The death toll from a series of explosions in Equatorial Guinea on Sunday has risen to 98, officials say. Another 615 people were injured, with 299 still in the hospital. The blasts hit a mi... Read more
The Duchess of Sussex has said she found life within the British Royal Family so difficult that at times she “didn’t want to be alive anymore”. In a deeply personal TV inte... Read more
Pope Francis has arrived in Iraq for the first ever papal visit there, and his first international trip since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Covid and security fears have made this h... Read more
The Italian government has blocked the export of an Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine shipment to Australia. The decision affects 250,000 doses of the vaccine produced at an AstraZeneca facility in... Read more
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has launched an investigation into whether Apple’s terms for app developers are anti-competitive. It follows a series of complaints, in... Read more
Protesters have returned to cities across Myanmar, just hours after the country saw its bloodiest day since last month’s military coup. Some 38 people were killed on Wednesday with wit... Read more
Security has been ramped up at the US Capitol in response to “a possible plot to breach” the building. The move was prompted by intelligence that an unnamed militia group planned... Read more
The Duchess of Sussex has said Buckingham Palace could not expect her and Prince Harry to be silent if it was “perpetuating falsehoods about us”. In a clip of Oprah Winfrey... Read more
The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor has opened a formal investigation into alleged war crimes in the Palestinian territories. Fatou Bensouda said the probe would cover... Read more
South Korea’s first transgender soldier, who was discharged from the military for undergoing gender reassignment surgery, has been found dead at her home. The cause of death of Byun He... Read more
At least 10 people have been killed in Myanmar after fresh clashes between the security forces and demonstrators. There are reports of further deaths in cities around the country but these h... Read more
The US will have enough coronavirus vaccines for every adult by the end of May, President Joe Biden has said. This will be two months earlier than previously expected, but Mr Biden said the... Read more
French ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to three years in jail, two of them suspended, for corruption. The 66-year-old was found guilty of trying to bribe a magistrate by offe... Read more
The US has topped over 500,000 deaths in the Covid-19 pandemic. It will be the latest grim milestone for a country that has by far the highest death toll in the world from the virus. The US... Read more
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