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Ex-footballer Joey Barton will pay a further £35,000 (€41,000) in damages to settle a libel claim with British journalist Jeremy Vine on top of a £75,000 payment, the broadcaster’s solicitors have said. Mr Barton published a post on X, formerly…

A bipartisan US congressional delegation has met the Dalai Lama at his residence in India’s Dharamshala. The move sparked anger from China, which views the exiled spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism as a dangerous separatist. The visit came after Washington…

There have been no new “significant leads” to discover the parents of three children found abandoned in London since 2017, police have said. The three siblings – Baby Harry, Baby Roman and Baby Elsa – were found in the same…

Voters who do not expect to be able to cast ballots themselves are scrambling to make their voices heard in France’s high-stakes legislative election by signing up in their hundreds of thousands to hand their voting rights to loved ones…

The BBC has said on-screen presenters and contributors are “regularly reminded of the guidelines in relation to clothing” after Gary Lineker appeared to break rules by wearing outfits he advertises. The Match Of The Day host appeared to be dressed…

Chinese forces seized two Philippine rubber boats that were delivering food and other supplies to a military outpost in a disputed South China Sea shoal in a tense confrontation in which some Filipino navy personnel were injured, Philippine security officials…

Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was granted release on bail hours after he was formally indicted on Tuesday on a charge of defaming the country’s monarchy in one of several court cases that have rattled Thai politics. Thaksin, an…

A fleet of Russian warships, including a nuclear-powered submarine, has left Havana’s port after a five-day visit to Cuba following planned military drills in the Atlantic Ocean. The exercise has been seen by some as a show of strength by…

Firefighters in California increased their containment of a large wildfire in mountains north of Los Angeles on Monday after a weekend of wind-driven growth. The Post Fire was 8% surrounded after scorching nearly 23 square miles (60 square kilometres) and…

Sixty-four people were missing at sea after a shipwreck off the Italian southern coast on Monday, while 11 were rescued and taken ashore to a Calabrian town, United Nations’ agencies said. In a separate shipwreck, rescue workers found 10 bodies…