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Iceland's closely fought referendum on whether to resume membership talks with the European Union is going down to wire, with the result too close to call.Based on the first 153,197 votes counted of the 270,000 voters eligible, 50.1% rejected...

Trump said the decree was effective immediately as he signed the order to rename it Lake America. While he has broad discretion over how the US recognises landmarks, other countries are not required to follow. Canadian officials have dismissed...

A South Carolina police officer died and a second was injured in a “gunfight” Saturday in a park that followed a call about a domestic dispute, Columbia police Chief W.H. “Skip” Holbrook said.The suspect, a 33-year-old man with a...

Singapore is overhauling its landmark baby bonus scheme, first introduced in 2001, as the city’s fertility rate and number of births fall to record lows. In 2025, births in the Southeast Asian country fell below 30,000 for the first time...

Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, apologized to the state's Jewish Democratic Caucus on Saturday for comments he made after an attack on a synagogue in March, which he tied to Israel's actions in the...

Small boats stand idle on cracked ground in a shriveled side channel of the Danube River in northern Serbia, where the water has receded into a couple of shrinking ponds under pressure from extreme drought and heat. Fish circle in the...

Ontario's head of government on Saturday erected a sign by Lake Ontario that reads "Lake Ontario - Now and Always" and criticized President Trump after he signed an executive order to rename the body of...

A former president of Ecuador has been sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty of taking bribes.Lenín Moreno insisted he had not taken money from a Chinese firm which secured a contract to build a hydroelectric...

He assumes his new role at a difficult time, as the royal family has faced health challenges and scandals this year.Mette-Marit came under scrutiny when it was revealed that she had had a three-year friendship with the late convicted...

Among the many potential downsides for letting the national debt get too high was that the federal government would suck up so much capital that businesses wouldn’t be left with enough.Today, U.S. debt is at $40 trillion, the federal...