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Prince Charles accepted £1m from Osama Bin Laden’s family

The Prince of Wales accepted a payment of £1m from the family of Osama Bin Laden, the Sunday Times reports.…

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Pope Francis says he could step down

Pope Francis has said the time may soon come when he needs to consider stepping down - and would do…

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Guatemala’s Giammattei unharmed after gunmen fire

Guatemalan military exchanged fire with the attackers, one of whom sustained injuries in the confrontation while the others escaped Guatemalan…

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Russia Suspends Gas Supplies to Latvia

Russian energy giant Gazprom Saturday suspended gas supplies to Latvia following tensions between Moscow and the West over the conflict…

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Pak army chief seeks US help for IMF funds

Pakistan Army chief Bajwa spoke over phone with the US Deputy Secretary of State and appealed to the White House…

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Treatment of Indigenous in Canada ‘genocide’ – Pope

Pope Francis steps up his apology, saying the technical word for the wiping away of a people’s culture was ‘genocide’.…

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UK’s national security adviser’s nuclear war warning

Britain’s chief security adviser has said the world is closer now to “miscalculating" its way into nuclear conflict than it…

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Saudi sisters’ bodies lay undiscovered for a month in Sydney

Australian police are baffled after the bodies of two Saudi women, believed to have lain undiscovered for a month, were…

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Myanmar junta executes democracy activists

Democracy figures, including former lawmaker in Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, executed after being accused of carrying out ‘terror acts’…

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Pope Francis apologises for abuse at church schools in Canada

Pontiff tells survivors of his sorrow while on ‘pilgrimage of penance’ for historical mistreatment of Indigenous children Pope Francis has…

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Iran says Israel cell members arrested

The intelligence ministry says the arrested individuals were purportedly about to blow up an unspecified ‘sensitive centre’ in Isfahan. Iran…

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Erdogan presses case against Syria’s Kurds

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pressed his case for a military offensive against Syria’s Kurds at a summit in Tehran…

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Myanmar accused of war crimes

Amnesty says military has been laying mines on a ‘massive scale’ in eastern Kayah state. The Myanmar military has been…

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Syria breaks diplomatic ties with Ukraine

The Syrian foreign ministry says its decision to break with Kyiv was in accordance to the ‘principle of reciprocity’. Syria,…

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Ranil Wickremesinghe elected Sri Lanka’s new president

MPs pick ex-PM seen as close to ousted president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, a move likely to frustrate protesters Sri Lanka’s prime…

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