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At least 11 premature babies have been killed in a fire at a hospital in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, officials say. It took three hours to put out the blaze, which broke out late on Tuesday inside the maternity unit...

Donald Trump ignited a fresh political firestorm Tuesday by declaring gun rights supporters might still find a way to stop Hillary Clinton, even if she should defeat him and then name anti-gun Supreme Court justices. Democrats pounced, accusing him...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is due to hold talks in St Petersburg with President Vladimir Putin and says he wants to "reset" ties with Russia. It is Mr Erdogan's first foreign visit since an attempted coup last month. Relations between...

Nearly 100 people were killed in the weekend's protests in Ethiopia as demonstrators clashed with security forces in different parts of the country, Amnesty International says. The rights group says the most deadly incident happened in Bahir Dar, where at...

Taiwan has protested against the "forced" deportation of five Taiwanese citizens who were acquitted of charges of organised crime from Kenya to China. Taiwanese officials said the five were flown to China despite a Kenyan court order for them to...

An open letter signed by 50 Republican national security experts has warned that nominee Donald Trump "would be the most reckless president" in US history. The group, which includes the former CIA director Michael Hayden, said Mr Trump "lacks the...

Dozens of Philippine government and police officials turned themselves in on Monday, a day after President Rodrigo Duterte linked them to the drugs trade, stepping up a war on narcotics that has killed hundreds since he took office in...

Afghan authorities are searching for an Australian and an American who were kidnapped by gunmen in the capital, Kabul, officials said on Monday. The pair, believed to be affiliated with a Kabul university, was taken by four or five gunmen...

The administrator of Prince's estate has denied reports it is planning to sell Paisley Park, the star's former home and recording studio complex. A court filing on Friday had included the property among a list of assets that could be...

US airline giant Delta says all its departing flights have been suspended due to a nationwide system outage. "Customers should check the status of their flight before heading to the airport while the issue is being addressed," the company tweeted. It...