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Sweden's ruling party wins most votes as one in five back far-right, poll says
PM Stefan Lofven's Social Democrats are largest party as exit poll shows parliament deadlocked
PM Stefan Lofven's Social Democrats are largest party as exit poll shows parliament deadlocked
Vice president dismisses claims he wrote controversial opinion piece as he also hits out at new White House book from Bob Woodward ahead of its release on Tuesday
Deepening confusion, sensationalism and prohibition of drugs over the decades has coincided with an increased drug use
'Whether it's through a general election or a popular vote, Mrs May should take her deal on the terms of Brexit and put it back to the people'
'If it was a white man would it have been different? Would she have reacted differently?'
The Jet2 flight from Manchester diverted to Toulouse on Saturday evening due to the incident
Michael Cohen admitted last month that he and the president arranged payments to the actress as part of a non-disclosure agreement
‘WTC Cortlandt is more than a new subway station – it is symbolic of New Yorkers’ resolve in restoring and substantially improving the entire World Trade Centre site’
'I don’t want to kill this beautiful animal, but there’s a hell of a lot of political pressure and a hell of a lot of public pressure'
The report claims that the singer's track 'Your Song' will soundtrack the advert
The four-time Olympic gold medallist ran the 13.1-mile course in under an hour
Ayaan Ali remains in custody and will appear at court tomorrow
Violence breaks out on coastal road following collision involving motorbikes
'I'm just an individual who is deeply concerned about achieving peace and stopping the slaughter in the Middle East', said the politician
‘Our job is to encourage students with poor mental health to disclose it before university’
A Western Police official said there were both adults and children involved, with the exact number unknown
In 2007, three top current and former employees for Purdue admitted that they had misled doctors and their patients
Alexandra Waterbury's lawsuit claims 'fraternity house' environment allowed male dancers to swap nude photos of ballerinas at one of world's top dance companies
'Most of the men I encounter are married'
A message was sent around earlier in the day warning festival-goers about a ‘bad’ batch of pills
The traditional Last Prom fare is despatched with grace
A perennial outsider, his tenure was never meant to last – let alone turn into a vast social movement unlike any before seen in British politics
Familiar problems came back to trouble England in their 2-1 Nations League defeat against Spain
An attorney for Richard Nixon's top adviser in the Watergate scandal says he's watching history repeat itself under Donald Trump
At just 27, the Irish author of 'Conversations with Friends' and 'Normal People' is being touted as the voice of a generation. She talks to Ellen Barry about the repeal of Ireland's abortion ban, the politics of intimacy, and her wariness of success
Contingency plans are being drawn up by police chiefs if there is chaos amid shortages of food and medicine
Khan survived an early knockdown to beat Samuel Vargas as he continues his boxing comeback
Emotional ordeals may fuel mental health problems like depression, but breakups do not kill. Suggesting otherwise trivialises the noxious power of depression and addiction, both of which do
'We will probably never see them in the UK,' home secretary admits
Disease can cause severe illness but most people recover within a few weeks
'I temper this with the fact I love this show and am the first woman to host such a show'
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Nasrin Sotoudeh was arrested after defending women who took their hijabs off in public. Why is her hunger strike now being met with silence by the UK’s politicians and media?
It is a long time indeed since it was thought that a man who can cheat on his wife can cheat on his country – I’m not sure it was ever true. But what's going on in government because of Johnson is serious stuff
Misinformation and confusion around this topic is partly responsible for low breastfeeding rates, and certainly puts more unnecessary pressure on new mothers
The ditched pensions dashboard would allow everyone to track how much they’ve saved for retirement and help the 25 per cent of Brits who admit to not saving at all. But the Tories, namely Esther McVey, are too wedded to Thatcherite ideology to see sense
Even if you could hermetically seal societies into absolutely sovereign entities, why would you want to? Borders are the scars of past conflicts
You’d get into trouble for shouting 'fire' in a crowded building or for making ill-advised jokes about carrying bombs in your luggage at airports. What Jones has been doing goes beyond that
Vince Cable hinted that the Lib Dems should throw in their lot with any new party rather than compete with it
Brands are sneaky – they know that beautifully filmed high profile sportspeople with hip soundtracks will catch our attention, but the blatant hard sell needs to be sugared with a dash of ethical content
Friends in Egypt told me that the mood in the country is of defeat and grief – they feel abandoned by the west, and latest developments from the UK and the US suggest they have good reason to
A new film is both a grim reminder of life in Gaza and a message of hope
Congressman dubbed 'Brazil's Donald Trump' left fighting for life
Both centre-left and centre-right bloc short of majority, survey shows
Bullet train services to resume later today, just one day after Hokkaido island was hit by a massive 6.7 magnitude quake
Candidates Ayanna Pressley and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have toppled establishment Democrats with openly progressive campaigns
'Israel views very seriously Paraguay’s exceptional decision which will strain the relations between the countries,' says office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Moscow has angrily rejected British accusations of top-level state involvement in the poisoning of a double agent in Salisbury.
Participants wave flowers as they march past a balcony from where North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un was watching, during a mass rally on Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang. The military parade was held to mark the nations 70th birthday, but refrained from showing off the intercontinental ballistic missiles that have seen it hit with multiple international sanctions
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350.Org march for Climate Justice at the Quezon Memorial Circle in Quezon City, Philippines. Rise for Climate protests took places across the world to demand action
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Displaced Syrians take part in a protest against the regime and its ally Russia at a camp for displaced people in Kafr Lusin near the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey in Syria's northern Idlib province
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An aerial view of houses damaged by a landslide in Atsuma town, Hokkaido prefecture, after an earthquake hit the northern Japanese island. Rescuers scrabbled through mud for survivors after the powerful earthquake sent hillsides crashing down onto homes, killing at least nine people and leaving dozens of people missing
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US Capitol Police arrest a protestor as Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies during the second day of his US Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing to be an Associate Justice on the US Supreme Court. President Donald Trump's newest Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is expected to face punishing questioning from Democrats this week over his endorsement of presidential immunity and his opposition to abortion
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Damaged traffic boards and telecommunication relay poles after they were brought down by strong winds caused by typhoon Jebi in Osaka. The strongest typhoon to hit Japan in 25 years made landfall on September 4, the country's weather agency said, bringing violent winds and heavy rainfall that prompted evacuation warnings
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Myanmar journalist Kyaw Soe Oo is escorted by police after being sentenced by a court to jail in Yangon. Two Reuters journalists were jailed for seven years for breaching Myanmar's official secrets act during their reporting of the Rohingya crisis, a judge said, a case that has drawn outrage as an attack on media freedom
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A Somali soldier walks near the wreckage of vehicles at the scene of a blast outside the compound of a district headquarters in the capital Mogadishu. A Somali police officer says a number of people were wounded after a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at a checkpoint outside the headquarters after being stopped by security forces
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A Utair-operated Boeing 737-800 which skidded off the runway and caught fire during landing, at Sochi international airport, in the Russian Black Sea resort. Russia's transportation minister says a supervisor at the airport died during the emergency response after a landing airliner careered off the end of the runway, into a riverbed and caught fire. There were no deaths reported among the 164 passengers and six crew members aboard the Utair Boeing 737, but the Russian health ministry said 18 people were injured. The fire was extinguished within eight minutes
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Mourners attend Aretha Franklin's funeral at Greater Grace Temple in Detroit
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Firefighters watch on as flames leap from a giant factory fire in the inner Melbourne suburb of West Footscray - More than 120 firefighters are fighting the fire, with 30 trucks and cherry picker aerial appliances on the scene which is sending large plumes of smoke across the city.
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People are evacuated after flooding in Swar township, Myanmar
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President Hassan Rouhani speaks at the Iranian Parliament in the capital Tehran. It was the first time Rouhani had been summoned by parliament in his five years in power, with MPs demanding answers on unemployment, rising prices and the collapsing value of the rial, which has lost more than half its value since April
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A police officer walks by the front of a Chicago Pizza and GLHF Game Bar at the scene of fatal shooting at The Jacksonville Landing. A gunman opened fire at a video game tournament killing multiple people and then fatally shooting himself in a rampage that wounded several others
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Migrants disembark from the Italian Coast Guard ship 'Diciotti' in the port of Catania, Italy. The vessel arrived with 177 migrants on board, but the Italian Interior Ministry denied them to disembark, calling EU member states to find a solution on how to distribute them. On 22 August, 27 unaccompanied minors were let off from the ship, assisted by Red Cross, UNHCR and Save the Children
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Rohingya refugees during a protest march after attending a ceremony to remember the first anniversary of a military crackdown that prompted a massive exodus of people from Myanmar to Bangladesh, at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia
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US President Donald Trump sits with children during a tour of Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio
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Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull speaks to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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High waves hit Jeju Island, South Korea, as powerful Typhoon Soulik gradually approaches the Korean Peninsula
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A Palestinian man throws his child in the air following morning prayers marking the first day of Eid al-Adha celebrations on the compound known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif in Jerusalem's Old City. Eid al-Adha is the holiest of the two Muslims holidays celebrated each year, it marks the yearly Muslim pilgrimage (Hajj) to visit Mecca, the holiest place in Islam. Muslims slaughter a sacrificial animal and split the meat into three parts, one for the family, one for friends and relatives, and one for the poor and needy
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South Korean Lee Keum-seom, 92, meets with her North Korean son Ri Sung Chol, 71, during a separated family reunion meeting at the Mount Kumgang resort on the North's southeastern coast. Dozens of elderly and frail South Koreans met their Northern relatives for the first time since the peninsula and their families were divided by war nearly seven decades ago
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The flag of the United Nations flying at half-mast to mark the death of former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, at the European headquarters in Geneva. Kofi Annan died on 18 August, aged 80
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Newly appointed Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan inspects the guard of honor on his arrival in the Prime Minister House during a ceremony in Islamabad. Imran Khan was sworn in at a ceremony in Islamabad, ushering in a new political era as the World Cup cricket hero officially took the reins of power in the nuclear-armed country
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Muslim pilgrims walk out after the Friday prayer at the Grand mosque ahead of annual Haj pilgrimage in the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia
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A man wades through flooded water in Kochi, Kerala state, India. According to reports, the region is on a high alert with schools and offices been closed due to the rising water levels of Periyar river after the gates of the Idukki reservoir were opened. The area has been hit by heavy rains that caused floods and reportedly killed at least 65 people
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets schoolchildren after his speech as part of India's 72nd Independence Day celebrations which marks the 71st anniversary of the end of British colonial rule, at the Red Fort in New Delhi
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A large section of the Morandi viaduct upon which the A10 motorway runs collapsed in Genoa, Italy. Both sides of the highway fell. Around 10 vehicles are involved in the collapse, rescue sources said. The viaduct gave way amid torrential rain. It runs over shopping centres, factories, some homes, the Genoa-Milan railway line and the Polcevera river
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Turkish President Erdogan addresses the 10th annual Ambassadors' Conference in Ankara. Global markets have reacted fearfully to Turkey's financial crash, which Turkish President Erdogan blames on a "political, underhand plot" by Donald Trump's USA. Last week the US doubled steel and aluminium tariffs against Turkey amidst diplomatic tensions over the latter's detaining of an American pastor
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NASA, The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket launches NASA's Parker Solar Probe to touch the Sun from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on August 12, 2018 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Parker Solar Probe is humanity's first-ever mission into a part of the Suns atmosphere called the corona. The probe will directly explore solar processes that are key to understanding and forecasting space weather events that can impact life on Earth.
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An activist confronts Virginia State Troopers in riot gear during a rally on the campus of The University of Virginia one-year after the violent white nationalist rally that left one person dead and dozens injured in Charlottesville, Virginia
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A man holds his son before Friday prayers at an evacuation centre in Sambik Bangkol village, in northern Lombok on West Nusa Tenggara province
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A rescuers stands next to a damaged tent in a flooded camping as storms and heavy rains sweep across France on August 9, 2018 in Saint-Julien-de-Peyrolas, southern France. - The bad weather caused large power cuts and a man who was working in a summer camp went missing according to the gendarmerie
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A Palestinian girl smiles as she waits to receive aids at a United Nations food distribution centre in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza
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An Israeli soldier rides an armoured vehicle during an army drill after the visit of Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Israel
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Usable items are salvaged from a home destroyed in an earthquake in North Lombok, Indonesia. The powerful earthquake struck the Indonesian tourist island of Lombok, killing a number of people and shaking neighboring Bali, as authorities on Monday said thousands of houses were damaged and the death toll could climb
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Accident investigators and rescue personnel work at the wreckage of a Junkers JU52 aircraft in Flims, after it crashed into Piz Segnas, a 3,000-metre (10,000-foot) peak in eastern Switzerland. Twenty people were confirmed dead after the vintage World War II aircraft crashed into a Swiss mountainside, police reports said. The Junker JU52 HB-HOT aircraft, built in Germany in 1939 and now a collectors item, belongs to JU-Air, a company with links to the Swiss air force, the ATS news agency reported
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Members of different security forces stand guard and take evidence after an explosion targeted President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas, Venezuela. The Venezuelan Information Minister, Jorge Rodriguez, confirmed that President Nicolas Maduro was the victim of an attack with 'drone-type flying devices that contained an explosive charge', and that he escaped unharmed from the incident, which occurred during a military ceremony in Caracas
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People in Mbare celebrate after officials announced the re-election of President Emmerson Mnangagwa of the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) in Harare, Zimbabwe. The election was the first since Robert Mugabe was ousted in a military coup last year, and featured a close race between Mnangagwa and opposition candidate Nelson Chamisa of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC Alliance). Deadly clashes broke out earlier in the week following the release of parliamentary election results, amid allegations of fraud by Chamisa and MDC supporters
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A supporter of the ruling ZANU-PF walks past a burnt vehicle at the party's offices a day after the clashes between security forces and opposition protesters in Harare, Zimbabwe
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A ceremony takes place in a hangar, to mark the return of 55 sets of remains of American troops killed during the 1950-53 Korean War, at Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. The ceremony was held five days after a US airplane transported the remains to South Korea from North Korea in a move expected to facilitate ongoing efforts to promote peace on the peninsula
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Veronika Nikulshina, one of four members of Russia's Pussy Riot protest group who were jailed for 15 days for staging a pitch invasion during the football World Cup final and were detained again after their release on July 30, is escorted by a police officer before a court hearing in Moscow
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A relative of a passenger of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 reads the safety report that has concluded that the planes controls were deliberately manipulated and that illegal interference by a third party cannot be ruled out. Flight MH370 disappeared with 239 people on board en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur on 8 March 2014
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Palestinian activist and campaigner Ahed Tamimi kisses the tombstone of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at his mausoleum in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, after she was released from prison following an eight-month sentence for slapping two Israeli soldiers
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Zimbabwe's incumbent President and candidate Emmerson Mnangagwa arrives for his closing presidential campaign rally in Harare, two days ahead of the elections
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A house burns during the Carr fire in Redding, California. One firefighter has died and at least two others have been injured as wind-whipped flames tore through the region
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Supporters of Pakistan's cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan, and head of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Movement for Justice) party, celebrate in Karachi, a day after a general election. Imran Khan claimed victory in the country's tense general election marred by allegations of "blatant" rigging by rival parties. A visibly tired Khan cut a conciliatory tone in a wide-ranging address to the nation following the controversial contest
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A man who was injured in a suspected suicide bomb attack outside a polling station, receives medical treatment at a hospital in Quetta. At least 25 people were killed and 30 injured in the incident. Polling stations in Pakistan opened for the general election for around 105 million constituents. Voters will have to choose from 11,000 candidates to elect 272 members of the Parliament for the next term. These elections are the second in Pakistan's history in which a government was able to complete its term to make way for another government after being ruled by military dictators for half of the 71 years of its existence since its founding in 1947
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A woman reacts as she tries to find her dog, following a wildfire at the village of Mati, near Athens, Greece. At least 60 people are thought to have been killed
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A house is threatened by a huge blaze during a wildfire in Kineta, near Athens. More than 300 firefighters, five aircraft and two helicopters were mobilised to tackle the "extremely difficult" situation due to strong gusts of wind, Athens fire chief Achille Tzouvaras said
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Israeli-annexed Golan Heights shows a smoke plume rising across the border in Quneitra in southwestern Syria, as rebels destroy their arms stocks prior to their departure
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'This is so funny and horrifying and Canadian,' one observer tweets
Troops loyal to Assad have been massing near province for weeks, with fears a ground assault will follow
Democrats will press Donald Trump's nominee on abortion, gun rights and his views on Russia investigation
German politician aims for EU top job
Analysis: The death of the founder of the militant network comes at a delicate time in US-Pakistan relations
Stranded passengers have started to leave flooded Kansai International Airport – but by boat, rather than by plane
Downing Street looking for 'amicable' solution to prevent further clashes
Majority of Americans say president is out of touch
China's Xi Jinping says investment comes with 'no political strings attached'
Take inspiration for the season ahead from New York Fashion Week's most stylish attendees
For this week's meat-free Monday recipe, we give a twist to an Indonesian classic
Are you really more likely to catch something on a plane?
Egypt’s new capital promises to be bigger, better, newer – and more vulgar – than any other supercity on the planet. But why does the country even need a futuristic megalopolis?
Denmark 2-0 Wales: After their emphatic win over Ireland, Ryan Giggs' men failed to find the back of the net against their Danish hosts
England (332 & 114-2) lead India (292) by 154 runs: A wholly unmerited 4-1 series triumph is now within the hosts' grasp
Burt Reynolds, the actor known for his starring roles in Deliverance, Smokey and the Bandit, and Boogie Nights has died. He was 82.
'We feel like it’s time to move away from it for a little while'
Plea issued to media to be first to end use of phrase that suggests a crime or sin
When the acronym was first used to address the complexities of a multicultural society, it was with the best of intentions. But does the misleading term actually hide more than it reveals?
‘The Chinese apps have got everything’
A great speaker that also happens to be a brilliantly smart TV soundsystem
Bach says that violent egames do not fall in line with ‘Olympic values’ while the recent shooting at an esports tournament in Florida has not helped its case for inclusion
There will still be strict restrictions on how Hitler imagery can be used