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US President Joe Biden is standing firm against calls for him to drop his candidacy for a second term, calling for an “end” to the intra-party drama that has torn apart the Democrats. Mr Biden wrote in the two-page letter…

A landslide triggered by torrential rains crashed onto an unauthorised gold mining operation on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, killing at least 12 people, officials said. Dozens of others have been reported missing. More than 100 villagers were digging for grains of…

Social media influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have been accused of failing to pay a penny in tax on millions of revenue from their online businesses. Devon and Cornwall Police in England are bringing a civil claim against…

French president Emmanuel Macron has refused the resignation of the country’s prime minister, asking him to remain temporarily as the head of the government after chaotic election results left the government in limbo. Voters split the legislature on the left,…

Sir Keir Starmer said work has already begun to build closer ties with the European Union following Labour’s landslide UK election win. The UK prime minister said he wanted better trading and security relationships with Brussels as he vowed to…

A man and a woman have been charged with murder after the death of a 14-year-old girl in Darlington. Police and paramedics were called to an address in Geneva Road shortly after 11pm on Friday. The girl was pronounced dead…

US President Joe Biden was attending a black church and rallying union members on Sunday in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania, trying to project enough strength for his re-election campaign to quell a growing clamour from within in his…

Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian won Iran’s run-off presidential election, beating hardliner Saeed Jalili by promising to reach out to the West and ease enforcement on the country’s mandatory headscarf law after years of sanctions and protests squeezing the Islamic Republic.…

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike declared her re-election victory on Sunday as soon as media exit polls projected her winning a third four-year term as head of Japan’s influential capital. The vote was also seen as a test for Prime Minister…

A village in a border region of western Russia was evacuated following a series of explosions after debris from a downed Ukrainian drone set fire to a nearby warehouse, local officials said. Social media footage appeared to show rising clouds…