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The US formally suspended tariffs rises on £200bn of Chinese goods but hopes of resolving a trade war between the two nations faded, sending global stock markets fell for the third straight day on Thursday. US Trade Representative (USTR) Robert Lighthizer pushed back higher import duties which had been due …

United Nations investigators said on Thursday Israeli security forces may have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in killing 189 Palestinians and wounding more than 6,100 at weekly protests in Gaza last year. The independent panel said it had confidential information about those it believes to be responsible for …

A mass grave containing the bodies of dozens of people who may be Yazidis enslaved by Islamic State has been found in territory recently seized by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an SDF official said on Thursday. Many of the bodies found in the Baghouz area were those of …

David De Gea is ready to sign a new long-term contract with Manchester United, with the goalkeeper and club closer to finding an agreement on terms and breaking an impasse over agents fees. The Spaniard has been a long-time target for some of Europe’s biggest clubs – most notably Real …

Canada’s main opposition party has called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to step down following allegations of unethical conduct by his officials. Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer called on Trudeau to resign on Wednesday after a former justice minister claimed that Canadian government officials had inappropriately pressured her to help …

Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s ex-lawyer, is giving dramatic testimony before the House Oversight Committee and has told the congressional panel the president “is a racist, a conman and a cheat”. Cohen said: “I am ashamed that I chose to take part in concealing Mr. Trump’s illicit acts rather than listening …

Remains of some of the oldest ever frogs have been recovered by sifting through fragments of rock from Arizona. The creatures, which shared the prehistoric landscape with dinosaurs, were identified based on tiny shards of hip bone smaller than a fingernail. Belonging to an as-yet-unnamed species that lived around 216 …

Firefighters battled a series of wildfires in Britain on Wednesday, including a large moorland blaze outside the northern English city of Manchester, as the country experienced its warmest winter weather on record. A fire started on Tuesday evening on Saddleworth Moor, an expanse of hills that is popular with hikers. …

A fiery train crash killed at least 20 people at Cairo’s main railway station on Wednesday, Egyptian security and medical sources said. The accident, which sparked a major blaze at the Ramses station, also injured 40 others, the sources said. Egyptian state TV confirmed the figures. The fire broke out …

A helicopter crashed in bad weather in eastern Nepal on Wednesday, killing all seven people on board, including the tourism minister, a home ministry official said. A search team recovered the bodies from the crash site in Taplejung, about 300 km (185 miles) east of Kathmandu, near the border with …

French Islamic State accused handed over to face trial in Iraq Thirteen French citizens accused of fighting for the Islamic State group are to be tried in Iraq rather than face charges back home in France. Iraqi President Barham Saleh said the 13 were handed over by Syrian Kurdish forces …

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani met his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad in Tehran on Monday. Rouhani stressed Iran’s commitment to supporting the Syrian government and nation in the fight against terrorism, pointing to Iran’s seriousness for cooperating with and helping the Syrian government in the process of reconstruction of Syria and …

Theresa May has promised MPs a vote on delaying the UK’s departure from the EU or ruling out a no-deal Brexit, if they reject her deal next month. Mrs May is making a statement to MPs on Brexit, amid the threat of a revolt by Remain-supporting ministers. The prime minister …

Iraqi President Barham Saleh said on Monday that 13 Islamic State detainees who were transferred to Iraq last week from the Syrian Democratic Forces will be tried in Iraq. “They are accused of having commanded operations against Iraqis and Iraqi installations in Iraq, and they will be tried according to …

Rami Malek won his first Oscar on Sunday as best lead actor for his portrayal of singer Freddie Mercury, the flamboyant late frontman of the British rock band Queen, in the musical drama “Bohemian Rhapsody.” Malek, 37, had emerged as a favorite for the Oscar in recent weeks after winning …

A former mayor of Rome has been sentenced to six years in prison for his part in the infiltration of organized crimes into the capital, and immediately vowed to appeal. “I’m innocent, I have always said it and I will repeat before the judges on appeal,” said Gianni Alemanno, mayor …

Gunmen in Somalia have opened fire on a team of roadside workers, killing eight and wounding several others, witnesses say. The workers, who included both men and women, were clearing scrubland alongside a road in the Hawa-Abdi area, some 18 kilometers (11 miles) north outside the capital Mogadishu. “Several gunmen …

A Virgin Galactic rocket plane on Friday soared to the edge of space with a test passenger for the first time, nudging British billionaire Richard Branson’s company closer to its goal of suborbital flights for space tourists. Virgin Galactic’s chief astronaut instructor Beth Moses, who will train future space tourists, …

  MD Global, the Finnish company that owns the rights to use the Nokia brand for mobile phones, has launched a smartphone with an array of five camera lenses on the rear – two 12 megapixel color sensors and three 12 megapixel monochrome sensors – designed to appeal to camera …

Nasa-funded scientists have developed a new kind of DNA-like structure that can store and transmit information – and could lead to new ways of finding alien life. The breakthrough discovery suggests there might be alternative, unimagined forms of DNA-based life as we know it on Earth. Life on other worlds …