Russia’s Investigative Committee, the agency that handles probes into major crimes, said the gunman had been identified as a student at the university.

The United Russia party is expected to maintain its grip over the lower house, with opposition parties and independent observers claiming widespread fraud.

“We need to avoid at all cost a Cold War that would be different from the past one, and probably more dangerous and more difficult to manage,” Guterres said.

The nation’s dealings with France were built on trust and confidence.

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Israeli agents had wanted to kill Iran’s top nuclear scientist for years. Then they came up with a way to pull the trigger with no operatives present.

Dutch people born in 2001 are, on average, at least 1 centimetre shorter than those born in 1980. Some are looking to junk food and migration for explanations.

Crews searching a US national park for missing Gabby Petito found a body “consistent” with the 22-year-old woman in a remote area but have not yet made a formal identification, the FBI says. 

Filipino boxing legend Manny Pacquiao will face off with incumbent state leader Rodrigo Duterte’s chosen successor.

A volcano has erupted on La Palma in the Spanish Canary Islands, sending jets of lava and a plume of smoke and ash into the air.

For all the grand titles given to her, the German Chancellor leaves with a mixed legacy.

An Australian man and his Thai wife sentenced to death for trafficking half a tonne of crystal methylamphetamine for the Hells Angels have been acquitted after four years in a Bangkok jail.

Australia’s description of Taiwan last week as a “critical partner” marks a significant shift in language, one that will not have gone unnoticed in Beijing.

The Middle East, so often in the news for its problems, has, during the past year, pioneered a major historic breakthrough likely to have enduring effects, in the form of the Abraham Accords.

Putin’s United Russia party is expected to keep its grip on parliament after its latest election. So how does Russia’s political system (and Putin’s empire) work?

Security forces have killed Indonesia’s most wanted militant who had ties with an Islamic State group.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau decided to call an early election that few people wanted. The move has turned into a political miscalculation that could either seriously weaken his leadership, or cost him his political career.

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The face of the US fight against COVID-19 says he believes that the proper regime for an mRNA vaccine, such as Pfizer’s, is that the two original doses should be followed several months later by a third shot.

Marijuana advocates in Italy have gathered enough signatures to trigger a referendum on liberalising the use of the drug. Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s national unity government, however, is divided over the issue.

The all- civilian crew aboard Elon Musk’s SpaceX capsule have safely splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coastline, completing a three-day flight orbiting the Earth.

Britain’s crowded beaches in June 2020 did not drive a surge in COVID cases, but experts say travelling to the beach in crammed cars and buses is high risk.

The US plans to speed up its efforts to expel Haitian migrants on flights to their Caribbean homeland, officials said on Saturday.

Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers set up a ministry for the “propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice” in the building that once housed the Women’s Affairs Ministry, escorting out World Bank staffers on Saturday as part of the forced m...

Malaysia’s new Prime Minister has joined Indonesia in raising alarm bells about the military build-up in the region after speaking with Scott Morrison.

The company Colossal aims to have something similar to a woolly mammoth calf within the next six years.

Shortly after condemning Australia, the US and the UK for forming AUKUS, China applied to join the trans-pacific trade deal established to isolate Beijing.

The unprecedented move follows the Morrison government’s decision to tear up a $90 billion submarine contract.

Chinese President Xi Jinping will be looking at the US-France feud with pleasure and amazement. 

A California jury found Durst guilty of murdering his best friend Susan Berman in 2000, the first homicide conviction for a man suspected of killing three people in three states over the past 39 years.

In Brexit’s wake, Boris Johnson will allow traders to revert to selling by the inch, the pound or the pint.

The powerful federal agency’s advisory panel is doubtful about the value of mass boosters, rather than those targeted at groups with higher risks.

The high-profile drone strike killed up to 10 Afghan civilians - including seven children - rather than an Islamic State extremist as initially announced.

A new report shows the world is on a “catastrophic pathway” toward a hotter future unless governments make more ambitious pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the head of the UN says.

The base of the colossal General Sherman Tree in Sequoia National Park has been wrapped in a fire-resistant blanket to protect it against intense flames.

Australia and the US have declared an intention to deepen ties with the island as tension heightens with China and a top official has a proposal for where they could start.

The French expressed their outrage at America by cancelling a soiree at their Washington embassy to celebrate 240 years of friendship between the nations.

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The Facebook and Instagram accounts spread content linked to the so-called Querdenken movement includes vaccine and mask opponents, conspiracy theorists and some far-right extremists.

The journalist cops plenty for challenging Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s regime – and what’s alarming is the scale of the online campaign against her.

The measures are the first by a major European economy requiring proof of immunity for all categories of workers.

They are on the move again, embarking on a dangerous journey to the US with people smugglers managing the trip, say border authorities and refugee groups.

Australia’s plan to arm itself with a fleet of nuclear-propelled submarines to combat the rising threat of China has been met with alarm by Indonesia.

Philip, the late Duke of Edinburgh, was married to the 95-year-old British monarch for more than seven decades.

The American author discusses the legacy of losing her father so young, Donald Trump’s reaction to her book, and why she hasn’t yet lost faith in America.

After relaying a story of a dubious vaccine reaction on Twitter, the rap star has waded into a war of words on vaccines, the White House, healthcare, race, and free speech.

Republicans are wrestling with how to balance their scepticism of immigration with broad public support for providing refuge to Afghans allies of the US.

At AUSMIN meetings in Washington, the Defence Minister raised the possibility of new US military bases in Australia, as well as increased troop rotations.

The key defendant in the trial acknowledged his role for the first time in the co-ordinated killings at sites across Paris in 2015, including at the Bataclan concert hall.

The News Corp and Fox News boss said the outspoken British journalist was “the broadcaster every channel wants but is too afraid to hire”.