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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 ...

11 April, 2016 Prince William and Kate attempted Indian cookery with a 21st century twist as they met entrepreneurs in Mumbai today. William made a dosa – similar to a crepe – using an automatic machine invented by a company from Bangalore, and said it was “delicious.” Kate was less adventurous, declining her husband’s offer to taste his efforts. On ...

Turkey will work on a new rule to strip citizenship from Turks found to be supporting terrorism, the justice minister said on Wednesday, a day after President Tayyip Erdogan said he wanted such a measure. Erdogan first floated the idea on Tuesday in a speech to lawyers. Since becoming president, he has transformed the largely ceremonial role into a more ...

Expatriates have overwhelmingly welcomed the announcement by Deputy Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Slman, second deputy premier and minister of defense, that Saudi Arabia was planning to give permanent residency to foreign workers similar to the US Green Card system. “The Green Card-like program and a plan to allow employers to hire more foreign workers above their official quotas for a ...

Two 15-year-old girls who “battered and tortured” a woman to death in her own home have been found guilty of murder. Angela Wrightson, 39, was found in her living room with more than 100 injuries – including 80 to her face – in Hartlepool in December 2014. The girls, then aged 13 and 14, used a variety of weapons including ...

China has said is restricting trade with North Korea, announcing bans on gold and some coal imports and jet fuel exports, in line with UN sanctions. The commerce ministry is also banning the importation of so-called “rare earth metals” used in high-tech goods. The UN Security Council voted in March to increase the sanctions. The unanimous decision came after North ...

Two planes collided at an airport in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta, resulting in a wing bursting into flames. A Batik Air passenger plane was taking off when its wing clipped the tail of a TransNusa aircraft being towed across the runway. Authorities said there were no injuries in the Monday night incident, and all passengers were evacuated safely. Indonesia has had ...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said he would cut off cash sent to Mexico to force them to pay for a border wall with the US. In a memo to the Washington Post, Mr Trump writes that he would change a law to cut off money transfers to Mexico. “It’s an easy decision for Mexico,” the candidate writes in ...