerland was lost last year as tree losses surged, according to new research.It means that a political pledge to end deforestation made at COP26 by world leaders is well off track.Some 11 football pitches of forest were lost every minute in 2022, with Brazil...
Leaders of India's governing party have criticised former US President Barack Obama for his recent remarks on Muslims in the country.Mr Obama said in an interview last week that India may "start pulling apart" if the rights of minorities weren't protected.He was responding to a que...
PhyoWaiHlaing, a 21-year-old wi-fi technician, had been missing for a week in July 2021 when his father received an anonymous phone call telling him to go to a bridge far from his neighbourhood in Myanmar's largest city, Yangon.There the street food vendor was told that his son had been arrested...
Naqeeb Khilji, a refugee who has lived in hotels with his wife and four children since 2021, said most of the Afghan families were "depressed and worried"More than 400 Afghan refugees have been told their accommodation in Essex hotels will end in August.The Home Office said they would have...
A senior high school student has died after an extinguisher exploded during a fire drill at his campus in Thailand.Twenty-one others at Rajavinit Mathayom School in Bangkok were injured in Friday's incident, said the city's governor. Seven were taken to hospital.The explosion had sent the ex...
Australia's cyber watchdog has called on Twitter, which is owned by multi-billionaire Elon Musk, to explain its handling of online hate.The country's online safety commissioner says Twitter has become the most complained about platform.Twitter has been 28 days to respond to the regulator or ...
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