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A BREXIT DEAL is under threat if there is no progress in the next round of negotiations between the EU and the UK as talks are on the verge of collapse, Brussels sources have claimed.... Read more »

Philip Grigoryev, 26, was held on suspicion of strangling his partner, Arina, 24, with twine after a nighttime argument.... Read more »

The plan to reopen the industry, prepared by the organisation ProKoRe, suggests that sex positions which allow for a safe distance between faces are advisable.... Read more »

VLADIMIR Putin has thrown down the gauntlet to US President Donald Trump after Russia began construction of a hi-tech stealth bomber, armed with hypersonic weapons, which will rival the US-built B-2.... Read more »

RUSSIA has warned Donald Trump to back off China after he announced plans for a strict response to Beijing's proposed national security legislation for Hong Kong.... Read more »

CHINA'S leader Xi Jinping says the country is stepping up preparedness for military combat, in what will be seen as a chilling warning to the globe.... Read more »

Ivan Carter and his team transported the animals by plane and truck to the Zambeze Delta in Mozambique, an area which has been without the predators for 30 years due to poaching.... Read more »

EGYPT researchers made a stunning discovery at the Great Pyramid site that exposed the genius secret behind the construction of Pharaoh Khufu's monument.... Read more »

TENSIONS between China and India over their disputed border this month has sparked fresh concerns of escalation towards a conflict between the two major nuclear-armed powers in Asia.... Read more »

DONALD TRUMP announced on Tuesday that the United States was devising a strict response to China's proposed national security legislation for Hong Kong and that the plans would be revealed by the end of the week.... Read more »

THE US Navy has accused Russian fighter pilots of acting dangerously when jets intercepted a US reconnaissance aircraft over the Eastern Mediterranean yesterday.... Read more »

TWITTER has fact checked Donald Trump's account after claiming that it contained false information.... Read more »

CORONAVIRUS is either man-made or just a complete fluke of nature, a leading team of scientists have concluded.... Read more »

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced today that he was unable to visit his dying mother in her final weeks as he obeyed the Dutch coronavirus restrictions on visiting care homes.... Read more »

Costa Rica is the eighth country in the Americas to recognise same-sex marriage - a group that includes Brazil, Ecuador and Argentina, as well as Canada and the US.... Read more »

The unnamed mother, who is staying in the hotel after becoming stuck in Romania by the Covid-19 lockdown, reportedly threw her baby on the floor in a furious rage following a row with her partner.... Read more »

Protective measures in Europe include plexiglass shields between staff and customers in Portugal, marked-out social distancing lines in Belgium and removal of seating areas in Germany.... Read more »

Slum dwellers have received little or no government aid during the coronavirus so communities are coming together to help the most vulnerable. A mask-making initiative is one of dozens of projects across shanty towns from Brazil... Read more »

Eurowings flight EW9844 took off from Dusseldorf on Saturday and made the 730 mile journey to Olbia Airport. But as the A320 arrived in Sardinian airspace, officials told the pilots Olbia was closed.... Read more »

Aerial footage from above the Wetzlar IKEA car park in Germany showed hundreds of Muslims from the local mosque gathering to mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan.... Read more »

The Americas have surpassed Europe to become the new epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, the Pan American Health Organization said while calling on those countries to maintain movement restrictions to curb infections.... Read more »

The firm is poised to buy 50% of Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Group Holding, the parent of EV partner JAC Motors, for at least 3.5 billion yuan ($491 million), the people said on condition of anonymity as... Read more »

On Tuesday, Twitter added a warning phrase to Trump's tweet that called mail-in ballots "fraudulent" and predicted that "mail boxes will be robbed".... Read more »

Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of Huawei's founder, at Vancouver's airport in late 2018. The U.S. wants her extradited to face fraud charges. Her arrest infuriated Beijing, which sees her case as a political move... Read more »

The aim is to help countries and sectors worst hit by the COVID-19 pandemic recover quickly and protect the EU single market of 450 million people from being splintered by divergent economic growth and wealth levels... Read more »

Worries about Hungarian authoritarianism prove overblown, but are they hiding the real danger?... Read more »

There should not be one standard for everyone and another for senior advisers. And by that logic, Dominic Cummings does not deserve to be punished.... Read more »

A British government adviser’s refusal to resign points to a new resistance against left-wing media activism.... Read more »

Costa Rica became the first country in Central America and sixth in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage Tuesday.... Read more »

Activists have mounted a campaign against a policy that permits unlimited abortion of unborn children diagnosed with disabilities.... Read more »

WHO’s statement came as UK researchers working on the largest randomised HCQ trial called the Recovery Trial decided to go ahead with their study. “We saw no cogent reason to suspend recruitment for safety reasons,” said... Read more »

While the IMF’s most recent meddling gives yet another reason to put an end to it.... Read more »

Banks sent a letter to Google asking them to explain why YouTube comments mentioning the Chinese Communist Party’s internet propaganda division have been automatically deleted.... Read more »

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday the government will stage the Victory Day parade in about a month, after it was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.... Read more »

A different kind of Stockholm Syndrome.... Read more »

A harrowing video depicts the tragic final moments of a kayaker stranded at sea off the coast of New South Wales, Australia. Jeremy Worthy, 43, had posted the video to Facebook Sunday as a last-ditch rescue plea before... Read more »

Prahlad Jani, an Indian yogi who claimed he could survive without food or water, died at the age of 90 on Tuesday, according to a report.... Read more »

The Israeli government announced Tuesday that IDE Technologies has been awarded a $1.5 billion contract to build the world’s largest desalination plant, beating out China-based CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd. -- an announcement just weeks after Secretary of State... Read more »

A Canadian citizen who stole a fishing boat was apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol agents Monday in Maine, American officials said. ... Read more »

China is dismissing threats of sanctions from the Trump administration over Beijing's proposed national security law in Hong Kong, calling it a "nothingburger."... Read more »

Zambia’s president has pardoned two men who were serving 15-year sentences for having sex with each other, BBC News reports. That they were imprisoned for their relationship is emblematic of the wider issue of LGBTQ persecution... Read more »

An Ikea in Germany allowed some 800 Muslims to use its parking lot for a mass Eid prayer to commemorate the end of Ramadan on Sunday.... Read more »

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, obeying The Netherlands’ ban on nursing home visitations during the coronavirus pandemic, did not visit his ailing mother for weeks before her death earlier this month, according to local media reports... Read more »

A pigeon suspected of being trained as a Pakistani “spy” has been detained near a disputed border in India after officials discovered a coded ring attached to its foot, according to a report.... Read more »

A dog in Wuhan who waited three months in a hospital after its owner died from the coronavirus, has recently been given to a pet shelter, Tuesday reports say.... Read more »

Russia reportedly has started work on a stealth bomber capable of carrying hypersonic weapons. ... Read more »

The U.S. military announced Tuesday that Russian fighter jets have deployed to Libya to support Moscow’s private military contractors against the United Nations-backed government in Tripoli.... Read more »

A United Kingdom government minister resigned Tuesday after hearing Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s top adviser, Dominic Cummings, defend his 260-mile trip from London during the country’s coronavirus lockdown while showing symptoms of the virus.... Read more »

WHO officials renewed their praise for China and its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, citing Beijing's "openness" to the prospect of scientific inquires involving foreign experts into the origins of the contagion. ... Read more »

A Christian pastor in Wuhan, China -- where the coronavirus outbreak originated -- was pulled away by police Saturday during an evangelism event on Zoom, according to a Christian persecution watchdog.... Read more »

A Canadian politician says now is a “great time” to push forward on building a controversial oil pipeline because coronavirus prevention measures are limiting the size of protests. ... Read more »

Surgical masks have been reported to be washing up on Australia's east coast after a cargo ship lost dozens of containers during heavy seas over the weekend, according to officials. ... Read more »

The risks of reigniting coronavirus outbreaks are complicating efforts to fend off further misery for the many millions who have lost jobs, with a top health expert warning that the world is still in the midst... Read more »

Three young Bolivian boy were hospitalized earlier this month when they were stung by a Black Widow spider while tending goats in a small Bolivian village, a report Monday said.... Read more »

China’s “bat woman” researcher warns that the deadly coronavirus surfacing now is “just the tip of the iceberg” in terms of what humans may soon face without a global effort to prevent similar infectious outbreaks.... Read more »