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At least four people were injured by a blade-wielding man who rampaged through a mall in Hong Kong as riot police stormed shopping centres in a move to block protesters from staging rallies. The bloody attack took place amid a day of chaos in Hong Kong that also saw an elected local councillor have part…

The Islamic State has announced an unknown jihadist will be its new leader as it acknowledged for the first time the death of its founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a US commando raid.  Five days after Baghdadi blew himself up in his hideout in northwest Syria, an official statement from Isil said he would be…

The rough transcript of a telephone call where Donald Trump urged the Ukrainian president to investigate his political rival Joe Biden missed out key details, a senior White House official has reportedly told the impeachment inquiry.   The official, the US Army officer Alexander Vindman, said that Mr Trump had brought up tapes of Mr…

The Islamic State has announced an unknown jihadist will be its new leader as it acknowledged for the first time the death of its founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a US commando raid.  Five days after Baghdadi blew himself up in his hideout in northwest Syria, an official statement from Isil said he would be…

Spanish women expressed anger on Thursday after a gang of men were cleared of raping a 14-year-old girl they took turns to have sex with in an abandoned factory.  Five men from the city of Manresa in Catalonia were sentenced to between 10 and 12 years in prison for the lesser offence of sexual abuse,…

India’s Muslim-majority region of Kashmir was formally divided on Thursday, almost three months after losing its autonomy in a move that triggered violence and stoked tensions with arch-rival Pakistan. The move, announced in early August when India imposed a lockdown and sent in tens of thousands of extra troops, saw Jammu and Kashmir cease to be a state and…

At least six Syrian regime fighters were killed as heavy clashes broke out Tuesday between the army and Turkish forces for the first time since Ankara attacked northeastern Syria three weeks ago, a war monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said artillery and machine-gun fire was exchanged near Assadiya, south of the border town of Ras al-Ain.…

Democrats have launched a formal impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump after accusing him of violating the US Constitution, plunging a deeply divided nation into yet another clash between Congress and the commander in chief. The US president accused Democrats of another political "witch hunt", summing up his view of the probe in an all-caps tweet:  The Democrats…

A sequel to disgraced British doctor Andrew Wakefield’s anti-vaccine film is reportedly being secretly prepared for release in venues across the US. Mr Wakefield, who was struck from the British medical register over a discredited paper suggesting a possible link between the MMR vaccine and autism, has continued to promote his views in America, where…

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on Thursday said they were "horrified" by news of a train fire that killed 73 people in Pakistan. The royal couple, who recently returned from a five-day tour of the country, were "deeply saddened to hear about the tragic fire on the Tezgam train", according to a statement released by…