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Supporters of former president Evo Morales in Bolivia have taken more than 200 soldiers hostage, the country’s government said, as unrest prompted by an abuse investigation of the ex-leader continued for a third week. Bolivia’s foreign ministry in a statement…

Moscow sent 96 drones and a guided air missile into Ukraine overnight into Sunday, Ukrainian officials said. According to Ukraine’s air force, 66 drones were destroyed during the overnight barrage, along with the missile. A further 27 drones were “lost”…

Angry protesters left red handprints at the entrances to government buildings in the Serbian capital on Sunday to demand the arrest of officials after a concrete canopy collapsed at a railway station in the north of the country, killing 14…

At least nine people were injured when an attacker threw a grenade into a marketplace bustling with shoppers in the main city of Indian-controlled Kashmir on Sunday, police said. The attack came a day after a suspected militant was killed…

Robert F Kennedy Jr says Donald Trump would push to remove fluoride from drinking water on his first day in office. Fluoride strengthens teeth and reduces cavities by replacing minerals lost during normal wear and tear, according to the US…

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has made an unannounced trip to New York to appear on an episode of Saturday Night Live (SNL), briefly stepping away from the battleground states she has been campaigning in with just three days to…

An attack on a central Israeli town on Saturday has injured 11 people, health officials said. The pre-dawn strike on Tira, which followed air raid sirens across central Israel, was one of several barrages fired from Lebanon early in the…

Three suspected militants have been killed in a gunfight with government forces in Indian-controlled Kashmir, officials said, while troops also exchanged fire in the disputed region’s main city. India’s military said soldiers intercepted a group of militants in a forested…

Flash floods caused by heavy downpours in eastern Spain swept away everything in their path earlier this week. With no time to react, people were trapped in vehicles, homes and businesses. Many died and thousands saw livelihoods shattered. Four days…

Monkeys will never have the capacity to write the complete works of William Shakespeare, a study has found. It challenges the long-held theory of probability that, given an infinite period of time, monkeys pressing keys at random on a typewriter would…