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More than 20 people were killed in separate bomb attacks in Afghanistan on Monday, including at least 14 when a suicide bomber struck a minibus carrying Nepalese security contractors in the Afghan capital, officials said. In Kabul, a Reuters witness saw several apparently dead victims and at least two wounded being carried out of the twisted remains of a yellow bus ...

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been placed in intensive care after undergoing an operation to replace a defective heart valve. The procedure lasted four hours, Milan’s San Raffaele hospital said, giving no further details. But sources told Ansa news agency the operation had been a success. He is likely to take a month to recover. Berlusconi, 79, served ...

Animal rights campaigners in China have handed in a petition with 11 million signatures calling for an end to an annual dog-eating festival in the south-west of the country. Activists want to stop the consumption of dog meat at the festival in the southern city of Yulin which is due to begin later this month. Correspondents say animal rights is ...

The man who killed a French police couple at their home near Paris was responding to calls by so-called Islamic State (IS) “to kill infidels”, police say. Larossi Abballa, who was killed in a shootout with police, was loyal to IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, they said. A police commander and his partner were stabbed to death at their home. ...

The interest rate on 10-year bonds issued by the German government has turned negative for the first time. Fears about the global economy and a possible UK departure from the EU have prompted investors to pay to own “Bunds”. Stock markets have suffered further falls, with the FTSE 100 in London sinking below 6,000 points for the first time since ...

Human flesh and hair have been found inside the stomach of a black bear shot dead in Japan after a series of deadly attacks, say local officials. The bear is suspected of killing a 74-year-old woman whose badly mauled body was found on Friday near Kazuno in mountainous Akita prefecture. Three men also died in apparent bear attacks in the ...

Officials in India have “arrested” 18 lions as they try to find a man eater suspected of killing three people. Forest officials in Gujarat state will test the lions’ prints and excrement in an attempt to identify the killer. The “guilty lion” will be kept in a zoo for life while the others will be released back into the Gir ...

Eight former South Wales Police detectives involved in the Lynette White murder investigation have lost their civil case against the force. They brought civil action after being cleared of corruption allegations when their trial collapsed in 2011. Graham Mounc her, Thomas Page, Richard Powell, John Seaford, Michael Daniels, Peter Greenwood, Paul Jennings and Paul Stephen sued for malicious prosecution, false ...

The man behind the worst mass shooting in recent US history visited the gay nightclub where he carried out the massacre several times, witnesses say. Chris Callen, a performer at Pulse in Orlando, Florida, told the New York Daily News that Omar Mateen had visited the venue over the past three years. Investigators are pursuing the reports, according to US ...

The Philippine president has condemned the “brutal and senseless murder” of a Canadian man by Abu Sayyaf militants. Robert Hall was kidnapped by the Islamist group in September along with three others from Canada, the Philippines and Norway. Fellow Canadian John Ridsdel was killed by the group in April after a multi-million dollar ransom deadline expired. Canadian Prime Minister Justin ...