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Kamala Harris, the California senator, has dropped out of the race to win the Democratic presidential nomination to take on Donald Trump at the 2020 election.  Ms Harris was seeking to be the first ever black woman nominated for president by the two major political parties and had been widely touted as a strong contender. …

Teenage activist Greta Thunberg said the world was underestimating "angry children" as she arrived for this year’s international climate summit in Spain after a three-week journey crossing the Atlantic.  Her arrival came as the UN said this decade will be the warmest on record, with 2019 among the top three hottest years in history.    “Everyone…

New Zealand will ban foreign political donations as concerns over outside interference intensify in Wellington ahead of a 2020 election. Legislation was introduced to New Zealand parliament on Tuesday and will be “passed under urgency”, according to Justice Minister Andrew Little. “The risk of foreign interference in elections is a growing international phenomenon… New Zealand is…

Islamic State followers have migrated to a new messaging service following a purge on their preferred platforms, where they continue to communicate and share propaganda. Isil had used encrypted messaging app Telegram, but jihadists have begun opening up accounts on relatively unknown service TamTam.  A joint initiative between social networks, including Telegram, Google, Facebook and…

The first instalment was the highest-grossing animated film of all time, taking $1.29 billion worldwide, and its sequel has already earned $742 million. But now there is something that could stop the runaway success of Disney’s smash-hit Frozen franchise: its own popularity. The South Korean unit of Disney is being taken to court over the…

Angela Merkel’s political future was hanging in the balance on Saturday evening after the junior party in her coalition government voted for new leaders who reject her policies. Members of the Social Democrats, Germany’s oldest party, caused a political earthquake by electing a new Leftist leadership duo who have threatened to collapse the government. The shock…

Police have arrested an Irish woman accused of being a member of the so-called Islamic State terror group after she arrived in Dublin by plane on Sunday. Lisa Smith, a 38-year-old former soldier in the Irish Defence Force, is accused of travelling to Syria and joining the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isil). …

A woman who was stranded in the arid central Australian Outback for almost two weeks has been rescued, as search was continuing Monday for her two friends. Tamra McBeath-Riley, 52, was being treated in an Alice Springs hospital for dehydration and exposure after she was found late Sunday, Police Superintendent Pauline Vicary said. The air search…

Meng Wangzhou, the chief financial officer of Chinese phone company Huawei currently on bail in Canada as the US seeks to extradite her, has revealed that she spends her days reading, talking to colleagues and painting. US prosecutors say Ms Meng is linked to fraud that allowed Huawei to evade sanctions against Iran, and are…

China has introduced sanctions against US pro-democracy NGOs and restrictions on US military presence in Hong Kong, after US President Donald Trump signed a bill supporting Hong Kong protesters last week.  On Monday, China’s Foreign Ministry said that US military vessels and aircraft would not be able to visit Hong Kong. The move followed Beijing’s threat that…