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The Paris mayor’s office has sought to ban a new dating website for wealthy men seeking to meet younger partners that has been accused of inciting students in the French capital to prostitute themselves. A trailer hired by the website richmeetbeautiful.fr...

Donald Trump’s eldest son has labelled Hillary Clinton as “entitled” on her birthday.Last year on 26 October, Hillary Clinton’s official Twitter account posted, “Happy birthday to this future president”, along with a photo of the young Ms Clinton. This...

Catalonia's vice-president has said that the Spanish government has given them "no choice" but declare independence.Oriol Junqueras said his party, one of the two in the ruling separatist coalition which forms the Catalan government, is "going to work...

The EU is likely to offer Theresa May a transition period after Brexit of just 20 months, according to senior sources in Brussels. In her speech in Florence the prime minister formally requested what she had described as an implementation period of “about...

A top US diplomat working with North Korea reportedly says diplomacy is on its "last legs" as President Donald Trump refuses to accept a nuclear-armed Pyongyang.Trump has been clear that the US will take steps to prevent North Korea developing a nuclear...

Xi Jinping has kicked off his second term as leader of the world’s second largest economy, vowing to spearhead the “great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation” and signalling his intent to tower over Chinese politics for decades to come. At just before...

A UN peacekeeping force commander in Lebanon on Tuesday said peace between Lebanon and Israel was still elusive. Maj.-Gen. Michael Beary, the Commander of UN Peacekeeping Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and Head of Mission, made the remarks in Beirut on the...

Russia is preparing to test-launch its new generation of nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which it has claimed will be able to penetrate the US’ defensive shield. Russia claims new Sarmat missile will have 11,000km range, and payload...

Ballot papers for Kenya’s presidential election next week have begun arriving in the country, in a sign that the troubled poll will probably go ahead. The final batch of papers is scheduled to arrive from Dubai on Tuesday, less than 48 hours before Kenyans...

Populist billionaire candidate Andrej Babis and his party have won the Czech Republic's general election. Results from more than 98% of polling stations gave his centrist movement ANO (Yes) almost 30% of the vote - nearly three times its closest rival....

The new head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) is rethinking a plan to appoint Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe as a goodwill ambassador. Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus's original proposal sparked an outcry. He had previously praised Zimbabwe for...

Spain was plunged into political crisis on Saturday after the prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, announced that he was stripping Catalonia of its autonomy and imposing direct rule from Madrid in an attempt to crush the regional leadership’s move to secede....

The White House has claimed that speeches by George W Bush and Barack Obama - widely interpreted as being strong criticisms of Donald Trump’s actions - were not aimed at the President. In a speech in New York earlier this week, Mr Bush attacked “nationalism...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed a decree imposing restrictions on North Korea in order to comply with a United Nations Security Council resolution. The resolution, about special economic measures, was a response to Pyongyang’s missiles...

Rear Adm. Brad Cooper, commander of Naval Forces Korea, said aboard the nuclear- powered aircraft carrier that that the drills enhanced the allies’ ability to coordinate operations. According to Fox News, the five-day drills that ended Friday involved...

Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Saturday said he would curb the powers of the parliament of Catalonia, sack its government and call an election within six months in a bid to thwart a drive by the autonomous region to break away from Spain. Rajoy...

Experts have warned Congress that it is ignoring a newly-developed weapon from North Korea which could shut down the US power grid and kill the vast majority of Americans within a year. Two members of the disbanded congressional Electromagnetic Pulse...

Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe, has created a ministry to punish “rats” who make use of the cyberspace to attack his government. Appointed as Head of this new Cyber Security, Threat Detection, and Mitigation Ministry is Patrick Chinamasa who is a...

At a forum in Washington, which also has National Security Adviser HR McMaster in attendance, CIA Director Mike Pompeo expressed the need for the United States to act as if North Korea is on the verge of being able to strike it with a missile and act...

The White House has been condemned for attempting to silence the media by warning that it is “highly inappropriate” to challenge the veracity of remarks by a military general. A reporter on Friday questioned a claim by the White House chief of staff,...

Emmanuel Macron has accused Brexiters of seeking to “bluff” the EU into softening its negotiating stance by championing a no-deal scenario. In a dramatic intervention at a summit of European leaders in Brussels, the French president said such an outcome...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered workmen to finish building the Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, which has been empty for 20 years. It is alternatively known as the "hotel of doom", the "phantom hotel", and the "worst building in the history of...

Donald Trump agreed to sell South Korea billions of dollars in US arms amid the standoff over North Korea's missile and nuclear tests, the White House said. The US president also approved that Seoul could review a joint treaty which places a cap on the...

Remember the British couple caught having sex on the counter of Dominos Pizza shop some months ago? Well, they went on trial this week for breaking local public decency laws. The woman is a bartender named Daniella Hirst and her boyfriend is Craig Smith....

The United Nations has demanded that China should immediately release prominent human rights activists from detention and pay them compensation, according to an unreleased document obtained by the Guardian. The report, which has not been made public,...