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Hillary heads to New Hampshire after Iowa kickoff US presidential contender Hillary Clinton will visit the key primary election state of New Hampshire early next week, after her first presidential election trip this week. The former first lady and secretary of state — now the clear frontrunner for the Democratic Party presidential ticket — will meet with students, teachers and ...

At least seven people have been killed in an attack on the higher education ministry in a busy area of Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, witnesses say. The BBC’s Ibrahim Aden says a car loaded with explosives was driven into the wall surrounding the compound and there is an ongoing gun battle. A police official told the AFP news agency that the ...

The US has expressed concern after Russia lifted a ban on supplying Iran with the sophisticated S-300 air defence missile system. Secretary of State John Kerry raised the matter in a phone call with the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, the White House said. Russia said the embargo was no longer necessary after an interim deal was reached on Iran’s ...

A Japanese court has blocked the restarting of two nuclear reactors in the western city of Takahama, after local people raised safety concerns. The plant had already obtained approval from the country’s nuclear watchdog. But locals had petitioned the court in Fukui prefecture, where Takahama is located, to intervene, saying it would not withstand a strong earthquake. All 48 commercial ...

India’s biggest online retailer has pulled out of a controversial deal after a social media backlash. Flipkart had agreed a deal with phone network Airtel to let customers browse its site for free, with Flipkart picking up their internet data costs. But critics said this went against net neutrality. Net neutrality means service providers should treat all traffic equally. Users ...

The carcass of a rare whale has been washed up on a Western Australia beach following Tropical Cyclone Olwyn, which hit the region last month. It is only the second time an Omura’s whale has been recorded in Australia. The whale was found on a remote beach near the town of Exmouth, 1,265km (784 miles) north of Perth. Scientists say ...

Boko Haram have abducted at least 2,000 women and girls since the start of 2014, according to rights group Amnesty International. A report published by the organisation on Wednesday says many of those captured have been forced into sexual slavery and trained to fight for the group. The group based its findings on nearly 200 witness accounts, including with 28 ...

President Barack Obama and Cuba’s Raul Castro are due to hold their first formal meeting in another historic step towards ending decades of hostility. The talks, on the sidelines of the Summit of the Americas, will be the first top-level negotiations between Cuba and the US in more than 50 years. As the 35-nation summit in Panama entered its second ...

Rescuers were forced to abandon efforts to save around 150 melon-headed whales that stranded on a beach in Japan yesterday, after frantically trying all day to save them. As darkness fell, local officials in Hokota, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) northeast of Tokyo, said they had been able to save only three of the 149 animals that had beached and ...

President Barack Obama has reiterated United States’ support for India’s membership of a reformed United Nation Security Council as he considers it a foreign policy priority to continue to strengthen India-US relationship. “What the President said was that he said in the context of a reformed Security Council that the President would support the inclusion of India in that process,” ...