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The FBI and the US Postal Department are investigating suspicious packages received by election officials in 17 states. Federal investigators said they were collecting the packages and that some contained “an unknown substance”, though there were no reports of injuries. They were sent to secretaries of state and state election officials across a swathe of […]

Hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has been denied bail after pleading not guilty in a sex-trafficking case. A New York federal judge remanded the musician in custody after prosecutors argued he was a “serious flight risk”. Mr Combs, 54, was arrested on Monday evening, accused of running a criminal enterprise from at least 2008 that […]

Thousands of supporters of Ghana’s main opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), have been protesting nationwide to demand an independent forensic audit of the country’s voter register. Party officials say they have identified errors in the electoral roll for December’s nationwide poll that require correction. The election authority says errors that were previously identified […]

Somalia may be one of the poorest countries in the world and beset by violence, but it is “fixable”, according to its top climate official. The country has been torn apart by more than 30 years of overlapping conflicts – including an Islamist insurgency, a civil war, and a series of regional and clan confrontations. […]

Starvation in war-stricken Sudan “is almost everywhere”, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has told the BBC’s Today programme after visiting the country. “The situation in Sudan is very alarming… the massive displacement – it’s now the largest in the world, and, of course, famine,” director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. He said 12 […]

Warning: This story contains distressing details from the start. Dominique Pelicot, the 71-year-old man accused of drugging his wife to sleep and recruiting dozens of men to abuse her for over 10 years, has admitted to all the charges against him in his first testimony since the trial opened on 2 September. Referring to the […]

Open your wardrobe, and there’s a good chance you’ll find garments made in Leicester. The city was the engine of England’s clothing industry, with companies including retail giant Next keeping tens of thousands of people in work. After many years of factory closures, a boom in fast fashion then created a profitable new industry. Sub-contractors […]

Amazon is ordering staff back to the office five days a week as it ends its hybrid work policy. The change will come into force from January, Amazon’s chief executive Andy Jassy said in a memo to staff. “We’ve decided that we’re going to return to being in the office the way we were before […]

Facebook owner Meta says it is banning several Russian state media networks, alleging they use deceptive tactics to carry out influence operations and evade detection on its platforms. “After careful consideration, we expanded our ongoing enforcement against Russian state media outlets. Rossiya Segodnya, RT and other related entities are now banned from our apps globally […]

The number of people in Myanmar who have died in the wake of Typhoon Yagi rose to more than 220, with nearly 80 others still missing, the military government said. The storm swept through northern Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar in early September and has killed more than 500 people across the region so far, […]