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Navanethem "Navi" Pillay, a South African jurist and former UN high commissioner for human rights, has been awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.

Explosions were heard in Saudi Arabia's capital, including a large blast at Riyadh's international airport, where flights were subsequently halted.

Former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores have been charged by US authorities with conspiracy to commit torture in a new superseding indictment.

A junior Royal Navy serviceman accused of plotting to leak classified information to Russia has appeared in court.

Lithuania is no stranger to the threat posed by Russia given its geography and history.

Russia has denied that a second case of an infectious disease has emerged where a woman who worked at a laboratory died last week.

A school employee was killed and two others were injured after a knife attack in Poland - the second such incident in the country in two days

A Texas death row inmate has been put to death by lethal injection - despite objections following Christa Pike's botched execution last week. 

The UK government said it will retain its presence in East Jerusalem as Israel insisted the British consulate in the city had "ceased to function".

An 87-year-old woman, whose eviction from her home sparked major protests in Spain and was partly responsible for a snap election, has died.