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The funeral of Scottish comedian Janey Godley is set to take place after a two-day “final tour” of the cities she loved. Godley died on November 2nd aged 63 after receiving palliative treatment for terminal cancer. Her funeral will be…

Icelanders will elect a new parliament on Saturday after disagreements over immigration, energy policy and the economy forced Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson to pull the plug on his coalition government and call early elections. It is Iceland’s sixth general election…

Volodymyr Zelenskiy has suggested that Ukrainian territory under his control should be taken under the “Nato umbrella” to try and stop the “hot stage” of the war with Russia. Speaking to Sky News, the Ukrainian leader said that such a…

Thousands of demonstrators protesting the Georgian government’s decision to suspend negotiations to join the European Union rallied outside the parliament and clashed with police outside parliament for a second straight night on Friday. The night before, police used water cannons,…

Insurgents breached Syria’s second-largest city and clashed with government forces for the first time since 2016 on Friday, according to a war monitor and fighters. The surprise attack sent residents fleeing and added fresh uncertainty to a region reeling from…

Amazon staff in India have joined strike action calling for better wages and working conditions as the company prepares for one of the busiest shopping periods of the year. About 200 warehouse workers and delivery drivers joined a rally in…

A senior figure in the party whose departure from Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition three weeks ago put Germany on the road to an early election has resigned in a furore over an internal document discussing how the party could leave…

Assisted dying could be legalised in England and Wales after a historic vote saw proposed legislation clear its first hurdle in the UK parliament. A majority of lawmakers supported a Bill that would allow terminally ill adults with a life…

The head of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) said she is “eager” to work with the US President-elect and his trade team, while taking a wait-and-see stance about Donald Trump’s plans to impose new tariffs on goods from other countries…

A cryptocurrency entrepreneur who bought a piece of conceptual art consisting of a simple banana, duct-taped to a wall, for $6.2 million (€5.8 million) last week has eaten the fruit in Hong Kong. Chinese-born Justin Sun peeled off the duct…