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The eight American stealth helicopters, carrying Delta Force and Navy Seals, came in fast and low over the olive trees in Barisha, a village of a few thousand people in Idlib province near the Turkish border. In the darkness around midnight they were fired on from the ground but quickly obliterated the source, before soldiers…

Hong Kong has fallen into recession, hit by five months of anti-government protests that erupted in flames at the weekend, and is unlikely to achieve any growth this year, the city’s Financial Secretary said. Black-clad and masked demonstrators set fire to shops and hurled petrol bombs at police on Sunday following a now-familiar pattern, with police responding…

Argentina’s Peronists swept back into power on Sunday, ousting conservative president Mauricio Macri in an election result that shifts Latin America’s No. 3 economy firmly back toward the left after it was battered by economic crisis. Peronist Alberto Fernandez had 47.79% of the vote, ahead of Macri’s 40.71%, with more than 90% of ballots counted,…

The man that stood at the helm of the world’s most feared terrorist organisation in modern times carefully controlled a fractious mix of domestic jihadists and disillusioned foreign extremists, creating an army that would for a time impose its brutal rule over eight million people.  Though barely seen in public, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who died…

It’s clear there’s something different about Björn Höcke from the moment he arrives in Gotha. A ripple of expectation goes through the crowd as he strides across the cobbled town square, flanked by menacing bodyguards dressed in black. “There is nothing wrong with expressing our democratic opinion. We want Germany to remain German,” he tells…

They were once lords of the forest, hulking great beasts that provided sport for kings and counts as they wandered the wilds of Bulgaria. Now, the bison is back, with conservationists in the Balkan country celebrating the birth of the first bison calf in the wild for more than eight centuries. A small herd of…

The nationalist Alternative for Germany party (AfD) made sweeping gains in regional elections on Sunday, inflicting heavy losses on Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU).  Björn Höcke, a politician who has been compared to Hitler by German national television, led the AfD to second place in the eastern state of Thuringia with 23.8 per cent, according…

Mr Wang was a newlywed with a baby when he decided to shell out £22,000, to "snakehead" smugglers who promised him safe passage to the UK from China.  Going abroad seemed a better bet than farming at home in Changle county, among many poor communities on a circle of islands in south-eastern Fujian province. “Life…

It’s hard for “K” to pinpoint the exact moment he believes he suffered a brain haemorrhage during a violent arrest by two undercover officers in Hong Kong’s main shopping district at the end of a long day of pro-democracy protests in August.  The Hong Kong teenager, too afraid to be named, has now returned to…

A British woman was among three people who have died in floods in southern France, where heavy rain caused rivers to burst their banks, it emerged on Friday. The 68-year-old woman, who has not been named, was found by firefighters near her home in the village of Cazouls d’Hérault, in the Languedoc-Roussillon region. She was…