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Storm trackers in the Texas Panhandle recovered a massive hail stone that researchers say is likely to be a new state record....

Fossil fuel firms are biggest beneficiaries of investor-state dispute settlement courts which have awarded $114bn of public money...

Millions of Americans are sweltering as experts warn early heat could herald next record-smashing summer...

Twenty-two Chinese nationals have pleaded guilty to committing cyber-related crimes in Zambia....

“The very soul of Europe is at risk,” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez warned fellow European centre-left politicians who had gathered in Rome ahead of a difficult EU election campaign....

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According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), more money is being invested in solar power than in all other sources of electricity combined....

At least four people were killed when a passenger train collided head on with a freight train in the Czech city of Pardubice, according to rescue services....

Scientists are on alert for signs the virus is adapting to spread more easily among humans, after the WHO announced the death from April...

The 59-year-old was the first lab-confirmed human case of infection with A(H5N2) subtype of the virus which has been reported in poultry in the country....

A “competitiveness crisis” is raising alarms for officials and business leaders in the European Union, where investment, income and productivity are lagging....

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The Texas governor’s pardon of a former Army sergeant who fatally shot a Black Lives Matter demonstrator undermines the state’s legal system and constitution and should be reversed, a prosecutor said Tuesday....

Local Colorado officials have reached an $8.5 million settlement with a woman who was hospitalized in 2022 after being left handcuffed in a police SUV that was then hit by a train....

Rich individuals in all countries must pay more to tackle the climate crisis, whether through taxes or charges on consumption, one of the architects of the Paris agreement has said....

Rich individuals in all countries must pay more to tackle the climate crisis, whether through taxes or charges on consumption, one of the architects of the Paris agreement has said....

Third of world’s ocean surface particularly vulnerable to threats driven by burning fossil fuel and deforestation, new research finds...

Measurable in Trump supporters, psycho-social phenomenon can have consequences for democracy, authors say...

Knox, 36, hoped to overturn conviction for wrongly accusing a bar owner of murdering British student Meredith Kercher...

One assailant has been hospitalized after being shot and wounded by the Lebanese army. The embassy said no staff were harmed in the incident....

A gunman was shot and captured by Lebanese soldiers after a Wednesday morning shootout outside the U.S. Embassy near Beirut that injured an embassy security guard, the military and embassy officals said....

The longstanding effort to keep extremist forces out of government in Europe is officially over....

Brussels is expected to inform Chinese carmakers of new duties on electric vehicles only after Sunday’s election....

A group of eight Holocaust survivors drew parallels between the current political climate and that of Germany in the 1930s. Some of them condemned the far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD)....

Japan’s transport ministry raided the headquarters of motor giant Toyota on Tuesday, as a scandal over faulty safety data escalated....

The Australian Defence Force (ADF) will allow recruits from foreign countries, including the UK, to help grow its ranks....

Lower-than-normal rain and snow have reduced Canada’s hydropower production, raising worries in the industry about the effects of climate change....

The number of Chinese websites is shrinking and posts are being removed and censored, stoking fears about what happens when history is erased....

Scientists say calamities on same scale as disaster that has killed 169 will become more common if emissions not cut...

Gunmen have killed the female mayor of a town in Mexico just hours after the country celebrated the election of Claudia Sheinbaum as the nation’s first woman president....

A senior Ukrainian official hinted Monday that, despite Kremlin threats, Kyiv may have already begun using Western weapons to hit targets inside Russia....

The Philippine military chief on Tuesday said the Chinese coast guard seized one of four food packs dropped by a plane for Filipino navy personnel at a territorial outpost that has been surrounded by Chinese vessels in the disputed waters of the South China Sea....

US president’s remarks to Time magazine about PM’s role in conflict draw heavily critical response from Israeli government...

Politicians and figures linked to the far-right Alternative for Germany party use TikTok as a “parallel universe” to spread extremism, a study says. Meanwhile, other parties show “weak performance” on the platform....

Police in the Chinese territory took away Sanmu Chen on a street close to a park that for decades hosted an annual vigil to mourn the victims of the 1989 crackdown....

A juror was dismissed Monday after reporting that a woman dropped a bag of $120,000 in cash at her home and offered her more money if she would vote to acquit seven people charged with stealing more than $40 million from a program meant to feed children during the pandemic....

Former presidential medical adviser clashed with far-right congresswoman when he testified in front of the House Oversight Committee on Monday about the Trump administration’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic...

Daily temperature records will tumble as sizzling early season heat from a summerlike heat dome sends thermometers skyrocketing into the triple digits in parts of California and the West this week....

A 74-year-old woman believed to have died while in hospice care was found to be breathing after being transported to a funeral home, authorities in Nebraska said Monday....

Russia knows Putin’s Crimea bridge is “doomed,” a Ukrainian official told The Economist....

The mix of Spanish and English is the world’s fastest growing linguistic hybrid. Experts calculate that it is spoken by 50 million people...

Prime Minister Luis Montenegro has vowed to put an end to the “wide-open doors” policy with new limitations on one of Europe’s most open immigration regimes....

The mother of an Air Force airman who was fatally shot in the doorway to his home by a Florida sheriff’s deputy said Monday that the deputy’s firing was not justice for her son’s killing....

The latest doxxing attempt fits into a pattern of threats against people who speak out against former President Donald Trump....

Ultra-wealthy Republican donors are rallying behind former US President Donald Trump following his historic trial and criminal conviction....

Germany wants to be climate neutral by 2045. But a panel of government climate advisers says it’s already in danger of missing a key target to cut planet-heating emissions by the end of the decade....

Lithuania is busy digging up a remote forest to host German troops....

The former president complained that his sentencing is set to take place days before the Republican National Convention...