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Pelosi and Schumer to deal directly with Republicans in bid to avert shutdownTrump suggests he’s unwilling to negotiate on healthcare and immigrationDemocrats Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer boycotted

Iranian health commissioner due to present judgment later this week regarding British mother, who has suffered depression, panic attacks and insomniaIn a potential breakthrough in the case of Nazanin

There are villages where the families of dead soldiers are given a goat as compensation. This struck Liwaa Yazji as the perfect starting point for a play – with live animals – about the horrors and

The Tesla boss responded to a ‘not true’ Medium post claiming he is the creator of the cryptocurrency who has never been conclusively identifiedElon Musk is a lot of things. Billionaire, space

Photographer Andy Hall has been documenting the work of the UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, in the camps near the border with Myanmar. Weeks after the initial arrival of thousands of Rohingya fleeing

Report finds lengthening backlogs on claims and that a quarter of decision-making staff quit over six-month periodAlmost half the asylum cases dealt with by the Home Office are being classified as

Centre for Policy Development urges companies to adopt standardised analysis of climate’s impact on businessAustralian companies need to start developing sophisticated scenario-based analyses of

Scanlon Foundation Mapping Social Cohesion Report finds ugly discrimination is on the rise, and we no longer listen to political leadersAustralia is a decent country where ugly discrimination is on

The sun may have set on the British empire, the pound has plummeted, our passport is no longer worth what it once was – but our accent is still a dating assetIt’s only been a little bit more than 24

Edinburgh consulate will house language school, space for orchestras and arts organisations, library and concert venueThe French government is to open a new cultural and diplomatic base in the heart

Há dois anos, uma seca desencadeou violência, saques e ‘estados de calamidade’ oficiais pela metrópole, com o Exército de prontidão para intervir. Agora, novos sinais sugerem que a história poderia se

Palace aides predict a ‘happy church wedding’ at St George’s Chapel for prince, 33, and American TV star, 36Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are to marry at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle next May

Three people reported killed as police break up opposition rally a few miles away from inauguration ceremony in NairobiUhuru Kenyatta has been sworn in for a second five-year term as president of

Woman aged 41 allegedly marked cards with iodine-125 so they could be identified by gambler with hidden detectorA German restaurant owner is in hot water for allegedly marking playing cards with a

After mass shootings, survivors and victims’ families face a second round of attacks online – and fighting back is ‘like trying to kill roaches with a fly swatter’Mike Cronk was sitting half-naked on

Russia brokers deal to keep future of Bashar al-Assad off initial agenda and postpones rival meeting in SochiA Syrian government delegation will arrive in Geneva on Wednesday for the first

Protestors against the ‘vestige of slavery’ featured in Christmas celebrations were blockaded on a motorway and an ‘action group’ invaded a schoolAn annual debate in the Netherlands about the

Ex-deputy chief of staff says lawmaker twice touched her inappropriatelyDeanna Maher says she did not leave job because ‘I needed to earn a living’A former deputy chief of staff said Congressman John

Collaboration with Airbus and Siemens on E-Fan X project could result in a partly UK-built hybrid electric plane flying by 2020A partly British-built hybrid electric plane could be flying by 2020 as

Trump’s pick to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau faces a rival incumbent but it only seems to be delaying a tidal shift at the banking agency The battle between two supposed directors of