world news
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President continues to escalate threats against North Korea over Twitter during ‘working vacation’ but no troops have been put on higher alert or redeployed
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Brussels spokeswoman says situation is evolving as two men remain arrested following raids in Belgium and the Netherlands
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Local politicians write to Emmanuel Macron to complain about loss of business at resorts such as Antibes as luxury yachts head for Spain or Italy instead
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Democratic party member Howard Lam claims he was tortured by Chinese agents over plan to send photo to dissident’s widow
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28-year-old man arrested in Pavia, Lombardy, on suspicion of setting fire to hedges and rubbish bins
spotlight
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Many of Serbia’s 7,600 refugees had hoped to live elsewhere in the EU but are trying to adapt to life in the Balkans
around the world
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UKUKConvictions of sexual exploitation gang in Newcastle are well worth the priceLetters: Professor Alan Norrie and Mark Boyle on the controversy over the payment of £10,000 to a sex offender that helped to obtain convictions against 18 others
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Development secretary says ‘catastrophic disaster’ is looming unless foreign donors follow UK lead to tackle disease that has infected half a million Yemenis
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A campaign in Somaliland to highlight the physical and psychological damage caused by female genital mutilation is starting to have an impact
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opinion & analysis
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Donald Trump has warned North Korea with ‘fire and fury’ and Kim Jong-un has threatened to attack Guam. How could this play out?
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Beijing unlikely to be happy with president’s outburst over North Korea and some observers now feel China should push back against US
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The US has nearly 40,000 personnel in Japan and 35,000 in South Korea, and uses Guam as a ‘permanent aircraft carrier’
pictures and video
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Police in Austin have released surveillance video showing a car plunging seven storeys from a downtown parking garage and striking another vehicle as it lands in an alley
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Donald Trump is on vacation in Bedminster, New Jersey, so the builders are in to make some much-needed repairs to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
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Egyptian civilians and emergency services attend the site of a train crash near Khorshid station between Alexandria and Cairo on Friday
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Speaking at his New Jersey golf club on Thursday, the president added that North Korea need to ‘get their act together’
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Stephen McGown, a South African man with British citizenship who was held hostage by al-Qaida in Mali for almost six years, says he was kidnapped because he was non-Muslim
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Dozens of people run from a rubber dingy as it arrives on a beach in Zahara de los Atunes near Cádiz
Put to the vote German nursery where children make the decisions