North Korea conducts its fifth and biggest nuclear test and says it has mastered the mounting of a warhead on a ballistic missile, ratcheting up a threat that its rivals and the United Nations have been powerless to contain.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump blasted rival Hillary Clinton’s record as secretary of state by claiming she brought “only war, destruction and death”, the latest salvo in their running battle over who would make the best commander in chief.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the United States of holding up a Syrian ceasefire at talks in Geneva with US Secretary of State John Kerry.
The US House of Representatives passed legislation by voice vote that would allow the families of victims of the 11 Sept 2001 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia’s government for damages, leading the White House to reiterate that President Obama will veto the measure.
Three French women arrested after a car loaded with gas cylinders was found near Notre Dame cathedral were planning to attack a Paris railway station under the direction of Islamic State, French officials said.
Setting her sights on making Britain “the world’s great meritocracy”, Prime Minister Theresa May unveiled reforms to widen opportunity in schools in an appeal to “frustrated” Britons who voted to leave the EU.
Pots-and-pans protests, used for decades to heckle governments around South America, are back with a bang in volatile Venezuela after unpopular socialist President Nicolas Maduro was chased down a street by angry neighbours clanging their kitchenware, sparking copy-cat demonstrations nationwide.
Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and ex-secretary general Jerome Valcke, already banned from football for ethics violations, are facing a fresh investigation, this time over the salaries and bonuses they received in office.
A Texas mattress store that used bedding to stage a mock collapse of New York City’s Twin Towers in an ad for a September 11 sale has come under a barrage of protests that described it as a tasteless pitch, and called for the business to go bankrupt.
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