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Eighteen year olds in Britain would be forced to carry out a form of national service if the Tories are voted back in at the July 4 UK General Election, Rishi Sunak has announced. The UK Prime Minister said Britain…

At least 27 people have died, including four children, after a huge fire broke out in an amusement park in Gujarat state in western India on Saturday, police said. The fire erupted at the park in the city of Rajkot…

US defence secretary Lloyd Austin has resumed duties after undergoing a medical procedure at Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre on Friday, officials said. Mr Austin is continuing to deal with bladder issues that arose in December following his treatment…

The judge overseeing Hunter Biden’s federal firearms charges trial agreed on Friday to block prosecutors from telling jurors about some other unflattering episodes from his personal life, but left the door open to allowing them in if the president’s son…

Caleb Carr, the gifted son of Beat poet Lucien Carr who endured a traumatising childhood and became a bestselling novelist, accomplished military historian and late-life memoirist of his devoted cat, Masha, has died at 68. Carr died of cancer on…

US defence secretary Lloyd Austin will undergo a medical procedure on Friday evening and will transfer power temporarily to his deputy as he continues to deal with bladder issues that arose in December following his treatment for prostate cancer, officials…

A Paris court sentenced three high-ranking Syrian officials in absentia to life in prison on Friday for complicity in war crimes in a landmark case against the regime of Syria’s President Bashar Assad and the first such case on European…

British Cabinet minister Michael Gove has become the latest high-profile Tory MP to announce he is standing down ahead of the July 4th election. The Housing Secretary joined a growing parliamentary exodus as he praised Rishi Sunak for representing “the…

UK Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and UK prime minister Rishi Sunak clashed on energy policy and the exodus of MPs announcing their departure from parliament grew as campaigning for the UK’s July 4th General Election entered its second day.…

Pope Francis paved the way for the canonisation of the first saint of the millennial generation on Thursday, attributing a second miracle to a 15-year-old Italian computer wizard who died of leukemia in 2006. Carlo Acutis, born on May 3rd,…