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The founder of Germany’s anti-Islamist Pegida movement has gone on trial in Dresden on hate speech charges. Lutz Bachmann, 43, is accused of inciting racial hatred in Facebook posts, in which he called refugees “cattle”, “scumbags” and “filth”. Pegida’s rallies have attracted thousands of supporters in Germany. Separately, police arrested five suspects near Dresden accused of attacking migrant hostels and ...

New York is holding presidential primaries seen as key for both Republican and Democratic front-runners after their recent defeats. Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton, a former senator for New York, is expected to win against Brooklyn-born Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. For the Republicans, Queens-born Donald Trump is likely to come ahead of Texas Senator Ted Cruz. Wins will put Mrs Clinton ...

An Indian police horse that had a leg amputated after being allegedly assaulted by a politician, has been fitted with a state-of-the-art prosthetic limb that is allowing the animal to stand again, Raju Gusain reports. Ganesh Joshi, a legislator from the northern state of Uttarakhand, was arrested after he allegedly beat the horse, named Shaktiman, with a stick, during a ...

Flash flooding and more rain is possible in Houston, a day after record rainfall killed five people. Meteorologists said some 17.6in (44.7cm) of rain fell on the city on Monday alone, levels that national officials said were “historic”. Texas Governor Greg Abbott has declared a state of emergency in Houston, where 70,000 people were left without power. Rivers burst their ...

At least 28 people have been killed and 329 injured in a huge explosion in the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul, police and officials say. A suicide attacker detonated a vehicle and gunmen stormed the area, reports say. Officials say the gunfight is now over and the area has been cleared. A Taliban spokesman said the group carried out ...

A leading Philippines presidential candidate, Rodrigo Duterte, has apologised for comments about the rape and murder of an Australian missionary. Video showing Mr Duterte making light of Jacqueline Hamill’s assault during a prison riot in Davao City in 1989 caused outrage in the Philippines. He was the mayor of the city at the time, and said she was so beautiful ...

The Israeli ringleader in the killing of a Palestinian youth, abducted and burned to death in Jerusalem in 2014, has been convicted of his murder. A Jerusalem court found 31-year-old Yosef Haim Ben David guilty, rejecting a plea of insanity. He will be sentenced next month. Two youths have already been jailed for murdering Mohammad Abu Khdair, 16. He was ...

Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko has said he has agreed with Russian President Vladimir Putin on a mechanism to swap a high-profile Ukrainian prisoner for two Russians. The two leaders raised the possible exchange in a phone call on Monday. Army volunteer Nadiya Savchenko, seen as a national hero in Ukraine, was jailed by a Russian court last month. A court ...

Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa has warned that the death toll from a powerful earthquake which has killed 272 people is likely to rise. There were desperate scenes as rescuers and family members searched for survivors, often with bare hands. Mr Correa said there was evidence that people were still alive under the rubble of collapsed buildings. More than 2,000 were ...

Indian police have detained five people after a fireworks display at a Hindu temple set off explosions and fire killing 108 people, an officer said on Monday, in one of the worst accidents at a religious festival. Thousands of people were gathered at the temple at Kollam in the southern state of Kerala on Sunday for the pyrotechnic show to ...