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The German chancellor has consistently spoken out against anti-Semitism, has previously visited  Dachau and Buchenwald camps and has been to  Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem four times

The ‘mega-fire’ is roughly 60km across, and US and Canadian specialists have arrived in Australia to start waterbombing the area

Vernon Unsworth is suing over tweets Musk made in 2018, after Unsworth told Musk to ‘stick his submarine where it hurts’

This is the second deadly shooting at a US military installation this week, and the circumstances of the episode remain unclear

Thunberg reached Spain after completing a voyage that included a 21-day catamaran voyage across the Atlantic, to reach the conference

The French finance minister says any international tax rules must be binding and that Europe should revive the EU digital tax if OECD reform fails

With committees working through the weekend, drafting the articles of impeachment into Donald Trump could start by Thursday

Igor Kolomoisky, a Ukrainian billionaire who had ties to President Volodymyr Zelensky, also said he was not planning to meet Giuliani

Debate on National Health Service now more important for voters than Brexit

World Health Organisation's director-general Ghebreyesus calls rapid rise in global deaths of vaccine-preventable disease ‘an outrage’

Mugabe officially left $10m, but reports have said he was worth as much as $1bn. His estate shows not a single foreign investment

Narratives spread on social networking sites were used to justify military intervention in democratic processes

The United States president's request that Zelensky probe the activities of Joe Biden's son Hunter has sparked an impeachment probe in the US

Trump faces the possibility of becoming only the third US president ever impeached by Congress

Cyber security NGO NetBlocks estimated the total losses to the Iraqi economy at $951 million

As President Bashar al-Assad's forces deploy towards the northern border, is the Kurdish minority giving up on autonomy?

Violent protests have broken out in several Arab countries since early 2010 and turned into bloody civil wars in Syria, Yemen and Libya

A new government is getting 'tough' on immigration – but local organisations provide crucial support

The strategy seems to be a middle ground between Facebook's controversial tolerance of proven lies in ads and Twitter's decision to ban them

The West failed to defend the Arab Spring. It can’t afford to let Syria’s dictator crush the Kurds

Participants at the People’s Brics meeting in Brazil encouraged grassroots resistance to fight for democracy

American parents are no longer satisfied with traditional gender reveal methods

Gordon Sondland says he followed the president's orders in seeking a "quid pro quo" deal for Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden

Syrian regime and Russian air strikes on Saturday killed 19 civilians, eight of them children, in the country's last major opposition bastion, a war monitor said.

The father of a 23-year-old woman from Uttar Pradesh's Unnao, who died at a hospital in Delhi during treatment for burn injuries she suffered after she was set on fire by men accused of raping her, has said he wants the accused to be "shot dead".

Washington has resumed talks with the Taliban in Qatar, both sides said, three months after President Donald Trump abruptly halted diplomatic efforts that could end America's longest war.

Tesla co-founder Elon Musk was cleared of defamation on Friday by a jury in Los Angeles over a tweet in which he labelled a British caver "pedo guy".

Out of control bushfires forced residents in eastern Australia to flee their homes on Saturday, as other parts of the country braced for a heatwave due next week.

Oil and gas groups were accused on Saturday of seeking to influence climate talks in Madrid by paying millions in sponsorship and sending dozens of lobbyists to delay what scientists say is a necessary and rapid cut in fossil fuel use.

US President Donald Trump on Friday pulled back on his stated plans to designate Mexican drug cartels as terror groups, saying he was doing so at the request of his counterpart Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

A British teenager has pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of a six-year-old French boy, who was thrown from the 10th floor viewing platform at London's Tate Modern art gallery.

President Donald Trump says that Saudi Arabia's king had called to express condolences over what the monarch termed the "barbaric" killing of three people on a US navy base - allegedly by a Saudi national.

The gunman who killed three people at a US Navy base in Florida before being shot dead by police on Friday was a Saudi national, US media reports.

Boris Johnson has come under fire for avoiding a set-piece television interview and faced accusations of misleading Britain about his Brexit deal, as he prepared to face a final general election debate with his main challenger.

The husband and son of a slain Maltese journalist says she had lived in fear as she investigated government corruption, at the start of a highly scrutinised inquiry into her death on Friday.

The incident is unlikely to affect Washington's close relations with Riyadh, with both governments seeking military and diplomatic cooperation to counter Shiite power Iran.

Tehran announced the release of Iranian scientist Massoud Soleimani from the United States shortly before Washington declared American researcher Xiyue Wang was returning home.

The ICJ lawsuit was brought by Gambia, a tiny, mainly Muslim West African state that alleges Myanmar breached the UN's Genocide Convention with its bloody 2017 crackdown on the Rohingya.

Late Friday, armed men in pick-up trucks attacked a large building where protesters had been camped out for weeks near the capital's Al-Sinek bridge.

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said that around 700 sites had been identified globally with low oxygen levels -- up from only 45 in the 1960s.

The woman was on her way to board a train in Unnao district of northern Uttar Pradesh state to attend a court hearing over her rape when she was doused with kerosene and set on fire.

In a letter to Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, White House counsel Pat Cipollone called the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry 'completely baseless'.

Trump was reiterating a position long held by his administration, including David Malpass when he was a Treasury Department official before his election as the current head of the World Bank.

Three people were killed and eight others were injured in the shooting which took place in a classroom building at Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida.

Thunberg, who sparked a global youth-led protest movement after striking outside the Swedish parliament last year, said that asking children to skip school to protest inaction by governments on climate change was “not a sustainable solution”.

The Russian branch of the World Wildlife Fund said climate change was to blame, as unusually warm temperatures prevented coastal ice from forming.

The shooting, which took place at Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida, left seven people injured including two sheriff's deputies who responded to the attack, one of whom was shot in the knee, the other in the arm.

 Air strikes by Syrian government and Russian forces killed at least 20 people in rebel-held northwestern Syria on Saturday, activists and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The post Air strikes kill at least 20 in Syria’s Idlib – Observatory, activists appeared first on SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport […]

The leak of classified UK-U.S.trade documents online, tied to a previous Russian disinformation campaign, has all the hallmarks of an attempt to interfere in Britain's upcoming election, a British minister said on Saturday. The post UK minister says concerned about election interference after leak of documents appeared first on SABC News - Breaking news, special […]

A giant bush fire on the edge of Sydney, which has blanketed the city in smoke causing a spike in respiratory illnesses and the cancellation of outdoor sports,will take weeks to control but will not be extinguished without heavy rains, firefighters said. The post Giant fire near Sydney may burn for weeks appeared first on […]

A Saudi Air Force second lieutenant killed four people and wounded eight others on Friday in an unexplained shooting rampage at a US Navy base in Florida where he was training, US officials told Reuters. The post FBI investigation into Navy base shooting “ongoing” appeared first on SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, […]

 The White House said on Friday it would refuse to take part in hearings in the US House of Representatives set for next week that will consider what articles of impeachment to bring against President Donald Trump. The post White House tells Democrats it will not participate in Trump impeachment hearing appeared first on SABC […]

President Donald Trump faced a deadline on Friday set by United States House of Representatives Democrats as they deliberate over what charges to bring against him after Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked the Judiciary Committee to draft formal articles of impeachment. The post Trump faces deadline as House Democrats craft articles of impeachment appeared first on […]

The last time Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi travelled to western Europe, she was feted as the freshly elected civilian ruler of a fledgling democracy who had brought an end to half a century of military dictatorship. The post The Lady and The Hague: Myanmar leader Suu Kyi courts home audience appeared first on […]

Lebanon said on Friday it had asked friendly states to help finance imports of essential goods, as sources said France is planning an international meeting to mobilise support for its former colony's deep economic crisis. The post Lebanon appeals for import aid; France to hold meeting appeared first on SABC News - Breaking news, special […]

Indian police shot dead four men on Friday who were suspected of raping and killing a vet in the southern city of Hyderabad last week, a local police official told Reuters. The post Indian police shoot dead four men suspected of raping vet appeared first on SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, […]

Police fired tear gas at protesters in the center of Paris on Thursday and public transport ground to a near halt in one of the biggest strikes in France for decades, aimed at forcing President Emmanuel Macron to ditch a planned reform of pensions. The post French police fire tear gas at strikers challenging Macron […]