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Kemi Badenoch has defended her comments blaming “peasants” from “sub-communities” in foreign countries for the grooming gangs crisis. The Conservative leader faced criticism for her words last week, with Downing Street saying it was not language UK prime minister Sir…

India has celebrated its 76th Republic Day with a colourful parade displaying its military might and cultural diversity on a boulevard in the heart of the country’s capital. Tens of thousands of people lined the road on a cold Sunday…

The smiling face of President Alexander Lukashenko gazed out from campaign posters across Belarus as the country held an orchestrated election guaranteed to give the 70-year-old autocrat another term in power. “Needed!” the posters proclaim beneath a photo of Mr…

A Palestinian man was killed and seven people were wounded by Israeli fire overnight as crowds gathered in the hope of returning to the northern Gaza Strip under a fragile week-old ceasefire. In a separate development, President Donald Trump suggested…

Four female Israeli soldiers who were taken in the attack that sparked the war in Gaza have returned to Israel after Hamas militants paraded them before a crowd of thousands in Gaza City before handing them over to the Red…

Israel’s military has set up roadblocks across border towns and roads in a strategic valley in southern Lebanon, a day before the deadline for it to withdraw from the area under an agreement that halted its war with the Hezbollah…

Hamas militants handed over four captive female Israeli soldiers to the Red Cross in Gaza City on Saturday after parading them in front of a crowd. Israel released 200 Palestinian prisoners or detainees later in the day as part of…

A Pakistani court on Saturday sentenced four people to death for blasphemy, allegedly because they posted sacrilegious material on social media about Islamic religious figures and the Quran. Their lawyer said appeal preparations are underway. Under the country’s blasphemy laws,…

Rescuers pulled the bodies of a 23-year-old woman and a man believed to be her husband from under a collapsed apartment building in central Turkey on Saturday, state-run media said. Three others were rescued from the wreckage and being treated…

South Koreans are repurposing flower wreaths and K-pop light sticks as political protest tools amid the nation’s deepest political crisis in decades, sparked by President Yoon Suk Yeol’s short-lived martial law declaration in December. Hundreds of wreaths, predominantly directed at…