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Image copyright ASALEO CARE Image caption The adverts prompted hundreds of complaints in Australia Adverts which were the first to depict menstrual blood on Australian television did not breach viewing standards, regulators say. The ads were run by sanitary pad brand Libra last month and showed stained underwear and blood …

Benjamin Netanyahu and his main rival, Benny Gantz, have both vowed to lead Israel’s next government, despite early results and exit polls appearing to show they would both struggle to form a coalition. Three exit polls run by Israeli television channels, which are unofficial and often unreliable, showed neither the …

“The Princess Bride” star Cary Elwes was among many who found the idea of a remake of the timeless 1987 film inconceivable after the Sony Pictures CEO floated the idea in an interview. Twitter users expressed outrage when Sony Pictures Entertainment chief executive Tony Vinciquerra mentioned the idea of a …

The drone attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil installations are an attack on the “whole world” and its economy, according to the newly appointed Saudi ambassador to London. Prince Khalid Bin Bandar Al-Saud told the BBC’s Frank Gardner that Iran was most likely behind the attack. He also called last year’s …

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in a battle for political survival after exit polls following Tuesday’s election showed the race too close to call and the Israeli leader’s decade-long grip on power slipping. Netanyahu’s main election challenger, centrist Benny Gantz, said on Wednesday it appeared from the exit polls that …

Canada is seeking to reassure its Five Eyes intelligence allies in the wake of a massive alleged spying leak that may be linked to an Australian drug-smuggling criminal syndicate. Cameron Ortis, the director general of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s intelligence unit, has been charged over allegations he was trying …

Three people, including a transgender woman, were attacked in Portland, Oregon, in what police say may be a bias crime. The assault happened in a downtown parking lot around 2:30 a.m. Thursday, and the assailants had fled by the time officers arrived, Portland police said in a statement. Atlas Marshall, …

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Corey Lewandowski accused the panel of “petty and personal politics” A former Trump campaign manager has lashed out at Democrats during the first congressional hearings to explore possible impeachment of the president. Corey Lewandowski repeatedly refused to answer questions during an ill-tempered House of Representatives …

Governments and international organizations aren’t ready to deal with a major pandemic, according to a new report from an international monitoring body. In its first annual report, the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board found that the world is at “acute risk for devastating regional or global disease epidemics or pandemics that …

Some time next year, the European court of human rights will decide on the case of a Dutch woman who feels unfairly treated because her country’s highest court has told her she cannot wear a plastic colander on her head for her ID photo. It may combine Mienke de Wilde’s …