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Canadian authorities are urging all remaining residents in the north-eastern part of British Columbia to leave immediately, despite improving weather conditions, due to a fast-growing wildfire. The blaze began on Friday and almost doubled in size the following day, reaching…

Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to impose a 40-year prison sentence for the man who broke into former US House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home seeking to hold her hostage and attacked her husband with a hammer. The…

Sudan’s military and allied armed groups have staved off an attack by a paramilitary group and Arab militias on a major city in the western region of Darfur, officials and residents said on Saturday. The attack on Friday was the…

Former US president Donald Trump may face a tax bill in excess of $100 million (€92 million) after a government audit indicates he “double-dipped” on tax losses tied to a Chicago skyscraper, according to a report by The New York…

Iran’s hard-liners won most of the remaining seats in an election run-off to give them full control over the country’s parliament, authorities said on Saturday, while not sharing any details on the turnout. The result, and that of the previous…

A police officer has been shot in the leg with a crossbow after reports of a stabbing in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. Thames Valley Police officers attended School Close, Downley, at around 6pm on Friday after a man in his 60s…

Flash floods from seasonal rains in Afghanistan have killed hundreds of people and injured a “substantial number”, a Taliban official said. The floods mostly hit the north of the country. The province of Baghlan bore the brunt of the deluges…

Two women in their 80s have been charged with criminal damage after the glass around the Magna Carta at the British Library was attacked. Reverend Sue Parfitt, 82, from Bristol, and Judith Bruce, 85, from Swansea, were arrested on Friday…

Kevin Spacey has alleged film bosses are blocking his acting career, in the face of public support. Last week, the Oscar-winning actor denied new allegations of inappropriate behaviour from men who featured in a two-part Channel 4 documentary titled Spacey…

Former president Donald Trump’s youngest son, Barron Trump, will not be serving as a Florida delegate to the Republican National Convention after all, his mother’s office said on Friday. “While Barron is honored to have been chosen as a delegate…