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By Eleonora Chiarella, foreign news producer All eyes have been on Venice after historic flooding of the city’s most treasured and iconic locations, such as St Mark’s Square. The city experienced a third exceptionally high tide in less than a week on Sunday, which came after the worst tide in …

Large parts of the centre of the Italian city have been hit by exceptionally high tides for the third time in a week.

LONDON — British media on Sunday slammed Prince Andrew‘s effort to rebut claims that he had sex with a teenager who says she was trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein, branding his televised interview a complete public relations disaster. In a rare interview with BBC Newsnight that was broadcast late Saturday, Andrew categorically …

Prince Andrew is facing a transatlantic backlash over his extraordinary defence of his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein after lawyers who represent 10 of the billionaire predator’s victims branded the royal unrepentant and implausible and demanded that he speak to the FBI. After the royal’s defiant Newsnight interview on Saturday triggered …

President Donald Trump tweeted a backhanded defense about former Vice President Joe Biden Sunday after North Korea called the Democratic presidential candidate a “rabid dog.” “Mr. Chairman,” Trump said on Twitter in an apparent reference to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, “Joe Biden may be Sleepy and Very Slow, …

Image copyright Getty Images/Liberal Party Image caption James Paterson, left, and Andrew Hastie, right, have both been outspoken in their criticism of the Chinese state. Two Australian politicians refused entry to China have said they will not retract their criticisms of the country. Liberal Party MP Andrew Hastie and Senator …

By Staff The Associated Press Posted November 17, 2019 2:32 pm Smaller font Descrease article font size –A Larger font Increase article font size A+ SANTA CLARITA, Calif. — A candlelight vigil is planned Sunday evening to remember two students shot and killed by a …

Good morning, this is Richard Parkin bringing you the main stories and must-reads on Monday 18 November. Top stories As recently as 1926 Aboriginal people were forced to collect wood for their own pyres in massacres across Australia that new research suggests “became more violent, systematic and calculated over time”. …

A Massachusetts father is being held in jail after his 5-year-old brought a bag of cocaine to his kindergarten class and said it made him feel like Spider-Man. The child brought a small bag of cocaine to Lawrence Elementary School in Holyoke, Massachusetts, 90 minutes west of Boston, on Thursday, …

Operation Northmoor was set up in 2014 to examine allegations of executions by British Special Forces. It had linked dozens of suspicious killings on night raids. One of those included three children and a 20-year-old man who were killed by a British soldier in 2012 in the village of Loy …