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UK speaker in favour of letting MPs bring babies to Commons debates

British Commons speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has said he is in favour of letting MPs bring their babies with them for parliamentary debates as...

Russian court orders shutdown of renowned human rights group

Russia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that one of the country’s oldest and most prominent human rights organisations should be shut down. The move stirred...

Judge to consider reducing 110-year sentence handed to trucker for fatal crash

A judge on Monday was set to consider a request from prosecutors to reduce the 110-year prison sentence of a truck driver for a...

Christmas weekend snowstorm causes chaos in California and Nevada

A major Christmas weekend storm caused whiteout conditions and closed key roads in the mountains of Northern California and Nevada, with forecasters warning that...

Daily Covid infections surge above 100,000 in France

France has recorded more than 100,000 coronavirus infections in a single day for the first time since the pandemic began. Covid cases in hospital have...

El Salvador women jailed for 30 years under anti-abortion laws are released

Three El Salvador women who were jailed for 30 years under the nation’s strict anti-abortion laws after suffering obstetric emergencies have been released, according...

Taliban dissolves ‘unnecessary’ election commissions

The Taliban has dissolved Afghanistan’s two election commissions as well as the state ministries for peace and parliamentarian affairs. Bilal Karimi, deputy spokesman for Afghanistan’s...

Eruption of Spanish island volcano declared over after starting in September

Authorities on one of Spain’s Canary Islands declared a volcanic eruption that started in September officially finished on Saturday following 10 days of no...

Muted Christmas in Philippines in wake of deadly typhoon

Hundreds of thousands of people in the Philippines, Asia’s largest Roman Catholic nation, have been marking Christmas without homes, adequate food and water, electricity...

China increases efforts to control Covid outbreaks ahead of Winter Olympics

China is redoubling efforts to control new virus outbreaks with a lockdown of the 13 million residents of the northern city of Xi’an following...

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