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Sri Lanka’s president has said for the first time that the more than 20,000 people who went missing during the country’s civil war are dead. Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who served as a top defence official during the 26-year conflict, made the announcement on Monday and said death certificates would be issued. …

He’s only the third president in US history to face an impeachment trial.

An Iranian student attending college in Boston was denied entry to the U.S. and ordered to immediately fly back to his native country, despite a court order temporarily staying his removal, immigration lawyers and civil rights groups said Tuesday. Shahab Dehghani, a student at Northeastern University, arrived on a flight …

Hillary Clinton has criticized Bernie Sanders, insisting “nobody likes” and “nobody wants to work with” him. Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, also refused to commit to endorsing Sanders should he win the primary this year. The Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday published the comments, which Clinton made in a four-part …

Bitter cold spread across parts of the U.S. on Tuesday, including Florida, with wind chills expected in the 20s to 40s in the South through Wednesday. Temperatures in the Southeast will be 5-15 degrees below average with some gradual warming over the next few days. Below average temperatures, however, will …

Donald Trump’s impeachment trial is getting under way in the Senate today, but Democrats have already claimed the process for the hearing is unfair. The Republican president, who is 4,000 miles away from Washington in Davos, Switzerland, is charged with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress after investigations by …

Image copyright Getty Images Brazilian authorities are seeking to bring charges against Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who published Edward Snowden’s intelligence agency leaks. Mr Greenwald has been accused of “helping guiding and encouraging” a criminal group that hacked into the phones of Brazilian officials. The journalist had recently published stories …

Australia’s wildfires have killed 29 people and left millions of animals dead over the last several months.  Now some Australian academics are saying there is potential for research on what to do with animal carcasses in the wake of a mass mortality event. Thomas Newsome and his colleagues at the …

Images of burned koalas and native animals fleeing the fire front have been beamed around the world. There are estimates that 1 billion animals have been impacted and experts fear that some plants and animals have been pushed to extinction. So how bad is the damage? And will Australia’s wildlife …

The mother of three children found dead in a Phoenix home has admitted to killing them and was arrested, police said Tuesday. The children, a 3-year-old boy, a 2-year-old girl and a 7-month-old girl, were found unresponsive Monday after police were called to the home, according to the Phoenix Police …