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Jay Clayton, President Donald Trump's pick to serve as director of national intelligence, faced repeated questions from Democrats on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence during his confirmation hearing on Wednesday about whether Joe Biden won the 2020 election...

France's National Assembly has voted to create a right to assisted dying under strict conditions, after years of debate and changes to the proposals.MPs voted by 291 to 241 to back the bill, which had been rejected three times...

Respondents were asked if they had a very favourable, somewhat favourable, somewhat unfavourable, or very unfavourable opinion of each superpower.The research centre found that in 25 of the 36 countries, there were more people who had favourable views of...

For the first time since at least 1974, new homes are selling for less than existing ones, and the culprit is a mix of builders getting generous and sellers refusing to budge.In the first quarter of 2026, the median...

London — A British man jailed in Iran on espionage charges that officials call baseless has had his decade-long prison sentence extended by a further two years, his family said Wednesday, as he and...

A northern Minnesota county declared a state of emergency and an air quality alert was issued on Tuesday due to wildfires raging across northern Minnesota and Canada.St. Louis County in northeast Minnesota issued a State of Local Emergency and...

Video captured on 13 July shows a wildfire surrounding a freight train in Ontario, Canada. CN Rail told the BBC that it temporarily suspended operations in the area and relocated employees. The workers seen in the video were able...

Bending Spoons received 800,000 job applications last year, and only hired 286 of the candidates. And the $21 billion company—which owns digital businesses including Eventbrite, Vimeo, and AOL—says competition has only been ramping up in recent years. Tens of thousands...

Kyiv — Ukraine's Parliament accepted Yulia Svyrydenko's resignation as prime minister on Tuesday following President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's decision to overhaul the country's top leadership. The move has surprised many observers who credit the outgoing cabinet with Ukraine's recent...

Immigration - especially undocumented migration - has become a highly contentious political issue in South Africa, with protesters accusing them of placing pressure on public services, as well as being involved in crime.March and March had set an unofficial...