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The US federal government has shut down after Republican and Democratic lawmakers failed to resolve a budget standoff.The impasse affects the funding of government operations through October and beyond, and is poised to cause widespread disruption for Americans in...

Dramatic rescue footage shows the boys in Indonesia pulled to safety after their school building collapsed on Monday. The three students, Yusuf, Haikal and Dani were all trapped under the rubble for several hours. It is thought around 38...

German authorities shut down the famous Oktoberfest in Munich on Wednesday following an explosion and fire in a residential building in the north of the...

The outer bands of distant Hurricane Humberto lashed Bermuda on Tuesday ahead of a more direct pass from the newer and stronger Hurricane Imelda on the tiny British territory. Humberto was passing well north...

Police in Peru have arrested a man suspected of having ordered the killing of two 20-year-old women and a 15-year-old girl in Argentina. The three were lured to a house near the Argentine capital on 19 September.Their mutilated bodies...

South African opposition politician Julius Malema has been found guilty of discharging a firearm in public seven years ago - an offence which carries a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison.In 2018, a video emerged showing the Economic...

Activists on a flotilla which is trying to breach Israel's naval blockade and deliver aid to Gaza say they are back on course after a reported confrontation with an Israeli warship in the early hours of Wednesday.The Global Sumud...

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Munich police say the opening of the venue where Oktoberfest is taking place has been delayed because of possible connections to an explosion and fire at a house in the city, in which one person has died.Mayor Dieter Reiter...

Thomas NaadiBBC Africa, AccraPhotothek via Getty ImagesA Nigerian man deported from the US to Ghana has told the BBC that he is now stuck in a hotel in Togo, after he and five others were secretly transferred to the...