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Police in Arizona investigating the disappearance of TV host Savannah Guthrie’s mother have seized a vehicle from a parking lot and sealed off a road near Nancy Guthrie’s home. A parade of sheriff’s and FBI vehicles, including forensics vehicles, passed through the roadblock that was set up about two miles from the house. The two […]

Peter Mandelson has been photographed for the first time since being asked to give evidence to the US Congress over his relationship with the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. The peer was seen leaving his north-west London home on Saturday, after two US politicians wrote to him on Friday asking that he appear in front of […]

Supporters of Iran ‘s exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi were looking on Saturday to world leaders gathered in Munich to ratchet up pressure for change on the Iranian government. Banging drums and chanting for regime change, the large and boisterous demonstration in Munich was part of what Prince Reza Pahlavi described as a “global day […]

Bangladesh’s incoming leader said on Saturday that he would work to build a more democratic country, overcoming challenges related to weak institutions after his party secured an election victory. Tarique Rahman’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) won a majority in Thursday’s election in the 350-member Parliament. An 11-member alliance led by the Jamaat-e-Islami party, the country’s […]

Britain has blamed the Kremlin for killing opposition leader Alexei Navalny, which it said was likely done using a poison developed from a dart frog toxin. Two years on from the death of Navalny at a Siberian penal colony, the UK and its allies have pinned the blame on the Russian state following analysis of […]

Supporters of Iran ‘s exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi were looking on Saturday to world leaders gathered in Munich, Germany, to ratchet up pressure for change on the Iranian government. Prince Reza Pahlavi called for demonstrations in Munich, Los Angeles and Toronto on what he described as a “global day of action”, urging supporters to […]

The first official Eurovision Song Contest live tour, which was set to visit London this summer, has been cancelled because of “unforeseen challenges”. The organisation has apologised to fans in a message posted to the official Eurovision website, where it has announced the event will be rescheduled at a later date. The Eurovision Song Contest […]

Minister of State Neale Richmond has accused Sinn Féin of “abandoning Ukraine” after its MEPs voted against a €90 billion loan to the country amid the ongoing Russian war.  The loan involved €30 billion of financial support and €60 billion for military equipment. Sinn Féin MEPs Kathleen Funchion and Lynn Boylan voted against the measure, […]

At least three people died and nearly two dozen others were injured after a building used as temporary lodgings for workers caught fire early on Friday in a suburb of Hungary’s capital, authorities said. Firefighters extinguished the fire in Budakeszi, about five miles west of Budapest, after it engulfed the two-storey building in the early […]

A man wielding a knife and scissors was fatally shot by police in Paris when he tried to attack an officer during a ceremony at the city’s Arc de Triomphe monument, officials said. The suspect, a French national born in 1978 who had previously been convicted in Belgium on terrorist-related charges, died in hospital from […]