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‘He was starving and thirsty and had been wandering the rubble for weeks.’

A lawyer received the sentence for selling calendars featuring rubber ducks, a symbol of Thailand’s pro-democracy movement.

The vehicles will be given to Ukrainian military and hospitals.

At least 7 dead after shooting at Hamburg Jehovah’s Witness hall A shooting at a Jehovah’s Witness meeting hall in Hamburg, Germany has left seven people dead and several others…

Clinging onto the past never helped anyone.

Mexico cartel turns in own men, apologises over US kidnappings and killings According to reports from Matamoros, a splinter group of the Gulf Cartel, known as the Scorpions Group, has…

President Xi Jinping starts historic third term  China’s President Xi Jinping has been granted a historic third term by the country’s rubber-stamp parliament, cementing his status as China’s most powerful…

Financial stocks take a hit as Silicon Valley Bank shares plummet Shares in Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) dropped sharply on Thursday as investors moved to withdraw their deposits. The drop…

The new rules will make it easier for member states to inject subsidies into key green tech products such as solar panels, heat pumps and wind turbines.

A couple admitted to disposing their dead teen son’s body behind a wall after lying that he had run away.

One of many protests against Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed judicial changes (Picture: Reuters)

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu had to be helicoptered in to the country’s international airport amid protests over his planned judicial reforms.

Demonstrators waved Israeli flags and used cars to shut off access to Ben Gurion airport’s departure area ahead of the PM’s planned trip to Rome.

In a ‘day of resistance to dictatorship’, activists blocked major road junctions and scuffled with police in Tel Aviv and other cities. A flotilla of paddleboards and kayaks were used for a bid to shut a shipping lane off the northern city of Haifa.

Yesterday’s disruption also hit visiting US defence secretary Lloyd Austin, whose schedule was rearranged to keep his engagements close to the airport.

Israel has seen some of its biggest demonstrations in years since plans were unveiled in January. If passed, they would curb the Supreme Court’s power and give the government more say over judicial appointments.

The government says reforms will strengthen democracy, but critics say it will undermine it and politicise the judiciary.

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Youngsters blocked the entrances to universities and secondary schools.

Emmanuel Macron and Rishi Sunak want to ‘fortify’ Nato.

Shots were fired inside a building used by Jehovah’s Witnesses in the northern German city of Hamburg on Thursday evening, and an unspecified number of people were killed or wounded, police said.

Businesses can buy so-called carbon credits to balance out their own emissions.

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The development raises the prospect of male couples having their own children.

The hours-long outage was caused due to a ‘technical issue’.

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A federal judge ruled that the Biden administration’s ‘catch and release’ policy violates immigration law.

The mum-of-two had been responsible for the entire upkeep of the family home.

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Police in the ex-Soviet state of Georgia used tear gas and stun grenades early on Wednesday to break up a protest outside Parliament against a draft law on “foreign agents”.