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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…

France is heading to the polls on Sunday in pivotal runoff elections which could hand a historic victory to Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally and its inward-looking, anti-immigrant vision. Sunday’s snap elections, which could also produce a hung parliament…

For a defiant President Joe Biden, the 2024 US election is up to the public – not the Democrats on Capitol Hill. But the chorus of Democratic voices calling for him to step aside is growing, from donors, strategists, legislators…

Texas officials are urging coastal residents to brace for a potential hit by Beryl with the storm expected to regain hurricane strength in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Jack Beven, a senior hurricane specialist at the National…

Ukrainian service members have gathered in Kyiv to pay last respects to a British combat medic who set up a charity delivering essential supplies to frontline fighters. Peter Fouche, 49, died “in the battlefield” on June 27 as his unit…

British prime minister Keir Starmer has told ministers there was a “huge amount of work to do” as he chaired the first meeting of the new cabinet on his first full day in Downing Street. He told his top team…

Hamas has given initial approval for a US-backed proposal for a phased ceasefire in Gaza, dropping a key demand that Israel gives an up-front commitment for a complete end to the war, Hamas and Egyptian officials said. The apparent compromise…