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The nurse has already been sentenced for killing six patients by injecting them with drugs and then trying to revive them. If convicted, Niels Högel will be one of the most prolific serial killers in German...

Turkey’s offensive against US-allied militias in the Afrin region of northern Syria is putting NATO in a difficult position. As tensions between the NATO allies escalate, analysts wonder how far Ankara is prepared to go. NATO...

On January 9, roughly 30 years after North Korea bombed a Korean Air passenger plane in protest of the 1988 Seoul Olympics, Seoul and Pyongyang announced a stunning diplomatic breakthrough: North Korea would send athletes and performers...

Two reporters for the Turkish branch of German newspaper Tageszeitung were detained and had their homes searched in Ankara. The arrests were part of a wider clampdown on critics of Turkey’s military operation in Syria The...

Amy Tan is the author of six bestselling novels, including The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God’s Wife and The Bonesetter’s Daughter. She has also written a memoir, The Opposite of Fate, and two children’s books, The Moon Lady and Sagwa. She co-produced and...

Written by Alan Sked. Senior figures are quitting over the love-life of leader Henry Bolton. Ukip lacks all political credibility and should dissolve itself. I founded the Anti-Federalist League in 1991 to take Britain out of what became...

Nan Goldin lights a cigarette and takes a puff. “My dealer came here 24 hours a day, seven days a week. I was one of his best customers.” She giggles sarcastically. “He texted me when I was...

French prison officers have blockaded dozens of prisons after new attacks by inmates increased fears for wardens’ safety. The justice minister, Nicole Belloubet, was holding a crisis meeting with union leaders on Monday afternoon as industrial...

Liberians celebrate country’s first peaceful, democratic transition of power in 47 years It was not the first time George Weah had packed out a football stadium, but perhaps it was the most significant. Liberians queued for...

In early 2017, shortly after Jared Kushner moved into his new office in the West Wing of the White House, he began receiving guests. One visitor who came more than once was Cui Tiankai, the Chinese...