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The human rights lawyer has championed the benefits of a free press.

The Trump administration sought on Wednesday to win support for an economic plan it says will be a foundation for Israeli-Palestinian peace but which Palestinians and many other Arabs dismiss as pointless without a political solution to the decades-old conflict. U.S. President Donald Trump's senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner ...

The report concludes, 'Turkey or the United States did not violate their obligation to protect Mr. Khashoggi'. Yet in both cases there were media reports, based on leaks by officials of these nations, that these nations had prior knowledge of what was going down.

Iran “made a very big mistake” in shooting down a US drone, Trump has said. Tehran’s Revolutionary Guard claimed the attack, using a surface-to-air missile, had sent “a clear message” to the US that it was “ready for war”. Mr Trump made the comment after quoting praise he had received on a TV ...

Iran has shot down a U.S. drone which the elite Revolutionary Guards said on Thursday was flying over southern Iran, raising fears that a major military confrontation could erupt between Tehran and Washington. Guards website Sepah News said the "spy" drone was brought down over the southern Iranian province of ...

Emissions need to be halved by 2030 to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius but temperatures are on track to reach double that by the end of the century even if countries' current plans are fully implemented, research by scientists shows. A group of European researchers, Climate Action Tracker, tracks ...

Remember the ‘Special Relationship’? It’s one of those phrases that gets a certain kind of British politician bleary-eyed with nostalgia. It’s not as popular as it was during the Blair years, when it was continuously invoked to justify unpopular wars, but the hard Brexiteers are big promoters of the concept. ...

In some strange news a flight turned back after a mother realised she had left her baby in the airport, which almost sounds like the plot to Home Alone. The mum only noticed her baby was missing when the plane was in the skies. The aircraft had left King Abdul ...

Brexit 'can enhance UK's lethality', insisted the Defence Secretary today, before being promptly derided by all sides and reminded of the scale of Tory defence cuts. Brexit, said Gavin Williamson, recently mocked for suggesting Gibraltar could be defended from Spain with paintball guns, was an opportunity for Britain to be ...