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Turkey’s two-year state of emergency imposed after a failed coup is due to expire on Wednesday night, but critics of the government say new powers obtained by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan make the move "cosmetic". The state of emergency, which allowed the president to rule by decree, was called on July 20, 2016 after a […]

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that talks on Sunday between US and North Korean officials to discuss the return of remains of US service members killed in the 1950-53 Korean War "resulted in firm commitments." It was the first time in nine years that US and North Korean generals held talks. The two […]

The German interior minister is facing calls to resign following the suicide of a migrant he joked about. Horst Seehofer threatened to bring down Angela Merkel’s government in a major rift over migrant policy earlier this month. But now he is facing a crisis of his own after a remarkably ill-judged joke at the expense […]

A six-year-old girl who was recorded crying in a detention centre after being separated from her mother at the US-Mexico border has been reunited with her. The mother, Cindy Madrid, who had fled from El Salvador, was reunited with her daughter Alisson at Houston airport after weeks apart. Last month Alisson was heard on a tape published […]

Nato leaders will try on Thursday to move beyond the demands of Donald Trump, the US president, for higher defence spending, and focus on ending the long war in Afghanistan, in the second day of a summit in Brussels underscored by transatlantic tensions. On a trip that will also take Trump to Britain and to Helsinki […]

A US secret service agent who suffered a stroke during Donald Trump’s visit to his Turnberry golf resort has died. Nole Edward Remagen was serving as part of the US president’s security detail for his UK trip when he suffered the stroke on Sunday. He had been receiving treatment at a hospital in Scotland but died from the […]

Click:chinese lantern film prop The moment she was finally reunited with her family after years of slavery under Islamic State should have been filled with joy, but instead it was one of the worst days of Soham’s life. The 23-year-old Yazidi woman spent the five-hour ride from Mosul to Dohuk in Iraqi Kurdistan in anguish, […]

An "unprecedented" heatwave in Japan has killed at least 65 people in one week, government officials said Tuesday, with the weather agency now classifying the record-breaking weather as a "natural disaster." In the week to Sunday at least 65 people died of heat stroke while 22,647 people were hospitalised, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency said in […]

Cincinnati schoolteacher Bryce Carlson set a record for the fastest solo unsupported west-east row across the North Atlantic ocean on Saturday and also became the first US citizen to complete the feat. The 37-year-old landed at the port of St Mary’s in the Scilly Isles, off the coast of south-west England, some 38 days six hours and 49 […]

A 10-foot shark which caused panicked tourists to flee the water a packed beach in Majorca was swimming in the shallows because it had been stung by a ray, an autopsy revealed on Friday. Police closed the beach early on Thursday afternoon as the fish swam around just a few feet from the shoreline, watched […]