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An Indian owner of a billboard dedicated to Nelson Mandela was red-faced on Thursday after the discovery that a photo of actor Morgan Freeman was used instead of one of the anti-apartheid hero. The billboard was erected on the side of a road in the…

Jurors in the trial of two men accused of hacking a British soldier to death in a London street retired Thursday to consider their verdicts. Michael Adebolajo, 29, and Michael Adebowale, 22, are accused of running over soldier Lee Rigby in a car, then…

British Prime Minister David Cameron and his Irish counterpart Enda Kenny toured World War I sites in Belgium on Thursday, deepening ties in remembrance of Irish soldiers who fought alongside Britons at the height of the Dublin insurrection. The visit…

The Palestinians on Thursday accused Israel of a “dangerous escalation” after the army killed two people in the West Bank, calling the violence a deliberate attempt to scupper peace talks. “This dangerous Israeli escalation aims to thwart American and…

A three-year-old boy born with a rare condition that forces his intestines through a hole in his abdomen should make a full recovery after a five-organ transplant, doctors have said. Adonis Ortiz received a new liver, pancreas, stomach and small and…

India wants to ensure the furore over the arrest and strip-search of a female diplomat in New York does not do lasting harm to its “valuable relationship” with the US, its foreign minister said Thursday. “I can’t believe that either side wants to put…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to continue “developing” settlements following reports of US pressure ahead of a fresh round of Palestinian prisoner releases due later this month. “We will not stop, even for a moment, building our…

18 December 2013 – The Security Council today extended the mandates of judges at the United Nations tribunal set up…

The governor of Tokyo resigned Thursday after he admitted receiving $500,000 from a hospital tycoon ahead of his election in what he claimed was an interest-free, personal loan. Naoki Inose, who was elected head of one of the world’s biggest cities…

Brazil’s northern Amazonia state ruled Wednesday that work could resume fully at the World Cup stadium in Manaus where a worker fell to his death over the weekend, media reports said. Construction at the site partially resumed on Monday, although not…

The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday slammed rights abuses in Syria, whose UN envoy launched a furious onslaught against Saudi Arabia for pressing the initiative. A resolution that has become an annual event since the start of Syria’s civil…

Prioritising sanitation can be hard for decision-makers in developing countries but little investment in infrastructure, billing and collection goes a long way

Home Office says measure should help an extra 1,500 slavery victims a year in Britain

A drone strike on a wedding convoy in Yemen killed 17 people, mostly civilians, medical and security sources said Friday, adding grist to mounting criticism of the US drone war. “Some” of the dead in Thursday’s strike near the central town of Radaa…

• Review proposes greater authority for spying on foreign leaders

• Government ‘should be banned from undermining encryption’

• Forty-six recommendations in 300-page report released early

The photo of a young Italian woman kissing a police officer’s helmet visor during a protest has gone viral, with a police union threatening to sue her for “sexual violence”. The 20-year-old student, Nina De Chiffre, was snapped by a photographer working…

Mideast peace efforts are being “hampered” by Israeli settlement construction, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem said Wednesday in his traditional Christmas message. “The Israeli-Palestinian talks resumed in late July, after three years of interruption…

The European Commission said Wednesday it would ban meat from cloned animals but stopped short of imposing restrictions on produce from the offspring of such animals, a hugely sensitive issue. Animal rights groups attacked the plan as not going far…

Talks between experts from Iran and world powers on implementing last month’s nuclear deal will resume on Thursday in Geneva, a spokeswoman for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said Wednesday. “The technical talks will be resumed tomorrow and…

Syria said Wednesday that a British doctor alleged to have been effectively murdered in custody had hanged himself after being arrested for “unauthorised activities.” Regime warplanes meanwhile pounded Aleppo for a fourth straight day in raids that…