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SpaceX has launched a rescue mission for the two stuck astronauts at the International Space Station, sending up a downsized crew to bring them home – but not until next year. The capsule rocketed towards orbit to fetch the test…

Russia’s top diplomat has warned against “trying to fight to victory with a nuclear power” in a speech at the UN General Assembly on Saturday. Sergei Lavrov’s address was packed with condemnations of what Russia sees as Western machinations in…

Hundreds of people have marched in Paris in support of the right to abortion for women across the world. The demonstration comes six months after France became the first country to guarantee in its constitution a woman’s right to voluntarily…

Pope Francis has promised to “offer all the help we can” to victims of clergy sexual abuse after people in Belgium told him first-hand of the trauma that shattered their lives and left many in poverty and mental misery. Francis’s…

Thousands of Japanese fans have bid a tearful farewell to two pandas that made their final public appearance at Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo on Saturday before returning to China for medical treatment. The pair, Ri Ri and Shin Shin, are the…

Former UK prime minister Boris Johnson considered launching an “aquatic raid” on a warehouse in the Netherlands to retrieve Covid vaccine doses amid a row with Europe, according to an extract from his memoir. Mr Johnson convened a meeting of…

Netanyahu tells UN: ‘I came here to set the record straight’ The Israeli prime minister addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Friday. Sourse: abcnews.go.com Rate this item:1.002.003.004.005.00Submit Rating No votes yet. Please wait…

Vice President Kamala Harris has walked a scrubby stretch along the US-Mexico border in Arizona and called for further tightening of asylum restrictions as she sought to project a tougher stance on illegal migration. Her push to further restrict asylum…

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has added fresh conditions for X to have its service re-established in the country, a day after the social media platform said it had complied with all of the judge’s demands, including naming…

Forty four people have been killed in five states after Hurricane Helene left a path of destruction across Florida and the south-eastern US. Rescue attempts were underway to save people from floodwaters after the Category 4 hurricane made landfall late…