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Costas Simitis, the former prime minister of Greece who was the architect of the country joining of the euro, has died aged 88, state TV has reported. Mr Simitis was taken to hospital unconscious in the city of Corinth early…

New Orleans has mourned, wept and danced at a vigil along the famous thoroughfare where 14 people were killed when a truck was driven into revellers celebrating the new year. A makeshift memorial has been set up on Bourbon Street,…

Jimmy Carter’s extended public farewell has begun in Georgia, with the 39th US president’s flag-draped coffin tracing his long arc from the Depression-era South and family farming business to the pinnacle of American political power and decades as a global…

Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said on Saturday that he will resign in the coming days after talks on forming a new government failed a second time. The announcement came after the People’s Party and the Social Democrats continued coalition talks…

Israeli air strikes have killed at least 21 people, including at least two children, on Saturday in southern Gaza, hospital staff said. The fresh bombardment came as new ceasefire talks were said to be under way in Qatar. The three…

Tommy Robinson is “not what we need”, Nigel Farage has said, after Elon Musk expressed support for the jailed political activist. The Reform UK leader described Mr Musk as a “hero figure, especially for the youth”, ahead of his party’s…

The highly-decorated US special forces soldier who took his own life in a Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas on New Year’s Day had confided to a former girlfriend that he faced significant pain and exhaustion that she says were key…

A British man has been confirmed as one of those killed in a New Year’s Day vehicle attack in New Orleans. Metropolitan Police confirmed they were supporting the family of Edward Pettifer, 31, of Chelsea, who was killed in the…

Good Morning Britain presenter Kate Garraway has confronted the UK health secretary about “excessive unpayable” care debts for her husband Derek Draper on the one-year anniversary of his death. Former lobbyist and political adviser Mr Draper died on January 3rd,…

Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died aged 116, officials said. Ms Itooka died on December 29th at a care home in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, central Japan, according to…