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Humza Yousaf has announced his resignation as Scotland’s first minister ahead of forthcoming confidence votes. Mr Yousaf had been battling for his political survival after terminating the powersharing deal between the SNP and Scottish Greens on Thursday. He was facing…

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said he will continue in office “even with more strength” after days of reflection. Mr Sanchez shocked the country on Wednesday, announcing he was taking five days off to think about his future after a…

Two journalists have been arrested in Russia on charges of “extremism” amid claims from the Kremlin they were connected to groups founded by late Russian politician and freedom fighter Alexei Navalny. Journalists Konstantin Gabov and Sergey Karelin both denied the…

Japan’s governing party has lost all three seats in the nation’s parliamentary by-elections, which were held on Sunday for the first time since Japan was rocked by the alleged mass-scale government corruption scandal. In November, Japan was rocked by the…

A Russian man has been arrested after two Ukrainian men were stabbed to death in southern Germany. The two Ukrainians, who were 23 and 36-years-old and lived in the southern German county of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, were killed at a shopping centre…

A funeral has been held for 20 soldiers who died at an army base in south-western Cambodia in a huge explosion of stored munitions that also injured several others and damaged nearby houses. There has been no public explanation of…

Dubai International Airport, the world’s busiest for international travel, will move its operations to the city-state’s second, sprawling airfield “within the next 10 years” in a project worth nearly €33 billion, its ruler has said. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al…

Aerial photos have revealed wide devastation in part of the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou after a tornado swept through the area, killing five people and injuring dozens of others. As businesses and residents began cleaning up the debris, the…

The Pope has urged prisoners to view their time behind bars as a chance for “moral and material rebirth”, as he viewed an art show in a women’s jail in Venice. Francis travelled to the lagoon city to visit the…

A Tory MP and former health minister has defected to Labour in protest against the Tories’ “rightward drift” and neglect of the NHS, in a blow to UK prime minister Rishi Sunak. Dr Dan Poulter, a working medic, has quit…