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UPDATED: 6:54am - Irma weakened slightly Friday but remained a dangerous and deadly hurricane taking direct aim at Florida, threatening to march along the peninsula’s spine and deliver a blow the state hasn’t seen in more than a decade.

Updated: 6:26am - Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has issued a new call for Myanmar to take back some 420,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled violence in the Buddhist-dominated country.

Updated: 8:06am - The Oxford college where Aung San Suu Kyi studied as an undergraduate has removed her portrait from public display and placed it in storage, in a move that follows international criticism over her role in Myanmar’s humanitarian crisis .

Updated: 7:40am - Hopes that 44 crew members of a missing Argentine navy submarine may be alive rose when the defence ministry said the vessel likely tried to communicate via satellite.

Updated: 6:50am - Robert Mugabe has resigned as president of Zimbabwe after 37 years in power, the speaker of the country's parliament has said.

Updated: 10:47pm - A mother-of-two has been identified as the victim from a US jet engine blow-out at over 9700 metres.

Ten days after Indonesia held the world's biggest single-day elections, more than 270 election staff have died, mostly of fatigue-related illnesses, an official says. The...

LONDON — A recent series of airstrikes in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon that neighboring countries blame on Israel risks escalating into a wider conflict,...

US President Donald Trump has denied asking the justice department to clear him of wrongdoing over a phone call with Ukraine's president that is...

  Afghanistan has started its first up close and personal talks with the Taliban on trading a great many detainees.   Subtleties of the underlying gathering in...