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At least 95 people have been killed by monsoon flooding in southern and western India, while hundreds of thousands have been evacuated from their homes, according to reports. More than 40 of those killed were in the south-western state of Kerala. The flooding and landslides caused by the heavy seasonal …

Financier Jeffrey Epstein has been found dead in his prison cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, US media report. His body was discovered at 07:30 local time (11:30 GMT) on Saturday at a facility in New York. He was reportedly on suicide watch following an earlier incident in …

At least 18 people have been killed and more than a million forced from their homes as Typhoon Lekima hit China. Fourteen people were also missing after a landslide was triggered by the storm, state media reported. Lekima made landfall in the early hours of Saturday in Wenling, between Taiwan …

North Korea has fired two missiles into the sea, its fifth such launch in recent weeks. The missiles are thought to be short-range ballistic missiles, South Korea’s military says. If confirmed, such a test would be a breach of 11 UN security Council resolutions. The launches come after US President …

Five people were killed and three injured following a rocket explosion on a naval test range in Russia on Thursday, state nuclear company Rosatom confirmed. Rostacom said the accident occurred during tests on a liquid propellant rocket engine. The three injured staff members suffered serious burns in the accident. Authorities …

Commuters have been left stranded across England and Wales after a sudden power outage left nearly a million people without electricity across the majority of regions. Blackouts were reported just after 5pm in London and the South East, the South-West, Wales, as well as the Midlands, the North-West and the …

US immigration officials say they have temporarily released about 300 people who were arrested in a massive raid in Mississippi on Wednesday. Nearly 700 workers from seven agricultural processing plants were arrested for allegedly not having proper documentation to be in the US. The raids sparked condemnation from Democrats as …

Kyrgyzstan’s security forces have arrested former President Almazbek Atambayev after a botched raid on his property overnight resulted in the death of one officer. Mr Atambayev reportedly surrendered and was taken to the country’s capital, Bishkek. He had earlier refused to surrender, provoking a standoff in which his supporters took …

Packages containing millions of dollars worth of cocaine have washed up on a New Zealand beach made famous in a 2015 Taylor Swift music video. Police found 19 packages containing cocaine worth an estimated $1.9 million (New Zealand $3 million) on the isolated Bethells Beach, on Auckland’s west coast, police …

A man killed four people during a stabbing rampage in Southern California before officers arrested him after finding his silver Mercedes parked outside a 7-Eleven, authorities said. In addition to the people killed, the attacker left two others wounded in multiple crime scenes in Garden Grove and Santa Ana, police …