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The sudden US announcement of increased tariffs on Mexico has prompted President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to send his top diplomat to Washington for talks.

A ‘disgruntled’ employee is dead after ‘indiscriminately’ opening fire at a municipal building in Virginia, killing 11 and injuring at least six others.

Researchers have developed a new weapon in the fight against malaria — a fungus genetically engineered using a gene found in the venom of an Australian spider.

US President Donald Trump will formally launch his 2020 re-election campaign on June 18 in Florida.

A man convicted of killing a country preacher during a 1991 robbery has been put to death by lethal injection in Alabama, weeks after he avoided another execution date.

A man who has confessed to killing more than 90 women across the US has been indicted today in Cleveland for the strangulation deaths of two women decades ago.

Allegations of child sex abuse by clerics has more than doubled in its latest 12-month reporting period, while victim compensation and child protection surged above US$300 million.

British retail tycoon Philip Green is accused of inappropriately touching a Pilates instructor at a luxury resort in Arizona in 2016 and 2018.

US officials are exploring legal action following US President Donald Trump’s promise to slap a five percent tariff on Mexican imports.

The main suspect in the bombing last week in the French city of Lyon that wounded 14 people allegedly pledged allegiance to the ISIS group.

Hungarian authorities predict it will take an extended search to find the 21 people still missing after a boat carrying tourists sank into a Budapest river.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should not be extradited to the US where he would face a “politicised show trial”, a UN human rights investigator says.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has called for an investigation into a boat accident that killed at least seven South Korean tourists on the Danube River.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says countries allowing Huawei to build their telco infrastructure could be cut off from crucial intelligence data.

A Swiss man and his two female hostages have died after a three-hour stand-off in Zurich, police say, with prosecutors still piecing together what happened.

Twitter has temporarily blocked the account of Dutch far-right politician and anti-Islam campaigner Geert Wilders over his remarks about a political rival.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should not be extradited to the US where he would face a “politicised show trial”, a UN human rights investigator says.

A Dutch hostage was shot and killed while trying to escape his Abu Sayyaf captors during a gun battle in the southern Philippines, military officials say.

US police have charged a man and a woman with animal cruelty after 136 neglected dogs were rescued from a Southern California mansion.

Former Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has been hired as a global senior adviser by New York-based investment firm KKR & Co.

A spelling competition has ended in an eight-way tie for the first time in its 94-year history, with the co-champions showing no weakness in the last 47 words.

The bodies turned up in some of Chicago’s most derelict places: alleys, abandoned buildings, weed-choked lots and garbage containers.

A decorated Navy SEAL facing a murder trial in the death of an Islamic State prisoner has been freed from custody after a military judge cited interference by prosecutors.

SpaceX fired 60 small satellites into orbit last week, the first instalment of an internet-beaming mega constellation.

In the past year, the world saw glimmers of hope that North Korea was turning a corner on its oppressive regime.

A heartbroken mother has told how she became “physically sick” after discovering her pre-teen son sent explicit pictures to a paedophile on an online video game marketed at children.

North Korea has executed its special envoy to the US after the failed summit between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump, according to reports.

Donald Trump has angrily assailed special counsel Robert Mueller’s motives on, a day after Mueller bluntly rebuffed Trump’s repeated claims that the Russia investigation had cleared him of obstructing justice.

With Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party winning another five years of rule, Indian Muslims anticipate violence against their communities to worsen.

None of the seven South Korean tourists who died after a boat collision on the Danube River in Budapest on Wednesday night were wearing life jackets, authorities said.

Four children have been left in a coma after a jumping castle was blown ten feet into the air before landing next to a busy main road in Ulan-Ude, Eastern Russia.

England’s Ben Stokes took a remarkable catch to light up the opening match of the Cricket World Cup, leaving commentators stunned.

Donald Trump is keeping quiet on the race for the British leadership but has praised frontrunner Boris Johnson and Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage.

US President Donald Trump has praised the UK’s Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage and leadership contender Boris Johnson days before his visit to Britain.

Australian nurse Kirsty Boden died rapidly and without much suffering after being stabbed through the heart and lung in the London Bridge attack two years ago, the inquest has heard.

South Australian nurse Kirsty Boden died after being stabbed through the heart and lung by terrorists in the London Bridge attack, an inquest has heard.

China says a report that Australian navy helicopter pilots were targeted with lasers from Chinese fishing boats was “not consistent with the facts”.

WikiLeaks has “grave concerns” about founder Julian Assange after he was moved to a medical ward in jail. The 47-year-old had been expected to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court via video-link.

WikiLeaks has “grave concerns” about founder Julian Assange after he was moved to a medical ward in jail.

An Ethiopian Airlines pilot begged for more training just days after a Lion Air Boeing 737 Max nosedived in Indonesia, killing all 189 people on board.

Astronomers have found an exoplanet so rare that they have deemed it “The Forbidden Planet,” according to a new study.

A luxury superyacht owned by an Italian billionaire was lost at sea after it slipped from a cargo ship into the Mediterranean.

A UK paedophile who raped two children and shared video on the Dark Web could be free in eight years after receiving a life sentence for the crime.

Israel is heading to the polls for a second time this year after its parliament was dissolved following PM Benjamin Netanyahu failure to form a government.

Russia is suspected of carrying out low-level nuclear tests despite becoming part of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 2010.

The White House wanted to keep a warship named for the late Senator John McCain out of President Donald Trump’s view during his trip to Japan.

A pair of raccoon dogs are on the loose after escaping an enclosure in a village in England’s East Midlands.

Seven South Korean tourists have been confirmed dead and 21 are missing after a sightseeing boat hit another vessel and sank in the Danube River in downtown Budapest.

Investigators in Utah have found the remains of missing five-year-old girl Elizabeth Shelley, using a map provided by her uncle, who has been charged with murder.

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