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The rabbi who led a morning service at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue where 11 people were shot dead has urged America’s political leaders to “stop the words of hate” during an emotional vigil speech on...

The communist intelligence service in Prague stepped up its spying campaign against Donald Trump in the late 1980s, targeting him to gain information about the “upper echelons of the US government”, archive files and testimony from former cold...

He was at it again. At 3:14 a.m. on Friday, President Trump was awake and tweeting. “Funny how lowly rated CNN, and others, can criticize me at will, even blaming me for the current spate of...

LONDON — The Scottish government said it was reviewing its animal culling laws after a photograph of an American hunter posing with the carcass of a black-faced goat with magnificent horns during a hunting trip to...

DALIAN, China — In April, on the 69th anniversary of the founding of China’s Navy, the country’s first domestically built aircraft carrier stirred from its berth in the port city of Dalian on the Bohai Sea,...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil on Sunday became the latest country to drift toward the far right, electing a strident populist as president in the nation’s most radical political change since democracy was restored more than...

Germany’s ruling parties are reeling from their second electoral upset in a fortnight, after voters in a key state abandoned them in droves. The result in the central state of Hesse could plunge both parties of...

Pumpkin carving at Halloween is a family tradition. When I lived in Las Vegas, we had to make do with baseball-size ones from the grocery store. But since we moved to the north-west 10 years ago, we’ve visited...

When Cha Ji-won decided to throw out all her makeup and cut her hair, her mother was the first to tease her: “Oh look, I have a son now.” For more than a decade, starting when...

Amnesty International has condemned what it described as an “assault on civil society” in India after its office in the south of the country was raided by tax authorities. Amnesty India’s bank accounts have been frozen after...