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One of the world’s most powerful earthquakes struck Russia’s Far East on Wednesday, with a magnitude 8.8 tremor triggering a tsunami in the North Pacific and prompting warnings for Alaska, Hawaii and as far south as New Zealand. A tsunami…

Music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs is asking a judge to release him on $50 million bail pending sentencing in October after a jury found him not guilty of the most serious federal charges brought against him earlier this month. In…

New York Mayor Eric Adams says the gunman who killed four people in a Manhattan office building intended to attack the headquarters of the National Football League (NFL) but took the wrong elevator. Investigators believe Shane Tamura of Las Vegas…

Keir Starmer has told his cabinet that Britain will recognise the state of Palestine “in September” unless Israel takes “significant steps” to end the “catastrophic situation in Gaza”. The British Prime Minister interrupted the government’s summer recess to discuss the…

The England women’s football team lifted the European Championship trophy in style at Buckingham Palace as thousands of people joined in celebrating their thrilling victory. The Lionesses were greeted by thousands of fans on The Mall on Tuesday after the…

Donald Trump officially opens a new golf course at his Aberdeenshire resort, saying he will play a quick round before returning to Washington to “put out fires around the world”. The US President played a round of golf at the…

Pope Leo XIV received rock star treatment at a recent festival of Catholic influencers at the Vatican, which brought together priests, nuns and ordinary believers using social media to preach and teach the faith. He urged them to ensure that…

A Cambridge University graduate who died after refusing chemotherapy told a court she was “anti-vaxxer” and always turned to her mother for medical advice, an inquest in England heard. Paloma Shemirani (23) died at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in…

Turkey faces a “very dangerous week” in terms of wildfires, an official said, as blazes in parts of southeastern Europe and the Balkans have damaged homes and prompted a major firefighting operation that has required evacuations. Almost 100 people have…

The death toll from forest fires near the northwestern Turkish city of Bursa has risen to four after two volunteer firefighters died. The couple died in hospital after being pulled from a tanker truck that overturned on its way to…