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When a senior aide of Emmanuel Macron was filmed assaulting a young man and a woman on the fringe of a May Day protest in Paris, the president was visiting Australia. Now accused of a cover-up, Mr Macron appears to have had no inkling that the beating would trigger the most damaging crisis of his […]

Seven immigrant children who’d been separated from their families left a New York City social services centre Friday holding their mothers’ hands and carrying balloons, backpacks and stuffed animals. A woman from Guatemala held her 5-year-old son in her arms, more than two months after they were separated. He and his 15-year-old brother have been staying […]

Australia has barred foreign university students from interning in MPs’ offices following concerns about alleged Chinese espionage and interference in domestic affairs. The internships are arranged by the Australian National University, which gives course credits to participating students.  But foreign citizens have been barred from taking up the internships following complaints by some MPs about “behind-the-scenes […]

Ivanka Trump is shutting down her fashion business, which has struggled after she moved to Washington to work full time for her father. Abigail Klem, who took over as president of the brand last spring, informed its 18 employees on Tuesday that the company would be shutting down. Ms Trump is set to address the staff later in […]

Jerusalem authorities restricted access to one of Judaism’s holiest sites on Monday after a massive stone block from the Western Wall fell to the ground below, narrowly missing a worshipper. Mayor Nir Barkat said in a statement "the stone, weighing 100 kilograms (220 pounds), fell close to a woman who was praying… without hitting her". […]

It was late afternoon on a humid Saturday in June and Prayuth Jetiyanukorn, the abbot at a temple in Mae Sai, northern Thailand, was angry.  His concierge, Ekapol Chanthawong, had not returned to finish his shift after his regular coaching session with the ‘Wild Boars’ children’s football team. But as night fell, the abbot’s anger […]

White Helmets rescuers who were unable to escape Syria have told of their fear of reprisals from the regime after their colleagues were evacuated by its bitter enemy Israel. Some 100 civil defence workers and 300 members of their families were evacuated out of southern Syria over the weekend, in a complex international mission that […]

A newly opened shopping mall on Mexico City’s south side partly collapsed Thursday after structural problems led the mall’s operators to quickly evacuate the area. Miraculously, no injuries were reported. Officials said a support beam failed in a cantilevered office area on the top floors that stuck out from the main mall building. Restaurant worker Juan Ramon […]

North Korea has started to dismantle a key missile test site, in a sign that the country is prepared to obey a commitment it made to the US. The 38 North website, which monitors the country, said recent satellite images indicate the rogue state began dismantling key facilities at its Sohae Satellite Launching Station in the past two weeks. […]

Italy’s treatment of a group of asylum seekers rescued in the Mediterranean exposed simmering tensions within the country’s populist government on Friday. The 67 migrants were plucked from the sea earlier this week by an Italian-flagged merchant ship, then transferred to a coast guard patrol vessel and disembarked in the port of Trapani, Sicily, late […]