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The sister of US Senator Lindsey Graham will serve as his temporary replacement after the South Carolina lawmaker died from an aortic tear on Saturday. Darline Graham Nordone was formally chosen by South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster on Monday, who introduced her as Graham’s “darling little sister” who would “finish his work for him now”. […]

The Hungarian parliament has voted to remove President Tamás Sulyok from office, who was widely seen as a loyalist of former prime minister Viktor Orbán who lost power in April after 16 years. Prime Minister Péter Magyar’s Tisza party used its two thirds majority to steamroll through the 17th amendment to the constitution, ending the […]

In Trump’s Truth Social post on Monday, he insisted the strait “will remain OPEN, with or without Iran”. “The U.S.A. will be, from this point forward, known as “THE GUARDIAN OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT,” but as such, and as a matter of FAIRNESS, will be reimbursed, at the rate of 20% on all cargo shipped, […]

A British man whose wife and 12 friends and neighbours are feared to have been killed in the Spanish wildfires has told how he became separated from them as the flames raced towards his home. Malcolm Timbrell, 70, and his wife Annette Kilgore, 69, lived in the village of Bédar, in Almeria province, which was […]

Horses have been evacuated from an equestrian centre near Paris as the Fontainebleau wildfire continues to rage. Firefighters have been battling to bring the blaze under control over the last two days, with officials describing it as “virulent” and of “exceptional scale”. Interior minister Laurent Nunez indicated the fire may have been deliberately set, after […]

The UK has signed a new trade deal with Switzerland that will allow British travellers faster passage through airports by using e-gates for the first time. Described by Trade Secretary Peter Kyle as “the most significant services trade deal the UK has ever negotiated”, the agreement will also scrap mobile roaming charges for tourists and […]

Irish police are set to engage with their Jordanian counterparts as part of a murder investigation, according to Ireland’s justice minister. Last Tuesday, gardaí (Irish police) said they responded to an incident at an address in Killarney, County Kerry, where a woman in her 40s was pronounced dead at the scene. She was named locally […]

Neill was born in 1947 in Northern Ireland, where his father was serving as an officer with the Royal Irish Fusiliers. “I was born in Omagh, we lived in Armagh and my favourite place here was Tyrella beach, I sort of think that’s where I grew up,” Neill told the BBC in 2012. The family […]

A Sudanese court has sentenced the leader of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo to death for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide over atrocities committed in the West Darfur region. The court in Port Sudan, a city under the army’s rule, convicted Dagalo – known as Hemedti – in absentia, […]

Born Nigel John Dermot Neill in Omagh, Northern Ireland, in 1947, he moved to Christchurch, New Zealand, with his family as a child. He adopted the name Sam at the age of 12 because there were several Nigels at his school. He began acting while studying at the University of Canterbury and made his film […]