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15/10/2018 Turkey has said an “inspection” of the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul is expected to take place late on Monday afternoon, nearly two weeks after Jamal Khashoggi disappeared there.
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15/10/2018 A prominent ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel has dismissed speculation over his future and insisted he will work to keep supporting the German leader’s national government.
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15/10/2018 It took rescuers two days to recover the battered bodies of nine climbers, including one of the world’s best, who died in Nepal’s worst mountaineering disaster in recent years, authorities have said.
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15/10/2018 Actor Alec Baldwin has urged voters to “overthrow” the US government led by Donald Trump at the ballot box.
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15/10/2018 North and South Korea have agreed to hold a ceremony on a project to connect their railways and roads.
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15/10/2018 Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappeared almost two weeks ago while on a visit to the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.
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15/10/2018 US president Donald Trump has backed off his claim that climate change is a hoax but said he does not know if it is manmade.
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15/10/2018 Rescuers have retrieved the bodies of five South Korean climbers and their four Nepalese guides who died in a storm that destroyed their base camp on Gurja Himal mountain.
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15/10/2018 German chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative allies have lost their absolute majority in Bavaria’s state parliament by a wide margin in a regional election, a result that could cause more turbulence within the national government.
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14/10/2018 Three people have died after they were hit by a small plane in central Germany as it attempted to take off from an aborted landing.
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14/10/2018 German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative allies are on course to lose their absolute majority in Bavaria’s state parliament by a wide margin after a regional election that could cause more turbulence in the national government, exit polls indicated.
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14/10/2018 A constitutional amendment that prohibits people from living in public areas takes effect next week in Hungary.
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14/10/2018 A weakened hurricane Leslie has slammed into the coast of Portugal, leaving 27 people injured as it uprooted trees, brought down power lines and smashed store windows with gusting winds and heavy rain.
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14/10/2018 Saudi Arabia has warned it will respond to any “threats” against it following President Donald Trump’s warning of “severe punishment” over the disappearance of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi.
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14/10/2018 Kremlin opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been released from jail after serving 50 days on two consecutive sentences for organising unsanctioned protests.
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14/10/2018 Pope Francis has praised two of the towering figures of the 20th-century Catholic Church as prophets who shunned wealth and looked out for the poor as he canonised Pope Paul VI and martyred Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero.
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14/10/2018 Israel’s prime minister has threatened “very painful blows” against Gaza’s Hamas rulers if they do not halt protests along the perimeter fence that have led to clashes with Israeli troops.
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14/10/2018 At least 22 migrants, including several children, have been killed in a truck accident in Turkey, the country’s official news agency said.
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14/10/2018 Pope Francis has declared Pope Paul VI and killed Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero saints, reciting in Latin the rite of canonisation at the start of Mass in St Peter’s Square.
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14/10/2018 Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has renewed his pledge to push for a revision to the country’s war-renouncing constitution, in which he wants the military explicitly mentioned.
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14/10/2018 American pastor Andrew Brunson, recently freed after nearly two years of detention in Turkey, asked God for “supernatural wisdom” for President Donald Trump during a prayer in the Oval Office.
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14/10/2018 Melania Trump has explained why she wore a jacket that said “I really don’t care, do u?” on a trip to visit migrant children who had been separated from their parents.
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13/10/2018 American pastor Andrew Brunson, recently freed after nearly two years of detention in Turkey, has asked God for “supernatural wisdom” for President Donald Trump.
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13/10/2018 Pope Francis has defrocked two more Chilean bishops accused of sexually abusing minors, and to show greater transparency about how he is responding to the church’s global sex abuse crisis, he publicly explained why they were removed.
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13/10/2018 Tens of thousands of people have protested against racism and discrimination in Berlin, a demonstration that came amid rising concerns about Germany’s increasingly confident far right.
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13/10/2018 Polish police used tear gas and a water cannon against right-wing extremists who were trying to block the first equality parade held in the city of Lublin in eastern Poland.
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13/10/2018 A car carrying migrants has collided with a truck in northern Greece – killing 11 people, police said.
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13/10/2018 Turkish officials have an audio recording of the alleged killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi from the Apple Watch he wore when he walked into the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul over a week ago, a pro-government Turkish newspaper says.
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13/10/2018 Twelve people are feared dead in a cyclone shelter swamped by a landslide caused by heavy rains in eastern India, officials said.
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13/10/2018 Seven people, including South Korean climbers, were killed and two more are missing on Gurja Himal mountain after a strong storm swept through their base camp, Nepalese police said.
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13/10/2018 Torrential rains have triggered flash floods and landslides on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing at least 22 people – mostly children at a school, and leaving 15 others missing, officials said.
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13/10/2018 Palestinians in the northern West Bank say a woman has been killed after being struck in the head by a stone thrown by Israeli settlers.
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13/10/2018 Five South Korean climbers and four Nepalese guides are missing on Gurja Himal mountain after a strong storm swept through their base camp, officials said.
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13/10/2018 Search-and-rescue teams found at least one body in Mexico Beach, the ground-zero town nearly obliterated by Hurricane Michael, an official has said.
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12/10/2018 US President Donald Trump has said he will speak to Saudi Arabia’s King Salman about the disappearance of Saudi writer and US resident Jamal Khashoggi.
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12/10/2018 A Turkish court on Friday convicted an American pastor of terror links but released him from house arrest and allowed him to leave the country.
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12/10/2018 Search and rescue teams have been looking for victims dead or alive in the flattened neighbourhoods or Florida after Hurricane Michael left a trail of devastation.
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12/10/2018 At least 34 people have died in mudslides triggered by torrential rains in a mountainous area of eastern Uganda, a Red Cross official has said.
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12/10/2018 Israeli forces shot dead six Palestinians on Friday, four of them in a single incident, in one of the deadliest days in months of mass protests along the security fence separating Gaza and Israel, Gaza’s health ministry said.
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12/10/2018 Argentina’s top criminal court has confirmed a prison sentence against former president Carlos Menem.
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12/10/2018 Facebook says hackers accessed data from 29 million accounts as part of the security breach disclosed two weeks ago.
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12/10/2018 Nine people, including one top referee and three agents, have been arrested just three days into Belgium’s biggest football scandal in decades.
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12/10/2018 French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has met with former White House strategist Steve Bannon and signalled her interest in his project to help European populist parties.
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12/10/2018 Melania Trump has said she loves her husband and has “much more important things to think about” than allegations he cheated on her.
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12/10/2018 More than 900,000 homes and businesses in Florida, Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas are without power in the wake of Hurricane Michael.
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12/10/2018 A Turkish court has convicted an American pastor at the center of a Turkish-American diplomatic dispute of terror charges, but has released him from house arrest and allowed him to leave Turkey.
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12/10/2018 At least 34 people have died in mudslides triggered by torrential rains in a mountainous area of eastern Uganda that is prone to such disasters, the country’s Red Cross has said.
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12/10/2018 Turkey’s government has reportedly told US officials it has audio and video proof that missing Saudi Arabian writer Jamal Khashoggi was killed and dismembered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
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12/10/2018 Hundreds of relatives, friends and colleagues of Bulgaria journalist Viktoria Marinova have attended her funeral in her native town of Ruse.
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12/10/2018 Pik Botha, the last foreign minister of South Africa’s apartheid era and a contradictory figure who staunchly defended white minority rule but eventually recognised that change was inevitable, has died aged 86.
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12/10/2018 An American pastor at the heart of a diplomatic dispute between Turkey and the United States is back in court.
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12/10/2018 Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Washington Cardinal Donald Wuerl after he became entangled in two major sexual abuse and cover-up scandals.
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12/10/2018 The suspect arrested over the death of a Bulgarian television journalist has confessed to the attack but denies raping and robbing her, prosecutors in Germany have said.
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12/10/2018 The remains of a German-American who invented the first submarine able to dive and resurface by itself have been exhumed in Panama.
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12/10/2018 Hurricane Michael’s pounding waves and winds have obliterated row after row of beachfront homes after the Category 4 hurricane slammed ashore on the Florida Panhandle.
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11/10/2018 Search and rescue teams are trying to help survivors after Hurricane Michael wreaked “unimaginable destruction” on parts of Florida.
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11/10/2018 First lady Melania Trump said she thinks she is “the most bullied person” in the world based on what “people are saying” about her.
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11/10/2018 Eight people have died after a severe cyclone damaged homes and blew down trees and power lines in eastern India.
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11/10/2018 Malaysia’s new government has announced it will abolish the death penalty for all crimes and halt pending executions.
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11/10/2018 The most powerful hurricane on record to hit Florida’s Panhandle has left widespread destruction and at least two people dead as it crossed Georgia toward the Carolinas.
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11/10/2018 Two astronauts from the US and Russia have made an emergency landing after a booster rocket carrying them to the International Space Station failed after launch.
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11/10/2018 Two astronauts from the US and Russia are making an emergency landing after a booster rocket carrying them to the International Space Station failed after launch.
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11/10/2018 Turkey’s president has increased his pressure on Saudi Arabia over the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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11/10/2018 This weekend’s state election in Bavaria has been casting a long shadow over German politics for the past year — and the aftershocks could cause more turbulence for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s struggling national government.
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11/10/2018 The record-breaking Hurricane Michael is making its way towards the Carolinas after leaving widespread destruction in Florida. As daylight hits on Thursday, residents will begin to take stock of the enormity of the disaster.
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11/10/2018 A severe cyclone damaged mud huts and uprooted trees and electric poles in eastern India where authorities have moved nearly 300,000 people to higher ground.
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11/10/2018 The most powerful hurricane on record to hit Florida’s Panhandle has left wide destruction and at least one person dead as it crossed Georgia toward the Carolinas.
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10/10/2018 A limousine service operator is solely responsible for a troubled limo being on the road during a crash that killed 20 people, the New York State Police superintendent says.
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10/10/2018 The second suspect in the Salisbury nerve agent attack is a celebrated local hero in his home village.
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10/10/2018 Hurricane Michael has slammed into the Florida Panhandle with potentially catastrophic winds of 155 mph.
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10/10/2018 US President Donald Trump is demanding answers from Saudi Arabia about the disappearance of a well-known Saudi writer and government critic.
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10/10/2018 Cristiano Ronaldo’s new Las Vegas lawyer has said claims that the football star raped a woman are “complete fabrications” and the encounter was consensual.
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10/10/2018 The operator of a limousine company involved in a fatal crash in New York state has been arrested.
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10/10/2018 France’s highest court has overturned a ruling that required about 1,700 women around the world to pay back compensation they received over rupture-prone breast implants.
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10/10/2018 Dozens of passengers were killed when their bus left the road, rolled down a slope and crashed in Kenya.
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10/10/2018 Chinese authorities have changed the law to provide a legal basis for internment camps in the western region of Xinjiang where up to one million Muslims are being held.
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10/10/2018 The two men suspected of poisoning Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal in Salisbury followed their victim when all three were in the Czech Republic in 2014, it has been reported.
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10/10/2018 First lady Melania Trump has said women who make accusations of sexual abuse “need to be heard” and supported – but so do men.
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10/10/2018 Pope Francis has compared abortion to hiring a hitman to “take out a human life to solve a problem”.
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10/10/2018 The leading edge of Hurricane Michael has hit the Florida coast as an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm.
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10/10/2018 A man has been arrested in Germany over the rape and killing of a Bulgarian journalist whose work highlighted corruption in the East European country.
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10/10/2018 A Bangladeshi tribunal has sentenced 19 people to death and 19 others to life in prison over a deadly attack at a political rally of then-opposition leader and now prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
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10/10/2018 Dozens of police raids have taken place in Belgium and six other European nations in a vast probe into fraud and match-fixing in football.
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10/10/2018 Fifty people have died after a bus crashed in the western Kenyan town of Kericho.
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10/10/2018 A man has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of the rape and killing of a Bulgarian investigative journalist Viktoria Marinova, officials said.
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10/10/2018 Hurricane Michael has become an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm, US experts have warned.
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10/10/2018 South Korea’s foreign minister says Seoul is considering lifting some of its unilateral sanctions against Pyongyang to create more momentum for diplomacy aimed at improving relations and defusing the nuclear crisis.
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10/10/2018 A Turkish newspaper has published the names and photographs of 15 Saudi nationals who allegedly arrived in Istanbul on two private jets the day journalist Jamal Khashoggi went missing.
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10/10/2018 US president Donald Trump has said he is considering five candidates to take over from UN ambassador Nikki Haley after she announced her resignation.
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10/10/2018 A fast and furious Hurricane Michael sped towards Florida on Tuesday night with 120mph winds and a potential storm surge of 13 feet, giving tens of thousands of people little time to get out or board up.
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09/10/2018 Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka has said she will not be replacing Nikki Haley as the US ambassador to the United Nations despite her father saying she would be “incredible” in the role.
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09/10/2018 Hurricane Michael is speeding towards the Florida Panhandle with 120 mph winds and a potential storm surge of 13 feet.
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09/10/2018 US President Donald Trump has said his daughter Ivanka would be an “incredible” replacement for departing UN ambassador Nikki Haley.
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09/10/2018 US President Donald Trump has accepted the resignation of his UN ambassador Nikki Haley.
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09/10/2018 About 120,000 people along the Florida Panhandle have been ordered to clear out as Hurricane Michael picks up steam in the Gulf of Mexico and closes in with winds of 110mph and a potential storm surge of 12ft.
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09/10/2018 Donald Trump has said UN ambassador Nikki Haley will leave his administration “at the end of the year”.
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09/10/2018 Turkey says it will search the Saudi consulate in Istanbul as part of an investigation into the disappearance of a missing Saudi contributor to the Washington Post, a week after he vanished during a visit there.
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09/10/2018 The wife of the former Interpol president who disappeared in China says she received a threatening phone call warning of agents coming for her while she fights for information about her husband’s fate.
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09/10/2018 Rapper Kanye West has been invited to the White House.
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09/10/2018 A fire at an ammunition depot in Ukraine has forced the evacuation of more than 10,000 people, officials said.
