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An outbreak in DR Congo has been declared a health emergency, with almost 250 suspected cases reported.

In Ukraine, local officials report eight injured in overnight Russian drone strikes and shelling.

“Taiwan will continue to deepen co-operation with the US to achieve peace through strength, ensuring that peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait are not threatened or undermined, which serves the common interests of Taiwan, the US, and the global democratic community.”

Wildlife experts had previous criticised the operation, saying it would only cause the animal more distress.

The man was bitten just before 10:00 (03:00 BST) at Horseshoe Reef – north-west of the popular Rottnest Island near the city of Perth, local police said.

Charges could come as soon as next week in a case reportedly focused on Cuba’s downing of two planes in 1996.

Reble has emerged as one of hip-hop’s most distinctive new voices, channelling defiance into a sound rooted in India’s northeast.

The Fatah faction elects top decision makers, but ordinary Palestinians feel the party and its leader are out of touch.

Nothing has worked for the 49-year-old Toronto woman, who described herself as “functionally terminal”, no longer able to work, leave the house or speak with her loved ones. She is now enrolled in a psychiatric care programme at a local hospital that, she said, is designed to support people with severe and persistent mental illness […]

He is very familiar with Swiss sensitivity, and shame, over its role in World War Two, when Jewish refugees were turned away at the border, while Swiss banks kept the money of Jewish families who later died in Nazi concentration camps. “It is a problem for a democratic state that these files are still closed,” […]