Barbados has announced its intention to remove Queen Elizabeth as its head of state and become a republic. “The time has come to fully leave our colonial past behind,” the Caribb... Read more
The rival government in eastern Libya has submitted its resignation after a number of protests over deteriorating living conditions and corruption. At the weekend demonstrators in the city o... Read more
A jailed Belarusian opposition leader has said she feared for her life when security officers threw a bag over her head during an attempt to deport her. Through her lawyer, Maria Kolesnikova... Read more
Scientists and health professionals have raised doubts about Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s “Operation Moonshot” plan for mass coronavirus testing. The PM hopes millions of... Read more
A day after a Belarus opposition leader was seen being bundled into a van by masked men, she has been involved in dramatic scenes at the border. State media say Maria Kolesnikova was detaine... Read more
The last two reporters working in China for Australian media have flown home after a five-day diplomatic standoff. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Bill Birtles and the Austra... Read more
The UK is entering a “period of particular concern” as the number of coronavirus cases rise across the country, the housing secretary says. Robert Jenrick said “we all have... Read more
Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange appeared in the dock at London’s Old Bailey as his fight against extradition to the US resumed. The 49-year-old, who has been in Belmarsh Prison for... Read more
The government will introduce a new law that could change post-Brexit customs plans with the EU – but No 10 denied it would “tear up” the existing treaty. The two sides agr... Read more
Russia’s poisoned opposition figure Alexei Navalny is out of an induced coma and his condition has improved, says the Berlin hospital treating him. Doctors say he is responding to verb... Read more
Witnesses in Belarus say they saw a leading opposition figure being bundled into a minibus in Minsk and driven away, according to local media. Police have denied detaining Maria Kolesnikova... Read more
Officials have blamed a gender reveal party for one of several wildfires raging in the US state of California. A “smoke-generating pyrotechnic device” at the event sparked the El... Read more
A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after one person died and seven others were injured in stabbings across Birmingham. A 27-year-old man was arrested at an address in the Selly O... Read more
Police in Lacey, Washington, have shot dead a man suspected of fatally shooting a right-wing activist during protests in Oregon, officials say. Michael Reinoehl, 48, was being investigated f... Read more
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