Heathrow Airport is closing all day Friday because of a large fire at a nearby electrical substation that supplies it. The airport is experiencing a “significant power outage” because of the fire, a statement from Heathrow said. “To maintain the […]
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Syrian security forces are alleged to have killed hundreds of civilians belonging to the Alawite minority group in continuing violence along the country’s coast, according to a war monitoring group. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said some
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Katy Watson Australia correspondent Reporting fromThe Gold Coast EPA More than 300,000 properties are without power as a tropical storm edges closer to Australia’s east coast, lashing the region with heavy rain. Storm Alfred has been downgraded from a cyclone
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Tom Bateman State Department correspondent Watch: ‘I think we’re doing very well with Russia’ US President Donald Trump has said he is finding it “more difficult, frankly, to deal with Ukraine” than Russia in attempts to broker peace between the
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Reuters Ukraine’s President Zelensky first discussed a minerals deal with then presidential candidate Donald Trump last September. Ukraine has agreed to the terms of a major deal giving the US access to its deposits of rare earth minerals, Volodymyr Zelensky
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he is working in “full cooperation” with the US on a “common strategy” for Gaza, after talks with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Netanyahu praised US President Donald Trump’s “bold vision” for Gaza’s
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The world’s number one chess player, Magnus Carlsen, has said he will return to a major chess competition after the sport’s governing body agreed to relax its dress code. Carlsen quit the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships in New
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Israel’s defence minister has for the first time acknowledged that Israel killed Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran in July. Israel Katz made the comments in a speech vowing to target the heads of the Iran-backed Houthi movement in
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The British-born wife of deposed Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is not seeking a divorce, a Kremlin spokesman has said. Reports in Turkish media had suggested Asma al-Assad wanted to end her marriage and leave Russia, where she and her husband
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Ondrej Huserka / Facebook A leading Slovak mountain climber has died while descending a 7,234m (23,730ft) peak in Nepal, after completing the rare feat of scaling the mountain’s perilous eastern face. Ondrej Huserka fell into a crevasse on Thursday, after
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