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Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives secured a strong win Sunday in state polls in northern Germany, preliminary results showed, giving a boost to her bid to retain power in national elections in September. Voters in the small, northern state of Schleswig-Holstein handed her CDU party about 32 percent, leaving the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) trailing […]

A 32-year-old Indian-American doctor has been shot dead under mysterious circumstances in a car in the US state of Michigan. Ramesh Kumar, who worked in the Urology Department of the Henry Ford Hospital, was found dead on the passenger seat of a car in a rest area, some 90 miles out of Detroit, on late […]

The meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump must be well prepared in order for the first eye-to-eye talks of the Russian and US presidents to bring concrete results, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. “As far as I understand, both Washington and Moscow need this meeting not for the sake of impressing somebody and […]

Pro-European centrist Emmanuel Macron promised Sunday to heal France’s divisions after crushing far-right leader Marine Le Pen in a pivotal presidential election that has given him a large but fragile mandate for change. At 39, the pro-EU former investment banker will become France’s youngest-ever leader but faces a huge challenge to enact his programme while […]

Emmanuel Macron has become France’s youngest ever president after initial results showed he had beaten Marine Le Pen by a commanding margin of 65 percent to 35 percent. Refresh the page manually for updates.  Macron wins by margin of 65% to 35%, estimates suggest Voter turnout set to be lowest since 1969 All photos: AFP […]

After repeated visits from discredited activists, vaccination rates among Minnesota’s Somali-American community plummeted to just 42 per cent in 2014 — far below the threshold to prevent an outbreak. MINNEAPOLIS—The young mother started getting advice early on from friends in the close-knit Somali immigrant community here. Don’t let your children get the vaccine for measles, […]

Will French voters opt for Marine Le Pen or Emmanuel Macron as their new president on Sunday? Join us for all the LIVE coverage throughout the day. Refresh the page manually for updates.  Voter turnout set to be lowest since 1969 At 5pm turnout was 65.4% (well down on 71.9% in 2012) Crowds starting to […]

Thursday, May 12, will be an important day in the history and future of Somalia. A high-level partnership meeting will take place in London to discuss the country’s future. The London Conference, will be hosted by the United Kingdom government, the United Nations and the Federal Government of Somalia. Among those expected is the UK […]

 About one-tenth of Hanover’s population will be evacuated from their homes on Sunday as officials work to diffuse multiple Second World War bombs – the second biggest operation in post-war German history. Experts were able to confirm the existence of five unexploded Second World War bombs out of 13 possible locations within the Lower Saxon […]

North Korea has threatened to launch a nuclear strike at Washington and ‘reduce the White House to ashes’. The threat was made in a 2,000 word report by the KCNA media agency which condemned Donald Trump’s decision to move US navy warships into the Japan Sea. Kim Jong Un’s army have warned that the days of the […]